Random Useless Facts Thread

Blockbuster once passed up the chance to purchase Netflix when it was in it’s early stages.

Decca Records rejected The Beatles because they thought “guitar groups are on the way out” and “The Beatles have no future in show business.”

DJ Khaled’s earlier name was called “Arab Attack” but was changed after the events of 9/11.

There is a metal band with the name Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus

@Myoozik  
Things br00tul goregrinders do to outedge each other.
 
This one is better: Intracerebrally Consuming Cephalalgia Through The Cranium Macerating Debrisfucked Manure Ingested Remains Of The Mindfucked Cataplexic Wicked Mankind Whom Fistfucked The Progenies From The Deepest Depths Of The Analmaggot Raped Human Pieces Of Erotic Shitmasses Which Gave Birth To Worthless Eunuchs As Traverty For Cumstained Whorefaced Sluts Enslaved By This Stupid Society Full Of Fetal Garbages

@Searly Sear  
Lovely

Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen are the only two actors whose characters have been killed by a Xenomorph/Alien, a Terminator, and a Predator.

The F-15 Eagle is among other things, recognized as the fighter plane that managed to take down a satellite.

The first modern police force, the London Metropolitan Police Service, was created by Sir Robert Peel in response to London’s rapid growth (in all things including crime) during the Industrial Revolution.

The Lion King is the first animated Disney movie since Bambi in which a character is killed.

In 1986, the character Big Bird from the TV show Sesame Street was to board a space shuttle and go to space as part of a publicity stunt. Due to the size of the puppet, the idea was scrapped and instead a school teacher was hired as a stand in. This flight was the ill fated Challenger space flight which exploded, killing all astronauts on board.

The average lifespan of a red octopus is only two years.

In the cartoon Jackie Chan Adventures, Uncle’s chant “Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao” is an actual phrase in Cantonese. A rough translation would be “Evil demons and malevolent spirits, be gone!”

The music video for the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” was made using CG animation by Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson, who would later go on to found the computer animation studio Mainframe Entertainment. The video featured two characters who were hardware department store workers and would lip-sync the lyrics.
 
The same two characters would also briefly appear in an episode of the Mainframe show Reboot, where they show up at a talent show and are boo-ed offstage. This was because, at the time, the founders of Mainframe were mostly still known as “those guys who did the Money for Nothing music video” and weren’t happy about it.

One of the reasons The Last Action Hero did poorly at the box office was because it opened a week after Jurrassic Park

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters

The frequent use of the English word ‘fuck’ on Chinese menus and supermarket aisle signs is due to the fact that 干 (to do) means ‘dry’ but also ‘fuck’ in Mandarin slang. So ‘Fuck the fruits’ actually refers to dried fruit.

Street foods in Vietnam is so available, fast, and cheap that international fast-food chains like McDonalds flopped after entering.

Actual money is printed in cotton, not paper

Suriname is a country in South America.

Humans are apes!

Bamboo is stronger than Steel in regards to the tensile strength. Steel has a tensile strength of 23,000 psi. But Bamboo surpasses steel with a noticeable lead at 28,000 psi. Tensile strength can be defined as the resistance offered by an objecting to breaking or splitting under tension.