Useless Facts

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In the Welcome to Blackwell Academy book it says that the last total solar eclipse seen in Arcadia Bay was in 1979 (although the 26 February 1979 eclipse was obscured by clouds, so the eclipse was not visible, much to the disappointment of all the people who traveled there to see it), and it says the next one will be in 2169.
 
This is not accurate. The eclipse on 25 June 2169 does not pass directly over the GPS coordinates we are given for Arcadia Bay (which places the town square in the middle of the real life Tillamook Bay). The zone of totality passes 27 miles to the north at Cannon Beach. While not a total eclipse the degree of obscuration is said to be 99.37%, and I defy anyone to actually look at that and tell the difference.
 
The statement is doubly inaccurate if we’re counting very nearly total eclipses like the one a century from now, because the 21 August 2017 eclipse passed just 14 miles south near a census-designated place called Beaver, along Route 101. The degree of obscuration for that eclipse was 99.62%, more than the 2169 eclipse is predicted to be.
Anonymous #6165
The plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces are called “aglets.” Their true purpose is sinister.
Anonymous #6165
@TheGamerPainter  
I thought people suspected that because her mane and tail are Gay Pride flags and partially because she’s a self-absorbed jock with Short Man Syndrome, which makes it easy to imagine her thirty years older as a morbidly obese gym teacher wearing flannel and a nose ring.
 
Most brands of synthetic detergent for clothing or dishes are almost entirely inert filler. This is partially because the byproducts from detergent manufacture make cheap fillers, partially because the detergents are so powerful that you’d have to measure them with an eyedropper otherwise.
Anonymous #6165
Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows:
 
Pocket-protected scientists built a wall made of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed. They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors. They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond travelling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall made of metal into 400 miles an hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted earths orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles an hour. They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused over 10000 wayward planes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with over 10000 buildings in downtown New York. They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall travelling at miles per iron, and the result proved with out a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man.
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