Useless Facts

Rashtrapati Niwas now home to the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, was built in 1888 at a cost of 3,800,000 Rupees with an annual upkeep cost of 150,000 Rupees. Going by the 1947 conversion rate and a handy inflation calculator on the Bank of England website, I estimated that to be $49,942,278.98 to build and $1,971,405.17 for upkeep in 2019 US Dollars.
 

There’s a species of fish called the electric catfish. However, it was called the angry catfish first because electricity hadn’t been discovered yet.

A bruncle is a family member who’s your brother and your uncle at the same time. This is the result of a son being born from either your mom fucking grandpa or your dad fucking grandma. Either way, it’s fucking gross. Don’t inbreed, kids.

@Humble Oriathan  
I’m still waking up and read that as “Bionicle”.

@Humble Oriathan  
Sweet home Alabama ringing in the distance.

On the 10 december 1520, Martin Luther publicly burned a copy of Exsurge Domine (Bulla contra errores Martini Lutheri et sequacium), the catholic pope’s response to his Ninety-Five Theses. He was excommunicated a few weeks later.
 

People in Australia pronounce Michigan “Mitch-again”

@UrbanMysticDee  
 
Mitch rocks.

@UrbanMysticDee  
People in France pronounce Detroit “Dé-trwaa”.

Toner isn’t just the stuff in the copy machine. Apparently it’s like skin stuff too.

You can’t spell ‘soldier’ without ‘die’  
You can’t spell ‘funeral’ without ‘fun’  
You can’t spell ‘believe’ without ‘lie’  
You can’t spell ‘sparkle’ without ‘ark.’ Noah’s Ark was a ship. Rainbows have Arcs. Therefore Twidash is canon.

@Twiface  
Pfft. You believe in Twidash?

@Twiface  
You can’t say “Homeowner” without saying “Homo”  
You can’t say “Happiness” without saying “Penis”

You can’t spell slaughter without laughter.

@Twiface  
Racecar spelled backwards is racecar

@Humble Oriathan  

Relative to size, the dung beetle is the worlds strongest animal. It can carry 1100 times it’s own weight.
 
That’s the equivalent of a human lifting 6 fully loaded double-decker buses over its head.

@acres  
 
They even have the strength to carry a Disney movie.

@Dex Stewart  
Now THAT’S strong.

@Dex Stewart  
Ah yes. Man’s laughter.

@acres  
Big deal, anyone can carry a thousand times a bug’s weight.

@UrbanMysticDee  
Not true. Some bugs get really, really big.

Alaska is a big state (for you). It’s larger than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combines.

At one point, WOW gold was worth more than 7 times that of the Venezuela bolivar.