Useless Facts

The bible has been translated into Klingon

Pinkie Pie used her party cannon more when she’s not partying.

Julian Assange was born in Townsville, which is actually a big city. It’s also where the Powerpuff Girls come from.

@UrbanMysticDee  
The Powerpuff Girls were originally called the “Whupass Girls”.

Elon “Musky” Musk is now the richest man in the world, assuming the rumors of Putin having $300 billion are true, in which case he isn’t.
 
I’ve always thought Musky was ridiculously overrated. He dug a tunnel, at considerable cost, and put green lights in it and everyone thinks he’s a genius.
 
The engines on his rocket are ex-Soviet surplus (that US engineers still can’t reverse engineer) and the tail-landing mechanism was developed by NASA almost 40 years ago and abandoned because it was not practicable, but Musky took two decades old technologies and put them together and now everyone thinks he’s a genius.
 
He also made a car that is totally ruined and has to be rebuilt from scratch if you let the battery charge drop to 0, but everyone thinks he’s a genius.

This charcoal is the world’s oldest bread. It is about 14,000 years old.  

@UrbanMysticDee  

 
Wut? The Merlin engine was developed by SpaceX, as well as the Raptor engine. ULA has been using the RD-180s, which is what I imagine you are thinking of.
 

 
I mean, he did kinda found the company that made technology previously thought to be completely impractical, if not impossible, and turn it in to a functioning method of space travel at virtually unheard of low costs. I feel like that deserves some credit somewhere, but obviously the engineers he hired did most of the work.
 

 
That uhh… That’s all EVs though. Letting a battery drain entirely will damage it. Same goes for the ones in your phone even, though the damage likely won’t be as severe and you also probably won’t care as much about a $40 battery repalcement.

El Salvador, Central America has the world record for the largest pretzel.

@DTavs.Exe  
No wonder Central Americans are so salty…

@Officer Hotpants  
[cries in salty spanish]

If there’s a unused scene of Cozy Glow successfully killing Starlight Glimmer but the magic still works I want to see a screenshot of this happening.
 
She’s also uses Golly a lot.

@TheGamerPainter  
I would love that.

Taller people have a higher risk of getting cancer than shorter people.

Movie star Warwick Davis once sponsored a troupe of midget male strippers called “The Half Monty”.

@UrbanMysticDee  
Well that sucks.

The greatest number of bee stings sustained by any surviving human subject is 2,443 by Johannes Relleke at the Kamativi tin mine, Gwaii River, Wankie District, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) on 28 January 1962. All the stings were removed and counted.

Richie Ramone,one of the drummers for the Ramones had a bizzarre biological anomaly that caused his sweat glands to lack odor.

Saudi Arabia is so far in the closet that they’re in Narnia. Even though homosexuality is illegal all the men in the country have male concubines.

The concept of a monster comes from the Greek Teras (I’m not sure if this is related to the Latin Terror, which means terror, it’s unchanged in English). The concept was the same in Greece and Rome and at its core referred to a deformed human.
 
This doesn’t fit well with the modern PC culture, which simultaneously sees disease as not existing and also as being superior to health, but even the most PC person is a hypocrite, because the truth is not so benign. The human brain is hardwired to be repulsed by physical deformity. It’s a survival mechanism to avoid the possibility of being infected by the other person.
 
That’s why there are loads of monsters that look just a little off from normal. Zombies are so frightening because it’s a corpse, which is frightening enough, but it does the one thing that corpses are not supposed to do: it moves! It’s a break from reality that sets off ancient circuits in the brain.
 
What’s more frightening? What will haunt your nightmares more: someone who is 15 feet tall with nine heads and bat wings, a cheeta’s tail, a shark fin, and pigs feet, or an otherwise normal person with 100 teeth growing on their face? If you’re being honest it’s the second one that’s more terrifying. Subconsciously you know that the second one is something that can really exist, and you know there’s a chance it can happen to you, however small, and that’s really fucking scary.
 
And that’s what led to the idea of monsters.

@UrbanMysticDee  
I’m pretty sure the concept of a monster goes as far back as our earliest ancestors’ dreams. They may have seen a silouette of something unknown,and their imagination fills in the rest. Or they heard an unusual sound,what could have made that sound?  
Also your “monsters look a little off from normal” reminded me of this.

29% of the Burj Khalifa’s height is an empty spire at the top. The building narrows so aggressively as it goes up that almost a third of it is unusable because it’s too narrow.
 
 
@Dex Stewart  
We can’t know that.

I like Smolder more than Ember cause she’s cuter than her.

@TheGamerPainter  
That’s not a fact, that’s an opinion

@UrbanMysticDee  
cute  
/kyo͞ot/
 
adjective  

@Dex Stewart  
Saying which one is cuter than the other is still an opinion.