Useless Facts

In Japan, "spaghetti westerns" are called "macaroni westerns"

 

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the second best selling book in the U.S. in the 19th century after the bible.

 

Fire does not give off UV light

Which if vampires were real would also not be useless.

 

Somebody just has to try this experiment!

 

This is another experiment somebody has to try!

 

Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

 

King Edward the third died of gonorrhea

 

A group of kittens is called a kindle, but a group of adult cats is called a clowder.

 

Maybe he actually died of trying to spell gonorrhea. It's a tough word to get right.

 

The vampire squid is neither a squid nor a vampire.

There is an entire phyla of organisms only found on the mouthparts of European lobsters.

The caduceus symbol is potentially inspired by the ancient method of removing parasitic vermiformes from people's limbs, by twisting the worm around a rod until fully removed.

 

One of the oldest caduceus symbols ever found. It's on a piece of Babylonian pottery in the Louvre.

 

If the Earth spun 17 times faster we would all be weightless.

 

I don't think that is how gravity and centripetal force works. But I ain't no physicist so I might be wrong.

 

I gave in. I decided to buy The Witcher 3 just to see why everyone got so excited about it.

 

The sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 160 kilometers away.

 

Apparently the moon was once part of Earth during its early years of life, but a planet-sized object smashed into our then-newborn planet, sending a huge chunk of it into space. That chunk turned into our moon.

 

Related fact: That mars sized rock is called "Theia"

 

The scientific name for Acid is "LySergic acid Diethylamide"

 

Well, here's a useless fact:

@Lewdog's avatar is a photo of Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, the Ancient Aliens spokesperson.

 

I have no idea what @Sack-a-Doo! 's avatar is. Looks pretty cool, though.

 

It's part of an assignment I did in art college which was to do a painting where none of the colours matched real life.

The photo is part of a review of a play I was in.

 

Looks good.

 

Huh. Mine is just me.

 

Every second Apple earns 2 grand.

 

"Pedestrian" can be used as a noun or an adjective