Useless Facts Thread

In the Undertale 10th anniversary stream, Toby Fox said that Nabstablook was based off of one of his college roommates who kept making CDs for some reason

Must’ve been a really chill guy

The country formerly known as Nauru has changed its name.

The country is now called Naoero.

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There are 317 white rocks, 54 black rocks, 81 grey rocks, and 98 brown rocks in WoM.

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I feel like I would’ve known about this… Interesting! When did it happen?

it happened the day i posted the fact

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Dogs curl their tongue backwards to help hold water when they drink.

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To add onto that, dogs literally cannot drink the way we can[1] because their lips cannot form a perfect seal. They have to lap the water up using their tongues.


  1. humans drink using suction ↩︎

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Terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on 11th of September, 2001., caused both the creation of the movie Oppenheimer in 2023. as well as Ellen DeGenere’s downfall in 2021.

The terrorist attack in 2001. was an immense tragedy witnessed in person by, among others, Gerard Way, the frontman of the band My Chemical Romance, which did not exist back then. The tragedy urged Way to form the band, doing it the very next day.
Stephenie Meyer, the author of the famous vampire romance book series Twilight, was listening to and heavily influenced by the music of the band My Chemical Romance.
And here, the cause diverges.

Ellen DeGeneres' downfall plot line

Erika Mitchell James, the author of the famous erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, part of the Fifty Shades series, originally started the series as a fanfiction of Twilight.
The book was adapted into a movie starring Dakota Johnson, who later invited the famous talk show host Ellen DeGeneres to her birthday, to which Ellen failed to turn up.
Dakota would go on to be a guest on Ellen’s show, on which Ellen would attack her for not inviting her, but Dakota pointed out she was invited but failed to turn up. This lead to a series of events exposing Ellen DeGeneres and ended up with her getting cancelled.

*Oppenheimer* plot line

Twilight saga would eventually be adapted into a movie series starring Robert Pattinson, marking the beginning of his acting career.
Pattinson would go on to act in several movies connected to Christopher Nolan, including Tenet. Towards the end of the filming, Pattinson would gift Nolan a book of Oppenheimer’s speeches, inspiring Nolan to make the movie Oppenheimer in 2023.

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Oh yeah, my older sister goes on about this a lot. Think she also says something about it being connected to the music in the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie too.

  • cuttlefish are colorblind despite being capable of changing their skin to a variety of color very quickly for camouflage and hypnosis both, it’s current theorized that they either see through their skin as light-sensitive parts have been found across it, or they use the chromatic aberration (i aint smart enough to explain this sorry but basically they dont actually see the colors but can calculate/know what it is based on the wavelengths and such) to know what color their surrounding is

  • smaller male cuttlefish often change their color to pretending to be female in order to fool larger males and get closer to female cuttlefish to mate, and researches show that these smaller male are actually more successful at passing down their genes compared to the larger males

  • different from most fishes who use their swim bladders, cuttlefish’s buoyancy comes from their cuttlebone, which has a unique structure that is both porous yet hard, allowing it to both withstand damage while still allowing the cuttlefish to adjust its buoyancy to float up and down, though they can’t go too deep because else their cuttlebone will still shatter and promptly send them to the big man above

  • some cuttlefish speciies are so small their cuttlebone barely works however and they instead crawl along the depths using their two large tentacles, acting like legs

  • ‘cuttle’ means bully, ruffian, or foul-mouthed fellow, this is a reference to the fact that despite being very cute in appearance, cuttlefishes are evil and fucked up and will not see heaven after death, their souls forever damned to wander the oceans’ abyss

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I’m investigating if 9/11 and the events caused by it could have also lead to Omegaverse taking form but so far, it just helped at best, with Twilight.
Unless I find connections between Supernatural and 9/11, Omegaverse might not be one of 9/11’s sins

For some reason, Dive Balls in Pokemon generations 3 (Ruby/Sapphire, FireRed/LeafGreen, and Emerald) and 4 (Diamond/Pearl, HeartGold/SoulSilver, and Platinum) are ludicrously rare. In Gen 3, they’re only infinitely available at the Mossdeep City PokeMart, with exactly one Dive Ball available as an item found in the Abandoned Ship (which was replaced by Sea Mauville in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire).

In Gen 4 though, they can’t even be bought. The only way to obtain infinite quantities of them in-game, or even obtain them at all outside of one item found in Platinum, is by showing a NPC in Solaceon Town a random Pokemon you’ve already seen, after which you’ll be given three of one of twelve types of Pokeballs. If you don’t get the Dive Balls, you have to wait for the next day to try again.

There is one other way to get them in Gen 4 games, and that’s by having a Pokemon from Gen 3 hold a Dive Ball, then transfer that Pokemon into Gen 4 by having both the Gen 3 game and Gen 4 game inserted into your DS; for some reason, Gen 4 is the only generation that lets Pokemon keep their held items when transferred up. What makes this more absurd is how this only works on the original DS and the DS Lite; the DSi, DSi XL, and all versions of the 3DS don’t have a slot for Game Boy Advance cartridges, so Gen 3-4 transfers aren’t possible on them.

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The Pokemon Company timing the announcement of Pokemon Bank’s shutdown (so transfers from Gen 5 to Gens 6, 7, and beyond) to be a day after I go on a neurodivergence-riddled tirade tied to transferring Pokemon to later games is fucking diabolical.

Anyway this means Ribbon Master Pokemon (Pokemon with every single ribbon they can obtain in each game they’re caught in/transferred to), as well as numerous Shiny Pokemon (like Type: Null and Virtual Console Celebi), will be completely unobtainable in the Switch era. Oh, and Gens 6 (X/Y and Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire) and 7 (Sun/Moon and Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon) will be completely solitary games. Matey, even Gens 1 and 2 can interact with each-other.

If you like Pokemon, this isn’t useless. If you don’t, I probably sound crazy.

well this sucks

i remember wonder trading for some gen 6 pokemon on ultra moon

in the game RECKLESS, a 4’0 voodoo doll runs decently faster than a 7’2 yeti

game logic w

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There is a water tower in Ypsilanti, Michigan, known colloquially as the Brick Dick. Ranked world’s most phallic[1] building by Cabinet Magazine in 2003. Legends say that the tower will collapse if a virgin graduates from Eastern Michigan University.

Domino’s Pizza was also founded in the same town.


  1. dick-shaped ↩︎