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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn
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100% interesting but 110% useless knowledge you're guaranteed never to use. Badly drawn by Marcus Santiago 😁

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #490: The Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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Fact check: Is it really illegal to talk to dolphins? The Marine Mammal Protection Act doesn't specify communication, but prohibits "interfering with marine mammals" in a way that alters their natural behavior. This includes attempting communication. So it's probably okay to talk to one; but if you're trying to get them to talk back, you may need a lawyer.
February 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #379: Flight 666 direct to HEL.
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Finnair Flight 666 flew to HEL on Friday the 13th, October 2017 (Copenhagen to Helsinki). It landed safely without incident.
February 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #489: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.
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"Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" is a 1980 documentary where the legendary filmmaker fulfills a bet to eat his own shoe if his friend ever completed their film. At its premiere, Herzog boiled his shoe in garlic and ate it on camera. It wasn't even Herzog's first strange bet. While filming "Even Dwarfs Started Small, " he bet his crew he'd dive into a cactus patch while they film it, if there were no more accidents on set. There weren't, and he made good on his promise.
February 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #8: Vulcan Point.
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February 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn: #488: The Breathalyzer.
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The Breathalyzer's co-designer, Dr. Richard Lacey, was caught drunk driving in the UK in 2024.
February 10, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #487: Torpedo.
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#torpedo #torpedofish #electricrays #nomenclature #whatsinaname #fish #submarines #missiles #explosives #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The Torpedo fish wasn't named after the torpedo, but the other way round. The underwater missile was named after the fish, which are now called electric rays (genus Torpedo, family Torpedinidae). The name, in turn, comes from the Latin torpēdo, meaning lethargy or sluggish-ness. The name was fitting because the original design was more like a sea mine than today's self-propelled device.
February 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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I sold two books yesterday! w00t!
February 4, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #486: The Matrix Defense.
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#matrixdefense #law #legal #matrix #movies #thematrix #solipsism #philosophy #delusion #delulu #bullshit #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The Matrix Defense is a legal defense based on the 1999 movie The Matrix (where the entire world is revealed to be a huge computer simulation) and argues that the defendant committed their crimes because "none of this is real."
February 3, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #485: .kkrieger.
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#kkrieger #computergames #gaming #worldrecords #germany #theprodukkt #strangebuttrue #wtf #3dgames #doom #quake #firstpersonshooter #geek #funfacts #facts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
•Kkrieger is the world's smallest-sized computer game at just 96 kilobytes, and this was in 2004. Despite its tiny filesize, it was a first-person shooter with 3D graphics, textures, original music, and detailed maps; and looked like Doom or Quake from the era. It was made by German demogroup theprodukkt for a game demo competition, which it won. For perspecțive on how small 96 KB is, this comic's image file is around 1 MB, or about ten times larger.
January 23, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #484: Ancient Egypt.
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Ancient Egypt covers such a vast expanse of time (3150 BC to 30 BC), that each era of ancient Egypt had their own ancient Egyptian anthropologists studying previous eras of even more ancient Egypt before them.
January 18, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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weatherprof.bsky.social Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · Jan 14
Falling Iguana 🦎 Watch for Friday! Folks are intrigued by this, so let’s dig in. They’re cold blooded, so when it gets cold their muscle function fades fast. Iguana’s are rare north of the Sunshine Skyway & the Treasure Coast (Vero Beach). They are very common around Ft Myers to Boca Raton south 1/
January 15, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #483: The World's Most Expensive Speeding Ticket.
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The most expensive speeding ticket was for €650,000 (or US $1 million). It was handed out in 2010 to a Swedish millionaire for doing 180 mph in his Mercedes AMG SLS in Switzerland (the speed limit was 72 mph). Some European countries base traffic fines on the offender's income and car's value as well as speed. In 2015, for example, a Finnish millionaire was slapped with a $58,000 fine for going just 15 mph over the speed limit.
January 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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kebrightbill.bsky.social Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · Dec 25
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The book Useless Facts, Badly Drawn, that has a picture of an alien on the cover and a speech bubble that reads: 100% interesting but 110% useless facts you're guaranteed never to use!
January 7, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #482: The One-Electron Universe.
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#onelectronuniverse #quantumphysics #quantummechanics #science #wtf #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The one-electron universe is a hypothesis that says the entire known universe consists of just one single electron, moving backwards and forwards through time.
January 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #78: Happy New Year! #Takanakuy
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Takanakuy is held in some parts of Peru where entire villages ring in the new year by getting drunk and beating the crap out of each other. The idea is to settle old scores and grudges, and start the new year with a clean slate. The results are legally binding. It's unclear how healthy this is, but it certainly can't make political debates any worse.
December 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #481: The Sator Square.
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The Sator Square is a word square or grid of five five-letter words (sator, arepo, tenet, opera, and rotas). It has existed since 62 AD and has been found all over Europe, the Middle East, Asia minor and North Africa. However, nobody knows its real meaning or origin. It could also be an early meme. It was also featured in the worst movie ever made by mankind, Christopher Nolan's Tenet.
December 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Two full pages of references Another page and a half of references
December 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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My copy of @ufbd.bsky.social, by my very talented friend Marcus Santiago, got delivered today 😁

You too can get it, at this link:
amzn.to/4pbNFaC
The book Useless Facts, Badly Drawn, that has a picture of an alien on the cover and a speech bubble that reads: 100% interesting but 110% useless facts you're guaranteed never to use!
December 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #480: Roland the Farter. Also, Happy Yule etc
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Roland the Farter was King Henry II's royal court jester who was famous for performing an act called the "saltum, siffletum, Pettum" (a jump, a whistle, and a tart, simultaneously) for the king's court every Christmas. He was apparently so good at it that the king gave him 110 acres of land in Suffolk.
December 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Bonus Yule edition! A lump of coal isn't much of a threat. Teach your ill-behaved crotchfruit vermin offspring all about the horrors of Krampus and scare them straight!
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#Krampus #santa #christmas #folklore #comic #comicstrip #comics #facts #trivia #funfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Krampus is the anti-Santa Claus. We all know about jolly St. Nick rewarding good kids with presents on Christmas. But in pre-Christian folklore, he was also accompanied by Krampus, a "half goat, half-demon" who would punish bad kids. He's depicted as dark and hairy, with goat horns, cloven hooves and a long, pointed tongue. Variations show him with birch branches for whipping naughty kids and a sack in which to carry them to hell. So, uh... Merry Christmas!
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #479: Lake Natron.
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Lake Natron is a blood red salt lake in Tanzania that is so salty, hot and alkaline (with a pH above 12), that any animal that dies in or near it is calcified, or turned into a salt statue.
December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM