Random Useless Facts Thread

The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.

In 1896 the Marathon was standardized to 25 miles. For the 1908 London Olympics the starting line was moves back 1 mile 385 yards onto the front lawn of Windsor Castle so Queen Alexandra’s grandchildren could watch the start of the race.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. Before that, there have been no documented cases of a person having that name.

Earth is at its aphelion today.

Utah was going to be called “Deseret” by the Mormons who settled here, but Congress wouldn’t allow it.

The 1987 movie The Living Daylights is the first movie to feature Timothy Dalton in the role of James Bond. However, Dalton had been approached and offered the role of Bond twice before.
 
The first was On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which Dalton declined as he felt he was too young for the role (he was 23 years old at the time), and he didn’t want to be the guy who replaced Sean Connery.
 
The second was For Your Eyes Only, since the current Bond actor at the time, Roger Moore, was considering quitting the series after Moonraker. Dalton was offered to be his replacement, but Moore would ultimately change his mind and stay on for more movies.

In Florida, the penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.

The air around the clouds after a lightning strike is 10X hotter than the Sun’s surface.

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

The budget for the 2004 film “Napoleon Dynamite” was only $400,000. It was so tight that they only paid actor Jon Heder, who played the titular character, $1,000.

The horns for most American brand cars honk in the key of F.

A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least twenty minutes to stop.

New York City is spread out over five counties (although they call them “boroughs” there.)

The country in the most debt is Japan with 236% of its GDP being in debt as of 2017.

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

Perejil Island is a small rocky island between Morocco and Spain, 200 meters off the coast of the former. In 2002, Moroccan troops occupied the island, but were ejected by Spanish soldiers, almost causing a conflict between the two.

A dinosaur is defined as any creature grouped within the latest common ancestor between triceratops, diplodocus and… the house sparrow…and all their descendants.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.

It is possible to play as Knuckles and Knuckles in Sonic Mania.

The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for ‘To Insure Prompt Service’.

Baseball player John Smoltz once burned himself while ironing his shirt because he was still wearing it.

Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

FPSRussia was a popular YouTube channel specializing in firearms, explosives and other weapons. On January 6th, 2013, one of the production members for the channel, Keith Ratliff, was found dead in his gun store in Georgia. The murder is still currently unsolved, but two theories for the crime are that he was an illegal arms dealer and he had a deal go bad and intruded on a rival’s turf and was killed by a hitman or he was assassinated by an anti-gun group led by the US Government in order to strike fear to pro-gun believers. Despite the grizzly crime, the channel continued on.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Isn’t that channel pretty much dead?
 
Since I think the FBI took away all of his guns after the death of Keith, so he just stopped uploading.

French was the official language of England for over 600 years.