The Useless Facts Thread

[Stormwatch]

Font mindfuck.

[Stormwatch]

Graça Machel is the only person in the world to have been married to the presidents of two different nations.

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The jukebox in Shenmue is modeled after the first model of jukebox produced by Sega. (Yu said so.)

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

An interesting thing about the name Grand Theft Auto is that Rockstar owns the right to use it for games, but Fox owns the right to use it for movies.

[neorichieb1971]

Where do rich countries borrow their money from? Since they are all in mega mega debt I could never understand it.

[BryanM]

China. When they foreclose, we will end up as the United Annex of China.

Debt has been the basis of wars before, hasn't it?

Anyway, we can always just print money, too. That stuff just grows on trees, don't you know?

[kernow]

Rumour has it you can rob a major electronics store armed only with a young sparrows eye.

[evil_ash_xero]

I live near a town with a possibly cool name "Hurricane", but everyone screws it up and pronounces it "Hurr-i-cun" instead. What a waste.

[Ed Oscuro]

China. When they foreclose, we will end up as the United Annex of China.

China would be foreclosing on a swarm of giant missiles up its yangtze*, so that's unlikely to happen. Also destroying the value they were trying to protect in that investment in the first place. Ultimately self-defeating, I laugh every time this silly scenario gets raised.

*hyperbole speaking but that's a pretty cool mental image

[neorichieb1971]

Why are PCB's almost always green?

[Stormwatch]

There was a bug in Windows 95 and 98 - more precisely in the Vtdapi.vxd driver - that made the computer hang when it reached an uptime of 2^32 milliseconds; that is, it was literally impossible for a Windows machine to run past 49.7 days without crashing. This bug was only fixed in 1999, as hardly anyone noticed it: Windows usually crashed much sooner than that.

[cools]

Why are PCB's almost always green?

It's the normal colour of the material used. Google will tell you.

[Octopod]

The printed in printed circuit board is because they are silk screen printed. The green is the ink.


I believe.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

I've got one PCB that was printed up as a red colored variant. Interesting to see such PCBs printed mainly in the green color though.

A typical U.S. vending machine endowed with a dollar bill acceptor has 12 different methods to determine if the cash currency is real or fake. Sometimes, if said geniune U.S. bill is too wrinkled or scrunched up, it won't be accepted either.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Daigohji]

I live near a town with a possibly cool name "Hurricane", but everyone screws it up and pronounces it "Hurr-i-cun" instead. What a waste.

There's a town near me called Noctorum. I love that name, as it sounds like an ethereal dreamworld. It has the phonetic ring of something I could imagine Christopher Lee booming, "Unleash the orcs of Noctorum!" And what do the people around here call it (imagine this being said in a scouse accent)? "The Nocky."

[Stormwatch]

Fact: a Japanese terrorist organization was once active in Brazil.

[antron]

Around 1994, the sign on the money exchange office in the Cancun Mexico Airport read:

$EXCHANGE$

[Stormwatch]

Fred Rogers was taught golf by Arnold Palmer's father.

[drauch]

I have never been to Australia.

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Anne Rice's real name is Howard Allen O'Brien. No, she's not a transexual, her mom just thought it'd be a good idea.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

The paint scheme on the world famous Golden Gate Bridge is painted "International Orange". Still standing to this day, even after the huge Loma Prieta quake that rocked it back in 1989.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[lgb]

There's a ZED BLADE original soundtrack coming to wherever near you in November!

Why am I posting this here? Too lazy to find the appropriate thread.

[RoninBuddha]

jpop stuff

[Demetori]

Life is short. Shmups are shorter.

[neorichieb1971]

The longest road in the UK is the A1, which was built by the Romans apparently.

[Stormwatch]

Iron Butterfly's hit song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is named so because composer Doug Ingle showed it to the other members of the band while he was completely drunk, so he couldn't pronounce "in the garden of eden" properly.

[antron]

Iron Butterfly's hit song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is named so because composer Doug Ingle showed it to the other members of the band while he was completely drunk, so he couldn't pronounce "in the garden of eden" properly.

that sounds like Rock and/or Roll!

[Stormwatch]

Game composer Tommy Tallarico and Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler are cousins.

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Japanese voice actress Nobuyo Oyama, best known for the role of Doraemon, can one-credit Arkanoid.

[beyonder]

Pythagoras, the one from the pythagorean theorem, also was an olympic boxer.