What’s a useless fact you’ll never forget?

I am alive

@ajfang a problem with your random facts.

Steve can carry more than 270 pounds. If you fill his inventory with wet sponges, than you can carry all the water weight. With the water in them the sponges are denser than osmium.

@TheCaptain7777 said in #22:

@ajfang a problem with your random facts.

Steve can carry more than 270 pounds. If you fill his inventory with wet sponges, than you can carry all the water weight. With the water in them the sponges are denser than osmium.

I didn't get that one from somewhere in my brain.

The rest all are stuff at the back of my brain I forgot about, save for a few other ones I just found.

@ajfang said in #7:

You know why people say “Bless You” when you sneeze?? It’s because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a MILLISECOND...

Only a millisecond? My heart stops for hundreds of milliseconds every time I sneeze! Come to think of it, it does that even when I'm not sneezing. Is there something wrong with me?

Cereal is soup you have for breakfast
English muffins weren't made in England
If more than one tooth is teeth how come more than one phone booth isn't phone beeth
There are dead wasps in figs
A house is going up in flames as it burns down
You don't bake bacon
Pancakes aren't cakes made in pans
Hamburgers don't have ham in them
Pineapples don't have apples in them
Cats sleep an average of 15 hours per day
Lemons float in water but limes sink
Flamingoes aren't born pink
The national animal of Scotland is a unicorn
The world's longest concert lasted for 453 hours
It's illegal to own only one guinea pig in Switzerland

At one time it was scientifically,mathematically proven that a bumblebee could not fly.
At a later time it was shown that the lift of the wings of a bumblebee was generated by vortices.

@bombing_knight said in #17:

humans breathe?
I don't think that's very useless ngl..

@ajfang said in #7:

