Random factoids you can't help but remember

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

Before he was murdered, John Lennon's favourite band was the B52s.

[The Blaatschapen]

I learned that some people will commit animal abuse just to prove me wrong

You wish sheep.

I wish other things than sheep.

[Yansu]

I'm sure most of us know Dunkirk, right? The fleet of small boats saving English troops during WWII? Well, a tugboat that assisted in the operation had a tea boy. When he got back to England, his socks were so full of dirt and salt from not being washed they stood up like boots. The boy's mother kept the socks as ornaments and boasted to her friends and neighbors about the socks that went to the front.

[The New California Republic]

You wish sheep.

I wish other things than sheep.

Cheek.

[Alvecia]

Before he was murdered, John Lennon's favourite band was the B52s.

Afterwards he was more into the Dead Kennedys

[Danneskjoldstan]

Humans have, on average, fewer than two arms.

[Dazchan]

Humans have, on average, fewer than two arms.

I’ve never thought of it before, but that would be correct.

[Hansdeltania]

Humans have, on average, fewer than two arms.

Can you explain? Is it because some people don't have two arms?

Also, the -oid suffix means "similar, but not same as", so "factoid" means "not exactly a fact."

[Ifreann]

Humans have, on average, fewer than two arms.

Can you explain? Is it because some people don't have two arms?

Exactly. The people with fewer than two arms brings down the average number of arms per person to slightly less than two.

[Risottia]

Humans have, on average, fewer than two arms.

Fewer than ten fingers, too, even after accounting for polydactyly.

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

Humans have, on average, fewer than two arms.

And because pregnant women exist, the average number of skeletons per human body is greater than one.

[Chan Island]

US president Calvin Coolidge used to play pranks on his bodyguards.

[Chan Island]

Humans have, on average, fewer than two arms.

Can you explain? Is it because some people don't have two arms?

Also, the -oid suffix means "similar, but not same as", so "factoid" means "not exactly a fact."

Never heard of that. A factoid is just a small tidbit fact.

[Yansu]

Uno: The Movie(An unplanned two hour long video by Achievement Hunter) was rated higher than Lazer Team(A planned movie which one of the players in UNO: the Movie as a member of the main cast).

[Caleonia]

Mike Skinner holds the record for most races won by a NASCAR driver in Japan, with two out of the three exhibition races run in Japan being won by him (1997 in Suzuka, 1998 in Twin Ring Motegi). Despite this, he has never got a points paying win in his career.

[Shanhwa]

When D-Day was being planned, the British came up with a monstrosity called the Panjandrum to break through the Atlantic Wall.

It was a giant, explosive cart that was rocket-propelled and was supposed to explode on contact.

It also wasn’t guided. Because you know, that’s safe n stuff.

[Pax Nerdvana]

US president Calvin Coolidge used to play pranks on his bodyguards.

Such as?

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

US president Calvin Coolidge used to play pranks on his bodyguards.

Such as?

Pressing the panic button and then hiding under his desk so they couldn't find him.

[Valrifell]

Such as?

Pressing the panic button and then hiding under his desk so they couldn't find him.

The President we deserved.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Such as?

Pressing the panic button and then hiding under his desk so they couldn't find him.

That is genius.

[Petrolheadia]

When AC/DC guitarist Angus Young was asked about alleged backmasking in one of their songs, Night Prowler, he said that they didn't hide anything, they simply called the entire album Highway to Hell.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Lobsters molt.

[Kowani]

Habsburg inbreeding was so extensive that Carlos II of Spain was simultaneously the son, great-nephew and first-cousin of his parents - who were uncle and niece; all eight of his great-grandparents were descendants of Joanna and Philip I of Castile. Carlos II was famously described as 'short, lame, epileptic, senile and completely bald before 35, always on the verge of death but repeatedly baffling Christendom by continuing to live'.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Habsburg inbreeding was so extensive that Carlos II of Spain was simultaneously the son, great-nephew and first-cousin of his parents - who were uncle and niece; all eight of his great-grandparents were descendants of Joanna and Philip I of Castile. Carlos II was famously described as 'short, lame, epileptic, senile and completely bald before 35, always on the verge of death but repeatedly baffling Christendom by continuing to live'.

You know what they say: the Habsburgs didn’t war, they screwed their way into other European royal houses. Isabella of Portugal was Charles V’s first cousin after all.

[Kowani]

Habsburg inbreeding was so extensive that Carlos II of Spain was simultaneously the son, great-nephew and first-cousin of his parents - who were uncle and niece; all eight of his great-grandparents were descendants of Joanna and Philip I of Castile. Carlos II was famously described as 'short, lame, epileptic, senile and completely bald before 35, always on the verge of death but repeatedly baffling Christendom by continuing to live'.

You know what they say: the Habsburgs didn’t war, they screwed their way into other European royal houses. Isabella of Portugal was Charles V’s first cousin after all.

The Hapsburgs were the first EU.