Useless Facts

With all this inflation, the price of chimneys is going through the roof.

“Ping pong” is the Chinese term for table tennis

Steve Jobs wore a black turtle neck and old man jeans

@UrbanMysticDee
Elizabeth Holmes wore a black turtleneck because Steve Jobs wore a black turtleneck.

“Ohio” is typed entirely with the right hand on a standard QWERTY keyboard

Kosovo is Serbia.

Franz Karl Reichelt (also known as Henry François Reichelt) was an inventor who tried to design a parachute-suit for aviators.

It didn’t work. He died when he jumped from the Eiffel Tower in february 1912.

Murray Franklin is awful

@Color Anon
No mention of rice or corn?

@Twiface

The Universe is pretty big

Iggy Azalea’s ass is fake

“Vegetable” doesn’t exist as a meaningful classification. Fruits, grains, roots, and all of the other edible plants are just lumped into this supercategory that ends up not meaning anything. And it includes mushrooms, for some reason.

The People’s Choice Award is an inanimate carbon rod

Homer Simpson weighs 239 pounds. In 1990 that was comically obese. In 2024 the average American female weighs 170 lbs and the average male weighs 200 pounds.

@UrbanMysticDee

Nothing takes priority over Chocolate Rain

General Joseph Hooker liked prostitutes so much that his name has forever become attached to the profession.

@UrbanMysticDee.

👥 Readers added context they thought people might want to know.

The term “hooker” was used in print as early as 1845, years before Hooker was a public figure, and is likely derived from the concentration of prostitutes around the shipyards and ferry terminal of the Corlear’s Hook area of Manhattan in the early to middle 19th century, who came to be referred to as “hookers”.

A glimmer is like a shimmer or a shine, where as sparkles, glints, and gleams are all part of the glisten family.

@UrbanMysticDee
Glimmer? Shimmer? Sparkle?
You mean like this?

@Twiface
Exactly

Everything is racist, it’s just that for some things the amount of racism is below the limit of detection.

Humans have access to all the knowledge in the world at their fingertips 24/7 and they’ve somehow managed to become stupider.