Random Useless Facts Thread

Dead Vikings where buried with board games, so that they wouldn’t be bored on their way to the afterlife.

In 2009, a black terrorist named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up a passenger plane over Detroit. The plan was to set off a bomb hidden in his underwear and explode while the plane was descending. When that time came and he lit the bomb however, it failed to detonate and only set him on fire; He was extinguished while he was tackled and restrained. For his crime, he was sentenced to 4 life sentences plus 50 years without parole.

In 1998, a Georgia Student was suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt to “Coke in Education Day.”

By pure coincidence, Castilian Spanish and Modern Greek share the exact same linguistic phonemes.

At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife’s weight in beer.

The US Navy maintains a research vessel that is designed to be capsized vertically. As a result, most rooms on it have two doors: one to use when the ship is horizontal, another when vertical.

Even though waffle cones were already invented before then, the modern cone that we use today was created during the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis when a vendor used to wrap pancakes under scoops of ice cream.

The first recorded examples of iced tea were cold green tea punches served in the early 1800’s.

Batman Bin Suparman is a man from Singapore who’s unusual name brought him viral fame in 2008. Despite the notoriety and the superhero inspiration of the name, the man would turn to a life of crime and debauchery. He would abuse drugs and assault people, culminating to a 2013 arrest for breaking and entering.  

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women.

There once existed a replica of the house the Simpsons family lives in just outside Las Vegas.

@Lord Goku  
Didn’t that had to get repainted because it was against a color code or something?

@icey wicey 1517  
I think so.

The most deadliest magic trick ever is the bullet catch. The trick is that blanks are loaded into a gun and fired at the performer, giving the illusion that they caught it in with their teeth. Despite that, over 15 magicians have died from this trick.
 
The most notable death happened in Germany in 1820 to a female magician performing in front of a prince. She hired a firing squad to shoot blanks at her to “catch” them. Unfortunately, a live round was accidentally loaded and the bullet went through her abdomen, killing her. Her assistant and partner became so traumatized that he became mentally insane.

A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.

Japanese Kamikazee pilots were allowed to return if they didn’t find a suitable target. One pilot was shot after his ninth return.

According to a survey made in 2009, the Cadbury’s Chocolate Caramel Bunny was voted the 3rd most sexiest female cartoon character of all time.
 
Betty Boop was voted 2nd place, and Jessica Rabbit was voted 2st place.

Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year!

Some species of tarantulas can go anywhere from 12-18 months without eating.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

Pigeons can learn to recognize written words.

@SuperPinkiePie64  
That’s actually a myth

If you go to McDonalds in the Philippines, they have McSpaghetti.