The "Random Information that only matters to a certain amount of people" thread

^^^thats nuts!

Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States.

Although six flags have flown over Texas, there have been eight changes of government: Spanish 1519-1685, French 1685-1690, Spanish 1690-1821, Mexican 1821-1836, Republic of Texas 1836-1845, United States 1845-1861, Confederate States 1861-1865, United States 1865-present.

There is a kind of mouse in Mexico who howls at the moon just like wolves.

World's largest single food item on any menu is whole camel stuffed with sheep stuffed with chicken stuffed with fish.

In 13th century, Khutulun, a warrior princess wanted to only marry the person who would defeat her in a wrestling match, 100 men failed.

Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell voiced the “Ambiguously Gay Duo” on SNL.

The six muscles in each of your eyes move faster than any other muscles in your body.

Originally posted by riv6672
While justifiably rated as one of the most destructive volcanic eruptions of modern times, Krakatoa was not the largest eruption in the recent history of Indonesia. That “honor” belongs to the eruption of Mount Tambora on April 10, 1815.

Tambora is the only eruption in modern history to rate a VEI of 7. Global temperatures were an average of five degrees cooler because of this eruption; even in the United States, 1816 was known as the “year without a summer.” Crops failed worldwide, and in Europe and the United States an unexpected outcome was the invention of the bicycle as horses became too expensive to feed.

^^^this event is responsible for the creation of Frankenstein (directly) and Dracula (indirectly).
This rich guy and his friends, a married couple, spent that cold summer at the guy's estate, drinking, eating, reading horror stories, then trying to write their own.
The woman's story wound up being 'Frankenstein'.
One of the rich guy's servants (i'm a little fuzzy on the how) who the rich guy dissed, used him as inspiration and wrote 'The Vampyre', which gave us the model for everything classically vampirish we've known the last 200 years.
Bram Stoker lifted liberally from the book when wroting his own book, 'Dracula'.

A 2011 census of England and Wales found that more people consider "Heavy Metal" to be their religion than "Scientology."

Coulda sworn i responded to this yesterday...😬

Speaking of deja vu, Sigmund Freud believed the feeling corresponded to the memory of an unconscious daydream.

If Captain America's MCU shield hit you, it would have the same kinetic energy of a professional boxer's punch, about 920.8 Joules.

A USPS report found that Houston, Texas is the worst city for dog attacks on postal workers.

The International Space Station has traveled the equivalent of 10 trips to Mars and back, or almost the distance from Earth to Neptune.

Originally posted by Nuke Nixon
If Captain America's MCU shield hit you, it would have the same kinetic energy of a professional boxer's punch, about 920.8 Joules.

Some comic blog that got that from some guys that overanalyzed every single superhero movie to an Nth degree... I forget the name.

Good deal.

I honestly woulda thought the shield could hit harder.
At least Drago level:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=940_EOYRyqU

Before "Clueless" became a movie, it was pitched as a TV show, but 20th Century Fox rejected it because it had "too many girls."

And then it vecame a short lived TV show!

The average woman will spend nearly one year of her life trying to decide what to wear.

They also talk too damn much.
20,000 words to 7,000 for men per day.

Pixar employees get free admission into Disney parks and they're allowed to bring 3 guests.