Random Useless Facts Thread
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
The Dr. Pepper formula is a secret to the general audience, but there is a rumor that one of the ingredients is prune juice.
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ZAMASU
Somebody once stole the Coca-Cola secret recipe and tried to sell it to Pepsi, but Pepsi turned them in to the FBI.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
McDonald’s lost the original formula for their special sauce back in the 1980’s. A former head of the company stepped in and brought it back after having it memorized it for a long time.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
Emo culture is banned in Russia because the Kremlin believes that it promotes satanism and leads to depression and suicide.
The Equestrian Zodiac
Witch Dagger!
Shad’s album, TSOL, won the Juno Rap Record of the Year award in 2011, beating out Drake’s Thank Me Later, Eternia and MoSS’s At Last, Ghettosocks’ Treat of the Day and D-Sisive’s Vaudeville.
Josh103
The Book of Useless Information is in fact pretty useless. A significant portion of the “information” is incorrect. But hey, they didn’t call it “facts”.
Silent_Witness
Chippin’ In
Although farmers have known for centuries that herds of cattle tend to graze while facing the same direction, it was not until the advent of aerial and satellite photography that the tendency to graze along magnetic north and south was observed.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
One of the ingredients in McDonald’s chicken nuggets is a chemical called dimethylpilosiloxane, which is also found on breast implants and contact lenses.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
In the year 1902, a priest saved a drowning boy in Germany. That boy’s name? Adolf Hitler.
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ZAMASU
Hitler hated smoking. He actually made it illegal to smoke tobacco in Germany during his dictatorship.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
Coca Cola was originally created as an over the counter medication
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
You are more likely to get struck by lightning than to win the Mega Millions lottery.
Zaknel
Mods-Ezekiel 33:11
- Old news. Everybody gets told that from what I’ve seen, unless somebody disagrees.
- Very useful. People waste money on lottery tickets. That’s not useless. What is a useless fact is that one woman bought a lottery to ticket to prove to her husband that they’re pointless and actually won.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
The Statue of Liberty was actually built in France. It had to be dismantled and shipped to America in pieces where it got rebuilt there.
Icicle Niceicle 1517
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
You have a higher chance of being bitten by Uruguay football player Luis Suárez (1 in 2000 chance) then you do of being bitten by a shark (1 in 3.7 million chance)
Icicle Niceicle 1517
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
Tom Kenny got the inspiration for SpongeBob’s voice, after he was finished filming a Christmas commercial, and heard a little person dressed up as an elf, swearing and complaining about his job.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
The moon is moving away from Earth. It spins away at 3.78 cm a year, the rate in which your fingernails grow.
Silent_Witness
Chippin’ In
Transits of Venus are the rarest predictable astrological phenomena that occur in the solar system, occurring in pairs eight years apart every 243 years. The last pair of transits took place June 8, 2004 and June 5, 2012; the next will occur on December 10, 2117 and December 8, 2125.
xXArKoPinkeSs
In the 1984 movie ‘The Terminator’, O.J. Simpson was originally cast to play the Terminator, but director James Cameron did not feel that Simpson would be believable as a killer.
The Equestrian Zodiac
Witch Dagger!
There currently exists a Nintendo Gameboy that actually survived being bomb in the Gulf War…and it still works.
Mr.Myoozik
Music/Charts Enthusiast
The first ever video game to be played in space was Tetris for the Gameboy. It was brought into the ISS in 1997 and orbited the earth over 300 times.
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