Random Useless Facts Thread

A Volkswagen Bug was the first car ever registered in Antarctica. It was owned by an Australian research team who used it there from 1963-64. The car is now on display at the Collection of Historic Vehicles in Brunswick, Germany.
 

I’ll never be freakishly tall.

Sawdust is used as an approved substitute for flour in most McDonald’s meals, however it creates a laxative effect since the human body can’t properly digest it.

Despite being a natural Austria, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger had to have his character’s voice dubbed over for the Austrian dub of the Terminator movies, as the dubbing team though that Arnold’s accent was from the more rural parts of Austria, and it would be hard for Austrian audiences to take the thought of a indestructible killer robot seriously if it spoke with what they considered a “hick” accent.

Garry Newman (the creator of Garry’s Mod) originally worked as a PHP programmer for a dating website, which he was later fired when he launched his own

KFC Chicken is considered a traditional Christmas dinner in Japan.

Medieval Europe had feces everywhere.

@yelling_into_the_void  
I was expecting that honor to go to Steve Buscemi.

@pixel  
I was expecting Sean Bean tbh

@yelling_into_the_void  
He even got to be killed by Slasher horror icon Michael Myers.

The longest war in history lasted for 335 years (1651-1986) and was fought between The Netherlands and The Scilly Islands. Despite the length of time, no shot was ever fired.

In order to reach outer space and escape Earth’s gravity, it’s generally accepted that you reach a height of 100 kilometers above the planet, known as the Karman Line.

From 1950 to 2005, Bic sold over 100 billion ballpoint pens.

The use of “mkay” was actually popularized by Mr. Van Driessen from Beavis and Butthead, and not Mr. Mackey or Suri Polomare.

The modern image of Santa that we know with his red and white color scheme comes from an advertisement for Coca Cola.

The first MANPADS (MAN-Portable Air-Defense System, like an Stinger or Igla), ever produced, if we take into consideration plain air defense, would be the Holman Projector, an anti-aircraft weapon used by the Royal Navy during WW2 (early 1940-late 1941), it was used mainly in merchant ships to create a deterrent effect, as the characteristic black puff the grenades created after detonating made the enemy pilots either think that it was more heavily defended with AAA (Anti-Aircraft Artillery) than it really was. Either making them return to avoid being shoot down or attacking with higher altitude, with a commesurate decrease in accuracy.
 
All this being said, the Holman Projector was usually installed on ships, instead of carried by infantry, this is one of the reasons why the german Fliegerfaust (Aircraft fist, if taken literally), a prototype of an unguided four/nine-barrelled 20mm rocket launcher designed in 1944 to damage heavily ground attack planes, is considered generally as the first MANPADS ever.

Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol was the first animated Christmas special, aring 3 years before A Charlie Brown Christmas.

An Israeli Special Forces team once carried out an assault and assassination on several high ranking members of a terrorist cell in Lebanon, while half the team were crossdressing as women to avoid suspicion

The fastest manned airplane ever created it’s the 50-60s North American X-15, rocket airplane that was part of the X-airplanes, experimentals used by the USAF, NASA and USN. This baby reached 7.274 km/h (6,70 Machs) with Pete Knight on 3 October 1967.
 

 
Fun fact: 8 pilots reached the “astronauts” standards of the USAF by passing the 80Km of altitude, and two pilots received the astronauts wings of the NASA (One of them posthumously, R.I.P). Hell, one of the pilots of this beauty was Neil Armstrong!
 
Gotta go fast!  
^{”Rainbow Dash would be proud”}
 

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was so in love with dairy that he had a giant ice cream complex built in the middle of Havana known as “Coppelia”

Despite being one of Batman’s greatest foes and one of the most well known comic book villains, The Joker actually died in his very first appearance, after Batman stabbed him with his own knife.

Your mom is hot

The most flexible muscle in the human body is the tongue