Random Useless Facts Thread

The Declaration Of Independence was actually signed on July 2nd. July 4th was when the document was ratified and approved.

One litter of kittens can have multiple fathers.

It takes about 7 seconds for a cat to realize that it’s falling for it to turn around and land on its four feet.

Despite how popular the phrase is, “Beam me up Scotty!” was never actually said in the original Star Trek series, but it was said in the animated series.
 
The phrase became popular enough that it was included into other Star Trek works, such as the reboot movies.

Jason form Friday the 13th has never used a chainsaw in any of the movie.
 
The only time he has used electrical equipment to kill was in Part 7: The New Blood, where he useda tree saw to kill someone.

“What the Hell?” Has been said in almost every Family Guy episode.

The phrases “The cat’s out of the bag”  
“A cat has nine lives”  
“You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone.”  
and “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” all have to do with the cat-o’-nine-tales.

The reason why flames often don’t have shadows, is because they are their own light source.
 
In order for a shadow to appear, there need to be a light source to reflect it. Since a flame is it’s own light source, it produces no shadow.

The line that’s said the most in films is “Let’s Get Outta Here!” That line has been said in 9 out of 10 films.

Eminem was once in the supreme court over a legal dispute with his former school bully DeAngelo Bailey, after Bailey was trying to sue him for Eminem insulted him and claimed he bullied him in one of his songs.
 
Bailey lost the lawsuit and was forced to pay £600,000, and when the Judge was about to give her ruling, she actually rapped the ruling.
 
“Mr Bailey complains that his rap is trash / so he’s seeking compensation in the form of cash.
 
Bailey thinks he’s entitled to some monetary gain / because Eminem used his name in vain. / The lyrics are stories noone would take as fact / they’re an exaggeration of a childish act.
 
It is therefore this court’s ultimate position / that Eminem is entitled to summary disposition.”

In April 18th, 1930, the BBC radio said that there was no news to report on that day, and instead played piano music for the rest of the day.

The 1938 radio play of the H.G. Wells novel “The War Of The Worlds” caused mass panic around the US that people ran into the streets screaming in terror.

Contrary to some beliefs, the bagel was not created in the shape of a stirrup to commemorate the victory of Poland’s King John III Sobieski over the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna in 1683.
 
Linguist Leo Rosten wrote in The Joys of Yiddish about the first known mention of the Polish word bajgiel derived from the Yiddish word bagel in the “Community Regulations” of the city of Kraków in 1610, which stated that the item was given as a gift to women in childbirth.[6]
 
In the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries, the bajgiel became a staple of Polish cuisine[7] and a staple of the Slavic diet generally.[8] Its name derives from the Yiddish word beygal from the German dialect word beugel, meaning “ring” or “bracelet”.[9]
 
Variants of the word beugal are used in Yiddish and in Austrian German to refer to a similar form of sweet-filled pastry (Mohnbeugel (with poppy seeds) and Nussbeugel (with ground nuts), or in southern German dialects (where beuge refers to a pile, e.g., holzbeuge “woodpile”). According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, ‘bagel’ derives from the transliteration of the Yiddish ‘beygl’, which came from the Middle High German ‘böugel’ or ring, which itself came from ‘bouc’ (ring) in Old High German, similar to the Old English bēag “ring” and būgan “to bend, bow”.[10] Similarly, another etymology in the Webster’s New World College Dictionary says that the Middle High German form was derived from the Austrian German beugel, a kind of croissant, and was similar to the German bügel, a stirrup or ring.[11]
 
In the Brick Lane district and surrounding area of London, England, bagels (or, as locally spelled, “beigels”) have been sold since the middle of the 19th century. They were often displayed in the windows of bakeries on vertical wooden dowels, up to a metre in length, on racks.

The War Of The Stray Dog was an unusual 1925 war when a Greek soldier was shot in Bulgarian territory while trying to chase after a stray dog.

Dr Eggman form Sonic the Hedgehog is a Feminist.

In real life, hedgehogs are excellent swimmers. The reason why Sonic drowns easily and can’t swim is because creator Yuji Naka didn’t know at the time.

One of the reason the Shadow the Hedgehog game was made, was because Yuji got a lot of emails and letters from fans asking for a Sonic game with guns.
 
Two characters from Game of Thrones (Cersei Lannister and Bronn) have never had a scene together. This is becuase the actors playing them (Lena Headey and Jerome Flynn) once dated before breaking up, on very bad terms. No one knows the reasons why they broke up, but both of them have it in their contract that they would never share a scene together in the show, or even be in the same room together when the show is being filmed.

“I have a bad feeling about this,” is a very famous line from Star Wars movies.

The fortune cookie was invented in California in the early 1900’s.

The McDonald’s Szechuan Sauce incident wasn’t the first time that the restaurant underestimated the power of demand. Back in the year 2000 in the Asian country of Singapore, McDonald’s introduced Hello Kitty toys to their meals to capitalize on its success. Audiences lined up for miles to get it and even threw out their food just so they can get the toy. One restaurant even had a riot where people got injured. Both the restaurant and the owner of the toy franchise Sanrio apologized for it.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Huh, and here I thought there has been only 2 riots in post-merger Singapore.
 
But here I am, speculating another large scale riot if McDonalds ever discontinues the iconic McSpicy.

Canada’s southernmost city; Windsor, Ontario; is right across the river from Detroit, Michigan.

Phoenix, Arizona is the largest US state capitol city.

Denver, Colorado is exactly one mile above sea level.

The shortest war in recorded history was the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896. It lasted 38 minutes.