Random Useless Facts Thread

The Vatican has a soccer team and its own league. However, because the country does not have a natural grass soccer field that meets FIFA standards, the Vatican is not a member of FIFA.

The African country of Algeria used to be a part of the country of France itself until its independence in 1962

Bryan Cranston, who played the lead role of Walter White on the TV show Breaking Bad, has the shows logo tattooed on one of his fingers

In the late 1800’s, a popular method used in insane asylums to calm down mentally disturbed patients was to wrap them up in extremely tight blankets and spray them with powerful jets of water

Rosa’s Cantina, the bar mentioned in the popular late 50’s hit song “El Paso” by Marty Robbins, is an actual place, located in the titular town in Texas where it is visited frequently by both fans of the song and Grateful Dead fans due to the band famously covering it.

Jeff Hardy is the only professional wrestler to be arrested and have his mugshot taken for the main 3 American wrestling promotions (WWE, TNA/Impact, and AEW)

James Ogelthorpe, the man who founded the future state of Georgia wanted Georgia to be a place where those in debt could work hard to make a new living for themselves. With no slavery and no alcohal, it would be a land where good honest hard work would be the standard.

Of course, later on it was made into a normal slave owning colony.

Imagine if things were different. Georgia could have been a model for other states.

Raw sugar is brown, not white

In 1989, actor/comedian/“musician” Corey Feldman made an appearance on a stand up comedy show called “The Improv”, which he used to debut his new single, “Dream A Little Dream”. The performance became notable for the number of issues for it, such as Corey blatantly lip synching, his weird Michael Jackson inspired dance moves, and just the overall awkwardness of the whole thing.

However just recently, clips of the performance became popular again, due to a surge of people noticing something incredibly off about the live feed of the video from it’s original airing.

At point point during the performance, the camera feeds ends up cutting away from Corey and the crowd to show a short black and white video of a woman stripped down to her underwear, blindfolded and tied down to a pool table, struggling in her binds before the camera returns to the performance like nothing happened.
People where confused about this random clip appearing, as it never appeared before or after this performance, along with having nothing to do with the song in question. Some thinking it’s a scene from a movie or a porno, while other more darker theories think that this was footage from a snuff film.

Eventually, it turns out that this clip was actually a scene from the 1965 sexploitation film “Satan’s Bed”, noticeable for featuring a young Yoko Ono in it before she became well known in the music industry.

While people now know the origins of where this clip came form, the reason WHY the broadcast decided to show that clip during the show is still a mystery.

@icicle wicicle 1517
O-O

When you starve yourself for so long and then proceed to eat a lot of food again at the same time, you’ll suffer from a condition known as re-feeding syndrome where your body can’t adjust to the sudden return intake of the nutrients of the food it’s been neglected for so long. This results in a cardiac arrest and eventually death.

WWE wrestler and Hall of Famer The Undertaker has a giant phobia of… cucumbers.

His manager Paul Bearer, along with his friends would often prank Undertaker by putting the food inside his hat, boots and gloves before he was about to perform.

No one knows why Undertaker is so afraid of cucumbers.

@icicle wicicle 1517
The undertaker is a cat.

Nickelodeon owns a copyright to SpongeBob SquarePants‘s voice. As such, SpongeBob‘s voice actor Tom Kenny would not be able to use that specific voice for any other character without Nickelodeon’s permission.

@Silent_Witness
Not even Obi-Wan?

The first time a nation/territory left the EU was in 1985 when Greenland left the organization back when it was known as the EC (European Communities)

Speaking of “Nickelodeon”, Sailor were a British glam rock band who were popular in the 70s/80s who were known not only for their nautical stage image, but for their use of the coin-operated nickelodeon, a type of piano. The instrument doubled in their music as a replacement for the conventional bass guitar.

First random fact of mine on this thread! :D

One of the oldest (and still running) roller coasters in the world is located at Lagoon, an amusement park about 20 miles north of Salt Lake City.

Monikcat is real

Rammstein played a concert in Coventry, England on June 28th, 2022 that was so loud it was reportedly heard as far as 11 miles away, according to Coventry Telegraph.

During the Chernobyl nuclear explosion, the nearby city of Pripyat wasn’t told of the disaster until 2 days later. The entire world found out about it after a radiation detector went off in Sweden and became widely reported.

The legal age of consent in Japan is currently over 13 years old.

Before 2016, the Philippines used to have an age of consent of over 12 years old before Duterte raised it to 16 to prevent sexual abuse.

The adult diaper market in Japan is growing and becoming bigger, In 2008, Japanese manufacturers of adult diapers conducted the world’s first all-diaper fashion show, dramatizing throughout it in many informative dramatic scenarios which addressed various issues relevant to older people and younger generations in diapers, They are supermarkets that have entire isles dedicated for weight, size, And absorbency.

In September 2012, A Japanese magazine described the trend of wearing diapers among Japanese women, And the trend has a huge cult following.

In 1984, an individual or group known as “The Monster With 21 Faces” threatened to poison candy and drinks in vending machines around Japan if they weren’t paid a large amount of cash. A year later, 10 people died and 35 were seriously injured from ingesting juice and soda laced with weed killer, but the killings weren’t linked back to the group. More than 1 million warning stickers were posted on vending machines around the country before the killings stopped and to this day, no one has been brough to justice.

@Mr.Myoozik
IRL supervillains, it seems