Random Useless Facts Thread

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!

 
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No president of the United States was an only child.

John Wick once killed 3 men, with a pencil

The odds of getting a royal flush in a game of Poker is 1 in 649,740

In the soundtrack for the first game of The Sims, all of the song names have the word “sim” in them.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

If you put a Blu-Ray disk of the movie Fight Club into a game system, the title doesn’t appear on the screen (referencing the first two rules of Fight Club)

@icey wicey 1517  
Does this happen on the PS3, PS4 and/or Xbox One?

@Lord Goku  
I think any game system, it happens.
 
Also another random fact.
 
In the soundtrack to the movie Batman Begins, all the songs in the soundtrack are named after different genus of bat  

The # sign is also known as “octothorpe”

Sony’s PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time. It’s also the first to play DVDs.

Sylvester Stallone wanted to use the Queen song “Another One Bites the Dust” as the theme for Rocky III, but he couldn’t get the rights. So instead, he contacted the band Survivor to write a new song for the film, and the result was the now iconic “Eye of the Tiger”.

Supposedly, there is a top secret airline at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas that flies workers into Area 51.

Backmasking is a technique where a song or a recording is played backwards and a completely different message can be heard.

Whips makes a cracking sound when they are snapped because the tip moves faster the speed of sound creating a tiny sonic boom.

In 1993 Married…with Children was remade in Germany as “Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt” (Help, my family is crazy)
 
It was almost universally panned by critics as the worst German TV show of all times. The producers even went as far as to adapt the original scripts and replicated almost every gag made in the original.
 
Three episodes of the show survive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajoOEwTmYCs the rest is thankfully lost to TV history…

Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.

The only time that the United States’ national debt was paid off was during Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson’s presidency.

@Lord Goku  
Which is weird since Andrew Jackson was so vehemently against big banks, especially the Second Bank of the United States.

During the first few DVD sets for the first seasons of Sesame Street, the DVD’s where rated as “Adult Only”

In 1974 Queen before they became widely famous, were booed and heckled at a music festival in Australia. Freddie Mercury told the audience:
 
“When we come back to Australia, we will be the biggest band in the world!”
 
They would return after debuting their smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody two years later.

The longest New York City has gone without murder is 12 days.

It takes about 9 seconds for a cat to realize that it’s falling until it corrects itself and tries to land on its four feet

Heil Honey, I’m Home! was an ill-fated 1990 British sitcom about a fictionalized Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun living next to a Jewish couple and struggling to get along. It only ran for one episode before being cancelled amidst a shitstorm of controversy, with one critic calling it “one of the most tasteless situation comedies”