Useless Facts

Tyrannasaurus Rex can't high-five his friends.

 

I could lick my own elbow if I chopped my own goddam arm off first.

 

There are 15,152 types of life forms living in New York City's Subway.

 

Tyrannosaurus Rex doesn't have friends. He ate them.

 

Well, to be fair he's also Italian, doesn't seem to work a lot, has some sort of relationship with a princess, is quite fat although he's constantly running and jumping around and very rarely eats anything, can come back from the dead and is often high on magical size- and performance-enhancing mushrooms.

 

useless fact: i am two likes away from contributor marker on here.

come to think of it, is the contributor marker even in use now?

*edit* just saw the contributor marker *facepalm*

 

The candy coating on red M&Ms is made from ground beetles.

 

You take that back!

 

I will not sir. Once stated, a fact cannot be simply "taken back." Do you know how much paperwork i would have to go through?

 

Paperwork be damned; just make it happen!

 

I stand my ground! I will not take it back, and if you do not wish to accept it, this will mean war!

Good day, sir! *Slams door*

 

There's a moth that has wings that look like angry snake heads as a defense mechanism.

 

Is the candy coating on blue M&Ms made from space beetles? Because space beetles are awesome.

 

Wars are caused by angry people who can't agree with anything.

 

Wagner imagined he could make Opera not only the 'music of the future' but also that he could popularize it for the masses, and make it so opera would present philosophical problems to the audience who would then work out them in discussion afterward exactly like Greek Tragedy - and especially like his hero Aeschylus. He even got the idea for a four part trilogy from The Oresteia - the forth part in the original being the Sayter play being a comedy at the end of The Oresteia but is now totally lost to us. A fragment we have found summed up the plot and that's literally all we know about this lost, forth play. Wagner's version of the Sayter play was the opening, shorter opera Das Rheingold which sets the action of the trilogy up.

That doesn't make sense, does it?

 

The fact of the matter is, I don't have any useless facts to impart. I went here, tried to think up of a useless fact and came up with nothing. I have no fact, which makes this post pretty useless. And that is a fact.

 

Walt Whitman was the type of person who says they love books they had never read.

 

I like boiling myself alive in an extremely hot shower. Don't worry, I get out in plenty of time but it feels so good!

 

I think that's probably the clearest summary of Wagner and his music that I've ever read.

 

Sunday is not necessarily a sunny day....

 

That one's not useless at all. It's highly obvious and well known, sure, but that's irrelevant. I would not want to have my weekend plans thwarted by not realising that the name of a weekday says nothing about the weather on that day.

 

And I sometimes drive over his bridge.

 

Where did you get that useless fact?

 

Whitman criticism. I honestly didn't make it up, it was in an essay in The Centennial Whitman.

 

That's okay. I love books I haven't read, either, so long as they're nice and soft and fuzzy and purr when I hug them.