Useless Facts

[Popo]

In WW2, Japan invaded the Aleutian Islands. They were repulsed by US Marines.
In WW2, a Japanese submarine, the I-17, shelled Santa Barbara, California. It damaged an oil field and triggered the Japanese American internment camps, which started approximately a week later. Japanese subs also did minimal damage up and down the west coast of the US, but were ultimately ignored.
In WW2, US Federal Agents sought and received assistance from Mafia mob bosses in tracking and finding Nazi U-boats operating off the coast of New York. Apparently, just because you're a criminal, doesn't mean you aren't American.

 

[MAI]

August 25th is the birthday of Sean Connery, Gene Simmons and Tim Burton.

 

[Soeht]

Useless for yall to know, but time dilation is a thing that satellites in orbit have to constantly compensate for

 

[MAI]

A king cobra's venom is capable of killing an elephant.

 

[Cyrus Tregessar]

When a Submarine of the Royal Navy successfully sinks a ship, they fly the Jolly Roger when they return to port. This is because when subs were first being introduced to the Royal Navy, the then First Sea Lord hated them, and compared their actions to those of pirates.

This was last done in 1982, with the flag flown by the HMS Conqueror, which had sunk the ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War.

 

[Alexis Braend]

Stomach acid is so strong that it can dissolve razor blades.

 

[Vulpesen]

Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 

[Popo]

During the Falklands War, the ground was too unstable for the British mortars to fire effectively. The rear echelon soldiers took turns standing on the mortar baseplates to keep the weapons steady. Most suffered broken ankles from the recoil when the 82mm+ mortars fired, but the lines never got shorter and many came back for a second or third go. Moral of this story is: Don't screw with the bloody Scots.

 

[Rekha Kaarde]

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.

 

[Vulpesen]

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

 

[Zrs'fes]

An insect's ''blood'' is called Hemolymph.

 

[Sairis Flair]

If you took all your veins arteries caplaries and such they would wrap around the world twice

 

[Alexis Braend]

A librocubicularist is a person who reads in bed.

 

[Karsh Lithern]

In accordance to is body size (think relativity), the barnacle has the longest donger in the animal kingdom, over 3x longer than average animals. (Of course this is all on a scale factor, but even then, it's really long).

 

[Rekha Kaarde]

The largest living species of kangaroo has a head the size of a sheep's and may stand 7 feet tall. An extinct species of kangaroo had a head the size of a Shetland pony's and reached a height of more than 10 feet. There are miniature kanagroos, such as the musk kangaroo, that are no bigger than a jackrabbit.

 

[Karsh Lithern]

I am a kangaroo.

 

[MAI]

Crustaceans have skeletons on the outside of their bodies.

 

[Ornko'mad]

If you took all your veins arteries caplaries and such they would wrap around the world twice

If you took all the blood vessels in your body and laid them end to end, you would die.

Giraffes can survive without water for longer than camels.

 

[Vulpesen]

• Romeo and Juliet was not meant to be a great Romance, but a great Tragedy.

 

[Jak Sandrow]

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