Random Useless Facts Thread

Liberia is a country in West Africa founded by former African American slaves. Sadly, it is very much underdeveloped and was a hotbed for Ebola in the past decade. Not sure where that stands now.

The 50 Cent song “21 Questions” only has him ask 18 questions

In South Africa, one of the most popular drugs is what’s known as “Whoonga”. The drug is crushed HIV medicine smoked through a sugar straw and said to induce hallucinations and is extremely addictive due to Efavirenz, the chemical used in the medication. Addicts have taken to robbing HIV patients of their medicine and the more extreme ones have resorted to purposely getting injected with HIV to receive free doses of the medication.

@Mr.Myoozik
If someone came up to those addicts and kicked them in the face while shouting “WHOONGA!”, that would be leaps and bounds cooler than this pathetic excuse for a high!

@♬𝕸𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝕽𝖍𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖒♪
I know, the lengths that people will go to get a kick, even if it means robbing from the sick

Haiti is the only country as far as I know that has gain independence through a slave revolution. As of recent history, the country is unfortunately considered a failed state due to past political corruption and to top it off, natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes.

The sinking of the Japanese Battleship Yamato killed more sailors than the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Despite Batman’s famous “No guns, no killing” rule, in his first appearances he actually DID use a gun and did kill his villains (He even killed The Joker in his first appearance by stabbing him with his own knife)

He was retconned to have No Killing rule after DC realised they’d run out of villains for him to fight if he kept having to kill them, as well as helping to avoid people saying that he was plagiarizing from another popular comic character at the time, The Shadow

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphorical clock used to indicate how close we are to an apocalypse (mainly on issues such as nuclear war and global warming). Since its inception in 1947, the clock is at its closest to midnight since January 2023 and has not been updated as of this year (let’s hope it doesn’t get any closer to midnight). The clock’s current position is at 90 seconds to midnight or 1 minute and 30 seconds.

Evidence has recently been found that Earth may have once been surrounded by a ring system 466 million years ago, which potentially may have even effected it’s climate at the time.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/earth-ring-like-saturn

The creator of Bitcoin, going by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, is unknown

“Greek Fire” was an incendiary based weapon used by the Roman Empire, often during naval warfare.

It was a strong and intense flame, that had the unique ability to burn on water, making it a very powerful weapon in naval combat, as the ships would still be burning when struck by it, instead of being extinguished by the sea water.

The recipe for Greek Fire remains unknown, as it was a heavily guarded state secret. No one was told the recipe or had written it down, in case it was discovered by an enemy and used against them. However historians believe that the Greek Fire was made by combining crude oil with resins, making it a primitive version of Napalm

Maggie Smith died on the same day Sir Michael Gambon died last year.

California’s Disney Land had an old lady on the zipline at night as Tinker Bell.

Unicorns are the national animal of Scotland

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
Yep, I can conform this as I am a proud scotsman.

In the hard of every Appalachian hillbilly, sings the heart of a drunk Scotsman.

Scotland has the 2nd highest obesity rate in the world, with American bring in 1st place

Alligators are native only in two regions. The Southern United States and Southeastern China, the latter of which are critically endangered.

“Flanderization” is a term that refers to a character, often that of a TV sitcom character, whose personality slowly over the course of a shows run, starts losing their complexity and has certain character traits and flaws exaggerated and made more noticeable, making them more one-note and less developed then their original apperance.

The name comes from The Simpsons character Ned Flanders. While Flanders was always characterised as parody of annoyingly nice Christian neighbours, he still had a lot of traits and character moments outside of that. One of the major criticisms ffor the later seasons was that Ned lost a lot of those traits and served as nothing more then a overly sensitive stick in the mud with fundamentalist Christian views.

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
Despite the name, it wasn’t invented by the Greeks. It was invented by the Byzantines who were occupying Greece at the time.

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
Where are you getting that information? Most lists I see put various Pacific Island countries first, followed by gulf states, with the United States varying betwen 5th and 20th, and the United Kingdom being far below that.

@Target Strike
I just so happen to be in one of those regions right now, but the only alligator I’ve seen so far was inside a McDonald’s.

@Mr.Myoozik
They adopted a lot of Greek culture though, including the language.

McDonald’s once had the McSpaghetti in the 70’s, which was retired after poor consumer reception. The food item is still sold in the Philippines however.

@Mr.Myoozik
I prefer it over Jollibee’s Spaghetti.

Chama. ✊