Random Useless Facts Thread

The developers of Marvel Ultimate Alliance, a game that was released on multiple platforms including the PS2 and Wii, were planning on including Link and Samus as guest characters exclusive to the Wii version. They even had footage of the characters in-game, which they showed to Nintendo to get their permission.
 
Unfortunately, the footage of Link and Samus that they showed to Nintendo was of the PS2 version, and since Nintendo didn’t like the idea of their characters appearing on a rival company’s console, they refused and the characters were completely scrapped from the game.

A white woman in Spokane, Washington once pretended to be black and ran the Spokane chapter of the NAACP.

@Background Pony #B1D8  
Lol XD
 
Shame too, would have been fun to have had them included

@Lord Goku  
I remember that story!

The tomb of Timur the Conqueror in Samarqand, Uzbekistan is said to be cursed - anyone who dares to open it will release Timur’s spirit and launch the world in chaos. Soviet archaeologists opened it on June 19, 1941 - and three days later Nazi Germany invaded the USSR. After the unexpected turning point in the Battle of Stalingrad, the scientists decided it was best to not disturb Timur’s slumber any longer, and reburied his remains in 1942.

It’s against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!

There’s an urban legend where a pornographic Disney film exists. According to rumors, two Disney animators created an explicit film featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse and showed it to Walt during his birthday in 1934. After viewing it in a room full of others, he was both surprised and disgusted by the film and demanded who was responsible for it. When the two animators stepped up, they were immediately fired. After that, all copies of the film were destroyed by the man himself and allegedly, there exists one copy hidden in a Disney vault somewhere, thought this has yet to be confirmed.

In the 1974 horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there’s a scene during the third act where the character Sally gets kidnapped and treated to “dinner” with Leatherface and his family.
 
The scene, considered one of the scariest put to film, was just as much of a nightmare to actually make. The hot weather and filming lights made the food on the table rot quickly, resulting in a horrible stench that was made worse due to poor ventilation. Not only that, but the crew had been filming for 27 hours straight at that point, and it got so bad to the point that the actors had begun to legitimately go insane and think that they themselves were really the characters they were playing.
 
Edwin Neal, a recently-returned Vietnam veteran at the time and the actor who played the Hitchhiker, described the experience as worse than anything he went through in that war. Gunnar Hansen, the actor who played Leatherface, stated on the film’s DVD commentary that while filming that scene, for at least a few seconds, he genuinely wanted to kill Marilyn Burns, the actress playing Sally.

@Background Pony #B1D8  
Damn 0_0

Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).

@Background Pony #B1D8  
Hollywood baby!!

The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.

Despite what creationists loons might believe, the crocoduck has been found. All dinosaurs within the Spinosauridae family (Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, Baryonix walkerii, Ichthyovenator laosensis and Suchomimus tenerensis) look like an unholy fusion between a mallard and a fish-eating crocodilomorph. In fact, they are almost literally located halfway between avian dinosaurs and crocodilomorph archosaurs in the taxonomic tree of life.

In the United States, deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people!

Kurt Cobain, frontman of the rock band Nirvana, is said to have recorded his own version of the theme song for the cartoon “Ren & Stimpy” in 1990, a year before he found success with his band. Supposedly, Nickelodeon disliked his version and scrapped it in favor of “Dog Pound Hop”. Cobain’s version of the theme is now disputed in whether he actually recorded it or not.

Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.

Amazon.com started as an online book retailer.

In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined!

July 2nd is the midpoint of the year, with 182 days before it and 182 days after it. Outside of leap years, of course.

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!

Black activist Marvus Garvey suffered a fatal stroke after reading a premature obituary of himself on a newspaper.

No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.

Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.