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Things you know that aren't important.

A typical semi trailer holds 42,500 pounds at capacity.

There's no useless knowledge, just knowledge you don't need to use at the moment.

Given since game, comic and or animation we're all nerds.

But yeah before Marvel and DC would have crossovers with their character stable, they first collaborated on an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz instead of doing their own separate versions of it.

Dracula is most portrayed literary character in film with over 500 appearances. The count, by Guinness in 2015 was 538.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/97587-most-portrayed-literary-character-in-film

In Waynesboro, Virginia, it is illegal for a woman to drive her car down Main Street unless her husband is walking in front of it waving a red flag.

A displacement ton is 2240 pounds.

"Did you know that people who write with their left hands write faster than people with no hands?" ~ Medieval Cop Episode 6

TV channels used to play the national anthem before signing off for the night.

Pythagorean theorem

The Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in ummm...umpteen parsecs or something.

Antiyonder posted...

Given since game, comic and or animation we're all nerds.

But yeah before Marvel and DC would have crossovers with their character stable, they first collaborated on an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz instead of doing their own separate versions of it.

And from the Marvel/DC Crossover Classics Volume 1 trade:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/19514bd9.jpg

Hans Christian Andersen was so afraid of being buried alive that he openly requested that should he ever be pronounced dead that the doctors should slit his throat.

Kabuki theater was traditionally performed entirely by women. It became performed by men after women were banned from performing it shortly after the death or retirement of it's founder.

The assassination attempt on the first emperor of China could pass for a Loony Toons sketch that ended in Jing Ke laying on the ground, spread eagle, and shouting obscenities at the emperor.

Tesla married a pigeon and retired when said pigeon died.

Astolfo of the 12 Paladins of Charlemagne once got into a wager over whether or not women were capable of committing adultery. The wager was called off when both Astolfo and his competitor wound up sleeping with the other man's current girlfriend.

The dot found on some characters, like a lowercase "j" and "i," is called a tittle.