The Useless Facts Thread

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:53 am

The first party game ever, as well as the first game with split screen multiplayer, was probably Starpath's Party Mix for the Atari 2600 + their Supercharger add-on.

D · Post by D » Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:49 am

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/user ... 87134.html

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:53 am

A box of Gushers contains six packs of Gushers.

tada · Post by **tada** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:54 am

On average, humans fart 14 times a day and burp 15 times a day.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:07 am

American actor Dick Van Dyke is also a 3D animation artist. When the budget for an episode of Diagnosis: Murder didn't allow for a scene of a spectacular motorcycle crash, he used his home computer to create that scene all by himself.

Oh, and his real name is not Penis Van Lesbian.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:21 am

Shit, that link made my day, Stormy. Even if you did throw out the old name gag

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:21 am

Yuzo Koshiro's foot size is 27cm.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:45 am

P_hat's foot size is ~30cm.

D · Post by D » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:33 am

According to the official Sega website, this was the last Saturn release:
http://www.satakore.com/sega-saturn-gam ... n-JPN.html

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:07 pm

reco = 15 years old = senselessness = i gotta observe this = "im going out tonite looking for 15 years old girls with such tits

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:17 am

A fact and a warning: feminazis are dangerous.

tada · Post by **tada** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:01 am

On average, a chocolate bar contains 8 spider legs.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:45 am

Men are 7 times as likely to be struck down by lightning than women.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:30 pm

Imagic's Cosmic Ark is the sequel to Atlantis. It was the first console video game sequel ever.

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:41 pm

Linton-Stockton High School is located in Linton, Indiana in Greene County. It is home to about 450 students, and is quite small. The mascot for this school is the Miner, and the school colors are red and blue.

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:51 am

The Highschool that I attend is recorded by Smithsonian as the only School with out particular mascot. We are the Richland Bombers. Our mascot(s) is/are a bomber plane and a mushroom cloud.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:36 am

The word "tycoon" comes from the archaic Japanese "taikun" (大君), "great lord".

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:45 am

Stormwatch wrote:The word "tycoon" comes from the archaic Japanese "taikun" (大君), "great lord".

That's not from archaic Japanese, that's from the Middle Chinese dajHkjun. The Japanese borrowed the pronunciation from the Chinese. The Old Japanese (8th Century) reading of those characters was actually opo kimi. Old Korean also had that character compound, but they used the Chinese pronunciation back then.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:14 am

The word "kamikaze" is mispelled by all rednecks who use it.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:19 am

From wikipedia:

Macaws eat nuts and fruit. They also gnaw and chew on various objects. They show a large amount of intelligence in their behaviour and require constant intellectual stimulation to satisfy their innate curiosity.

All species of macaws have very powerful, large beaks and are capable of causing considerable harm to both children and adults. They tend to be extremely loud: in the wild their voices need to carry over long distances. This makes macaws very demanding birds to keep as a household pet. Additional complications arise from the intelligence levels of macaws and their negative responses to stimuli people generally use on domestic pets.

Macaws are known to eat clay, which is believed to work as an antidote to the poisonous seeds they eat. The chemicals in the clay mix with the poison allowing it to pass through the bird's digestive system without harming the bird.

MA7 · Post by **MA7** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:24 am

St. John's Wood is the only London Underground station that does not contain any letters found in the word 'mackerel'

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:30 am

It is believed the English word "mare", Old Chinese "mra" (modern Chinese "ma"), Korean "mal", and Japanese "uma" (Classical Japanese "muma"), which all have a meaning of "horse", all come from a wanderwort. A wanderwort means it's a word which has travelled a great distance around the world, adopted into various unrelated languages, with no known origin.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:55 am

Stormwatch wrote:The rarest videogame ever (actually released, not a beta/prototype) is possibly Nintendo World Championship 1990 for the NES. It was a collection of Super Mario Bros, Rad Racer II, and Tetris, in modified versions, done for a Nintendo-sponsored tournament.

116 cartridges were manufactured: 30 in golden plastic, given to the winners; and the others in regular gray, given to the remaining contestants.

Reportedly, a golden cartridge was sold for U$ 6500.

this is wrong to my knolege the rarest i know of is the EU megadrive version of tetris which was made and produced and then shiped only for them to have it recalled because the SNES got the licence in the 11th hour. It is thought to have a few as one or two units but no more than ten!

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:00 am

GaijinPunch wrote:The word "kamikaze" is mispelled by all rednecks who use it.

How can it possibly be miSSpelled?

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:37 am

Don Simpson died on the toilet, while reading Oliver Stone's biography.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:10 am

Specineff wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:The word "kamikaze" is mispelled by all rednecks who use it.
How can it possibly be miSSpelled?

I usually write "mispelt" for shits and giggles. Forgot to fix the first part.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:58 pm

The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam.

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:17 pm

Nihilism (from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical position which argues that the world, especially past and current human existence, is without objective meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. Nihilists generally assert some or all of the following:

* there is no reasonable proof of the existence of a higher ruler or creator,
* a "true morality" does not exist, and
* secular ethics are impossible;

therefore, life has no truth, and no action can be preferable to any other.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:01 pm

Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:39 pm

Dangaioh - Hyper Combat Unit (破邪大星ダンガイオー or 破邪大星弾劾凰 Haja Taisei Dangaiō) is an anime OVA series produced by AIC studios and released in Japan in 1987. Dangaioh features character designs by creator Toshihiro Hirano, mechanical designs by Shoji Kawamori , animation direction by Masami Obari and key animation by Hideaki Anno.