Random Useless Facts Thread

If you dig a tunnel through all of Earth and jump down, it will take you about 40 minutes to go from one side of the planet to the other assuming no air resistance

Georgia and North Carolina had gold rushes before California did.

The earth is currently in an ice age, as according to the strict geological definition, an ice age is over only when all glaciation created during the ice age melts.

I exist.

Caesar Salad came from 1920s Tijuana Mexico

Apparently, in 1593, a man named Gil Perez spontaneously teleported from Manila, Philippines to Mexico City, Mexico.

Every year, the Netherlands sends thousands of tulips to Canada as gratitude for sheltering the Dutch royal family during World War 2

The Subspace Emissary’s World Conquest, a Super Smash Bros. fanfic, was the longest ongoing work of fanfiction on FanFiction.net, and at over 4,100,000 words, was one of the longest works of fiction in the English language until 2017, when it lost its title to a Kantai Collection fanfic titled Ambience: A Fleet Symphony, which presently stands at 4,550,000 words. This story itself would lose its title to a Loud House fanfic that currently stands at 16,700,000 words.

@Silent_Witness
That’s a lot of commitment

It’s said that Sega 32X had only about 40 games before being officially discontinued by Sega.
There was only about 5 of the Sega 32X CD titles.

@Rainz Dropz
It was also released about 6 months before the Saturn in North America.

@Goku Black
What a way to totally trip up the Sega customers.
Although, information on all of these happenings was much more difficult to find out in the 90’s, internet wasn’t even close to accessible as it is today.

The phrase “Mad As A Hatter” comes from the 1800’s with hat makers who would go insane due to mercury poisoning from the chemical used in the production of top hats. This would also be the inspiration for the Mad Hatter in the novel “Alice In Wonderland”

To get to Greece, it is said Xerxes built pontoon bridges to cross the Hellespont, the narrow channel that seperated Asia Minor from Europe.

Sadly for him a storm destroyed the bridges. In his fury, he ordered the engineers who built them to be beheaded and he had the water be given three hundred lashes.

Jenkem is a recreational drug where sewage or feces is fermented and then is inhaled similar to sniffing glue and huffing paint. It is said to induce a hallucinogenic high similar to an LSD trip.

@Mr.Myoozik
It is actually purported to be a hoax by some, and there are no confirmed cases of jenkem intoxication. I wouldn’t know for sure if it is or it isn’t, though. There’s a lot of mystery and “what ifs” in the media surrounding the drug!

Statistically, there is a high probability that you have had an interaction with at least one person who wasn’t a family member who died the same day the interaction took place.

Female ducks quack louder than male ducks.

What does the fox really say? Well let’s just say they’re a bunch of jokesters.

The Sony PlayStation was originally called the Nintendo PlayStation, as it was created in a partnership between Sony and Nintendo as a hybrid console with both CD-ROM and SNES cartridge game capabilities. Nintendo broke off the partnership at the last moment, after Sony had already announced their partnership and revealed their console at the 1991 Consumer Electronics Show. Nintendo then announced a partnership with Phillips at the show the next day, to the surprise of everyone, including Sony.

Today is the 79th anniversary of Operation Glimmer, in which the RAF flew aircraft and sailed ships near Pas-de-Calais to deceive the Germans into thinking the allies would be landing there instead of at Normandy.

_{The Normandy landings also happened on this day 79 years ago.}

When Dinosaurs were alive, the position of Earth was at the other side of Milky Way Galaxy.

There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia

We all have at least one skull, that’s pretty badass.