Random Useless Facts Thread

Right now as I’m posting this the time you see on this post (7:39 PM) is a different time since the fact every user on the internet lives in other time zones

David Dunbar Buick Was born in my home town of Arbroath in Scotland, He went on to make the company Buick motors and invented the valve in head engine more commonly known as over head valve engine.

Elise is the only sibling in Fire Emblem Fates:

Whiskey was invented by the Irish and the Scottish.

@Goku Black
I’m so proud of my heritage.

Coca-Cola used to contain actual cocaine in it until the 1920’s

The average rate of movement along the San Andreas Fault is between 30mm and 50mm per year over the last 10 million years. If current rates of movement are maintained, Los Angeles will be adjacent to San Francisco in approximately 20 million years.

During World War 1, a Hungarian tinsmith and astronomer known as Bela Kiss enlisted in the army and left behind massive barrels on his property. When they were opened due to high demand of oil and fuel, it was revealed that it contained the pickled and dead bodies of 24 women who had punctures on their neck from a vampiric practice. Investigators tried to locate him but he was nowhere to be found and despite rumored sightings of him, he vanished and his final whereabouts are unknown.

@Myoozik
I think everyone knows that, it’s hinted in the name and they have an episode on The Food That Built America on History.

The Brazilians have a word for the act of tenderly running your fingers through someone’s hair. The word is “cafuné”.

On July 23rd, 2004 in Manila, Philippines, an apartment building known as the Sai Building collapsed at 4:40 PM on a busy street. No one was hurt or injured as it was evacuated ahead of time and faulty construction was blamed where the owner was heavily fined for the incident.

The odds of beating Thanos are better than winning the mega millions jackpot.

Plastic bags are now banned as of this posted day which if you are in US, May 4!

@TheGamerPainter
Only in certain areas (I can still get them at 7Eleven, Smith’s Food and Drug, and Walmart in my area.)

@TheGamerPainter
They’ve been banned in New York for awhile. Ironically, the whole reason for switching from paper to plastic was to save the trees.

Urban Renewal is an R&B/Hip Hop tribute album to Phil Colins.

Lidl, a German chain of supermarkets that recently expanded to the US, was founded by Dieter Schwarz and Ludwig Lidl in 1930. Because Schwarz didn’t want to name his supermarket “Schwarz-Markt” - black market - he bought the name rights from Ludwig.

@Dex Stewart
Yeah but New Jersey was May 4th

The word “derpibooru” rhymes with the word “capybara”.

In the original version of Star Wars - A New Hope, the Imperial March (the famous Darth Vader theme) was not yet heard. The composition was written by John Williams only for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and thus first heard in 1980.

The Emperor’s full name is Sheev Palpatine.

A disco version of the iconic Star Wars theme was released shortly after the first movie in 1977 and even went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Likewise, a synthesizer version of the Imperial March was released after the sequel in 1980 which went to the Top 20, both created by the same composer, Meco.

It’s a day later on the other side of Earth

There are a million times more atoms in your body than there are stars in the universe. Also, if the universe were the size of an atom, a planck length would be 1 meter long.