#useless knowledge

[dumbwaves]

is it embarrassing that I recognised the song from the video of the naked man twerking on the ceiling immediately? another win for Brasil I guess

[sleep-gummies]

anyone else know way too many random facts? I’ll never find a use for these so here we go:

-Canada became an independent nation in 1982

-Anne Frank called her diary Kitty (which felt nice when i read it there are people who call me Kitty irl)

-Claudette Colvin had two sons, Raymond and Randy

-Mickey Mouse’s original name idea was Mortimer Mouse

-Pirates never really made people walk the plank, they almost always let prisoners go

-In the first Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford was supposed to have a huge sword fight with this one guy, but he was sick and tired on film day, so he took out his gun and fake shot the guy. That was the scene they kept for comedic purposes.

-The line “I didn’t know you could read.” from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was completely improvised

-Playing the violin without tapes for finger spacing is not fun. I’ve tried.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only president to be elected to more than 2 terms

-Human meat tastes like butter pork

-Anne Frank, in her diary, talks about how she wishes she had a girlfriend for a paragraph or two. Anne Frank was bisexual. 🏳️‍🌈

That’s all for now, @notthesodaa (once again sorry for stalking you) and @pandagirl314159 do yall have any?

[jsab-hell-in-paradise]

Random fact about my jsab au #1

Tira’s name comes from the word Tiramisu which is a dessert that’s flavored like coffee. Don’t ask why I chose to name a character after Tiramisu because I really don’t have an answer.

[writing-for-life]

Dream—Frank Quitely

[ltwilliammowett]

what i learned today - another word for Selkie, a Wereseal

[love-liberty21]

Fun Fact:

"Hildesheim" is actually the name of one of the oldest cities in Lower Saxony, Germany. Legend has it that in 815, Emperor Louis the Pious took up quarters in a royal court nearby during a journey.

From there he set off with a small retinue to hunt. Suddenly a white stag appeared. Louis pursued it. But the horse collapsed and the stag escaped.

Exhausted, Louis sounded his hunting horn to inform his fellow hunters of his location, but received no reply. Finally, he took his pectoral cross with the shrine of Mother Mary, which he carried with him at all times, hung it on the branches of a shrub and knelt before it to pray. He then fell asleep.

When he woke up hours later, he saw the place covered with snow, while everything else was green. His cross was hanging in the branches of a blossoming rose bush. When he tried to take it, it was held with all his strength. The emperor vowed to build a chapel on this spot. Then he heard hunting horns. His entourage eventually found him and the emperor reported the rose miracle. Louis eventually had a small church built on that spot. This gave rise to the Hildesheim Cathedral of Our Lady, on whose walls the rose bush still grows.

It's indeed still here, btw. It's called "Tausendjähriger Rosenstock" (thousand years old rose bush) and is the landmark of the city.

It doesn't have anything to do with Dracula, but as Hildesheim is my birth place I always feel a little happy seeing the word in one of my all time favorite books.

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

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[chocolatebunnyrevenge]

maturing is realizing that since you can't get a cold from being out in the rain Jane Bennet didn't catch a cold and have to stay with Mr bingley because her mother sent her on horseback to their estate in the rain but most likely caught it from someone at the dance they went to before