“Fact” originally came from the word factoid.
The First Message on the ARPANET, (later called internet) was from Technology Student Charley Kline on October 30, 1969 at 6:30 AM UTC. He wanted to send “LOGIN” to his counterpart in California, computer scientist Bill Duvall. He typed, “LO” and then the Sigma-DS 940 Host Server Crashed. Then, an hour later after Duvall made minor adjustments, Kline typed in “L” and the system crashed again. So technically, the first message ever sent on the internet was “LOL.”
Fill up a cup with tap water. Drink it. Now, what if I told you that half the water you just and ever drunk was water that was older than the solar system?
Australia is literally wider than the moon. I kid you not.
Yes, what if I told you we and other mammals can produce venom.
The Tongue Is The Strongest Muscle In Your Body. I am NOT joking.
The Unicorn is Scotland’s National Animal.
Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
The Mona Lisa may always be smiling, but she may never have eyebrows.
The Eiffel Tower gets taller in the summer. It’s just like me. I grow shorter (skull emoji)
A cloud weighs more than a million tonnes. So when you say you’re as light as a cloud, you need to do some serious weight loss..
YOUR BRAIN IS CONSTANTLY EATING ITSELF. This process is actually called phagocytosis, and YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT IT VERY MUCHHHHH!!!!
The Fear of Long Words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. So if you have Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, I would like you to meet Floccinaucinihilipilification, Psychoneuroendocrinological and Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniosis. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Comets smell like farts and almonds. They are made of sulfur dioxide, which is what comes out when you have flatulence!!!
Football teams who have red jerseys play better. Yes, the next time you play american football, and if you always win with a red jersey, please don’t tell anyone I told you this.
One in 28 people have a third nipple. That’s right, if you’re in a class...you might.
NOT ONLY PLANTS PHOTOSYNTHESIZE!!! Pea aphids contain chlorophyll, the key chemical in photosynthesis!
Some guy held his poop for 45 days (skull emoji) He didn’t die, but had surgery...
There is a planet made of pure carbon. Called 55 Cancri E, Pure Carbon is actually diamond gems, so if you could breathe there, don’t forget to bring your pickaxe!!
Platypuses sweat milk. So if you don’t want to get milk from a cow, get it from platypuses!
Martial Artists who smile before a match are more likely to lose. So, put on that serious face...
Spruce trees can tell if it’s about to rain.
You’re more likely to have a stroke on a Monday because of the stress of starting a new week!!
Plants came before seeds.
No number under 1000 contains the letter A.
Male antelopes shed their horns in the winter.
Immortal Jellyfishes are one of 3 organisms that can live forever.
Lobsters pee out of their faces, right under their noses.
Pet food companies sometimes have people taste test their products.
At the time of the French Revolution, most people in France didn’t speak French.
Pigeons sing in 17/8 and 5/4 time signature.
Someone survived the sinking of all three Olympic Class Ocean Liners. Britannica hitting a mine, Titanic crashing into an Iceberg, and Olympia ramming a U-boat. She was Violet Jessop, a stewardess.
Ancient Europeans believed that if they ground up the bones of their greatest warriors or sacred animals and mixed them in with the iron when forging a sword, the sword would contain their spirits, making it stronger. Little did they know that by adding in the ground up bones they were introducing carbon to the mix and creating carbon steel, which is much stronger than simple iron. So they were making their swords stronger by adding the sacred bones.
Typewriter is the longest English Word that can be made with one line of a QWERTY keyboard.
Screeched is the longest 1-syllable English Word.
This one potentially changed the course of history.
Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire was the ruler of Germany during WWI. Though technically a constitutional monarchy at the time Germany, and its military especially, operated more like an autocratic monarchic state. The top ranks of the German military relied on the personal patronage of the Kaiser for career advancement. Thing is, he was a bit of a man child. So instead of a jump, “how high,” situation, it was more like “here’s a dress, it’d be funny if you marched around.”
In 1908, Field Marshal Dietrich von Hulsen - Haeseler was the top ranking German officer and was only 56 years old. He died that year of a heart attack, while marching around for Kaiser dressed in a tutu and a feathered hat. Presumably because of the stress and embarrassment of the situation. Had he lived, he would’ve commanded the German military in WWI. Instead they entered the war led by Generals who had risen to the rank without ever actually commanding an army in the field.
7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
A one-way trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway involves crossing 3,901 bridges.
The Philippines have 7,641 islands.
There’s enough gold in Earth to cover Earth itself.
German Chocolate Cakes were invented in Texas.
Chinese Checkers were invented in Germany.
Cleveland once used to be the country’s fifth largest populated city!!!
SPAM, the meat, does in fact, not stand for Scientifically Processed Animal Matter, it in fact, is just a mixture of “spice” and “meat.”
William A. Bailey made Radithon in 1918 for all sorts of diseases. Guess what the recipe was? Water + Radium. Somebody’s jaw fell off because the water was pure radioactive. Then they got addicted, drank 1,346 bottles of radithon and died.
People once ate arsenic (the “white powder”) to remove their skin.
Japan has one vending machine for 40 people.
Argentina has 167 sheep for 1 person.
Lemons float, limes sink.
The first oranges weren’t orange.
BTW Oranges (they were green) came before the word.
There is only one letter that isn’t in any US state name. Imagine if a state named Qwerty joined one day...
A cow-bison hybrid is called a beefalo, and I kid you not. And you can buy its meat in 21 states. Nom nom nom.
