Useless Facts

good to know for the impending zombie apocolypse!

 

Billy Madison likes to drink soda. And Ms. Lippy's car is green.

 

Didn't work, but damned if it wasn't worth trying

 

Stephen Fry has easily-actionable hips.

 

Cheetos were introduced in 1948.

 

"Mr. Cheeto, meet Mrs. Cheeto. Please get busy and produce billions of little Cheetos. Don't worry about educating them or even naming them; we're just going to eat them. Thanks!"

 

Piggy banks get their name from an orange-colored clay called pygg, which was used in the Middle Ages to make jars for storing staples such as salt.

 

Would I be right in assuming that the word pigment comes from the same?
Or is that just coincidence?

 

King Arthur is actually a pre-Saxon Welsh legend, set in very early Medieval times when Christianity was mostly syncretised, without great accuracy, with local folklore and maybe even Brythonic mythology. The modern version which imagines High Medieval Christian setting is an invention of later works like Morte D'Arthur and various French adaptions; which were more interested in Lancelot and Gwynevierre. So the icon of English nationalism is a semi-pagan Welshman who fought the Anglo-Saxon ancestors of modern England, and our modern conceptions are partially from the French. Knee deep in irony there.

 

Starbucks goes through eight thousand paper cups every minute.

 

Which is why I use a reusable Keepcup. There was a documentary series on production of landfill waste that went through various areas of high disposal rate like fast fashion and disposable coffee cups and the disposable coffee cups is one of the largest.

 

Carelessly discarded vessels goes back beyond Egypt. We're doomed.

 

I just don't go to Starbucks. Haven't been in years.

 

Last time I went was when there was a train delay and I needed to kill 45 minutes (trains run every ten minutes here, and they are on time. Somebody jumped that day though, which closes the whole line for something like an hour and a half, depending on how much cleanup there is). I just needed someplace to sit and read quietly. Cost me six bucks.

 

Well of course I don't go to Starbucks. They're American and they'd probably have shitty American coffee, no offence but Americans have the worst coffee. However the places at the uni foodcourt default to single-use coffee cups if you don't have a keepcup so it makes sense for me. And it's a sealable insulate cup so you could make one at home and use it to carry it with you for whatever reason.

 

Right, I'm guilty of joining in, which is why I'm posting in something that might be the purple (would it kill them to label those colors if you hovered the mouse over them?) of shame, but let's get back onto Useless Facts before this turns into a coffee war.

 

Centipedes always have an odd number of legs - therefore, no centipede has exactly 100 legs.

Lobsters are NOT immortal.

 

Nothing is immortal. Not even water bears.

 

If you look at any single-celled organism though, it's basically been around since the dawn of life. Lotta dead brothers and aunts, but...

 

What about the Immortal Jellyfish?

 

I was just going to suggest this. The only known possible immortal animal currently.

 

Speaking of jellyfish, another useless fact.

The Portuguese man o' war is not a jellyfish. It is not even a single animal, but is a colonial organism, consisting of lots of different individual organisms of the same species.