Random Useless Facts Thread
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Zamasu
According to HowStuffWorks.com, only 8% of all the money in the world is physical cash.
xXArKoPinkeSs
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Mr.Myoozik
Music Connoisseur
The news website Gawker is despised by Reddit for not only being politically correct and controversial regarding its articles, but for being responsible for exposing and doxxing famed user “violentacrez” to the point of getting fired from his job. Shortly afterwards, links to the website have been banned on certain sub-reddits by its moderators.
Silent_Witness
Chippin’ In
It takes approximately 0.15 seconds for a visual stimulus to travel from the retina to the brain in a human.
Mr.Myoozik
Music Connoisseur
The font used for the video game series Grand Theft Auto is the same one used in the game show The Price Is Right.
CalypsoFantasy
Pre-1932 US car fan
And as much as you hate it, the font is called Impact, yes the Impact.
Bruce Lee’s first role was in 1941’s Golden Gate Girl. He was six months old at the time it came out.
Bruce Lee’s first role was in 1941’s Golden Gate Girl. He was six months old at the time it came out.
𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫
seventh layer of hair
The United States Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”. A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other.
kleptomage
There was an animated spinoff of Gilligan’s Island called Gilligan’s Planet because apparently a spaceship was easier to build than a boat.
Mr.Myoozik
Music Connoisseur
@kleptomage
Nobody:
Hannah-Barbera: “You know that one popular show of those people stranded on an island? What if we make a cartoon about it but they build a rocket and go to space?”
Nobody:
Hannah-Barbera: “You know that one popular show of those people stranded on an island? What if we make a cartoon about it but they build a rocket and go to space?”
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Zamasu
Before William Hanna and Joseph Barbara founded their eponymous studio, Hanna-Barbera, they created and worked on Tom and Jerry.
Mr.Myoozik
Music Connoisseur
@Lord Goku
They were the ones who created the first Tom & Jerry cartoon in 1939 and basically launched them to pop culture fame.
They were the ones who created the first Tom & Jerry cartoon in 1939 and basically launched them to pop culture fame.
yelling_into_the_void
The Hell?
The first season of The Jestons ended March 3, 1963; the second season premiered September 16, 1985.
kleptomage
There is a restaurant in New Orleans called Chicken and Watermelon. They sell exactly what the name says.
Icicle Niceicle 1517
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
Elmo is the only non-human/humanoid to testify in-front of the UN
Mr.Myoozik
Music Connoisseur
Peppermint Park was a straight to video educational show that aired in the early 1980’s about puppets teaching children letters, numbers, colors, etc. Very obscure and largely forgotten, the show is derided for being a ripoff of Sesame Street and for having poor production values.
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