Random Useless Facts Thread

Nickels and pennies cost more than their monetary value to make.

Tetris’ usual theme, identified as Type A from the Game Boy port as well as it’s derivates is a folk russian song named Korobeiniki.

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!

The word Ough can be pronounced eight different ways in the English language.

Interlaced scanning, which was predominant on older CRT TVs, would only give you half of the image every 1/60th of a second. Progressive scan, on the other hand, would give you pretty much the whole image every 1/60th of a second…and is far more common these days.

Until 1857, any foreign coins made of precious metal were legal tender in the United States.

1964 was the last year quarters had any silver in them.

Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.

People are more likely to remember traumatic memories rather then happy memories.

There are no penguins at the North Pole.

Sea snakes are extremely rarely found in the Atlantic Ocean.

The white powder on chewing gum is intended to absorb oils and prevent the gum from adhering to the wrapper. It’s generally made of a sweetener, talc, or calcium carbonate.

@SuperPinkiePie64  
There are no polar bears at the South Pole.

All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open

@ILoveMyoozik  
Dolphins can have a half of the brain asleep and the other half awake at the same time.

According to one of the former writers of the Pokémon anime, the original legal age for characters in that universe for them to be married would be 10 years old.

The saliva from Gila Monsters are being used to help diabetics control glucose

During the filming of Blade Trinity, main actor Wesley Snipes was infamous for being a giant prima-donna and pain to work with, for both the cast and crew. He would often argue and get into fights with the rest of the crew, and he was notorious for rarely ever showing up during rehearsals and filming (and on the occasions he did show up, he was often in no condition to do the scenes).
 
Because of this, this lead to supporting actor Ryan Reynolds getting much more screentime for the film then in the original script, as many of Snipes lines and scenes where now given to Ryan.
 
In fact,Snipes was so stubborn during filming, that he actually refused to do something as simple as OPENING HIS EYES during a scene, forcing them to add in CGI eyes in post.
 

 
And you thought the botched CGI moustache removal from Justice League was bad…

The tool for measuring feet is called a Brannock device.

Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 years old!

The Japanese were one of the first people to convince humankind of complete racial equality. They used this at the Paris peace conference after WWI to among others things justify the unnecessarity of colonies. However, this regarded them unpopular by the empires (who probably saw them as hypocrites since they had been occupying Korea since 1910) which resulted in the Japanese delegation leaving the conference in early 1920.

The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

Cincinnati was one of the first American cities created after the Revolutionary War.

You have a higher chance of dying on your way to buy a lottery ticket then you do of actually buying a winning lottery ticket.