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Meat Loaf was almost chosen to voice Quasimodo in Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

Pamela Anderson was married six times to five different men. Divorced three times and two of her marriages were annulled.

Tommy Lee [Married: 1995. Divorced: 1998]
Kid Rock [Married: 2006. Divorced: 2007]
Rick Salomon [Married: 2007. Annulled: 2008]
Rick Salomon [Married: 2014. Divorced: 2015]
Jon Peters [Married: 2020. Annulled: 2020]
Dan Hayhurst [Married: 2020]

When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

Pigs are the only mammals besides humans that can get sunburned.

The most serious case of hyperinflation happened in Hungary in 1946, it took only 15 hours for prices to double. When forint was introduced on 1st August, the amount of existing pengő notes valued less than 0.1 fillér (or 0.001 forint).
The highest denomination is also related to pengő, it was one billion bilpengő (short for "billió pengő" which means trillion, yes, I know it's a bit confusing), though these banknotes were never in use, they were only printed. The highest denomination that was actually used was a hundred million bilpengő, if it was written down as a number, it would consist the number 1, followed by 20 zeros.

The Formula 1 world championship has hosted a Grand Prix race in the parking lot of Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Twice.

There's a cave in Mexico's Naica mine called the Cave of the Crystals, or Cueva de los cristales, in which a human can only survive unprotected for about 10 minutes because their lungs rapidly fill with water.

The cave is naturally heated by the Earth to 58C/136F and has a humidity of 99%. In this environment the surface of your lungs is the coolest place around which makes the moisture in the air condense and pool inside them. This means you literally drown without even being under water.

The cave features giant selenite crystals (a form of gypsum) weighing several tonnes. See the below picture for scale.

Since 2015, work in the mine adjoining the cave has ceased and the cave has been allowed to return to its natural flooded state, meaning the crystals will continue to slowly grow until the cave is one day drained again.

While they aren't picky eaters, cockroaches in particular like starches, sweets, greasy foods, and meats.

im gonna put the "useless" back in "useless information"

France is a country that exists in Earth

The first safety razors were introduced in the United States in 1880.

The world's fastest steam locomotive was operated by London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) and it was an A4 class locomotive called 'Mallard', it reached 203 km/h (126 mph) in 1938

Paul Winchell, the voice actor for Tigger in Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" cartoon series, also invented the artificial heart, worked as a ventriloquist and created a brand of safety razors.

The inventor of the fire hydrant isn’t actually known, because the original patent for it was destroyed.

In a fire.

Within the time system, a.m. is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase ante merīdiem meaning “before midday” and p.m. is an abbreviation of post merīdiem which means "after midday".

Most historians consider April 11th, 1954 the most boring and uneventful day of the entire 20th century, due to a lack of any notable events happening on that day.

A bit morbid but the next one won't be. At the time of his death, Elvis Presley was estimated at 350 pounds and he was virtually non-functional at the end, being mostly bed-ridden and requiring permanent nursing care.

In 2011, due to an update in the time zones around the world, the country of Samoa lost December 30th on their calendar.

Here’s one - this thread has been completely inactive for 8 months straight!



Kinda thought maybe this was the place where this kinda thread would thrive…

Sciatica can last for many years and not be curable at all no matter what.

Just here to give myself a glimpse into my future.

Nickel Plate Road #587 turned 100 years old back in 2018 and is one of three surviving 2-8-2 mikados of the Nickel Plate Railroad

The class 100 multiple units of Vienna's Badner Bahn (a tram-train service between Austrian capital city Vienna and Baden) were named after workers, for example unit no. 125 is Susanne and 115 is Andreas. Their names can be found on the outside of the trains.

And another information: Today is International Dog Day.

Chieris wrote: ↑Fri Aug 26, 2022 4:36 am The class 100 multiple units of Vienna's Badner Bahn (a tram-train service between Austrian capital city Vienna and Baden) were named after workers, for example unit no. 125 is Susanne and 115 is Andreas. Their names can be found on the outside of the trains.

And another information: Today is International Dog Day.

Interesting Tram trivia Chieris. Sheffield in the UK had trams from 1873 to 1960, got rid of them all then brought them back in 1994 as the Supertram, they seem to work well, I have ridden on them.

Hooray for International Dog Day, great isn't it, me and Mrs Deer just found out too !

Laser stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.

Rhode Island is the only state that celebrates Victory Day (Victory Over Japan Day) because of the amount of sailors it sent and lost in the Pacific front.

Rhode Island is the smallest state in the US, but it's not the state with the least amount of counties as Delaware is divided into only 3 counties while Rhode Island has 5

There is a 47 year difference between the time the 48th state Arizona and the 49th state Alaska were admitted into the United States.

When The Flintstones' first Hungarian dub was made in 1966, József Romhányi's translated script was full of rhymes and wordplays unlike the original. There was a rumor that the dub was so good that the English dub was remade so it also rhymes but there's no evidence that it actually happened

Huey P. Long Day is a holiday that is celebrated only in Louisiana. Huey P. Long was the 40th governor of Louisiana rose to national prominence during the Great Depression and is is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascistic demagogue.

Both male and female Robins have red chests.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

When Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, was dying of cancer, he begged his wife to inject a psychedelic substance into him. He also died the same day as C.S Lewis and JFK... huh.

Today I learned that my university campus was built on a cemetery. There used to a Roman cemetery and there was another cemetery that was established in 1780 and it was in use until 1924. I was walking in the forest near to the campus when I ran into the cemetery's gate

Chieris wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:07 am Today I learned that my university campus was built on a cemetery. There used to a Roman cemetery and there was another cemetery that was established in 1780 and it was in use until 1924. I was walking in the forest near to the campus when I ran into the cemetery's gate

I figured you would have seen it before you ran into it...

TyVulpintaur wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 5:27 am I figured you would have seen it before you ran into it...

I probably paid more attention to equivocal wording than what was in front of me

If you were to Google which is the most popular car in each state, you would get a different answer every time as it varies from site to site. You would need to get information from the state itself.

There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (43 quintillion) possible combinations for a standard 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube, but only 1 solution.....

December 2019 to January 2020 was the hottest Winter the US ever had in data going back to 1895.

Martin Van Buren is the only President of the United States whose first language was not english. He spoke Dutch first.

Chieris wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:07 am Today I learned that my university campus was built on a cemetery. There used to a Roman cemetery and there was another cemetery that was established in 1780 and it was in use until 1924. I was walking in the forest near to the campus when I ran into the cemetery's gate

Neat!
Do you encounter many ghosts on campus?

Fun fact: Although they typically only live for 15 years in the wild, an echidna living in captivity once made it to the ripe old age of 50!

Hlaoroo wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:09 am Do you encounter many ghosts on campus?

I didn't have any encounters on the campus. As far as I know, the cemetery was cleared before the university campus was built there in the 1970s.
But occasionally when I'm in my bed at night, I see small lights appearing and disappearing in the corner of my eye. To be fair I think it does have a rational explanation that I'm not aware of, but I like to think that these lights indicate that my late dog (who had to be euthanized last year due to cancer) is still here

In 2016, Mozart sold more CDs than Beyonce.