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Useless Knowledge!

The real name of Blackbeard, the legendary pirate, is Edward Teach.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words (my apologies to anybody with the aforementioned phobia).

There's my contribution for the day.
 
The range of a medieval long bow is 220 yards.
Coca-Cola is the #1 selling soft drink everywhere in the world, except for Scotland and the Middle East.
 
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Many different animals, actually. Why do you think they scatter/bark/make noise when a natural disaster is about to occur?
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It's the faintest vibrations they sense in there limbs that makes them freak.

-There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
-The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
-The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand (WOW!)
 
The camera used in the particle accelerator at CERN (ie the large hadron collider) takes 40 MILLION 60-megapixel photographs per second. Not bad.
Ice does not conduct electricity.
0.9999... = 1
It takes ~350 days for an aluminium ore to be processed, shipped, turned into a Coke can, filled, transported and put on a shop shelf.
The Hubble Deep Space Field famously shows many thousands of entire galaxies in the night sky. Each galaxy contains many billions of stars as you would know, and of course some of those stars would be solar systems not unlike ours. What many people do not appreciate is that this photograph was taken by focusing the Hubble Space Telescope on a seemingly blank piece of sky that was no bigger than a grain of sand held at arm's length. Damn.
 
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You know Final Fantasy? Well, it was called "Final Fantasy" because it would be the creator's "Final" game before he retired. Now, there are, what, 14 of them?
 
Daramukka was based off of daruma dolls in japan, they usually don't have pupils unless you make a goal and acheive it, (zen mode doesn't have pupils) it's luck only lasts one year
 
The official name of Bangkok is Krung Thep.

This is an abbreviation of the full name, which is pronounced as so:

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
 
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