Random Useless Facts Thread

The Pacific island of Niue once made Pokemon themed currency by putting Pikachu on it

The circular metal handguard on a lance is called a vamplate and was only used on jousting lances.

In the K-Pop world, a “black ocean” is used to describe an event where the crowd in a performance would have their lights turned off and be mostly silent. Widely seen as the worst thing to happen for a k-pop act, it has severely and mentally affected the acts with even the biggest group internationally, BTS, receiving a black ocean once.

@Myoozik  
 
In Digimon,there’s a dimension called the Dark Ocean.

The story of a statue of the Aztec goddess Coatlicue being discovered and promptly re-buried due to being too frightening to the public is a myth. The statute was excavated and re-buried, but it was due to concerns that its discovery would encourage the native population to continue following the traditional Aztec faith.

This was the flag of the French Royal Navy at one point in their history
 

@Myoozik  
LOL

@Goku Black  
Yes seriously, it was just a plain white flag, this isn’t low hanging fruit

During the console wars between Nintendo and Sega, Nintendo’s product testing room once has a plushie of Sonic the Hedgehog being lynched to boost morale.
 

 
 
@Myoozik  
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Ok the jokes just write themselves at this point X)

The Kazakh title of Borat is Борат: Қазақстанның даңқты ұлтына пайда келтіру үшін Американың мәдени білімі
 
“Borat: Qazaqstannyng dangqty ultyna payda keltiru üshin Amerikanyng medeni bilimi”

Apple seeds contain cyanide

In the Vietnamese version of Cinderella (Tam Cam) at the end, Cinderella dismembered her stepsister, put the body into a jar of food and sent it to her stepmother to eat, which she enjoyed until she found a skull at the bottom of the jar and died of shock.

Musician Frank Zappa has an album titled “Weasels Ripped My Flesh”
 

@Myoozik  
It’s a pretty good one too.

@Myoozik  
He also has an entirely instrumental album that’s rated explicit

David Dunbar Buick, the founder of Buick, discovered a method of affixing porcelain to cast iron, inventing white bathtubs, toilets and sinks as we know them.

@UmbraPone1  
Oh yeah, I heard about that too, forgot the name of the album

In 1971, Pink Floyd played a show in London that was so loud, it killed all the fish in a lake 100 yards away.

When the comet Hale-Bopp appeared in 1997, Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the UFO cult Heaven’s Gate, believed rumors that were spreading at the time among paranormal followers that an alien spacecraft was trailing it. For Applewhite, this so-called spaceship would “transport their spirits aboard for a journey to another planet” and that “their souls would ascend to the spaceship and be given new bodies”. Applewhite and 38 of his followers committed mass suicide, the largest to occur inside the US. Applewhite made the cover of both Time and Newsweek after the suicide. Years later, he was parodied in an episode on Family Guy.

There are only two modern day countries whose flags have the color purple on it: Nicaragua and Dominica.

Flamethrowers don’t really explode in a conflagration of napalm when hit by a bullet, they would only spill their contents, and, if the pressurized gas tank gets hit (The one that propells the napalm) the soldier would be sent flying comically the opposite direction of the entry hole by Newton’s 3rd Law (Every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction). Only heavy fire (Like a 20mm Lahti L39) would tbe able to lit the napalm inside.

Approximately 60% of people have differently sized feet. Among those, the right foot is typically the larger of the two, and the difference is normally less than half a shoe size.

@Background Pony #28C7  
I knew it!