Random Useless Facts Thread

2pac was considered for the role of Mace Windu in Star Wars.

After Tupac Shakur died, his ashes were sprinkled into marijuana and smoked by the members of The Outlawz, the rap group he founded.

Will Smith was considered for the role of Neo in The Matrix.

Sonic’s current English voice actor, Roger Craig Smith, is slightly older than his first English voice actor, Jaleel White.

The Cobra Effect refers to an attempt at trying to solve a problem, only to make it worse.
 
The name comes from the British rule of India, in which the government was concerned with the high number of venom cobras in Delhi, to which they offered a bounty to the people there for every dead snake they bring in. However, this move resulted in people capturing and breeding snakes, so they could produce more snakes to get more money. Once the British found out about this, they scrapped the program, and the snake breeders released all the snaked back into the wild, which ironically increased the snake population.

The reason for Youtube’s creation is because the creators couldn’t find any quality footage of the Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction incident at the Super Bowl.

The very first YouTube video was about a man talking about his visit to a local zoo.
 
The first trailer for Call of duty: Infinite Warfare is both the most disliked AND liked trailer for a Call of Duty game.

The most viewed video on YouTube is the music video for the song “Despacito”. It currently sits at 4 billion views. The previous record holder was “Gangnam Style”, which had 2 billion views before increasing to 3 billion.

Gangnam Style also broke the view counter on Youtube due to the high amount of views it had.

The trailer for the 2016 Ghostbusters movie is the most disliked movie trailer on YouTube.
 
6 out of 10 of the most dislkied videos on Youtube are songs. The most dislkied vidoes that are not song s(in order), are Logan Paul’s video rsponse to his Suicide Forest video, this video , a video of PewDiePie asking viewers to give his vidoe 1 million dislkies, and the first trailer for COD Infinite Warfare.

A polar bears liver contains so much protein, that just one bite of it would be enough to kill you.

South Korea has a very high suicide rate that a Suicide Prevention Police Force was set up to reduce the number of suicides.

The word “Chile” was once misspelled as “Chiie” on the country’s currency. The mistake wasn’t noticed until a year later.

Plankton’s voice actor (Mr. Lawrence) Was originally going to be the voice of SpongeBob before Tom Kenny took over the role. He didn’t get the role, as many of the staff thought that his voice would better fit a more evil character then a character like SpongeBob.

According to one source, at least one human dies every second; four babies are born during that second.

All of the flags that has been placed on the Moon has turned white because of the intense radiation of the sun’s UV rays.

If Lauren Faust completely had her way when creating MLP:FiM, the mane six ponies would’ve just been direct updates from their G1 counterparts instead of what we have today.

Before writing down his famous symphonies, Beethoven would pour ice water over his head to keep him awake.

Liam Nesson was once offered the role of James Bond, but he rejected it.  
He said that he didn’t want to be famous in Hollywood for being type casted as action heroes.

There is a small town in Minnesota called Dorset, that elects their mayor via pulling names out of a hat.
 
They once had a 3 year old mayor called Bobby Tuffs.

In the Texas county of Bell, there is a town called “Ding Dong”.

The saying, “How do you like them Apples?”, comes from a term used by the British army during WW1, where their trench mortars were referred to as “Toffee Apples”.

London has so many trees, that it can be classified as a forest.
 
If a tourist goes to Sri Lanka and they have a tattoo of Buddha, the authorities will immediately deport them if they see it.

Akira Toriyama, the creator of the Dragonball series, wanted to end DBZ at the end of the Cell Games saga, but his editor and the fans wanted more, so we got the Majin Buu saga as a result.

@SonGokuMonkey  
Didn’t that extend to the Freeza saga also?