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Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:25 am
by Chieris
There is a League of Extraordinary Communities that consists of Boring (Oregon, USA), Dull (Scotland) and Bland (New South Wales, Australia)

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:33 am
by Chieris
This year's Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON for short) was held in Côte d'Ivoire. The host nation finished 3rd in their group with only one win and two losses, so they sacked their manager, thinking they were out of the competition. But at the end of the group stages, two 3rd-place teams performed even worse than Côte d'Ivoire which meant they were qualified for the Round of 16 (24 teams participate in the tournament in 6 groups, beside the best two teams, four 3rd-placed teams can also reach the next round based on their performances). Côte d'Ivoire then beat Senegal, Mali and Congo DR in the knockout stages with a caretaker manager at the helm, then defeated Nigeria in the finals, thus winning the AFCON despite finishing 3rd in their group and sacking their manager in the middle of the tournament

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:59 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has 7 half-siblings.

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:55 pm
by Chieris
There's a town in Hungary called 'Pápa'. The Pope is also called 'Pápa' in Hungarian. 'Pápá' is a synonym for 'Goodbye' mainly used by or around small children. The sentence 'The Pope waves goodbye in Pápa' sounds fairly normal in English, but if you translate it to Hungarian, you can get this nightmare: 'A pápa Pápán pápát integet'

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:17 am
by Chieris
Because of the 3 official languages, the national railway company in Switzerland has a different acronym for each language and they are all displayed on the side of the trains. These three acronyms are SBB (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, German), CFF (Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, French) and FFS (Ferrovie Federale Svizzere, Italian)

Re: Useless Information Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:27 pm
by Amazee Dayzee
A dentist invented the electric chair.