When John Chapman, the infamous Johnny Appleseed, planted those apple trees, he didn’t mean for them to be eaten. He meant for them to create bread. Again, I kid you not.
Scotland (whose national animal is a pony) has 421 different nicknames for snow. “Guys, wanna play in the sneesl?” “No, I say we clean the feefle!” “Shut up, I want to make a flinkdrinkin man!”
Samsung tests Phone Durability with a butt-shaped robot.
American and Delta Airlines test Wi-Fi with potatoes.
The Longest English Word is 189,819 letters long! Not even those words earlier combined are longer than this! “Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...189,767 letters later... isoleucine”.
Have fun pronouncing, as this will take you 2 hours and 47 minutes!
Kleenex Tissues were originally intended to wipe gas masks.
Octopus lay 60,000 eggs at once!
Cats have fewer toes on their back paws!
Blue Whales eat 500,000 calories in one mouthful!
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
Most Disney Characters Wear Gloves to keep animation simple.
The man with the lowest voice in the world, Tim Storms, who isn’t an opera singer because he makes sounds so low humans can’t hear. He makes G sounds lower by 7 octaves than the lowest G on the piano. Oh no...
The American Flag started as a school project for Bob Heft’s junior-year history class in 1958, and it only earned a B-minus. His design had 50 stars, even though Alaska and Hawaii weren’t states yet; Heft figured the two would earn statehood soon and showed the government his design. After President Dwight D. Eisenhower called to say the design was approved, Heft’s teacher changed his grade to an A.
Only A Quarter of the Sahara Desert is actually sandy! It is actually covered in GRAVEL.
We peel bananas upside down.
Avocados were named after a reproductive organ. Let’s not talk about this, OK?
There were still craters on the moon when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
In 12 hours, 24 minutes and 56 seconds, there are 22,848,000 milliseconds.
Steve from Minecraft can carry 685,221,480,399,653,190,981 cubic meters and maybe add on some 270 pounds. With cheats however, he can carry 933,868,423,551,646,328,489,109,252,378,287,562,335,921,364,591,590,937,210,361,800,335,231,961,104,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 MULTIVERSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I KID YOU NOT...
Dogs sniff good smells with their left nostril, and bad smells with the right.
The word fizzle started as a meaning of fart.
Movie trailers originally played behind the movie.
Antarctica is a desert (based on rainfall levels)
Nintendo was founded in 1889, and they worked on Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (It was a card game, the first video was only taken a year ago at Roundhay Garden, and thus the “video” in video game was not there, and it was just plain “game.)
The CIA has its own Starbucks, but there are literally guards around it. The 7 employees have to call agents by face recognition, which makes it really hard. Enjoy your coffee at Securebucks! (and don’t get shot by the CIA.)
There is only one state capital without a McDonalds. If you live in Montpelier, Vermont, and you wanna see Ronald McDonald, you know what to do...
Speaking of McDonalds, Ronald McDonalds is not the founder of McDonalds. That goes to Patrick McDonald, who opened a burger stand in 1935 named McDonald’s burgers!
Speaking of McDonalds again, ever wonder why there is no McDonald’s pizza? It was on the menu from 1961 to 2000, and it was discontinued because the boxes didn’t fit...
Studies have indicated rats have dreams in REM Sleep Stage about running through mazes and prowling through trash cans finding food. Sweet dreams, YOU RAT!!!
You know why people say “Bless You” when you sneeze?? It’s because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a MILLISECOND...
Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest. Bees can fly 29,531 feet above sea level, exactly 400 feet above Mount Everest. Mount Everest is 29,031 feet above sea level. Warning: please don’t try this at home.
Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Guppy Crunch.
Paint was stored in the bladders of live pigs. Don’t ask how they did it...
The “TERMINATOR” script was sold for 1$.
Insulin was sold for 1$ to the University of Toronto in 1921 by Frederick Banting, its inventor, saying that “Insulin belongs to the world, not me.” 103 years later, insulin is one of the most important life-saving medicines in the world, costing a lot of money to buy.
Manhattan was sold by the Lenape people in 1626 to the Dutch, led by Peter Minuit, for 24 dollars. Now, just 398 years later, New York City costs 15.89 trillion!
Worldwide, all pigeon poop is the property of the British Crown. Enjoy it.
Beethoven never knew how to multiply. Good at one thing, bad at the other!
To make a sentence, you need to have a subject and a predicate. Thus making “I am” the shortest sentence in English and the longest sentence possible is 13,955 words long without breaking a single grammatical rule.
A woman called the police when her chicken wings weren’t cold enough. DEFINITION OF A KAREN!!!
Nikola Tesla was allergic to pearls. Actual proof: 4 sources.
Thomas Edison is the reason you love cat memes. Using cutting edge technology of 1894, he filmed funny videos of adorable cats rolling around.
In Troy, based on Homer’s Iliad, Brad Pitt plays the brave (and buff) Greek hero Achilles. Legend has it that Achilles could not be defeated unless hit in his heel. (It’s where we get the term “Achilles’ heel,” meaning a vulnerable point.) While filming an epic battle scene, Pitt ironically hurt his Achilles tendon—an injury that set back the film’s production by two months.
A one armed player named Hector Castro scored the winning goal for Uruguay in the 1930 World Cup, the very first one ever.
A right handed- person uses his left hand to type 56% of the words.
If kangaroos were to invade Uruguay, each Uruguayan would have to fight 14 kangaroos, based on the Kangaroo Population of 48 million and Uruguay’s population of 3,457,380.

my friend .... how did you write so much

One more fact.
You are breathing consciously now.

Linked lists, they exist.
And I have no idea why I would use them over arrays and list