Random Useless Facts Thread

In the 1960’s, vegetable flavored Jell-O was actually sold, and was swiftly discontinued soon after.

Mystery Dungeon existed long before the crossover with Pokemon, likewise, the Persona games are spin offs of the mainline Shin Megami Tensei games.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been observed continuously for 188 years, since 1830. However, it is possible that the storm has been in existence since the 1600s or earlier, as a similar storm was recorded in 1665 when the planet was first observed through telescope.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

More than 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

Every second, 4 babies are born while two people die.

@ILoveMyoozik  
That’s a 2:1 ratio of births to deaths per second.

Georgia is the home of Coca Cola and in 1998, a Georgia student was suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on State Coke Day.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
That would make sense, since Pepsi is Coca-Cola’s main competitor…and I say this as a pro-consumer choice guy.

@SuperPinkiePie64  
How?

The Lion King shares a lot of similarities with 1960’s Japanese cartoon Kimba The White Lion. Disney states that this is all coincidental.

There is a rumour that when Disney was going to make an English dub of Princess Mononoke, the considered making a few cuts to the animation.
 
Upon hearing this news, Studio Ghibli sent Disney higher-ups a Katana sword, with a note attached to it saying “No cuts”.

Kirby’s Epic Yarn was originally going to be a new IP called Fluff’s Yarn, but they felt the game was more fun with Kirby characters. The original main character of Fluff’s Yarn became Prince Fluff, the Player 2 character of Kirby’s Epic Yarn.

I Am Rich was an app where for $1,000 you can have a functionless red gem sit on your phone screen with a misspelled mantra when you click on it. It was removed from the App Store after only 8 purchases were made, which were then refunded. It currently holds the record for most expensive app ever.

Taco Bell sold 100 Million Doritos Locos tacos in the first 10 weeks. It took McDonald’s 18 years to sell the same ammount of burgers.

@EPPony  
There’s other Mystery Dungeon games? What are they about?

@mjangelvortex  
Shiren the Wanderer series, Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja, Etrian Mystery Dungeon (spinoff for the Etrian Odyssey series) and several others, I don’t know the plotlines for them, though I know they exist and they are not easy, trust me.

@EPPony  
Nice. Thank you for telling me about these. I’m assuming they’re made by Ubisoft too?

@mjangelvortex  
By Chunsoft, yes.

@EPPony  
Cool. I may have to check out those other Mystery Dungeon games.

In 1959, a group of hikers in the Himalayan mountains were found mysteriously dead with traces of radioactivity on them. This incident became known as “The Dyatlov Pass Incident” because of the location of where the bodies were found.

@mjangelvortex  
Cool and, if you plan on trying the Shin Megami games, I’ve heard many say that IV for the 3ds is the best place to start.

Female Orcas are currently the only animals outside of humans that go through menopause.
 
@EPPony  
Sounds good to me. Thank you for the advice on which game to play first.

@mjangelvortex  
Not a problem!