Random Useless Facts Thread

@Mr.Myoozik
Funny that you mention McDonald’s and pasta. There is actually one location in the United States which currently sells spaghetti, as well as pizza. I just ate there last night.

It’s on International Drive in Orlando, Florida.

@𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫
I would like to try Jollibee’s

@Twiface
I live about half an hour from Orlando, I’ve passed by there numerous times. I’d like to visit that place, but I imagine it’s crazy expensive.

I would love to try it as well!

I’ve been there before. Last year in fact for Mare Fair. Interesting how that particular McDonald’s serves spaghetti and pizza. It also has an arcade on the top floor.

@Mr.Myoozik
My meal was $29, which seems like a lot for a McDonald’s but compared to everything else on that area it probably isn’t that expensive. It’s only competitors in that regard are the Checkers across the street and the Wawa by the former Wyndham.

In 2015, a rider was killed after being struck by a rollercoaster while trying to retrieve his cellphone. James Young was riding the Raptor roller coaster at Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio, US when his phone slipped from his pocket. Climbing over a restricted area to get it back, he was killed instantly by the car traveling at 57 MPH

People touch their face an average of 50 times an hour.

Roberto Esquivel Cabrera, a 56-year-old Mexican citizen known as ‘El Centauro’, is the man with the largest penis in the world: 48 centimeters long, 900 grams in weight and 25 centimeters of glans circumference

The Fairly Oddparents never aired in Iceland nor was dubbed into Icelandic

1977 was the year that both the first Star Wars movie premiered and the last ever person was executed via guillotine

“Simlish” is the fictional language used in the video game series The Sims. The language was made due to the developers finding it easier to come up with a made up language instead of trying to translate all of the games dialogue into the respective native tongues of the various countries in the world.

Despite Simlish sounding like gibberish, fans of the series have been able to decipher the language and what each word would mean in their own language, to the point where entire Sims fanfics have been made in nothing but Simlish

Various musicians and bands have also made Simlish translations of their own songs for use in the in-game radio stations. Notable examples include Black Eyed Peas “Let’s Get This Party Started”, Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night”, and and Howard Jones “Things Can Only Get Better”

Michigan has the USA’s most expensive car insurance.

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Jeremy Clarkson from top gear and the gran tour was once quoted $30k for a rs escort cosworth, Car was worth $28k at the time in the 90s.

Nintendo makes so much money from their games and consoles, that it’d been stated that they could not release anything for a whole year and they’d still making a profit

Bananas are technically berries, but strawberries aren’t.

Before he became the singer and founder of the band My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way used to work as a cartoonist and animator for Cartoon Network

Before she was the voice of Pearl in Steven Universe, DeeDee Magno Hall used to be a singer and was a part of the pop band The Party, known for the early 90’s hit “In My Dreams”

“Nobel Disease”/“Nobelitis” is a term that refers to winners of the famous Nobel Peace Prize developing strange and morally questionable views in science/life/ethics/ect, later in their lives after winning said award.

notable examples include:

Phillip Lenard: Won the prize in 1905 for his work and studies on cathode rays, would later become a supporter of the Nazi party and promoted German science over “Jewish science”

Alexis Carrel: Won the prize in 1912 for the invention of the perfusion pump, became a supporter of eugenic polices in Nazi occupied France

Charles Richet: Won the prize in 1913 for his work on combating anaphylaxis, believed in ghosts and thought he was able to “sense” them

Linus Pauling: Won the prize in 1954 for his work on chemical bonds, would the promote people to take dangerously high levels of Vitamin C (120x the recommended daily intake), believing it was able to curse schizophrenia and expand the lifespan of cancer patients

Kim Cattrall posed nude on the bridge of the enterprise in star trek with just her Vulcan ears in place and a very angry Spock ripped up the photos and negatives when he found out about it.

Joseph Pujol, known by his stage name “Le Petomane”, was a French “Flatulist” (Professional Farter) who performed stage acts revolving around his ability to fart on demand

Future US president Woodrow Wilson has recalled in saying that as a child, he remembered seeing Confederate president Jefferson Davis escaping capture shortly after the American Civil War concluded

There is an entire Wikipedia article dedicated towards using baseball metaphors for sexual intercourse

Hockey player Guy Lafleur released an album of instructional hockey tips set to a disco beat in 1979

SPAM is short for “Spiced Ham”

F.A.T.A.L (From Another Time, Another Life, previously named Fantasy Adventure To Adult Lechery) was a tabletop fantasy RPG released in 2002, and is widely considered by many to be the most controversial and worst tabletop RPG ever created with heavy criticism for both its gameplay and its themes.

On the gameplay, it was hated for it’s needlessly complexity (The instruction manual for the game was nearly 1000 pages long, the game needing 11 character sheets for a single character, and it would need up to 20 10 sided dice for attributing character stats), it’s restrictiveness on character customisation (All character attributes, including things like gender, race and sexual orientation, and even something as simple as hair color, are decided by dice rolls), numerous redundant skills or classes, and overall needlessly harsh difficulty (needing to reroll a state requires the player to get one random mental or physical disability, and its possible for the player to get so many negative rolls during the character creation, that their character can end up dying before the character creation is even done), and most famously, dice roles were used to measure things such as chest sizes and the circumference of the PC’s anus

For the themes it was criticised for it’s incredibly violent and sexual nature, as well are including racism (there was originally an armor that would cause the wearer to act out incredibly racist ethnic stereotypes), misogyny (choosing to play as a female character grants several serious debuffs to the character, locks them out of the majority of classes, makes the character become uglier if they wish to become stronger, and several sexual themed spells only work on female characters), necrophillia (A spell “Have Her Cadaver” would cast an illusion on a dead body, turning it into a sleeping nude female that causes whoever sees it to want to have se with it), and for a disturbingly high amount of sexual violence (“Rape” is listed as a type of combat encounter in the manual, with no option for characters to engagein consensual sex, and female characters are at risk of being sent into sex slavery)