Random Useless Facts Thread

There are far more possible variations of chess moves than there are atoms in the observable universe.

All end of the world movies are so detailed if you showed any clip to anyone they be like “You know that’s a movie with a lot of effects?”.

The Ancient Chinese were the first ever to use paper money as currency but due to inflation, it was dropped and wouldn’t be used again for 100’s of years.

Listening to depressive music doesn’t make you actually depressive. It is the depression which does affect your condition.

In 2001, a British man named Richard Reid tried to blow up a passenger plane headed from Paris to Miami by lighting an explosive in his shoes. As he tried to light it up, his foot sweat rendered the bomb useless, and he was subdued by flight attendants and passengers. He was sentenced to three life terms plus 110 years without parole.

This event happened on this day 21 years ago.

@Mr.Myoozik
He is also one of the few people I’ve seen who I can confidently call “butt ugly”

Death Metal can have a lot of sense in it, despite its sound and difficult music structure. Many refer the genre as “Horror Gore Fairy Tales”, but a lot of songs in genre has deep philosophical, political, social and moral commentary on life and different situations. You still may not stand the sound of it anyway.

Here’s a size comparison between a Heavyweight, the biggest weight class and a Flyweight, the smallest weight class fighter in the UFC.

Yes, here’s a random useless fact: It’s been nearly 30 days, so this thread needs to be revived!

The lyrics to the famous hair metal song Cherry Pie was written on a pizza box in fifteen minutes according to frontman Jani Lane of Warrant

The first Kind Of England, Æthelstan, made a law that everyone had to be in bed by 8 PM. What a stodgy old twat!

@Mr.Myoozik
Understandably enough, as much as that song made Jani Lane and Warrant’s career, he hated the song and believed it destroyed their career as well - To most people, he was just the “Cherry Pie Guy”

@Mellow Rhythm
Plus, it was towards the end of the album recording cycle and their record label literally called Jani after a party to tell them that they need a radio hit similar to Aerosmith’s “Love In An Elevator”. So if you want to know the true masterminds as to why the band got pigeonholed as the “Cherry Pie band”, it was Columbia Records

@Mr.Myoozik
Of course it was the record company… Almost always is!

Bob The Builder reached number one the UK Singles chart, twice

Polar bears have been known to actively hunt humans.

Deep fried chocolate bars was once a fad in Scotland in the 90’s

@Mr.Myoozik
Especially Mars bars

They still are, I live in Scotland, Everything is deep fried here, Even the pizzas get deep fried.

Peanut butter and jelly taste good on a hamburger.

The most expensive photograph in the world, taken in 1999 and costing $4.3 million US dollars

@Mr.Myoozik
It’s… nice?

But I feel like this is hardly worth that much in my opinion.

It seems like a historical photo like the Vietnamese monk immolating himself in 1963 would be way more worthwhile.

Or a very rare scene like a special aurora.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
Agreed. It has great composition, but it is bland in comparison to many of history’s greatest photos

When Nickelodeon premiered Power Rangers Samurai, they aired the third episode first. Everyone was very confused.
They also aired the crossover special Clash of the Red Rangers way earlier than intended.
The Super Samurai complete season dvd came out before the show finished airing.