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

Paul Dini basically married his favorite super hero. Stage magician Misty Lee was informed by a friend that there was a superhero named Zatanna who looked exactly like her. After getting a few Dini written issues she went to a signing at a con to get them autographed by him. They hit it off and he got to marry the closest equivalent to his favorite hero.

Berlin is building 13 bike superhighways that will allow cyclists to get in and out of the city center without ever having to mix with cars.

Jamaica has a dog sled team that was inspired by the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team.

The earliest evidence of man using dogs to pull sleighs exists in the Thule people of Canada – the precursors of the Inuits – and dates back to around A.D. 1000. However, it is believed that domesticated working dogs existed in North America as far back as 15,000 years ago.

Once it's built, Star Wars Land will supposedly resemble a planet on the Outer Rim of the galaxy where ne'er-do-wells hangout.

An Italian firm is building a "Vertical Forest" in Nanjing, China—two skyscrapers sporting 1,000 trees and 2,500 other plants.

The jaguar is the only North American feline that can roar.

^^^thats cool!

Alligators and caimans (the family Alligatoridae) are found almost exclusively in North, Central and South America. The sole exception is the Chinese alligator which is found in eastern China.

Xianfeng village in China was overrun by 600 disruptive apes after a nearby monkey park was closed due to lack of funding.

Groups of monkeys are known as a ‘tribe’, ‘troop’ or ‘mission’.

Originally posted by Nuke Nixon
Xianfeng village in China was overrun by 600 disruptive apes after a nearby monkey park was closed due to lack of funding.

Ichiro Suzuki, baseball's all-time hits leader, learned Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents.

The average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man.

Oddly enough in this genderbending era the average man now looks like a 1960s woman.

Seventy percent of coffee beans are Arabica. Although less popular, Robusta is slightly more bitter and has twice as much caffeine.

Research shows that when runners wear shoes, their arches don’t bend as much and the feet have to work harder than when running barefoot.

Your foot contains 26 bones, 33 joints, more than 100 tendons, muscles, and ligaments, and 250,000 sweat glands.

The shortest route to visit all 49,603 sites on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places covers 217,605 miles.

^^^i'd like to do that. ✅

The circumference of Earth at the equator is about 24,874 miles, but from pole-to-pole — the meridional circumference — Earth is only 24,860 miles around. This shape, caused by the flattening at the poles, is called an oblate spheroid.

James Edgar, the very first department store Santa, almost never sat. He roamed the store to find kids that wanted to talk to him.

Almost all the cars in the film DEMOLITION MAN (with the notable exception of the red oldsmobile) were self-driving.
With Google leading the charge on self-driving cars the technology is now here. Google’s latest cars have driven over 300,000 miles without an incident. It won’t be long until they are a common sight on our roads and you saw it In that movie first.

According to researchers, there may be twice as many bird species as we thought—roughly 18,000.