Random Useless Facts Thread

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator isn’t totally accurate

A Coca-Cola ad is the reason why Santa Claus has his trademark red and white color for his clothes.

The first text message was transmitted Dec. 3, 1992. Engineer Neil Papworth typed “merry Christmas” on a computer and sent the first SMS message to the cellphone of Vodafone director Richard Jarvis.

In the first three Sonic games for the Sega Genesis (S3&K is basically one game), if you get hit and lose your rings, you can recollect up to 20 rings.

“WWW.com” takes longer to say then “WorldWideWeb.com”

Despite the name, French horns did not originate from France

The reasons why the island Christmas Island is called that, was because it was found and named on the 25th of December, AKA Christmas day.

The music for Ice Cap Zone in Sonic 3 & Knuckles is essentially a remake of “Hard Times” by The Jetzons, an 80s song unreleased until recently. Brad Buxer was the composer.

In the video game “The Simpsons: Hit and Run”, there is a music track in the game, that sounds really similar to the song “Hells Bells”, by the band AC/DC
 
This is further referenced by the name of the actual track, as the track is called in the game, “Hall’s Balls”

Kiribati is the first place in the world to celebrate the New Year.

All works published in 1924 except for some sound recordings are now in the public domain in the United States.

Chindogu is a Japanese term meaning “weird tools” used to describe inventions that are seen as odd, useless or impractical to the general public.

The DC Comics character Shazam Jr./Captain Marvel Jr., was famous singer Elvis Presley’s favourite comic book character.  
Elvis’s signature haircut was style after Shazam Jr’s haircut, and Elvis even wore stage outfits designed after Shazam Jr’s superhero costume.
 
In modern times, to reference Elvis’s love of the character, DC has made Shazam Jr a fan of Elvis in the comics.

In 1978, rock band Aerosmith paid approximately $4200 to bail out every single fan that was arrested when cops invaded the crowd on a pot bust during one of their concerts.

There’s a reason you might see some police cruisers parked “illegally.” According to some answers on this Quora page, police cruisers are considered “emergency vehicles” according to some states’ traffic laws. Basically, this means that traffic laws don’t apply to them the same way they apply to civilians.

A plimsoll is a mark on a ship’s hull that shows the maximum depth to which the ship can be safely immersed while loaded with cargo.
 
A plimsoll is also a canvas shoe with a ring around the sole where the shoe is glued together. They were originally beach shoes in Liverpool and took their name from the plimsolls of ships in the busy harbor.

The smallest active volcano in the world is Taal Volcano, located just south of Manila, Philippines.

Multiple Star Wars lead actors have struggled with a habit of making their own sound effects for fight scenes - to the point where numerous takes needed to be re-shot because you could see the actors making lightsaber noises.

Ocellus appeared in the entire series of mlp:fim as a cameo/pre-changeling Ocellus before her official appearance in season 8.

Hair grows faster in warm weather than in cold weather

Filming of Christine began a week before Stephen King published the book.

You may notice that the height charts next to the doors at some businesses aren’t actually their listed height. This is because these charts are deliberately skewed depending on the angle of the camera monitoring the door, so the camera can get a more accurate estimation of a suspect’s height if a robbery takes place.

Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter before he got into acting

Movie star Johnny Depp used to sell ballpoint pens door to door to make a living before going to Hollywood.