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

11,417 sharks are killed every hour by humans so they can harvest their fins.

Guy Buys Old Iraqi Tank For $37,000 And Finds $2.4 Million In Gold Bars Inside

Tanks were called tanks to trick the Germans into thinking they were water carriers for areas where water was hard to move or find in large amounts in WW I.

Filmmaker Derek Westerman has set an official Guinness World Record for the most time spent in VR while playing a game—25 hours.

Some U.K. companies are now giving their employees "paw-ternity" leave, or time off to take care of their pets.

Chinese tea Da Hong Pao costs more than $10,000 a pot because the leaves come from a single group of nearly extinct wild “mother trees.”

Moon trees are trees grown from 500 seeds taken into orbit around the Moon by Stuart Roosa during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

Blue whales are so big, that a human can swim through their largest veins and arteries.

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The old 80's show Night Court had (and might still have) the Guinness World Record for the tallest sitcom cast. All the men were over six feet tall, then there was Richard Moll who was like 6'8. Most of the female cast were tall for women (the lady who played Roz was 5'11).

There is a soccer ball floating in Earth's orbit. The ball was originally on The Challenger. When it exploded, it was one of the few things that were intact. An astronaut took it up into space not too long ago as an homage and let it float into orbit.

When Dr. Seuss was stuck writing his books, he would go to a secret closet filled with hundreds of hats and wear them till the words came.

For two years starting in 1941, Dr. Seuss worked as a political cartoonist for the liberal New York newspaper PM, crafting more than 400 cartoons on the subject of World War Two.
One of these in particular, a drawing lampooning the non-Interventionist America First movement, has been reemerging recently amid protests against President Trump’s executive order barring immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries:

According to the United Nations' World Happiness Report, Norway is now the happiest country in the world for 2017.

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama; Presidents who never served in the Military.

Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers red-green color blindness.

A very early iteration of Facebook displayed a header image featuring a man’s face obscured behind binary code.
The identity of the man could not be seen clearly, but it later came to light that the face was that of acclaimed actor Al Pacino.

Research shows that the white part of a panda helps it hide in snowy habitats. A panda's black arms and legs help it to hide in the shade.

Newborn pandas are about 1/900th of the size of their mothers-about the size of a stick of butter!

A 19th-century graveyard in Key West features funny headstones that say things like "I told you I was sick" and "I'm just resting my eyes."

^^^i'm doing one of those.

Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid—formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol—into the soil each year. Cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.