Useless Facts

So did I, when I was four.

 

But were you blind and deaf?

 

14 of the top 25 pig/swine farming counties in the US are located in Iowa. At least according to this site: https://www.pork.org/facts/stats/structure-and-productivity/americas-top-100-pig-counties/

Unless I miscounted...

 

Notable death thread?

What are you cooking tonight thread?

Nah, this seems like one for Useless Facts: The average weight of the cremains (ashes) of a properly cremated adult is around 3.5% of their pre-cremation weight. Children, on the other hand, come out at around 2.5%.

 

Well this one are strange.

The Asoh Defence refers to an open admission of guilt. It’s named after Japanese pilot Kohei Asoh who, on being asked why he landed a plane in San Francisco Bay, 2.5 miles short of the runway, said ‘As you Americans say, I fucked up.’

 

The original name of the rock band Pearl Jam was Mookie Blaylock.

 

I was stationed in Hawaii when they hit it big but assumed they were a local band. Hawaii likes "Pearl"+whatever.

 

Mantis shrimp don't actually see extra colours, they are actually poor with colour vision. They do however process visuals quickly, and they can see polarisation which we can't really perceive.
https://www.nature.com/news/mantis-shrimp-s-super-colour-vision-debunked-1.14578
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/mantis-shrimp-eye-camera/557195/

 

Over 70% of firefighters in the US are volunteers.

 

Yeah, but the conscripts do a pretty good job too. Keeps them out of the arena

 

The largest bill to go in to circulation in the US was a $10,000 note.
$10,000 Bill | Museum of American Finance (moaf.org)

 

Salt used to be a currency.

 

Now reduced to a mere condiment.

 

There are 24 indigenous languages spoken in Guatemala.

 

In 2018, between 16,000 and 20,000 beavers were harvested by licensed fur harvesters in Michigan

 

From the Washington Post:

 

The longest word is 189,819 letters and takes three-and-a-half hours to pronounce.

WTF

I imagine that means someone has pronounced it?

 

There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

 

Lil Nas X is younger than me

 

I've been in Japan since before Billie Eilish was conceived.

 

No kidding. Apparently 2000 was just... twenty-one years ago. Like...I can still remember being ten and playing Zelda: Majora's Mask at that age.

 

From Wikipedia:

 

New York City has their very own species of ant, the Manhatt Ant. Biologists haven’t been able to match the ant to any of the other 13,000 known varieties. According to National Geographic New Yorkers also have their own centipede, sweet bee, and a white footed mouse.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nyc-has-its-own-ant-the-manhattant-25741340/