The Thread for Useless, but Interesting Facts

[Azeem]

There was a guy here who used to sell love charms and amulets, became quite popular but they turned out to be national anthems of different countries.

[Azeem]

Richard Burton, British explorer who co-discovered the source of River Nile theorised the existence of a Sotadic Zone. Regions where romantic relationships between old men and young adolescent boys were culturally and historically prevalent, pederasty.

[Ploughendplonker]

Currently reading a book about how football changed in the 50s/60s, and there's a chapter that basically focuses on society immediately after the war. Such was rationing in the post-war period that, on the Ashes tour of 1946, two England fast bowlers actually put on two stone. 

[Bluewolf]

[Azeem]

Quite a few skyscrapers including the tallest Burj Khalifa are not connected to any central sewerage system. Trucks take out the poop from the building everyday.

[Tommy]

41 minutes ago, Khan of TF365 said:

Quite a few skyscrapers including the tallest Burj Khalifa are not connected to any central sewerage system. Trucks take out the poop from the building everyday.

"I work at the Burj Khalifa."

- "Wow, that's interesting. What do you do there?"

"I drive the poop truck." 

[Azeem]

Mongols tried to invade Java, Indonesia but failed. I didn't knew that

[Azeem]

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani whose government didn't lasted a day without US support is a professor originally, his book 'Fixing Failed States' is a standard book for doctoral studies in International Relations. 

[Azeem]

10 Things that could go wrong in the first 20 years of the 21st century - Wire Magazine 1997

[Azeem]

During the 1600s the King of France sent 800 women (most handicapped) to French parts of Canada to increase the population of French colonies, on government expenses including their dowry. Known as the King's daughters or wards their famous descendants include Madonna, Hillary Clinton and Angelina Joule 

[Tommy]

2 minutes ago, Khan of TF365 said:

 Angelina Joule 

Is that Angelina Jolie's energetic sister?

[Azeem]

15 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Is that Angelina Jolie's energetic sister?

That's what I typed after it suggested me my original spelling were... 

[Azeem]

Arabian peninsula was once totally lush green and filled with rivers. Some of those parts are well recorded by Greeks and Romans who called South Arabia or Yemen, Arabia Felix, for its fertile and fortunate land. 

[Azeem]

Lay lines are the concept that ancient societies recognised the presence of high energy field lines on earth and many world monuments are build on the intersection of these lines. 

People use pendulums to find these lines.

[MUFC]

 

[Tommy]

German architect Herman Sögel had a gigantic engineering and colonisation idea called "Atlantropa". For that he had plans to drain the meditteranean sea. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa

I never heard about this until this video popped up on my Youtube suggestions. 

 

[Honey Honey]

A damn good idea 

[Azeem]

Antarctic is also called the mysterious continent because different geographers of the past predicted the presence of some kind of landmass in South on reasoning despite no evidence.

The Antarctica treaty would be modifiable in 2048, countries will likely start mineral exploitation

[Guest]

When the pyramids were being built wooley mammoths were still alive 

Also Cleopatra was alive nearer to the time when the iPhone was invented than when the pyramids were built. They were buit thousands of years before she was born 

Edited December 10, 2021 by Guest

[Azeem]

Doctors used to blow smoke up the patients arse/ass in 18th century England to relieve constipation. Some used regular smoking pipe up close. 

[Tommy]

1 hour ago, Khan of TF365 said:

Doctors used to blow smoke up the patients arse/ass in 18th century England to relieve constipation. Some used regular smoking pipe up close. 

@MUFC don't even need to ask for pics. 

[Guest]

English is actually a west Germanic language that wasnt spoken in England until around the 5th century 

[Azeem]

Samir and Mohammed, two Christian and Muslim orphans from Damascus photographed in 1889. Samir couldn't walk bcz of dwarfism and Mohammed was blind, he carried Samir who guided him. Both lived together and died shortly after each other. 

[Dr. Gonzo]

I recently learned that feral children are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child

[Tommy]

7 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

I recently learned that feral children are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child

Just read the whole thing. The most amazing thing for me is, that so many species of animals are apparently ready to adopt a human child. That one kid was raised by Ostriches. Wtf.