Random Useless Facts Thread

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

The Kamehameha Wave, which is prevalent in the Dragon Ball series, got its name from King Kamehameha of Hawaii.

Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.

Today (7/20/2019) was the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.

@Lord Goku  
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” - Neil Armstrong

Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

In most of his animated appearances, both of Mickey Mouse’s ears are visible at all times.

More than 40% of the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.

Giraffes are exceptionally nimble and can commonly reach sprinting speeds of up to 60km/h. Their kicks can also decapitate a fully grown lion.
 
Not much on the savanna fucks with them.

“Sitting And Smiling” is a series on YouTube by Benjamin Bennett. In each video, he sits for 4 hours and smiles in front of the camera. As of 2019, he has more than 300 videos of nothing else but filming himself. In one of his videos, someone tries to break into his house, sees Benjamin during his process and says “Hello?” but he just keeps staring and smiling at the camera. In another video, he is clearly seen peeing himself despite the puddle seeps out, he proceeds to keep staring and smiling.
 

The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.

Pizza Hut caused initial confusion when it opened here in Germany. People pronounced it ‘Pizza Hoot’ because they thought the roof in the logo was a hat. (Hut means hat in German)

It is not possible to sink in either the Dead Sea or the Great Salt Lake.

Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.

The actual German title of the Simpsons episode “Burns Verkaufen Den Kraftwerk” is “Kraftwerk zu verkaufen” (Powerplant for sale)

Most mammalian species from the Mesozoic era are known only by their teeth.

All of the Earth’s continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.

@SuperPinkiePie64  
With two exceptions: Australia and Antarctica.

The barn owl is a species of owl that doesn’t go “hoot.”

Owls are dinosaurs.

@Edhelistar  
So are most, if not all birds.

@Lord Goku  
All birds are dinosaurs, and, technically and by extension, reptiles too.

Speaking of that, crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to other non-avian reptiles.

Most car horns sound at the note of F

The Switch port of Dragon Quest XI is one of the very first Nintendo Switch games.
 
This is because when the game first announced back in 2015, it was slated for release on three different consoles. Two of them were the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo 3DS, but the third was a still-in-development console simply known by its codename “Nintendo NX”, which would eventually be fully revealed as the Nintendo Switch.
 
While Dragon Quest XI would release on PS4 and 3DS in July 2017, the Switch port would end up being delayed due to compatibility issues involving Unreal Engine 4. It would not be released until September 2019, roughly 4 years after the game was first announced.