Useless Facts

@Fleur de Lis
Indeed it does, and indeed we are.

Today is Cinco de Mayo, the day when hwite Americans drink Corona, eat gwack-a-mole, and pretend to be Mexican for a day.

The personification of death was first called the “grim reaper” in english-language literature, in the 1847 book “The Circle of Human Life”.

The depiction itself is medieval, much older than that name.

You have never been in love until you’ve seen the stars reflect in the reservoir.

You have never been in love until you’ve seen the dawn rise over the home for the blind.

Did you know that the American Association forcthe Blind once held a Jack & Jill doubles tennis match. It was called Endless Love.

Half a man is $500,000

@UrbanMysticDee
According to Zillow, the house I grew up in is now worth 73% of a man.
In fact, there’s only a few houses in the neighborhood going for 500k or less.

@Twiface
considering that this is a million dollars money doesn’t mean anything anymore. It’s just numbers that Chinese speculators make up.

Ninjaring is the verb form of ninja

The exports of Libya are numerous in amount. One thing they export is corn, or as the Indians call it, “maize”. Another famous Indian was Crazy Horse. In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrasts.

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

Ninjer

A derogatory, slanderous slur referring to ninjas.

Mr. Xu:“Whats up my ninja?”
Dawon: “Oh, whats up ninjer.”
Mr. Xu: “Whoa, man not cool.”

Ninjas were historically referred to with native japanese name “shinobi” (忍び) or more fully “shinobi no mono” (忍びの者).

Later, this phrase was abbreviated and read in borrowed from chinese way as “ninja” (忍者).
This only became a common name after World War Two.
The pronunciation of “ninja” was borrowed into many european languages.

The spelling of (忍者) was also borrowed back to chinese. In standard Mandarin it’s pronounced “rěnzhě”.

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
I want to have all of that bad luck, then.

Aoshima is a Japanese island that was once home to a thriving fishing community, but the fishing business closed down and only 5 people remain on the island, along with 220 cats who roam free.

Boat stands for “bust out another thousand”, because owning a boat is a money pit

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

I assume that $400k largely consists of rent in popular tourist attractions?

Somebody made a flash game about George Bush doing just that.

Murray Franklin is awful

Venus has a thicc atmosphere. It’s almost entirely carbon dioxide and rotates the planet in 4 Earth days, much shorter than the planet itself which rotates once every 243 Earth days.

Tommy Lee Jones was born old. At age 18 he was already 40.

The longest fart ever recorded lasted 2 minutes 42 seconds. It was farted by Bernard Clemmens from London, UK in 1977.

England and Scotland signed the ‘Treaty of Perpetual Peace’ in 1502.
It was broken just 11 years later.