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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #477: Overtoun Bridge.
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#overtounbridge #scotland #mysteries #animals #dogs #bridges #unsolvedmysteries #dogsuicidebridge #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Overtoun Bridge causes dogs to jump off it for no apparent reason. Built in 1859 in Dumbarton, Scotland, it spans a ditch 50 feet below. But since the 1950s, there have been hundreds of incidents of dogs suddenly leaping off it, as though compelled by an unseen force, ending up injured or worse. Some blame the supernatural, but many scientific investigations have failed to find an explanation.
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #476: The Mojave Phone Booth.
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The Mojave Phone Booth was a public telephone booth located in the Mojave desert, dozens of miles trom any paved roads. Its unusual, remote location fascinated netizens and led to early internet notoriety and conspiracy theories. It was in service from 1948 till 2000.
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #115: It rains iguanas in Florida sometimes.
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#iguanas #reptiles #florida #weather #strangeweather #bizarre #wtf #butwhytho #strangebuttrue #webtoons #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
It rains frozen iguanas in Florida. They're an invasive species and are not used to winter weather, so they just freeze and fall out of trees - sometimes onto people, causing injuries. So local weather reports will issue warnings to the public to watch out for falling iguanas. The iguanas aren't harmed, they thaw out as the weather warms and everything goes back to normal- or whatever "normal" is in Florida.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #475: The Flying Doctor.
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#drjohnhinds #johnhinds #irishroadracing #motorcycles #motosport #worldsfastestambulance #ambulances #emt #doctors #bikers #isleofmantt #speed #heroes #facts #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Dr. John Hinds, aka "The Flying Doctor," rode one of the world's fastest ambulances. Irish Road Racing has some of the fastest, longest and most dangerous motorcycle races in the world. Dr. Hinds followed racers on his superbike loaded with medical equipment, hitting 340 kmph (210 mph) to get to injured riders in time, and saved countless lives. In 2015, he was killed while responding to a crash. He was 37. Thousands of bikers joined his funeral motorcade. A year later, an air ambulance was launched, the helicopter named after his callsign, Delta 7.
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #474: The World's Oldest 'Walked into a Bar' Joke.
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The oldest “walked into a bar” joke in recorded history originates from 1983 BC in Sumeria. It goes: “A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I cannot see a thing. I’ll open this one.’” Nobody knows what it means.
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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473: The World's Worst Traffic Jam (so far).
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The world's worst traffic jam lasted 12 days. In August 2010, China's National Highway 110 became heavily gridlocked, trapping thousands of vehicles over a 100 km stretch. A miniature economy of sorts was created around the jam, as local villagers began selling water and food at steep prices to the stranded motorists, who could only move about 1 km per day and slept in their cars at night.
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #472: Coral Castle.
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#coralcastle #florida #floridaman #castles #strangebuttrue #menwouldratherxthangototherapy #buildings #wtf #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Coral Castle in Florida is arguably the world's heaviest love letter built by Edward Leedskalnin (1887-1951) after his fiancée left him a day before their wedding. He spent 30 years bullding it all by himself, using 1,000 tons of oolitic limestone blocks cut to unusually high accuracy, using homemade tools and no mortar or formal training. When asked why he built it, he would only reply "Sweet Sixteen, " referring to his fiancée.
October 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #471: The Pepsi 349 Incident.
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#prnightmare #corporatefail #prdisaster #badpublicity #philippines #strangebuttrue #pepsi #history #pepsinumberfever #wtf #fail #bruh #bruhmoment #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The Pepsi 349 Incident was probably the worst PR disaster in corporate history. In the Philippines in 1992, Pepsi printed numbers in bottlecaps that won prizes, including a top prize of a million pesos if you got the number 349. Unfortunately, 800,000 extra "349" bottlecaps were mistakenly put into circulation, and Pepsi couldn't pay up (the prize value totalled $32 billion). This led to lawsuits, public outrage, protests, riots, and even bomb and arson attacks that lett live dead.
