Random Useless Facts Thread

@kleptomage  
That thing can still be easily visible from where my mother lives when we go to the beach near that.  
A.K.A the unsinkable battleship.
 
My cousin’s neighbor once tried to breach this fort for photography and just like that, arrested.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
Seems like a grim sight to see every time you go to the beach though I suppose you get used to it.

@kleptomage  
We are proud of it instead, lots of tourists are willingly wanted to see this personal.
 
Nobody in this world has this kind of unique defensive structure.

During the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, 3 volunteers dove into a radioactive pool to open up a pipe. They died, but prevented an explosion ten times bigger than Hiroshima.
 
Additional Fact: The nearby city of Pripyat wasn’t told of the explosion until 2 days after it happened. The whole world found out when a nuclear detector went off in Sweden.

Ice Cream cones were invented during 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, when large demand forced ice cream vendor to find help from nearby waffle vendor. Together, they made history.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
Hey! i already knew this story ^^
 

 
Was a woman named Margaret Knight who created the paper bags!! ◕ /// C /// ◕  
thanks to her i do exist!! ^^

@PaperBagPony  
👍😊

“Miracle Mike” was a farm chicken who was planned to be turned into dinner by his owner Lloyd Olsen in 1945. Miraculously, he survived getting his head chopped off because his brain stem and jugular vein got missed by the axe. The chicken continued on as if nothing happened, moving around, pecking the ground, and attempting to cluck.
 
Lloyd then used his once in a lifetime opportunity to use the animal as a sideshow attraction, who earned $50,000 in today’s money over the next 18 months. Tragically, Mike choked to death in 1947 from a corn kernel.
 

@ILoveMyoozik  
I think I remember hearing about this sometime ago, was quite something, if you ask me.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Dude don’t give a fuck bout his head being chopped off. Respect.
 
 
The pink family sedan used by the Simpsons family in The Simpsons, is actually a 1984 Plymouth Reliant (identified in the show as a 1986 Plymouth Junkerolla).

@EPPony
 
@icey wicey 1517  
>Survived getting his head chopped off  
>Chokes to death on a dinky little kernel  
Biggest of keks!!! XD

@ILoveMyoozik  
Im sure he thought it was an anti-climax :P

The 5-episode story arc “Conflict” from the popular kids show “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood” was pulled from rotation in 1996 after network censors determined that the lessons on Cold War paranoia was seen as too much and unsettling for children.

The Eiffel Tower was created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of The French Revolution. It was originally supposed to stay up temporarily and then dismantled in 1909 for scrap metal. So why is it sill standing today as one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world?
 
French officials saw good use for the tower and installed a telecommunications radio antenna that proved vital in WW1 for intercepting enemy telegraphs. Noticing its use, Adolf Hitler ordered the tower destroyed after he conquered France during the Second World War. However, the general in charge of destroying it fell in love with the design and backstabbed Hitler by not carrying out his orders. Today, he tower attracts 15 million visitors worldwide and is seen as a symbol of love.

The worst rollercoaster accident in history happened on May 30th, 1972 at London’s BatterSea Park Fun Fair. The “Big Dipper” rollercoaster was heading up the incline until the chain lift snapped and sent the cars rolling backwards into the loading station at high speed. The emergency breaks failed and derailed out of a corner as the cars toppled on top of each other. 5 children were killed and 13 other passengers were injured, which led to the closure of the park in 1974.

Princess Gradriel De Valdendia, a character who is a reference to the same character from the Japanese only game, Princess Crown, was originally going to join your party in a quest in the remake of the second game, said quest was scrapped however, though in terms of appearance, she is the very first time the place ends up meeting the Imperial class.
 
This is out of the art book that came with the game:  

Standing in at 54 inches long and 39 inches wide, with a weight of 130 pounds, and the capacity of one adult and one shopping bag, the Peel P50 holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest production car ever made.
 
 
 
 

@icey wicey 1517
 
She’ll go three hundred hectares on a single tank of kerosene!

Crows and ravens have been observed to hold ‘funerals’ for their dead, calling fellow birds to the fallen comrade. Most biologists believe it’s less them mourning, and more them acting as ‘homicide detectives’ to try and identify the threat and whether or not it is still present. If they identify the threat as a person, they’ll recognize them in any future encounters and communicate the danger to eachother, calling out alarm-calls to anyone else who may be close by.

In 1982, 7 people were killed when they ingested the painkiller Tylenol that was laced with cyanide poison. Despite DNA testing, a ransom letter and even questioning the “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, no one was brought to justice and it’s still a mystery as to who caused the crime, how they did it, and the reason for it.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are named after Renaissance artists because creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird couldn’t think of authentic-sounding Japanese names.

When Marvel first created the comic villain for Spider-Man and Daredevil, The Kingpin/Wilson Fisk,he was originally going to be black, but was changed to be white skinned during his development because the people who created him thought that the idea of a black man being in control of all the crime in New York would come across as being racist.
 
Ironically, in the 2003 movie Adaption of Daredevil, The Kingpin is played by the late Michael Clark Duncan, a black actor.

Alfred Hitchcock was originally gonna fight in World War 1, but wasn’t allowed to because of his weight.

Anak Krakatau is growing in height at an average rate of about 5 meters (16 feet) per year.

It costs more than a penny to make a penny.