Random Useless Facts Thread

Winnie The Pooh was inducted into the UN as an Ambassador of Friendship.

During the a medal ceremony in Kuwait for a professional sports shooting competition in 2012, after a shooter from Kazakhstan won the medal, Kuwait accidently played the parody Kazakhstan National Anthem from the movie Borat instead of the actual National Anthem

The smell left on your hands after touching coins is actually your skin oils breaking down the properties of the coins, not from the coins themselves.

A single windshield of a Boeing 747 costs as much as a brand new BMW M8.

William Goldman’s novel The Princess Bride is written as an abridged translation of fictional author S. Morgenstern’s 1000+ page manuscript.

Climate change is making insects much more hungry.

Civil Rights activist Marcus Garvey suffered a fatal stroke while reading a premature obituary about himself on a newspaper in 1940.

Despite actor Tobin Bell being known for playing the serial killer Jigsaw in the SAW horror movie franchise, Tobin Bell is not actually a fan of horror movie.

In 2000, Spain won the gold medal at the Paralympics, but were disqualified when it was discovered that none of the players were disabled.

Technically, a stake through the heart doesn’t kill a vampire, it just pins them to the ground.

@Myoozik  
To add to that, one of the players that was on said team was actually an undercover journalist who was trying to expose the Spanish team for cheating.

@icey wicey 1517  
Sneak 100  
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@Myoozik  
lol X)

Armenian, Albanian and Greek are languages so unique they have a whole language family all to themselves.

Today is the 88th anniversary of The Great Emu War.

Nikolai Khrushchev threw a temper tantrum when he was denied access to Disneyland during a visit to the US in September 1959.

 
An up-to-date map of the return of the wolf to Germany. In green areas wolves were sighted and monitored, in the areas with the black spot successful reproduction of the wolf population was proven. Germany-wide there are meanwhile 173 fixed territories, in which herds, pairs or location-loyal loners live.
 

In 2020, the Ireland Supreme Court ruled that the bread used in the restaurant chain Subway isn’t real bread due to the ingredients and process that it’s made.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
They have that in most US states too,it’s 5¢,but most people just Chuck cans and bottles on the side of the road, anyway.  
Sometimes,bottles in states that don’t offer refunds have a message on the can that just says,“please recycle”.

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger landed the role, the Terminator from the Terminator film franchise was originally going to be given to Arnold’s friend/rival, Sylvester Stallone.

@icey wicey 1517
 

 
I remember the reference about this in Last Action Hero. But I always thought it was a friendly response to the radio announcement about Schwarzenegger’s presidency in Demolition Man. ;-)

In the UK, it is illegal to broadcast fake/fictional newscasts.
 
What this means is that if there is a movie showing a broadcast of events happening in said movie, it needs to be made clear about the context of the broadcast, and be shot in a way to know that his is a fake broadcast.