The Useless Facts Thread

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:32 am

Fatboy Slim used to be the bassist of pop band The Housemartins.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:10 am

The mask used by serial killer Michael Myers in the slasher film Halloween is just a captain Kirk mask painted white.

neritai · Post by **neritai** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:37 pm

Breaking news! Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead!

>.>

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:38 am

Secret of Mana was coded by an iranian.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:39 am

Ed Oscuro wrote:
Stormwatch wrote:Don McLean's starting point to compose the hit song "American Pie" was an article by philosopher Ayn Rand about the death of Marilyn Monroe. (thus, 'miss American Pie' is Marilyn.) The article can be read here.
"What kind of pie is American Pie? Maybe it's Hershey's Sundae Pie. It already has a city named after it. That puts it way in front of pecan for sure."

FACT: I forgot what this quote is from.

MORE FACT: Then I remembered it was from a Burger King's Evil Pie Slice Package.

MORE MORE FACT: This is the only place on the internet you can read this particular something that you might think comes from Stephen Colbert but it really comes from an evil faceless corporation.

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:28 am

i accidentally found the girl of prometheus avatar:

caught!

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:15 pm

Prometheus's avatar is from the ending sequence of Guwange, you fail.

While I'm at it, I DID found out where you took your avatar from back in march...

caught!

joeboto · Post by **joeboto** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:31 pm

elfhentaifan wrote:i accidentally found the girl of prometheus avatar:

piktar

caught!

LOVE SELECTION GET!

Momijitsuki · Post by **Momijitsuki** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:49 pm

Ruldra wrote:I bet no one of you ever realized this:

The same sprite is used for the cloud and grass. Only the color is different.

Actually, I did! Not right away, but I did eventually. :p

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 4:49 pm

Ruldra wrote:
While I'm at it, I DID found out where you took your avatar from back in march...

-image-

caught!

good job, sir!
How long took you that?

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:30 pm

Dunno, someone posted that doujin on 4chan and I recognized the girl.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:17 am

Fact: Jon St. John is a really damn versatile voice actor.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:29 am

There are 3 CAVE games that have been licensed and released in the US at this point. You can't really count one of them, though.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:16 am

A popular nickname for Fidel Castro is "Esteban".

It is a contraction of "este bandido" ("this bandit").

UnscathedFlyingObject · Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:40 am

If you throw toilet paper in the toilet before taking a shit, the toilet water won't splash on your ass and balls.

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:35 am

You'll clog the toilet if you do that.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:57 am

I've been doing it for years. My toilet never clogs unless I take a big dump. If you're too afraid of clogging your toilet, you can always reserve the trick for use in public restrooms.

Edit: of course, I have no idea how good the plumbing is in Brazil.
Edit2: just don't get carried away with the toilet paper. I say enough to wrap your hand twice is enough.

ChurchOfSolipsism · Post by **ChurchOfSolipsism** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:29 pm

UnscathedFlyingObject wrote:If you throw toilet paper in the toilet before taking a shit, the toilet water won't splash on your ass and balls.

Thanks man, this sounds like really good advice & I'M gonna try it the next time I have to shit.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:23 pm

ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:
UnscathedFlyingObject wrote:If you throw toilet paper in the toilet before taking a shit, the toilet water won't splash on your ass and balls.
Thanks man, this sounds like really good advice & I'M gonna try it the next time I have to shit.

+1

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:10 pm

At least around here, toilet paper in the toilet is never a good thing. Even if it doesn't clog the first time, it will eventually if you keep doing it. Just remember that if any of you guys ever comes to my country.

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:27 am

ATI Rage Mobility M is secretly the same thing as Rage Pro, which is convenient if you need 3d functionality for old games since AMD still has Rage Pro drivers on their site (and they seem to be quicker and less buggy than any of the Rage Mobility drivers floating around)

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:42 pm

This isn't exactly useless

tommyb · Post by **tommyb** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:53 pm

It was once planned that a giant 50 foot tall Michael Jackson robot would stalk around the desert outside of Las Vegas, shooting lasers out of its head, and just kinda doing it's own thing.

I'm not kidding. The project is probably canned now, haven't heard anything about it in awhile.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/micha ... 248195.php

http://www.cinemablend.com/music/Michae ... -3488.html

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:18 pm

batshit insane.

nash87 · Post by **nash87** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:15 am

lightning is not the only thing on earth that can exceed the temperature of the sun. A pistol shrimp can shoot a blast of water at a speed of 100km/h with a temp of 9900C! That shit is bananas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKPrGxB1Kzc

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:14 pm

You can actually cut a 2mm thick glass with a pair of scissors underwater.

Daigohji · Post by **Daigohji** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:04 pm

tommyb wrote:It was once planned that a giant 50 foot tall Michael Jackson robot would stalk around the desert outside of Las Vegas, shooting lasers out of its head, and just kinda doing it's own thing.

I'm not kidding. The project is probably canned now, haven't heard anything about it in awhile.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/micha ... 248195.php

http://www.cinemablend.com/music/Michae ... -3488.html

The mental image I got the first time I heard about this:

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:30 pm

Moonwalker, anyone?

By the way, I just heard that Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:43 am

Web CEO makes some kind of HTML authoring software, or something. They want my business. They haven't gotten it, but they did send me some interesting infos:

Googler: "… if a site is made in a way that users run away right away, then chances are that we might not be recommending it as much as other sites that users like." – We can conclude that the information Google receives through its toolbar is used in the ranking algorithm.

Googler: "I think it is fair for Google to use that [age of a site and the amount of time a domain is registered] as a signal in some circumstances." – The age of domains and sites are ranking factors.

Googler: "Google uses a bunch of signals like location of the server or the TLD in order to determine which users might be interested in the sites content. "– This means the location of the server does influence the local page rankings.

Googler: "If you're moving from one URL to another (even if it's on a different domain), ranking signals can be passed via a 301 [redirect]." – Google will pass your old domain ranking information to the new domain if you make a proper redirect – 301. However, you should not use a 302 redirect.

Googler: "We work hard to make sure a site can't have a negative effect on another site." – So, a bunch of links from "bad neighborhoods cannot cause a drop in site rankings."

Googler: "We generally treat all links the same – be it from .gov or .edu or .info sites."

Googler: "PageRank is re-computed all the time (different PageRanks every day). But we update the toolbar PageRank 3-4 times/year." – The toolbar PageRank is often misleading and does not show a true picture.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:19 pm

If you accept names of chemical compounds as words, the longest word in english is the largest known protein. Its name is... well, click here to read. It's 189,819 letters long. Of course, it's not very practical to memorize or say aloud, so it's commonly known as "titin".

Completely made up words? Nigel Tomm created a 2,087,214 letter-long word, and used it in his "The Blah Story" - the longest novel ever published.