Random factoids you can't help but remember

[The Blaatschapen]

90% of French High Schools have condom vending machines.

I know, it's messed up.

Indeed.

They should be provided for free.

Heh, back in the day I could fundraise them for free at the local health office (GGD) in Netherlands

[Ifreann]

The Belgian king is called 'king of the Belgians' rather than King of Belgium.

This is because Belgium isn't real, but Belgians are.

[The Fascist Waffle Empire]

90% of French High Schools have condom vending machines.

I know, it's messed up.

Indeed.

They should be provided for free.

Heh, back in the day I could fundraise them for free at the local health office (GGD) in Netherlands

The nurse at my school will give them away for free for people who ask

[Valrifell]

The Belgian king is called 'king of the Belgians' rather than King of Belgium.

This is because Belgium isn't real, but Belgians are.

Napoleon was Emperor of the French rather than Emperor of France, it became really popular to do that when liberal nationalism was on the rise.

[Shanhwa]

Roman emperor Caligula once waged a war on the sea god Neptune, led his fully-armed army up to the beaches, and ordered them to take their swords out and start stabbing the water.

True story lol

It is Caligula. Not that surprising tbh.

[Valcorium]

Psychologists suggest that the reason that people recall or remember random facts, even when it is inherently useless information, is because it is either recalled with a very specific trigger, or because you've unconsciously labeled it as a needed fact.

[Xmara]

Roman emperor Caligula once waged a war on the sea god Neptune, led his fully-armed army up to the beaches, and ordered them to take their swords out and start stabbing the water.

True story lol

I want to read a book or see a movie where Caligula announces his war on Neptune, and it just so happens that aliens from the planet Neptune are listening in and think that Earth wants to wage war with them. Imagine ancient warriors fighting off UFOs armed with lasers yet somehow defeating them.

I have an overactive imagination.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

Roman emperor Caligula once waged a war on the sea god Neptune, led his fully-armed army up to the beaches, and ordered them to take their swords out and start stabbing the water.

True story lol

I want to read a book or see a movie where Caligula announces his war on Neptune, and it just so happens that aliens from the planet Neptune are listening in and think that Earth wants to wage war with them. Imagine ancient warriors fighting off UFOs armed with lasers yet somehow defeating them.

I have an overactive imagination.

Hmmmm... Alien vs Caligula

I can see it now - Caligula hears of a crashed alien ship in a remote province, and wants a xenomorph for his gladiatorial games.

[Pax Nerdvana]

The M41A1 Pulse Rifles in Aliens were made from a Thompson, a Remington 870, and the slide from a SPAS-12, IIRC.

The Decepticon Seeker Acidstorm originated as a generic who later got a name.

George Lucas refused to let the National Film Preservation place preserve the original version of ANH.

[La Paz de Los Ricos]

The word "sinister" was the Latin word for "left", and apparently, it's usage today stems from the Romans believing left-handed people were corrupted by the Devil.

[West Leas Oros 2]

I'm sure we all remember this one, and uhh, trigger warning for middle school science but

The powerhouse of the cell?

[Fartsniffage]

The Belgian king is called 'king of the Belgians' rather than King of Belgium.

This is because Belgium isn't real, but Belgians are.

Belgium is a place made up for France, Germany and the UK to sort out their differences.

[Autonomous Cleaner Bot Cleaners]

The powerhouse of the cell?

The excitation of an electron to a higher energy state upon absorption of a photon.

[The Blaatschapen]

This is because Belgium isn't real, but Belgians are.

Belgium is a place made up for France, Germany and the UK to sort out their differences.

It's the Poland of Western Europe

[Ifreann]

This is because Belgium isn't real, but Belgians are.

Belgium is a place made up for France, Germany and the UK to sort out their differences.

Clearly hasn't worked.

[Xadufell]

D E S P I T E

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

In the XVI century, malaria was endemic to England.

[Ausinia]

Their is a 1 in 2 chance that Finland isn’t real

[Jack Thomas Lang]

Australia was ruled by a military junta between 1808 to 1810, which took over after overthrowing Governor Bligh.

So Australia has had a military coup in its history.

[Autonomous Cleaner Bot Cleaners]

Their is a 1 in 2 chance that Finland isn’t real

Or, if the entirety of Finland was put into a quantum superposition left unobserved, its state could be interpreted as being real and not-real simultaneously.

[Christo Pax]

In WW2, the British government considered making aircraft carriers out of prykrete, a substance stronger than concrete that is 14 percent sawdust and 86 percent ice.

[Icelandic Military Junta]

Roman emperor Caligula once waged a war on the sea god Neptune, led his fully-armed army up to the beaches, and ordered them to take their swords out and start stabbing the water.

True story lol

In Caligula's defense, it's because he was going to go to war with the Germans but decided that was a bad idea.

So he declared war on the sea to satisfy his large army instead

[Christo Pax]

The town of Winchester, Virginia changed hands 72 times during the American Civil War.

[Bombadil]

In WW2, the British government considered making aircraft carriers out of prykrete, a substance stronger than concrete that is 14 percent sawdust and 86 percent ice.

Instead they built one of wood, an awesome plane, of which Goering noted..

In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set – then at least I'll own something that has always worked

[Fartsniffage]

In WW2, the British government considered making aircraft carriers out of prykrete, a substance stronger than concrete that is 14 percent sawdust and 86 percent ice.

Instead they built one of wood, an awesome plane, of which Goering noted..

In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set – then at least I'll own something that has always worked

Aircraft carrier, not aircraft.