Random Useless Facts Thread

Ethiopia and Bolivia used to have coastlines until new countries became independent and took it away from them: Eritrea and Chile respectively

@Mr.Myoozik
Bolivia still has a navy despite not having a seaborder.

Drug Cartels have gone as far as make there own Submarines by either seizing old navy vessels or make there own, One such sub is called the Narco Submarine.

There are currently 10394939393838193 songs to listen to on the internet and no one has broken the record to listen to music nonstop

Somalia used to be colonized by the Italians and British.

@CalypsoFantasy
I can do you one better:

Switzerland and Mongolia are members of the International Whaling Commission even though they’re landlocked countries with no coastlines

Let me try getting into the convo of landlocked countries.

Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are not only landlocked, but double landlocked, that is, they’re surrounded by already landlocked countries themselves

Also, finally I can post those:

Right now as you are reading this there are over 1000k videos posted on YouTube every week and the second you read that you probably already missed a shooting star fly by you and not even noticed!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day

A “jiffy” is about one trillionth of a second.

@Mr.Myoozik
It doubles when you workout, walk, etc.

Speedy Gonzales had a cousin named Slowpoke Rodriguez who was rumored to be a pothead.

@Khamzat Chimaev
Slowpoke Rodriguez packs a gun.

In the 1950’s, radioactive oatmeal was fed to young mental hospital patients for tests and research.

There are over 1 trillion google searches as of 2022

The longest word in the English language without any repeating letters is “Subdermatoglyphic”

@Mr.Myoozik
That’s shockingly short. I bet the Welsh would laugh at us Anglos.

Today’s the day the world hits 8 Billion people, if you add that to everyone that been on the planet since the 50s that’s about over 14 Billion people

Sponges have 100x more bacteria than a toilet seat

There are some actual Medical or Biotechnology companies out there that have a logo similar to the famous Umbrella Corporation of Resident Evil:

The last one was the objective of some conspiracy theories because Racoon (Actually Raccoon, like the cute masked animal) is an anagram of Corona, and the company is Chinese, where the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 started.

And still I’ve heard of people say “Wash you hand washing those dishes or cleaning the sponge so you clean your hands before eating” >.>’

In Super Smash Bros., Duck Hunt’s down special summons one of five enemies from the NES game Wild Gunman to attack opponents. However, only one of the gunmen was originally designed with a sprite facing to the side. Because of this, side sprites had to be made entirely from scratch for Super Smash Bros. for the other four.

Eating a poppy seed bagel can make you fail a drug test, though you need to eat a lot of them in order for the drug to take effect.

@Mr.Myoozik

Would you like one? :D

Without Nolan Bushnell, Ted Dabney and Allan Alcorn, we wouldn’t have video game consoles.
Without Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, we wouldn’t have arcade machines, later to be available for consoles.
Without Charles Babbage, you wouldn’t be able to look at this very text on this page which computers weren’t built until 1991.
And without me having an account on here, you wouldn’t see this comment.