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

The first bird domesticated by humans was the goose.

Suck it, chickens!

If you ate at a different Michelin-starred restaurant in the U.S. each night, it would take you five months to try them all.

Nashtifan, a village in northern Iran, uses 1000-year-old windmills made of clay, straw, and wood as an energy source.

French designers have created a gelatinous, voice-activated, self-healing phone that projects messages and movies as 3D holograms.

44-year-old Canadian man Rob Spence replaced his prosthetic eyeball with a miniaturized digital camera that records everything he sees.

Newborns don’t produce tears. They make crying sounds, but the tears don’t start flowing until they are about 4-13 weeks old.

The bastards.

Regular coffee consumption has been proven to reduce the risk of mental diseases such as Dementia and Alzheimer's.

^^^thank GOD!

Boxing dates back to ancient Greeks who made it part of Olympic games as early as 688 BC.

The U.S. state of Arizona contains at least 170 miles of earth fissures, created by the voids left behind by used-up groundwater.

Arizona observes Mountain Standard Time on a year round basis. The one exception is the Navajo Nation, located in the northeast corner of the state, which observes the daylight savings time change.

In Romanian, "Îl scoți din pepeni"—literally, to pull someone out of their watermelons— means "to drive them crazy."

The Irish saying "Tá mé ar muin na muice"—which translates to "I'm on the pig's back"—means that you're feeling good or living large.

The Serbian phrase "Nosom para oblake"—or "He's ripping clouds with his nose"—means a person is conceited.

^^^those are neat!

Found ine from France: ‘To have teeth that scratch the floor’ = To be extremely ambitious.

The original Mr. Potato Head didn't include a plastic potato. It was a kit with plastic parts that were then stabbed into real potatoes.

Listerine was once pulled from Walmart in 1989 because a woman claimed it burned her mouth. They realized after that's just how it tastes.

A situation in which every choice you can make will be bad is called a "zugzwang."

Originally posted by Nuke Nixon
The original Mr. Potato Head didn't include a plastic potato. It was a kit with plastic parts that were then stabbed into real potatoes.

I knew it was the first toy advertised on television, though!

Before Valentine's Day existed, ancient Romans had "Lupercalia," a holiday where men whipped women with bloody thongs in the streets.

The world's first organ transplant was performed by Indian doctors, who used skin grafts to repair injuries as early as 800 BCE.