Useless Facts

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The first battle Napoleon commanded in his life was a snowball fight in Brienne when he was still a student. His side cheated and used icy snowballs, leading to both a victory and multiple injuries inflicted on his opponents, including a cracked skull. He was 15 at the time.

 

In November 2001, Charles, Prince of Wales was struck in the face with 3 red carnations by teenager Alina Lebedeva, whilst he was on an official visit to Latvia.

 

The same thing happened to an officer in either Catch 22 or Gravity's Rainbow. Injured his eye.

 

Sums up my writing.

 

That's not true. You don't write in word salad.

 

This is often misrepresented. Russia broke the Tilsit treaty, started trading with Britain and was mobilizing troops. It wasn't much of a choice or decision.

The real thing was his attitude to science which I still can't really understand. He implemented the first telecommunication system, funded the invention of canned food and formed the first aerial reconnaissance group but ridiculed the idea of steamboats when he was presented with it.

 

Who really knows what's gonna take off? The Age of Sail was at its peak during the Napoleonic era. People used to think flying cars would take off (no pun intended). These things are a gamble, and there was no way to know steam engines would be the next big thing.

 

Vocalist Durga McBroom (center) performed with Pink Floyd live and in the studio for seven years, over twice as long as founding member Syd Barrett.

 

Here is one that seems impossible yet is apparently true. If you could line up all the blood vessels in the human body end to end they would stretch over 60,000 miles!

 

The city of Miami, Florida has gone seven weeks without a homicide for the first time since 1957.

 

Wait til the lockdown ends and the neighbors notice the smell from the crawlspace before you count your chickens.

 

I’ve gotten my Solitaire game down to a consistent two and a half minutes or less- I think I’m ready to go pro.

 

Think about it. Would you want an entire state’s worth of red necks and good ole boys going through DTs?

 

From Wikipedia:

 

Pretty sure this would be one of the shittiest phobias to have.

 

That would be Coprophobia.

 

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
Dorothy Parker

 

The DPRK (North Korean government) has, to date, lasted three years longer than the USSR did.

 

According to the National Cancer Institute, there are more than 250 chemicals in cigarettes known to be harmful, with at least 69 that cause cancer.

 

That's...pretty cool, I guess.

Oh, and speaking of the Dear Leaders of North Korea:

Kim Jong-Il reigned for 17 years.
Kim Il-Sung reigned for 46 years.

If the present rumors about Kim Jung-Un are true, the dude only reigned for...9 years.