Random Useless Facts Thread

The most polluted beach in the world is Chowpatty Beach near Mumbai in India. Filled with garbage and pollution from the sands to the water, it is entirely unfit for swimming.

In Fallout: New Vegas, there is a location in the game known as “Lone Wolf Radio”, which consists of a single damaged trailer with a bunch of radio equipment and junk items inside.
 
Despite not holding any unique loot, or being relevant to any story or side-quests, there is an urban legend surrounding it, saying that if you go there during a certain time after doing certain requirements, you will be attacked by a unique NPC, dressed from head to toe in wolf skin/pelts.
 
Another, more darker rumour about this location, is that if you mess around with the radio equipment, you will end up tuning into a broadcast that plays the crys and screams of children, and would then set off a side-quest involving you finding the source of the location to hunt down a serial killer targeting children.

@ILoveMyoozik  
If it’s not safe to go in, imagine drinking it o_0

This is how sperm whales sleep.
 

The last remaining Blockbuster Video store is located in Oregon.

A natatorium is a building containing a swimming pool.

Bhangarh is an abandoned village in India said to be cursed by a magician and haunted by ghosts. The government strongly prohibits visiting the site after sunset and before sunrise.

Weird Al would take dates to go see the 1988 comedy film ‘The Naked Gun’ without telling his dates that he had a cameo in the film. He’d even wear the exact same Hawaiian shirt he was wearing when the cameo was filmed.

Lauren Faust is the wife of Powerpuff Girls’ creator Craig McCracken. She even worked on a few of his shows.

@Lord Goku  
She was also the inspiration for Frankie Foster in Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends since that was a project of McCracken’s.

36 armed dolphins trained by the US Navy to kill terrorists that have been missing since 2005. The Dolphins carry toxic dart guns capable of killing a man in a single shot.

Rembrandt painted more self portraits than any other famous artist.

In the 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, despite the name and Leatherface’s reputation for using a chainsaw as a weapon, only one person was killed with a chainsaw in that film.

In East Germany, the social and economic decline became so severe in the 1980s that even state television was making subtle hints of discontent. In the children’s show “The Sandman” an episode depicted the main character paragliding, this is controversial as paragliding had been banned in East Germany for being used as a method of escaping over the Berlin Wall.

Hurricane Michael (2018) is the third consecutive name starting with “M” to be retired in the Atlantic basin. Previous names were Matthew (2016) and Mitch (1998)

College Basketball player Devonte Green has the “Infinite Ammo” cheat code from GTA San Andreas tattooed on him
 

@icey wicey 1517  
It looks like the PS2’s/PS3’s versions of it.

Puerto Rican rapper and trap artist Bad Bunny used to be a grocery store bagger before finding success in music.

A “Zoilist” is someone who takes pleasure in finding the faults in things.
 
A “Cumberground” is a term used for someone whose only purpose is to take up space.
 
“Whipper-tooties” are feeble excuses for not doing a task.
 
“Crytoscopophilia” means the urge to look into someone’s windows to their house as you are passing by.

The only time it’s acceptable to kill a Yeti in the US is if you killed one in self-defence.

@icey wicey 1517  
“It’s comin’ right for us!”

George Carlin’s famous “Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television” are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.
 
I have that list memorized, btw.

According to a study from North Korea, the second most happiest country in the world is North Korea.

“Dermatoglyphics” is the longest word in the English language where none of the letters repeat.