A useless fact you know

[jakjawagon]

"Squirreled" is the longest English word to have only one syllable.

I don't know how you're pronouncing 'squirreled', but I'd say it has two syllables.

 

[Aesthetical Quietus]

Spoiler: snip

A game related one;

Many of you know that the Missingno. in Pokemon RB, which gives you 126 of any numeric item you want, is battled by first talking to Viridian city's grumpy coffee guy and watching him catch a weedle. Then you would go to Cinnabar Island a surf up the East Coast in pure Pauly D fashion. But why does this work?

Now the astute gamer may notice that [PLAYER CHARACTER] bears little resemblance to Grumpy Coffee Man, which means the Game Developers had to invent a new back sprite just for that one dude. However, whilst that guy was showing you how to enslave little beasties, the game needed somewhere to store the information for [PLAYER CHARACTER]'s back sprite, which just happened to go in pokédex no. 000, which means that since it's in the pokédex, the cart counts it as a pokémon.

Now, to the coast of Cinnabar. The green buffery thing that you can surf on is technically still part of cinnibar island. If you go onto the sea, you will notice the tiniest pause as the game loads up Route 20 and all the Tentacool you can shake a stick at. The problem with the green buffery thing is that you surf on it. According to the Cart, anywhere you can surf, you can run into wild pokémon. however, since we are still in a town, the cart has no pokémans loaded. Oh Noes!

What follows is a brain fart on the cartridge's behalf, where it scrambles for pokémon data. Instead of just plopping a tentacool in there (LIKE EVERY OTHER GODDAMN PIECE OF WATER) It goes for the most recently used data, residing in no. 000. But it's not pokémon data, It's player data. and the cart, acting very much the disgruntled minimum wage employee, shrugs and throws it at you anyway. The result is missingno.

I lost track of what I was typing, so I'll just sum up here:

TLR MISSINGNO. IS YOU! To achieve the reward, you must first overcome yourself! Who knew Game Freak was full of psychology drop outs?


Also! The Qwerty keyboard an standard on the majority of western computers is the way it is because, in Ye' Olde days when typewriters were invented, letters that commonly went together (like S and H) wouldn't get stuck together and make every letter sound like it was being dictated by Sean Connery. Since then, nobodies bothered to change it, even though there is no need for it now.

I enjoyed reading this one, thank you for that.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Banging your head against a wall uses up 150 calories an hour.

 

[Spy Killer]

German came within one vote of being our national language.

And your country is?

 

[ars731]

If i was wearing an hat, i'd tip it to you, sir. I have been beaten. all hail the true king of useless trivia!!!

 

[Superior Jet]

you always see ur nose, ur brain just chooses to ignore it

Even if your eyes are closed?

that i just made you all lose the game

Poppycock, I lost that ages ago.

OT: I haven't posted anything in over a month, and dryer lint is flammable.

 

[MK Tha Rebel]

Ultimo Dragon has the record for holding the most Pro Wrestling titles at the same time. He held 11 championships. 10 of the were singles titles, and one was the WAR world six-man tag title. 2 of the singles titles were the NWA Middleweight and WCW crusierweight titles.

The other 8 comprised the J-crown, which was basically the unified world junior heavyweight title. The eight titles that made it up were:

WWF Light Heavyweight
WAR International Jr Heavyweight
WWA World Jr Heavyweight
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight
NWA World Jr Heavyweight
NWA World Welterweight
UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight
British Commonwealth Junior Heavyweight

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

You can't sneeze with your eyes open. Believe me, I've kept myself from sneezing by keeping my eyes open.

 

[vento 231]

Clench the thumb of any hand in your fist.

You now have no gag reflex.

Enjoy.

*tries it* HOLY SHIT!

HOOOOOOOLLLLY SHHIIIIITTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Blind marskman]

You cant trap an arrow thrown from a bow with your hands

 

[newuseforvintage]

Airplane food tastes worse because you get sensory overload because of all the ambient noise on the airplane. As well as this, the air-conditioning can also serve to dry up your food, which helps to create the whole 'I paid 2 grand for this shit?' philosophy.

