Random Useless Facts Thread

@NorrisThePony  
Well in general, most coins have the slight extra weight on the heads side, so I think it’s still true.
 
 
@Myoozik  
Never knew that before :0
 
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When Kenner was making the first batch of Star Wars toys, one of the figures was a species of the alien race, of the Jawa. When designing it, they had trouble trying to decide what would be the right material to use for it’s iconic brown cloak.
 
After trying out vinyl and a bunch of different fabrics, they were struggling to find the right material. The one night while he was at home, one of the people working on it noticed that he had a piece of material that looked like it could work: His brown socks.
 
So he cut the top off it, and put it on the toy Jawa, took some picture of it, and then sent it away for quality testing, where it was approved.

Time zones were created by the American railroad companies in the late 1800’s for the trains to arrive on time and so they won’t lose time traveling intercontinentally.

Despite being Batman’s greatest rival and one of the most popular comic book villains in history, in his very first appearance, the Joker only appeared for one issue, and he ended up dying at the end of it after he got stabbed with his own knife.

In the New Super Mario Bros. series, the Koopa Troopas will perform a dance move when a certain note of the background music is played.

One of the most unique rises to fame in history comes from the tale of Dean Reed. Born in the 1930’s in Colorado, he went off to pursue music and released rock n roll records in the wake of Elvis Presley’s popularity. However, barring one record which cracked the Billboard Hot 100, his music did not reach a wide audience except interestingly enough, in South America. After hearing about his unexpected popularity there, he moved to Argentina and spent the early 60’s releasing hit records after hit records, appearing in movies and having his own TV show.
 
During this time, Communism was starting to take hold in most of South America and Dean was caught in the middle of it and when his growing left wing views became controversial to the right wing Argentinian government, he was exiled out of the country in 1966. Undeterred, he moved to East Germany, which was part of the Communist Bloc controlled by the Soviet Union and there he achieved fame and success yet again, bigger than ever before. For the next decade, he once again released hit after hit in the Soviet Union expressing distrust for the US, supporting the Berlin Wall and touting propaganda for the socialist system.
 
By the early 80’s, his star became faded as the musical landscape and audience’s tastes in music changed and for the next few years, Reed talked about moving back to the US and used the premiere of the 1985 film “American Rebel”, a documentary film about his life as a way to ease himself back to his home state. The campaign backfired and he retreated back to East Germany to live out the rest of his days. A few months later on June 17th, 1986, his body was found floating in a lake near his home, he was 47 years old.
 
Police ruled his death as an accidental drowning, but theories sprang up about his death from suicide to even murder from the Stasi, a notorious East German secret police. Another conspiracy states that Dean was secretly a CIA mole operating within the Communist Bloc all along. In addition, his political views have been brought into question by historians, where some claim that he never had Marxist views and was faking it in order to gain fame and success.

@Myoozik  
that’sa pretty interesting story

@icey wicey 1517  
I have a book called “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader” which specializes in trivia and useless facts and it had two whole pages dedicated to that guy and it was a pretty interesting read.

@Myoozik  
I should try and find that book sometime XD

Actor and comedian Jack Black is part of the acoustic guitar duo Tenacious D.

@Lord Goku  
He also teamed up to do a collab with Jack White, the lead singer of the band The White Stripes.
 
They called their band Jack Grey

The Star Wars Holiday Special is a made for TV movie that aired between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. The special was so bad, it never got aired or shown on TV again for more then over 40 years, and George Lucas said that if he had the time and the money, he would hunt down every recording of the special and destroy them.
 
Only one person actually had a legitimate video copy of the movie, and that was the late Carrie Fisher, the actress of Princess Leia from the Star Wars movies.
 
She said that the reason she got a video of the special, was so that she could use it to threaten out house guests by forcing them to watch it, if they where not going to leave

The 2019 film Parasite winning the 2020 Oscar award for Best Picture marks the first time in the Oscars history that a non-English film has won the award for Best Picture (In this case, the language was Korean)

Pizza Hut in Japan has a mascot named Cheese-kun.

KFC Chicken is considered a traditional Christmas Dinner to have in Japan.

The original recipe for KFC was handwritten in the 1950’s and is now locked in a safe in Kentucky

KFC has an officially licensed dating sim game.

KFC as a national fast food franchise started in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In 2018, multiple KFC restaurants across the UK had to be temporarily shut down due to a mass chicken shortage.

Valentine’s Day is banned in Saudi Arabia for being deemed an “un-Islamic holiday”. Chocolates and roses are instead sold on the black market there.

Until a few years ago, Saudi Arabia has banned women from driving cars.

A male actor/photographer from Saudi Arabia called Omar Borkan Al Gala, was deported from his home country of Saudi Arabia, as the Saudi government deemed that he was “too sexy” to stay in the country.

Queen Elizabeth once terrified then Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia by driving him around Balmoral Estate.

Skulls and bones have apatite on them. This mineral is a major component present in teeth and bones, and is (abeit infrequently) used as a gemstone.
 
The name of the Apatite comes from the greek word απατείν (apatein), which means to decive, to cheat, to mislead.

In 2001, a lawsuit was filed against the restuarant chain Cracker Barrel accusing it of being racist. Disgruntled customers complained that the restaurant was segregating black customers by seating them near smoking areas while attending white customers and some cases, never being seated at all. Further evidence presented during the trial allege that the company ignored hundreds of phone calls complaints. The case failed to gain class action status and was settled out of court where in 2004, it was agreed for the chain to pay almost $2 million in damages to the NAACP.

The first export of a vehicle in the US was that of a steam wagon built by Elijah Ware of Bayonne, NJ. In 1866 he sold it to a Roman Catholic priest in Prince Edward Island.