Random Useless Facts Thread

A group of ferrets is called a business

A group of pugs is called a grumble

And the first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer xDD

If the entire population of China walked in front of you in a single file line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

The ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had an explosive yield of around 15,000 tonnes of TNT. The ‘Fat Man’ dropped on Nagasaki had a yield of around 20,000 tonnes.

The ‘Tsar Bomba’, tested by Soviets on an island just north of Russia in 1961, had an explosive yield of around 55,000,000 tonnes of TNT. That’s more than 2700 times the yield of the ‘Fat Man’, making it the largest man-made explosion ever.

A state of Mexico is called “Tabasco”

@Mr.Myoozik
And a state called Chihuahua

In the US state of Arkansas, it’s illegal to mispronounce the name of the state

@Mr.Myoozik
And I thought Texans were prideful. They need to up their state patriotism.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
You should go to Florida, the natives there are extremely proud of it and don’t want it to change or conform to other states

whales used to have hooves dozens of million years ago

Yona is what the Ancient Indians called the Greeks. The word comes from Ionia, an imoortant Greek region in Asia Minor.

Even though seatbelts were implemented in cars in the 1950’s, it wasn’t until the 1980’s when it became mandatory to have them in cars via laws.

The first episode of MLP:FIP contains 31671 frames

The original cat on the “Hang In There Baby” poster is now dead

Albert Einstein hated Quantum Mechanics/Physics.

He believed everything in the Universe is certain and can therefore be calculated and predicted; Quantum Theory contains a great deal of uncertainty (as it posits the Universe is governed purely by probability) and is therefore unpredictable until observed (and even then, you can’t be certain the results when observed will be the same when not observed).

As he once said on the matter: “God does not play dice.”

There are 4 rocky celestial bodies in the Sol system with atmospheres: Earth, Venus, Mars and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

@Farnesy911
If there is a (male) God, I’d say he most certainly does play dice

The longest bacteria ever can grow to the size of two pages in a small paperback book.

Bees and monkeys are the only other animals that can get drunk

Cheetahs purr and meow like house cats. They are unable to roar like lions but conversely lions are unable to meow and purr like cheetahs

In 1993, a porn studio called Sin City Entertainment made 2 porno parodies of the Super Mario Brothers video game series,meant to cash in on the release of the live-action Mario Brothers movie, with the pornos being called Super Hornio Brothers 1 & 2.

Nintendo didn’t want any porno parodies of their properties, so they bought the rights to both movies so that they could never be distributed again, or have any follow ups made.

There has never been (as far as we currently know) an obligate marine Dinosaur, either Avian or Non-Avian. Closest we’ve ever found are Hesperornithes and Sphenisciformes (Penguins).

In 1963, a song entirely in Japanese made it to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. So far, it is the only Japanese song to do so.

Family Guy creator and voice actor Seth McFarlane was almost on the plane that flew into the Twin Towers on 9/11.

He was scheduled to be on the flight, but missed his schedule as he was at a party the night before and passed out with a hangover.