Useless Facts

In Russia nothing happens as predicted - not even volcanos.

 

The Pentagon has twice as many toilets as a building its size requires. It was originally constructed in adherence with Virginia law, which required separate restrooms for "white" and "colored" users. However, such segregation was in violation of federal policy, and the signs were never painted onto the doors.

 

i fell down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia a while ago and discovered that someone had edited the page for May (month of) to list facts and history of Sex Scandals.

Fun Fact: it was deleted and the page fixed

 

Hugh Hefner had a gold ring with a secret compartment that held a single dose of Viagra.

 

Of course he did.

 

If you say the words 'Beer Can' out loud, you are instantly imbued with a Jamaican accent regarding pork produce.

 

Salt + storms are the main reasons for strange holes in Antarctic ice in wintertime.

Those holes are called Polynyas.

That word comes from Russian word polynja - a hole in ice.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1294-0

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb8x7n/mysterious-hole-in-antarctic-sea-ice-explained-by-robots-and-seals

 

Saint Frances de Sales is the patron saint of journalists and writers

 

If you've ever had obscenely catholic in-laws, you'd know this fact isn't useless.

Speaking of Catholics (quoting Wikipedea):

In French Canada, up until the late 1960s, children of Roman Catholic origin were given three names at birth (usually not hyphenated): the first, Marie or Joseph, usually indicated the gender of the child. The second was usually the name of the godfather or godmother, while the third and last given name was the name used in everyday situations. Thus, a child pre-named Joseph Bruno Jean on his birth or baptismal certificate would indicate the baby was a boy, the godfather's first name was Bruno and that the child would be called Jean (and not Joseph) for all intents and purposes of everyday life. A real-life example of this naming convention was that of Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien, who was born Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien.

 

Bienvenue le WF histoire les Canadiennes mots du monde. Je m’appele Pierre Jean Matthieu le Roi-Cochon.

Ballacs

 

Hey, hey, watch yourself. The King Pig of Bollocks was one of our better Governor Generals.

 

while not obscenely catholic... i did grow up in the catholic church lol, al though I didnt know the bit about the 3 names.
Upon our confirmation, though, we had to pick/were given names. My sister chose Joseph, I chose Teresa, and my mother told us her mom chose St. Veronica to be her confirmation name (though she didnt like it at all)

 

Quebec is a special beast. Up until the 60's-70's, the church kept a somewhat less than noodley shepherding arm around the province that still has vestiges in older folks and northern communities.

 

Both my girls have 3 names each, but that was to fit in with their half-siblings. None of them are catholic though.

 

And here I thought you were from Ireland.

 

Is that like a self-given middle name? Not Catholic myself, but my first and middle names have religious background. My middle name actually doesn't but apparently "Blaze" can't just mean blaze as in fire, it apparently has to be a misspelling of Saint Blaise. That's the education system for ya.

 

My real, full name stripped to it's literal translations means: "Uncle, beloved by the Gracious God, from the settlement of Freemen."

 

Nice. Apparently my full name means Gift of the Victorious Fire God, or Fiery Gift of God to the Victorious, I don't understand it it's a Hodge-Podge of biblical, Celtic, and Germanic

 

Neat.
My first name means the traveler.

 

Gozer the Gozarian?

 

Nope.

Travis is mainly an English masculine given name of French origin. It is derived from the word "traverser" or "to cross", and was given to toll collectors who stood by a bridge or crossing.

 

Tolliver?

 

Oops, I mean Trolliver?

 

"That is Mr. Dr. Trolliver Esquire."