Random Useless Facts Thread

On August 11, 1919 (100 years ago today), the Green Bay Packers were founded.

The 1796 light cavalry sabre was the best bladed weapon ever manufactured in mass quantity.

Moscow weathermen can be fined for inaccurate weather forecasting!

Christopher Sabat, who is known as the voice of Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha and others in the Funimation dub of the Dragon Ball series, owns his own recording studio somewhere in the Dallas area.

In Spain, it is common to pour chocolate milk on cereal for breakfast.

America was named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci who landed on modern day North America in 1498.

The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.

There actually exists a Pizza Hut perfume that smells like a box of fresh Pizza Hut pizza being opened.
 
(fuck this shit i’m hungry and i want pizza)

Your never fuck with Russia on a land war…unless your name is Genghis Khan, then you can fuck with Russia as many times as you want…in all meanings of the word…||||

During the so called mexican revolution, in Torreon, there have been a lassacre of chinese people. In fact, there have been campaigns against chinese back then during that time because mexicans believed they hoarded the riches.

More than 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

Over a period of 200 years, 3 ships perished at the same location of the coast of Wales, on the same day (December 5), and all 3 ships had only one survivor. The 3 survivors all had the same name: Hugh Williams

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

Every day, a human sheds an average of 500 million dead skin cells

A group of baboons is called a Congress.
 
It all makes sense to me, now.

A coin toss does not actually have 50/50 odds. For a hand-tossed coin, there’s a slight bias (1%) toward the side it started on landing face up.

Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day!

If a movie has the word “fuck” in it more than once, it usually gets an automatic R-rating.

It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.

BMW had to recall their original GPS system because male German drivers were refusing to take directions from a female voice.

The binomial name of the tyrannosaurid Tarbosaurus bataar can be very roughly translated as “Awesome Lizard Hero”.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

Elvis Presley had a twin brother, Jessie Garon Presley, who was born stillborn and died at birth.

The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

Almost all of Pixar’s films since the first Toy Story are named ‘general mobilization of’ in China.  
(总动员 - zongdongyuan)
 
Cars is ‘general mobilization of racing’ (赛车总动员, saiche zongdongyuan) and Toy Story is ‘general mobilization of toys’  
(玩具总动员, or wanju zongdongyuan)