Random Useless Facts Thread

@Count Adramalekhovich Searmagomedov
Speaking of which…

According to something I once saw (by a civil rights lawyer, I believe): the average person commits 3 felonies a day just going about on their day.

@Goku Black
Well it’s ‘Murica so i’m totally not even barely fazed by these facts.

“She sells seashells by the seashore” was written about a female paleontologist from the 1800s. She actually sold dinosaur bones and fossilized shells.

This was what the original design of Super Saiyan 3 would look like.

Niels Bohr was gifted a house with free beer for life on winning the Nobel. A beer pipeline was connected from the Carlsberg brewery next door to his house. Bohr stayed there from 1932 until his death in 1962.

Lifetime warranties really mean the company’s lifetime, not yours.

King Henry VIII always slept with an axe next to him

TNT is short for Trinitrotoluene.

The sound of a Star Wars lightsaber was created by pairing together the sound of an idle film projector and the buzz from an old TV set.

M&M’s stands for “Mars & Murrie’s”, the last names of the company’s founders.

Following the Lightsaber theme, Lucasfilms owns a trademark on the term ‘lightsaber’.

Anyone who visits downtown will know what prison smells like.

Sirens, old deli meat, and human waste everywhere.

Never mind.

BTW: the phrase “never mind” originated in the late 1700s.

In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. This is because guinea pigs are social animals, and they are considered victims of abuse if they are alone

To your goldfish, tapping on the glass bowl is as loud as a rock concert

In The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Gothmog:

and the Witch-King of Angmar:

are played by Lawrence Makoare, and voiced by Andy Serkis.

The name Wendy used for females first dates to the book “Peter Pan”. Before that, there has been no use or record of that name for women.

Originally, the Eiffel Tower was going to be erected in Barcelona, but the project was rejected because citizens thought it was an eyesore.

Allegedly, the third stall of the third floor girls’ bathroom of any Japanese elementary school (that has at least three floors) is haunted.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the first 3D Zelda game for the Nintendo 64, was originally rumored as going to be played entirely in first-person perspective.

We are eventually going to run out of random useless facts for this thread. I mean it is an eventuality.

Today’s date and time is Friday, November 5th, and it’s 4:26 PM.

i do not recall what color my eyes are.

The band Enuff Z’nuff has more Greatest Hits albums (3) than gold records (0).

There’s only enough coal in the world to last up to 2060, At the rate were going at it should be gone by 2050 maybe sooner.