Random Useless Facts Thread
Twiface
Princess of the Moon
Bottles of Tabasco sauce say ‘Avery Island LA’ on them, but they stopped using Avery Island peppers to make Tabasco sauce decades ago.
You might have a chance of tasting peppers from the state of Tabasco, though.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
The Indian state of Sikkim used to be independent alongside Nepal and Bhutan until it was made a protectorate state of the United Kingdom and joined the newly independent India in the mid 1970’s
Twiface
Princess of the Moon
Tuva was an independent state from 1921 until 1944 when it was annexed by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. It remains a ‘republic’ within the Russian Federation to this day.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
The lowest rated release on the website RYM (Rate Your Music) is the album “Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall” with a score of 0.63 out of 5.00
Twiface
Princess of the Moon
@Mr.Myoozik
I saw a video reviewing it. It absolutely deserves that rating.
I saw a video reviewing it. It absolutely deserves that rating.
Cosmas-the-Explorer
Explorer in Training
@Mr.Myoozik
For me, I never watched it, but knowing what others said made me watch Doug less.
For me, I never watched it, but knowing what others said made me watch Doug less.
I guess people have somehwat forgiven for his transgressions against music, but that will forever be that embarassing moment like people will never forget like Jimmy Carter and Iranian hostages.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
The Dr. Pepper formula is a secret to the general public, but one ingredient that’s rumored to be in it is prune juice
@Cosmas-the-Explorer
I’ve heard about the negative reception towards the album but I haven’t checked it out. I did listen to one track, his cover of Comfortably Numb (titled Comfortably Dumb, hurr hurr) and it was so stupid
I’ve heard about the negative reception towards the album but I haven’t checked it out. I did listen to one track, his cover of Comfortably Numb (titled Comfortably Dumb, hurr hurr) and it was so stupid
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
A then unknown Kurt Cobain of Nirvana composed a potential theme song for the animated series Ren & Stimpy but was rejected
Icicle Niceicle 1517
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
Professional wrestler and actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was one of the very first people to break the news of the death of known terrorist and 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden back in 2011, even before the official government statement and news networks broke the story, becuase one of his cousins was a member of the SEAL team that raided his compound.
Coincidently, the WWE Extreme Rules PPV (held on the same night as the death of Osama) was the first major broadcast announcing his death, as at the end of the show, WWE champion John Cena addressed the crowd by saying that “We have caught, and compromised to a permanent end, Osama Bin Laden”
Twiface
Princess of the Moon
A Frontage Road is a local road which runs parallel to a limited access highway. Many frontage roads are literally named ‘Frontage Road,’ so if you ever encounter a road called ‘Frontage Road,’ you will know that it’s a frontage road.
Texas has over 6,500 miles of frontage roads, and over 80% of freeways in Houston have them.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
According to a New York Times investigation, personal taxi service Uber engages in an unethical business practice against law enforcement known as “greyballing”. Techniques employed by this practice include creating geofences around government offices, tracking devices thought to be used by police including credit card information and phone numbers to even social media stalking by its employees. Once detected, Uber creates a fake app with “ghost cars” to trick and evade law enforcement.
Twiface
Princess of the Moon
The Idaho Panhandle is one hour behind the rest of Idaho. This is because the closest major city is Spokane, Washington.
Icicle Niceicle 1517
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
Legend is a 2015 biographical movie staring Tom Hardy as the infamous duo of London gangsters, the twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray
British newspaper The Guardian gave the movie a negative review, of a 2/5 star rating.
In the movie’s poster however, which was showing off the positive reviews the movie got, the Guardians review was included amongst several 4/5 star reviews, which was in the middle of the poster and having the other stars hidden by the Twins, giving the illusion that The Guardian had given the movie a positive review
yelling_into_the_void
The Hell?
The original Pokémon theme song, Gilligan’s Island theme song, and House of the Rising Sun, are written in common hymn meter so you can sing the lyrics to one of the other tunes and they’d work.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
The US and Russian militaries have trained dolphins to detect enemy swimmers and detect landmines
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
During heightened tensions between El Salvador and Honduras leading up to a World Cup qualifying match that lead to the Football War, El Salvador raised a dirty rag in place of the Honduras flag before the start of one of these matches.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
Before starting Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg created the website “Facemash” that collected photos of Harvard students without their knowledge and judged/ranked them on appearance and attractiveness. Bearing a striking resemblance to the similar website “Hot Or Not”, it almost got him expelled from university.
Icicle Niceicle 1517
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
The first modern usage of the word “woke”, in reference to being aware of racial/social/political climates, came from the 1938 song “The Scottsboro Boys”, by Black musician and folk artist Lead Belly.
The song dealt with the subject of the 1931 legal case of the Scottsboro Boys, where nine African-American teens were accused of the rape of 2 white girls, and were faced with racism and attempted murder by a lynch mob, all while not getting a fair trial. Lead Belly’s song says that black people should “Stay woke” if they ever vistied Scottsboro, Alabama
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