Useless Facts

When Applejack drank too much cider:  

The Senator, the oldest bald cyprus tree in the world, died in 2012 after 3,500 years because someone was smoking crystal meth under the tree (which had a fence around it to keep people away) and accidentally lit the tree on fire.

@UrbanMysticDee  
Poor tree. Stupid people are why we can’t have ANYTHING!
 

 
@TheGamerPainter  
AJ: BIG MAC! QUICK FIND APPLE BLOOM AND GRANNY SMITH! ALL THE SIGN HAVE APPEARED!!  
AJ: Where’s that dark stone axe?! I can’t believe it. It’s all happening just as the book said! Oh, mom and dad, your children’ll be with you, soon. Oh, and Granny Smith, too.  
AB: WAIT! WHAT?!
 
RD: Sweet Celestia! They told me not to play pranks, but I didn’t listen!!!! WHY COULDN’T I HAVE JUST LISTEN, JUST THIS ONCE?!?!
 
Rainbow’s prank turned quite grimdark rather quickly…

@Adan Druego  

Americans say “Yern-ul” and Britishers say “You-Rhine-ul”

@UrbanMysticDee  
I say yer-in-ull.

@Dex Stewart  
Are you Canadian or something?

@UrbanMysticDee  
In ɐpɐuɐƆ bags come in milk.

@Fleur de Lis  
Why put a bag in the milk?

@UrbanMysticDee  
No I just pronounce words in a way that doesn’t have an identifiable accent.

@Dex Stewart  
Is “Dex” short for Dexter, and do you have a secret laboratory?

@Anonymous #8E4A  
Dex is the name of the guy from Masked Rider.  
 

The tungsten it’s a metal which keeps the war ecological in sometimes. The reason is, because its density and weight, the tungsten is the perfect material to create non-explosive missiles, propelled with kinetic energy, which can destroy steel armours from tanks & bunkers with facility. The only rival for this kind of use is the radioactive element uranium, Depleted uranium is almost as dense as tungsten, but as you can imagine, the problem with uranium it’s the dangerous levels of radiation. So, the tungsten is a better alternative to make destruction without damaging the battlefield and its environment.

@Dex Stewart  
ah. I was talking about his accent.
 
@KillswitchEngageHyperFanatic  
Depleted uranium is only very, very faintly radioactive. It’s more or less purified U-238 with the lighter, less stable isotopes removed. It is not as hard as tungsten but when penetrating steel armor tungsten and steel penetrators flatten out like a rivet, displacing additional material and penetrating less efficiently. The uranium alloys used to make the penetrators–usually 0.75% to 3.5% titanium, the rest U-238–are nearly as hard as tungsten and material displaced from the point of the penetrator shears away instead of flattening out, making DU penetrators sort of self-sharpening.
 
Uranium is much less toxic than either lead or tungsten. Tungsten is actually a pretty nasty heavy metal toxin, as its oxides are fairly soluble and readily absorbed by living things. It’s bad enough that some Army bases that experimented with “lead-free, non toxic” tungsten ammunition in the 1990s ended up on the EPA Superfund list for toxic waste cleanup.

@Anonymous #8E4A  
I didn’t think of that until I posted my response.  
What is Dexter’s accent supposed to be?

@Dex Stewart  
It isn’t a real accent. It’s just supposed to sound foreign. It was made up by combining a stereotypical Slavic accent, which Genndy Tartakovsky himself had growing up, a stereotypical German accent because of the mad scientist angle, and an exaggerated French accent because Genndy had a roommate who did a French accent that he found funny.

@ANoobis  
I wonder how other languages handled it when they dubbed him.

The Groom of the Stool has the job of wiping the king’s ass when he takes a shit. The king was too important to wipe his own ass, someone else had to do it. And the king’s turds were too important to throw out with the night soil, it had to be kept and analyzed for omens.

There’s an IKEA that goes on forever!

Today is both Alexander the Great ‘s birthday (I’m not allowed to put a apostrophe after a URL? Seems like a design flaw) and the day Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. They happened 2300 years apart, not at the same time.

As of Friday, every store in the USA will be running out of OREOs

Superman is technically an illegal alien, although since his whole planet exploded he probably could apply for refugee status.

Meows are not an innate language for cats, they developed them to communicate with humans!

There is an entire genre of Japanese films created solely because Japanese people didn’t want to watch domestic movies at the time and were super into western and imported films. It’s called Pinku and it tried to lure Japanese audiences back in with sex, and sometimes violence. Even though a lot of the films were almost porn, a few of them were quite good as movies, because directors and writers were often given near free reign so long as they met the flesh quota. It was so bad that Japan’s oldest film studio, Nikkatsu, was producing pinku films exclusively for some time.  
At the same time, there was a guy who thought, “Hey, maybe we can get people to watch domestic films if they’re really fucking WEIRD”, and he made Hausu, a film where a girl is eaten alive by a piano.

@Jomok0  
And that’s where Pinku Pie got her name!