Random Useless Facts Thread

Led Zeppelin intentionally mispelled “Lead” as “Led”. They were concerned that “Lead” would be pronounced like “The Warriors blew a 3-1 lead to the Cavs” rather than Lead like “There’s too much lead in the water supply”.

Actor Benicio del Toro holds the record for being the youngest actor to play a James Bond villain.
 
He played the henchmen Dario in the 1989 Bond film Licence To Kill, being 21 years old at the time of filming. (Licence To Kill was also one of the very first films he’s ever appeared in)

Soy beans are named after soy sauce.

During World War 2, over 10,000 bibles were sent to Romania to use as toilet paper after a shortage of it.

@ILoveMyoozik  
This probably made one Christian very angry, or one Atheist very happy X)

@icey wicey 1517  
I mean what else would they wipe their asses with, bark? XD

@ILoveMyoozik  
Corn husks?
 
In the Old West, that’s how Cowboy’s used to wipe their ass.

@icey wicey 1517  
Fuck that. That was 1940’s Europe, not 1870’s America, so they made the right decision with using pages from a book. XP

@ILoveMyoozik  
True X)

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut contains 399 swear words, exactly one less than is required for a movie get slapped with an NC-17 rating.

If you do a lot of browsing on Pixiv or Danbooru, or similar sites, you may have noticed that this background tends to pop up in a lot of images:  
 
This background is based on a real-world location: namely, a pool in a luxury apartment-style studio in Shinjuku that’s often rented out for photoshoots and JAVs (Japanese Adult Videos). It appears so frequently that it actually has its own nickname: Rei no Pool, or “the usual pool” (aka, That Pool in English).

The 2018 April Fools prank for the image site Derpibooru involved the character Starlight Glimmer taking over the website with a red communist theme. This isn’t the first time that a fan website dedicated to the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic did this prank. Two years prior, the MLP news site Equestria Daily did a similar prank for April Fools 2016 where the character reskinned the site to red, changed the name to “Equality Inquirer” and even changed the font to Comic Sans. The app for the site was also affected by the prank.

@ILoveMyoozik  
huh.
 
I didn’t know that. I wonder if that served as inspiration.

@icey wicey 1517  
Or maybe it could be a coincidence?

@ILoveMyoozik  
The world may never know…

This, is the Kolibri pistol.  

 
Made in 1914 by an Austrian watchmaker named Franz Pfannl, it holds the record for being the smallest gun ever made.
 
It was called Kolibri due to it’s small size (Kolibri being the German word for “Hummingbird”, a type of bird known for being very small), and took 2MM bullets. It was advertised as being a ladies self-defence weapon, as it could be easily stored in a handbag or the pocket of a woman’s coat.
 
However, the gun proved to be a terrible self-defence weapon, as it had small range and horrible accuracy, combined with the fact that the bullets lacked any stopping power (There we reports of the bullets harmlessly bouncing off a muggers wool coat when he was shot at, and even sometimes bouncing off bare skin!). Due to these factors, the gun was considered not to be a worthy buy, and was discontinued in 1938.
 
It is now a collectors item, as it’s reported that only 1000 of these guns where ever made.
 
The gun gained more mainstream/wide spread attention after it was featured in the EA’s 2016 game Battlefield 1, as one of the last unlockable handguns in the game’s multiplayer mode, and for being considered to be one of the worst guns in the game (Although the weapons inclusion was most likely added as a joke).

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Laboratory was a toy from the 1950’s where you can pretend to work on a nuclear reactor. The toy actually contained radioactive particles and as a result, it was withdrawn before it could be put into shelves.
 

@ILoveMyoozik  
The 50’s everyone…

@icey wicey 1517  
🎶We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight!🎶 :D

@ILoveMyoozik  
🎶That is if we don’t end up getting radiation poisoning!🎶

In 1963, Hasbro released a slime toy called Flubber, to help promote the upcoming movie Son of Flubber.  
Flubber was made out of a very poor mixing of synthetic rubber and mineral oil, and when the first batch was given to the public, it proved to be very toxic, as many kids had reported getting things like rashes and fevers.
 
Hasbro immediately recalled the product, and tried to dispose of the product by burying it at sea. However when they done that, the Flubber just floated back up to the top.  
Later on, they tried to get rid of it by burning it, but it wouldn’t burn.
 
Eventually, they just decided to dig a hole next to one of their factories in Rhode Island and dumped the remaining flubber in there, and then paved a car park over it.
 
Legend has it that on really hot days, if you look closely at the cracks in the car park, you can actually see the Flubber oozing out of it…

@icey wicey 1517  
I know this fact from TV Tropes, which listed it under its So Bad It’s Horrible page for Toys. Either way, I want to see if this legend is true and go up there and see the Flubber oozing up.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Tha’s where I got it form too X)
 
(Honestly this sounds like something out of a horror movie)

@icey wicey 1517  
I was about to say because the way how you worded it looked suspiciously similar to their entry.

@ILoveMyoozik  
I thought it looked familiar, but I couldn’t place why or where I’d seen it before.