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

Didn't the waffle cone get invented at the 1904 World Fair as well? It must have been on a poppin at that fair

Yeah, that mustve been a good one to attend!

It was known (at the time) as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
It commemorated the 1803 purchase of land that more than doubled the size of the United States.

That seems like it'd be distracting as HELL.

The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel Prize — even though the invention was later deemed inhumane to the mental patients it was used on.

In the late 1950s lobotomy's popularity waned, and no one has done a true lobotomy in this country since Freeman performed his last transorbital operation in 1967.

The modern American flag was designed by a 17-year-old. In 1958, Robert G. Heft thought Hawaii and Alaska would soon become states, so he designed a 50-star flag for his high school history project. He got a B-. When President Eisenhower called to tell him his design had been officially selected by Congress out of 1,500 others, the teacher changed his grade to an A.

The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution saying: "Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."
The resolution did not define how the stars should be displayed or how many points each of the stars should have. This resulted in a variety of different designs depicting 5 or 6 pointed stars and with stars arranged in rows but some depicted stars in a circle.

About 1% of the static in between the channels of an FM radio or an old analog TV is leftover radiation from the Big Bang.

^^^damn

The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.

The year on a bottle of wine indicates when the grapes were picked, not when the wine itself was bottled

When drunk regularly it can actually help you boost your sex drive.
An Italian study showed that women who have 2 glasses of wine daily, enjoy physical pleasure much more intensely than women who don’t drink wine at all.

There is an upside down traffic signal in Syracuse, New York because the Local Irish kids didn’t want British red above Irish green

^^^thats hella cool!

Street lighting does not need to be adjusted to take account of the change between GMT & BST. Solar clocks and photocells self-adjust.

Adult pigs can run at speeds of up to 11mph, or in other words, they can run a seven-minute mile.

There are 1 billion cattle in the world — 200,000,000 of those cattle are in India, where the slaughter of cows is largely illegal.

^^^we'll get them. Eventually. 😈

Bananas are slightly radioactive because they contain potassium and potassium decays. Potassium is a necessary substance for healthy operation of your body.

Huh.
Bill Watterson drew 'Pearls before Swine' for a few days.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.dailydot.com/unclick/bill-watterson-pearls-before-swine/