The taste of wine is highly related to the vessel it is served in, even the best wine becomes flat and almost totally flavorless when served out of a plastic cup.
Amongst sommeliers we call this "the first class phenomenon".

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Jimmy Carter once saw an UFO.

Sander Cohen's appearance is based off of Salvador Dali.

Warren G. Harding once bet a set of White House china in a poker game and lost.

George Washington spent 7% of his income as president ($25K then, $1M now) on alcohol.

Theodore Roosevelt once killed a man with his bear hands, and wrote to his friend that it was "great fun."

(I have a lot relating to presidents, since I just read a book of fun facts about them.)

In the Fight Club movie, you see several split second clips of Tyler Durden before he is officially introduced.

 

[JoeThree]

The Aryan Brotherhood sometimes admits bi-racial members, and in fact, one of their leaders is half-Jewish (he has a Star of David on one arm, and a Swastika on the other, I kid you not).

Incidentally, despite common misconception, the Swastika is not the logo for the Aryan Brotherhood, the Shamrock is.

 

[Fumbl3s]

When a boy hits puberty, the organ responsible for lowering the testes into the scrotum is called the Gubernaculum.

 

[yamitami]

You have no idea what you're in for.

Dr. Seuss's name is actually Ted Geisel. He started using the pen name 'Suess', which is his mother's maiden name, after getting busted for a pint of gin during prohibition.

The character Yurtle the Turtle began his life in Seuss's political cartoons during WWII, where he wore a Nazi uniform and had a Hitler mustache.

(I like Seuss okay) The Butter Battle Book was banned because it's about the Cold War and it points out how stupid the whole endeavor was.

Humans innately understand a point (meaning you point to something and even a toddler knows to look at what you're pointing at). Chimps, our closest relatives, do not. No primate does. The only animal besides humans to understand a point is dogs because of how closely they've evolved with us.

Plastic was invented by accident. During WWII rubber was rationed so many scientists were trying to come up with a synthetic alternative to natural latex. This particular guy came back to his lab to find the spoon stuck in the newly invented plastic.

Chocolate chip cookies were also an accident. A woman was making chocolate dough cookies but didn't have any cocoa. She mixed in some candy bar pieces hoping that it would mix it when it melted. Instead she got something much better!

And for the last accident, auto-glass. A scientist was working on polymers and happened to drop a beaker that hadn't yet been cleaned of the residue. It acted as glue and even though the glass shattered it stayed in once piece.

The best invention came by snarkery, though. A customer sent french fries back to the kitchen because he said they were too thick and not cooked enough. So the cook decided to be a smart-ass and sliced the potato really thin and cooked them until they were crispy. The complaining customer LOVED them. And so potato chips were born.

 

[yamitami]

if you lined up the population of china in a eight person wide line and had them march by you, the line would never end

Think about that one and you'll see it is clearly not true.

We're talking birth rates. By the time you get to the 'end' of the line more people have formed behind it because they were born while the line was going.

 

[newuseforvintage]

Clench the thumb of any hand in your fist.

You now have no gag reflex.

Enjoy.

Oh.
My.
God.


Thank you.

 

[SpecklePattern]

The angle of the Earth's axis is 23.5 degrees.<----- RELATIVE TO WHAT?

You know that! Don't try. Relative to the orbit which is usually the plane in space to which one can relate.

2. The human mind enjoys the color yellow more than any other color (subconsciously, so you can still have your own favorite color)

3. Human eyes are most sensitive to the color green.

 

[yamitami]

"Squirreled" is the longest English word to have only one syllable.

I don't know how you're pronouncing 'squirreled', but I'd say it has two syllables.

You don't pronounce the first 'e'. It's pronounced 'squirrled' versus how you're probably pronouncing it as 'squir-reled'

 

[yamitami]

The Team Fortress 2 Golden Wrench drops were not random like Valve said they were. They were in fact predetermined times and who ever crafted closed to that time after it passed was awarded a Golden/Australium Wrench.

Nothing in computing is truly random. We have some really high tech randomizers that can get a little closer than most, but any randomizer program has a pattern which you can find if you look hard enough.