Useless Facts

@UrbanMysticDee
You bastard. I already wrote that. Now I have no useless fact to write today.

Most car horns are in the key of F.

The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 was the shortest recorded war in history, lasting only 45 minutes.
Despite being outnumbered by more than 2:1, the British only took a single casualty (who later recovered) while inflicting 500.

The fuzz on a tennis ball is called “nap”. It is necessary for the ball to have the correct aerodynamic and elastic qualities.

Man + X = Islamic Terrorist
Islamic Terrorist - X = Man

Not useless, but there’s no useful facts thread so here it goes

There is an underwater museum called MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte) located off the coast of Isla Mujeres and Cancún in Mexico. This unique museum features over 500 life-sized sculptures submerged in the crystal-clear waters of the Caribbean Sea. The sculptures, made from materials that promote coral growth, serve a dual purpose: as an artistic attraction for divers and snorkelers and as an artificial reef to support marine life.

Electric cars can’t go very fast, or very far, and if you drive one people will think you’re gay.

@UrbanMysticDee
That’s actually some pretty useful knowledge.

Happiness is a warm gun

Should there be some concern?!

The helmets were pressed from a disk of nickel steel. They had to be pressed in stages otherwise the thickness at the crown would be too thin and the thickness at the rim would be too thick. Pressing it in stages evens out the thickness across the whole curvature of the helmet.

@UrbanMysticDee
Stahlhelms were introduced by the German Empire at the end of WWI and were used by the Weimar Republic, but they became associated with the Third Reich of WWII instead.

The M56 helmet (technically a Stahlhelm in the sense that it was literally a ‘steel helmet’) was created by the Third Reich at the end of WWII, but became associated with the Nationale Volksarmee in the Cold War instead.

Kim Jong Il allegedly invented the hamburger and the burrito and hit a hole-in-one every time he played golf. Having realized it was unfair to play because no one could ever beat him he gave up the sport. His body does not produce waste in any form, having been born of a unicorn under a double rainbow on the sacred Mt. Paektu. Winter ended at the exact moment the Dear Reader was born and it became spring. To celebrate this occasion the people of North Korea are given extra food and electricity rations.

@UrbanMysticDee
Didn’t you already post that?

@Twiface
I don’t know. It’s been 3 years and I only have a finite number of facts memorized. There’s bound to be repeats eventually.

Twice: 25 December 2022 and 30 May 2023

And 22 July 2022

Bonder’s name isn’t “Bender”, it’s “Bonder”

Mice have copraphagic tendencies. Meaning they like to eat shit!

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
Rabbits have cecotrophy built into their diet.

A clerk at a USA courthouse commented that the place is so disorganized that it is like a black hole because files go in and can never be found again. A black co-worker was triggered by this and shouted at him “No, it’s a white hole!” and the judge made the clerk call the office a white hole instead of a black hole even though they are totally opposite things.

This was in 2008 by the way. Things have only gotten much, much worse since.

@UrbanMysticDee
Uppity black gets offended, makes idiotic statement, gets backup from another idiotic black, who happens to be a judge.

Moral of the story: Don’t Hire Blacks.

@Adán Druego
Never relax!

82 years ago today Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, dragging the US into WW2. They chose poorly, as they would lose the war less than 4 years later.

Squirrels’ brains grow 15% larger in the autumn to remember where they buried up to 10,000 nuts (they have an 80%+ success rate finding them) and smaller in the summer since they don’t need to remember so much.

Tree squirrels have larger brains than ground squirrels because they have to navigate a 3D environment, jumping from tree to tree, as opposed to a 2D environment of staying on the ground.

I presume men have bigger brains than women for a similar reason, then?