Random Useless Facts Thread

Ihla De Queimada Grande, or Snake Island, is an island off the coast of Brazil that is filled with Golden Lanceheads, a deadly venomous snake. With a bite capable of melting flesh, the Brazilian Navy has banned any visitors from going there.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Damn Nature, you scary!

This once in a lifetime phenomena happened exactly 10 years ago today.
 
December 1, 2008
 
Venus, Jupiter and a Crescent Moon form a triangular conjunction to form a “smiley face” in the sky.
 
 
 

 
I was in my sophomore high school days when this happened. I was flying my kite before dusk when I first noticed the crescent moon illuminating the already darkening sky. Then, Venus on your left, and Jupiter on your right soonly appeared and they are very closely adjacent to each other. I was wowed when I see those three so close to each other and what astonished me is they seemingly formed a smile since the moon is crescent. Then, the news broadcasted that there was an ongoing celestial phenomena, people all over my yard filled the streets just to see that incredible sight.
 
It said that this exact kind of thing wont happen again in our lifetime so I was one of the luckiest guy to notice it first hand.

The Rolling Stones member’s long-haired look was considered controversial. During the Christmas holidays in 1963 the band placed an ad in the papers which read: “Best wishes to all the starving hairdresser and their families”.

The Foo Fighters were once supporters of AIDS denialism.

On March 24, 2015 Germanwings flight 4U 9525 was deliberately crashed with no survivors in Digne-Les-Bains.

Hanukkah will not take place in 3031

Pluridens was a genus of marine lizard that lived during the late Cretaceous.

One of the leading contributors to global warming is methane produced by livestock, especially cattle. Belches and flatulence from cows accounts for 95% of all greenhouse gases.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Methane also makes a good source of electricity…if you know how to harness it.

If you are watching a Youtube video that is about Fidget Spinners and it buffers, there is an Easter Egg in that there’s a chance the buffering icon will be replaced with a Fidget Spinner

@icey wicey 1517  
Speaking of which, the original Nyan Cat video used to have Nyan Cat in the progress bar.

Budweiser once had its own video game.

The first Assassin’s Creed game was originally going to be part of the Prince of Persia franchise, before Ubisoft decided that the game seemed too different to the rest of the PoP games.

According to Google, the driving distance between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas is about 420 miles.

The barcode on the back of Agent 47 from the Hitman series’s head was taken from an actual product. Unfortunately, that product happens to be a Drawstring Double Dong Dildo Holder in Midnight Blue.

According to voice actor Mr. Warburton, the main characters of “SpongeBob SquarePants” each represent the seven deadly sins.

@Silent_Witness  
Reminds me of when The Last of Us came out, and you could find a poster with a made up phone number on it, and if you actually called in that phone number, you would be taken to a phone sex hotline
 
 
@ILoveMyoozik  
Heard of that one before. I thought it was just a fan theory at first before I heard that the idea actually came from someone on the show.
 
Another piece of spongebob trivia:
 
The reason why the shows narrator is French, is because he is a parody of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a French Oceanographer and researcher who had made several well-received nature documentaries about the ocean and sea life.  
Stephen Hillenburg came up with the idea for French Narrator, as he considered Jacques to be one of his Idols for getting him interested in the ocean.

MegaMan 1’s ending and MegaMan 2’s intro are the same song.

Ourang Medan was a ghost ship that was found off the coast of the Dutch East Indies in 1947 with all the crew found dead. The mystery behind the ship and the deaths of the crew remain unsolved to this day.

Dickens was inspired to write A Christmas Carol in 1843 after he spoke at a charity night to raise money for the Manchester Athenaeum in England, an institution dedicated to “advancement and diffusion of knowledge.”  
The 31 year old spoke alongside the young Benjamin Disraeli, who would later become prime minister of Great Britain. After their talk, Dickens went on a long nocturnal walk later and had the idea for his “little Christmas book.”

@ILoveMyoozik  
I think a game is being made about that ship.
 
 
IN the original Super Mario game, the wristbands that Bowser has are not actually black, but are actually transparent. They look black because the background of his boss battle is black.

The theme song for The Magic School Bus is in Myxolydian.

Zincy would most likely be a really good fit for this thread.

Fort Drum was an island in Manila Bay that was converted into a reinforced concrete fort after the Spanish American War. It was attacked the day after Pearl Harbor by the Japanese and withstood heavy artillery for months. Finally, Fort Drum was surrendered in May and occupied by the Japanese until 1945 when the Americans came to retake it. The Japanese refused to surrender so oil was pumped into the fort and ignited. The fire’s heat was so intense it was five days until anyone could enter. Today Fort Drum is an abandoned ruin, the only things remaining are those too heavy to loot.