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When the Mona Lisa got stolen in 1913, Pablo Picasso was named as a potential suspect

England and Scotland signed the ‘Treaty of Perpetual Peace’ in 1502.
It lasted only 11 years before it was broken.

During the Edo period of Japan, women would blacken their teeth as a sign of beauty

A bunch of pandas is known as an embarrassment

It can cost anywhere from $700 to over $400,000 a year to run a hot dog stand in New York City.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
That’s good at least

@Mr.Myoozik
Technically he ended that fanfic.

Amazing how Fanfiction.net hasn’t taken his story down yet. I think it blatantly defies their rules like making his chapters blatant bio pages he copied off of wikis.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
Normally I don’t talk bad about what people do online with their personal free time, but it’s like give it a rest and end the fanfic already

@Mr.Myoozik
I think it’s also the longest piece of literature ever written.

It’s so long that it supasses the Fanfiction.net word count of 16,777,215 so for a long time how many words was in it was unknown, until someone bothered to check. God help them.

Apparwntly made by some engineer guy with probably too much free time on his hands.

The longest online fanfiction is a Loud House fanfiction with over 16,000,000 words

A 2024 Ford Maverick with a 2.0 4 cylinder engine is faster than a 2010 Ford F-150 Raptor with a 6.2 V8. It’s crazy to think about but technology marches on.

@Mr.Myoozik
Finally a fact that is completely fitting for this thread.

A dime has 119 ridges

In the world of casino gambling, $50 bills are considered bad luck.

@Twiface
Sorry, eh

“Hawaiian” pizza was invented in Ontario in 1962 by Σωτήριος Πανόπουλος. It wasn’t directly named after Hawaii, but rather the brand of canned pineapple used to make it.

There is a species of fungi with the scientific name Spongiforma Squarepantsii, named after the cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants

@Mr.Myoozik
China should release a diss track named bitch tofu.

@Mr.Myoozik
Cool! Go India!

McDonald’s once lost the original recipe to their special sauce in the 1980’s. A high ranking employee who’s been in the company for decades still had the recipe memorized and brought it back.

India has now surpassed China as the country with the largest population in the world

Misirlou, which gained worldwide recognition thanks to Dick Dale’s 1962 rendition, originated as a folk song from the Eastern Mediterranean- though the exact country of origin is not known, many believe the song to be of Greek origin, due to the earliest recording originating from Greece, and Nick Roubanis, a Greek-American music instructor, releasing a jazz instrumental arrangement of the song in 1941, crediting himself as the composer. The Dick Dale version in particular originated as the result of a wager, when a fan bet Dale that he could not play a song using a single guitar string. Hey Natalie succeeded, but dramatically increased the tempo, creating the version of the song most are familiar with today.

The record for the World’s Smallest Park is held by ‘Mill Ends Park’ in Portland, Oregon. The “park” is literally just the tree in the foreground. It was created when the city made a hole in the road to put a lamp post in but never did, so someone just planted flowers there instead.
 

 
The nearby city of Salem also has a park consisting of a single tree, but their tree is a lot bigger.

On the Italian island of Sardinia, a special cheese known as “Casu Martzu” is prepared; it’s a wheel of pecorino cheese with fly larvae on it and is eaten, insects included. Reportedly, those who eat it with no caution suffer from the larvae inside their body, leading to death. Highly illegal and banned by the European Union, it gets sold on the black market for high prices.

There’s a tale about someone from Sevilla Andalucia named Pedro Bohorquez.

He became famous for spending two years pretending to be an incan king and the natives around him believed him with his capital in Tolombón, even getting into fights against spanish governors until he apparently got bored.