October 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #470: Mad Hatter Disease.
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Mad Hatter Disease or Erethism affected hatmakers in the 19th century. They handled mercury to treat felt while making hats, which led to mercury poisoning and brain damage. As a result, hatmakers were known for having eccentric personalities and jittery behavior; hence the phrase, "mad as a hatter," and the Lewis Carroll character.
October 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #469: The Neon Tetra Heist.
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#aquariumfish #fishkeeping #fish #neontetra #crimesbyanimals #crime #heist #fraud #animalswithjobs #youtube #pokemon #japan #strangebuttrue #wtf #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
A school of black neon tetra fish committed credit card fraud in 2023. YouTuber Mutekimaru has a motion tracking camera that inputs his pet fish's movements into a Nintendo switch, letting them "play" video games while the internet watched. I'ne fish even beat Pokemon Sapphire in 2020. However in 20R3, while Mutekimaru was away, the game crashed and loaded the main menu. The fish's inputs then opened the Nintendo eshop, added 500 yen to his account, exposed nis credit cara to the livestream, downloaded an N64 emulator, set up a payra, made purchases, and even changed his username to "ROWAWAWA·."
September 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #468: True Believer Syndrome.
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#truebelieversyndrome #rapture #paranormal #supernatural #bullshit #scams #frauds #cognitivedissonance #cognitivedisorder #psychology #cults #belief #delusion #skeptic #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
True Believer Syndrome occurs when people continue to believe in a paranormal phenomenon, even aiter it has been clearly debunked and proven to be fake.
September 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #467: Cho Chabudai Gaeshi (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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#ChoChabudaiGaeshi #arcadegames #japan #tableflipping #(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ #memes #strangebuttrue #rage #didyouknow #facts #funfacts #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Cho Chabudai Gaeshi (translated "Super Dinner Table Flipping") was a popular Japanese arcade game by Taito in 2009, where you flip a physical table in a social setting to score points. Scenarios include: A father arguing with his family; an angry bride at her wedding; and a frustrated office worker. Flipping the table hard enough results in various objects (like the wedding cake) being hurled into the air and crashing to the floor or through a window, scoring more points.
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #466: Alaska Airlines vs Fish.
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An Alaska Airlines plane collided with a fish on March 30, 1987. An eagle, carrying a large fish in its talons, flew into the path of the 737. When it saw the plane coming, it dropped its meal to get out of the way. The falling fish struck the plane just above the windshield, causing minor damage. Newspapers mentioned it the next day, April 1st, leading people to believe it was an April Fools joke. But it did happen, and remains the only recorded incident of an aircraft striking a fish while in flight... so far, anyway.
September 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #465: Friendly Fire.
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#friendlyfire #battleofkaransebes #history #oopsie #goofs #fail #lostintranslation #drunk #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
In 1788, the Austro-Hungarian army lost a battle to itself at the Battle of Karansebes, in the worst friendly fire incident in history. The army consisted of many ethnic groups who spoke different languages. One night, soldiers got drunk, thought they were under attack by the Turks, and began firing at each other. Attempts to stop the chaos were hindered by language barriers. While some records cite 10,000 casualties, the figure was probably closer to a few hundred.
September 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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We had a total lunar eclipse tonight so I tried to do a time lapse of it with my phone :D #eclipse #eclipse2025 #lunareclipse #totallunareclipse
September 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #30: Solar Eclipses should attract alien tourists, so why don't they?
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Solar eclipses occur due to astronomically unlikely coincidences with how the Harth, Sun and Moon align, and their sizes as seen from Earth. This combination is so rare, some scientists argue Earth should be a tourist spot visited by aliens eager to experience an Earth eclipse. The fact that wedo not, they also say, may be proof that we are alone in the universe.
September 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #464: Idiocracy.
