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

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Skittles are a brand noted as being one of the earliest to recognize the marketing potential of social media, and have been consistently praised for their genuine understanding of the platform strengths and limitations and humor while interacting with fans. In particular, the Skittles Facebook page has often been singled out as one of the best corporate fan pages out there because it’s actually kind of entertaining.

One of the last things Mars does before they send off Skittles to be bought and consumed by the public is add the little S you can find on every candy. This little S is written using a non-water soluble ink that is attached using an apparently delicious kind of edible glue we’re annoyed you can’t buy in stores.

When you submerge Skittles inside any kind of liquid, this S will magically float off and rise to the surface and sit there, waiting for you to either drink it or try to pull it out using your fingers, only to watch it do that annoying thing where it moves just out of the way every single time you pinch your digits together.

Sex change surgeries have been free under Brazil's public health system since 2008.

Teenagers are hardwired to fall asleep later at night and wake up later in the morning.

Stephen Hawking was the first and only guest in any Star Trek series to play himself.

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The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China.

Psychologists and Urologists who study the urinary tract claim that hearing the noise of running water really does make you feel like you need to pee, because the power of suggestion is present.
Running water sounds a lot like urinating, and due to the fact that we literally spend a lifetime performing the same bathroom routine —
using the toilet and hearing it flush, washing our hands under the faucet, taking showers and baths —
we have come to associate many of those bathroom sounds with the act of peeing.
In short, its a Pavlovian reaction.

Most of the voice actors for the 'Peanuts' gang in Charlie Brown were random kids from the director's neighborhood.

A live reindeer was brought to the studio so that "Frozen" animators could be inspired.

The piece, called Miserere Mei Deus by Gregorio Allegri, was probably written sometime during the 1630s, and was only played at the Wednesday and Friday Tenebrae services during Holy Week at the Vatican. When he was 14, Mozart heard the piece once, transcribed it from memory, then returned to the following service to make minor corrections. He presented it to the Pope a year later, who awarded him with the Order of the Golden Spur.

Wolfgang Mozart’s second name, Theophilus, means “loved by God” in Greek.
He liked to use the Latin translation, “Amadeus.”

Pope Francis is a big J.R.R. Tolkien fan and once used Bilbo and Frodo's journey in his sermon.

The Tolkien name was derived from German. Tolkien (who was fascinated with languages said the surname came from the German word tollkühn, meaning "foolhardy".

Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon, claims that "aliens have contacted humans several times."

If you have the right kind of yeast in your stomach, you can become drunk just from eating carbohydrates.

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As any undergraduate philosophy student will know, Hobbes is named for Thomas Hobbes, who’s best known for his weighty 1651 treatise Leviathan. Calvin, meanwhile, takes his name from John Calvin, the cheerless Protestant theologian responsible for founding the strand of Christianity that now bears his name. Neither were particularly big on people in general; Leviathan argued for government as necessary to prevent humanity from descending into endless anarchy, while Calvinism is based around the idea of humanity’s base state being “total depravity.”

Trimethylaminuria is a metabolic disorder that makes you smell like day old fish. It has no known cure or treatment.

Exploding head syndrome is a sleep disorder in which subjects experience loud bangs in their head similar to bombs exploding.

Despite being the biggest toe on the foot, the big toe only consists of two phalanges (or toe bones), the distal and proximal. Your other toes have three bones, but most of your big toe is made up of flesh and muscle.

To enlist in the army, you have to have all ten of your toes intact- their rules state that they will reject anyone for "current absence of a foot or any portion thereof." But as it turns out, it shouldn't be an issue, since a missing toe doesn't cause much damage. In fact, doctors have been able to design special shoes for toe amputees that will correct minor step problems.

The Guinness World Book of Records currently lists a tie for the most number of fingers and toes at 25. Two Indian boys, Pranamya Menaria and Devendra Harne, each have 12 fingers and 13 toes thanks to polydactilism, a congenital condition that results in extra digits. Polydactilism occurs in about one in every 500 births and can be treated. Marilyn Monroe is rumored to have been born with an extra toe on her left foot, but the proof is iffy.

Cockroaches raised in space become quicker, stronger, faster, and tougher than cockroaches on Earth.

This is how we die.