Random Useless Facts Thread

“corn emperor” (meaning Khrushchev, named for his corn)  

@Three uncle  
It is said that Khrushchev wanted to learn from the United States and plant corn on a large scale. Regardless of the Soviet Union’s geographical and climatic factors, Khrushchev decided to plant corn throughout the Soviet Union. However, due to the terrible geographical conditions of the Soviet Union (mainly temperature and sunlight), the corn hardly produced “cobs”, and the corruption of state agencies and the purchase of large “cobs” from abroad fooled Khrushchev, and the corn campaign ultimately failed.

An 18 inch pizza has more volume than two 12 inch pizzas.

In the 1960’s, Nintendo opened up a chain of love hotels around Japan.

@Myoozik  
On a related note, Nintendo once bought the rights t a Super Mario Bros based porno, for the sole purpose of making sure that no one is ever allowed to see it.

@icey wicey 1517
 
The porno is called “Super Hornio Bros.”

@icey wicey 1517  
Yeah I’ve heard of that and I think Disney is the same where they own the copyright to a bunch of R34 that their own artists and storyboarders made. XD

“Spets” was a 2005 Russian action TV show filmed by mafia boss Vitaly Dymochka, showcasing the daily lives of gangsters in Ussuriisk in the Russian Far East. The gangsters played themselves and were their own stuntmen. All car chases and accidents were filmed on public roads, all shootouts and all the blood was real. Ten gang members were arrested during filming and one killed by a rival group.

In 1982, a 12 year old boy named Johnny Gosch disappeared while on his paper delivery route in Iowa. With no leads, the case remained cold until 1997 when his mother claimed that he was visited by his now adult son. According to her, he escaped from a child abuse ring led by politicians and businessmen from the state. Her case never got verified by police, and almost ten years later in 2006, she received photos of captive children on her doorstep, presumed to be of Johnny himself. Despite all that, Johnny Gosch still remains missing to this day.
 
Additional trivia, Gosch was one of the first missing people to ever be featured on milk cartons, which would later become a popular staple in cartoons and works of fiction.

The film Cannibal Holocaust was so brutal that the director had to go to the court and prove that the actors weren’t actually killed.

Samsung reduces the Note 7 battery size for safety reasons in 2016, but today, they proudly introduces affordable smartphones with massively high-capacity batteries, up to 6000mAh, two times larger than the Note 7
 
 
The phones are:  
Galaxy A31 & A21s - 5000mAh  
Galaxy M31 & M21 - 6000mAh  
Galaxy M11 - 5000mAh  
Galaxy M30s - 6000mAh  
Galaxy M30 & M20 - 5000mAh
 
All of these cost less than $400

Shrek was based on a real person named Maurice Tillet. He was a french fighter who married a princess.
 

A 4K TV or monitor will have about 8.3 million pixels on it, while other HDTVs will have between 0.9 million and 2.1 million pixels, depending on whether it displays 720p or 1080p resolutions.  

During WWII, from 1944 to 45, a British anthropologist named Tom Harrison was sent into Borneo to help a downed American plane crew who themselves were helped by tribal Bornean headhunters or Dayaks. The Dayaks were angered at the Japanese abuse of them, so they were ready to fight with beheadings and blowdarts. And the anthropologist helped rally these tribesmen into hunting down the Japanese troops in that area.
 
I watched a documentary about this legendary encounter: The Airmen and the Headhunters
 
One day I want to be a cool anthropologist cultural type of guy like him. With the culture of Rarity and the daring of Dash and the knowledge of Twilight.

Gibbons unlike gorillas use mostly brachiation to move around. So swinging from branch to branch instead of leaping or walking on the ground. Their hands are quite similar to humans. They have long fingers and short nails for instance, suitable for swinging tree limbs.

Your phone’s ARM-based processor is more powerful than an Intel Atom or Pentium

When you look up at the blue sky and see white dots flying around, you are actually seeing your own white blood cells moving along the fine blood vessels (capillaries) in front of the retina at the back of the eye.

The tradition of raised lighters in concerts began in 1969 during Woodstock when concert goers raised candles in the air during a performance by folk singer Melanie. This event inspired her to write the song “Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)” which became a Top 10 hit the year later.

It’s illegal to run out of fuel on the German Autobahn. The fine can be from €30 up to €70 depending on the case.

Shirley Temple’s last film is A Kiss for Cloriss.

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards

Despite the name, drummer Frank Beard was ironically the only member of the band ZZ Tops that didn’t (at least until 2013) have a beard.

 
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The Call Of Duty franchise has grossed more than the entire GDP of the country of Nicaragua.