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#idiocracy #prophecy #predictingthefuture #fashion #crocs #movies #satire #funfacts #moviefacts #movietrivia #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Idiocracy (2006) was a movie about a future where the entire human race becomes very stupid, and "predicted" a lot of things decades in advance- including Crocs. The filmmakers wanted clothing that looked futuristic but stupid-looking; and discovered Crocs when they were still a new unknown company. So the movie features the ridiculous plastic footwear years before they actually became popular.
September 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #463: Catatumbo Lightning.
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#catatumbolightning #lakemaracaibo #venezuela #lightning #storms #nature #weather #freaky #strangebuttrue #ozone #wtf #houseofthunder #webcomics #comics #funfacts #facts #naturefacts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Catatumbo lightning is a phenomenon at Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, where lightning has been flashing 28 times an hour, 160 to 300 nights a year, for at least the last 200 years. It's the highest density of lightning anywhere on the planet, and a major producer of ozone.
September 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #462: Corpsegrinder.
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#corpsegrinder #cannibalcorpse #deathmetal #musicians #metal #strangebuttrue #strangebuttrue #wholesome #aww #funfacts #didyouknow #fyp #deathmetalmusicians #music #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher is the lead singer of death metal band Cannibal Corpse. In his free time, he enjoys playing claw machines at arcades, and has an uncanny talent at it, winning every time. He regularly donates the toys he wins to children's cancer hospitals by the sackfull.
August 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #461: The Association of Dead People.
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#scams #fraud #crime #corruption #associationofdeadpeople #ignobelprize #strangebuttrue #india #law #legal #wtf #webcomics #comics #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People was founded by Lal Bihari, an Indian farmer whose family bribed the police and government officials to declare him legally dead, so that they could take his land and property. To prove he was still alive, he had his wife apply for a widow's pension (which was denied); repeatedly tried to get arrested (so police would have to admit he's alive), and held his own "funeral." However, it still took 18 years for the government to finally correct his legal status. He was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for his struggles in 2003.
August 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #460: The Inventor of the Saxophone.
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The inventor of the Saxophone, Adolphe Sax, was unusually accident-prone. He fell from great heights many times; suffered severe burns; ate a pin; accidentally drank acid; took a nap in a room full of varnished furniture and inhaled toxic fumes; was in a gunpowder explosion; and nearly drowned several times. His neighbors nicknamed him "little Sax the ghost," and his mother worried that he would not survive into adulthood.
August 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #459: Alexander the Great vs Tyre.
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#alexanderthegreat #tyre #phoenicia #history #geography #funfacts #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #tyres #tires #stupid #mediterranean #war #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
When Alexander the Great wanted to invade Tyre, he built a land bridge to cross the sea and reach it, turning the island into a peninsula, which stands to this day. So it's accurate to say that Alexander the Great didn't just make history, he made geography, too.
August 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #458: Golden Blood.
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#goldenblood #blood #rarebloodtypes #rhnull #science #medicalscience #blooddonation #donateblood #webcomic #comics #facts #funfacts #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Golden Blood or Rh null is the rarest human blood type in the world. Only 43 people worldwide have it, and can only accept their own blood type. They must keep their identities secret, avoid all dangerous activities, and regularly store up their own blood in case of a future medical emergency- for the rest of their lives. If someone with Golden Blood type needs blood, other type holders will have to travel great distances at their own expense to donate theirs.
August 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #457: The Coastline Paradox.
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#math #mathematics #coastlineparadox #thecoastlineparadox #fractals #strangebuttrue #wtf #funfacts #facts #strangebuttrue #webcomics #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The Coastline Paradox says the length of a coastline changes with how closely you measure it. If you use a big ruler and draw long, straight lines, you skip over all the craggy bits. But as you use a smaller and smaller ruler, you catch more detail, and end up measuring around individual rocks and boulders, until the measured coastline approaches infinity itself-- while the surface area remains broadly the same.
August 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Can confirm. I've been locked out of my account for months now (even thru VPNs). Support finally replied with this:
August 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM