Random Useless Facts Thread

Let’s see how long we can make this with useless facts crap. I’ll start.
 
In Texas USA it is illegal to swear in front of a corpse.
 
There’s my starter useless fact. Carry on. Share with us pointless knowledge.

Most people are under the impression that there are four oceans in the world. There are actually five.

The game of Go is played on a grid of 19 x 19 lines.

There is a man in Pakistan that can climb Mount Everest without oxygen and has proven to stay functional when his blood oxygen count went down to like 60%. Guy never even slowed down. Others in the test started drifting away when their count went below 85%.

April 11, 1954 is considered the most boring day in history.

The point of Harry Houdini’s famous upside-down Straitjacket stunt is to let gravity do some of the work for him by 1) stretching the straitjacket and 2) weighing down his arms.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

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That be fact.

The word gift, in Norwegian, Faroese, German, and Swedish (and in archaic Dutch) mean “poison”, although it is also refers to a word related to marriage.
 

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In one scene in the Family Guy episode “The Thin White Line”, a real gryphon bursts into a restaurant to assist the forgetful Peter Griffin to state his name.

Speed bumps kill 85 people for every one life they save. This is mostly due to delays they cause to emergency vehicle traffic.

The .wma file for the fourth movement of Beethoven’s ninth symphony can cause some Windows XP installations to fail.

Lamar Davis’ car in the second mission of GTA 5 has the same properties as the train. Same applies to the truck carrying Michael’s stolen yacht.

October 5, 2011 was both my 25th birthday and the day Steve Jobs passed away.

ATLUS has experience with dungeon crawlers long before the Etrian Odyssey series of games with their earlier Shin Megami Tensei titles.

None of the states of the United States of America have the letter “Q” in any of their names.

Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

Gilda’s Korean name, “길다” (gilda), means “long”.
 

Before windshield wipers were invented in 1903, drivers had to lean out of their cars and use their hands.

Some of the fountains at Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah act as sort of a cooling system for some of their buildings.

The State of Florida is bigger than all of the UK

Florida is the flattest state in the US.

There are more plastic flamingoes in the US than there are real flamingoes.