Random useless knowledge database: What do you know?

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So, its apparently an AS trait to have vast knowledge on random, sometimes narrow, usually kind of useless, topics of interest i believe it. i have vast knowledge on topics that i wasnt even interested in when i was learning the knowledge in question XD nor am i really that interested in it at the moment either.

Wikipedia says :

" Individuals with AS may collect volumes of detailed information on a relatively narrow topic such as dinosaurs or deep fat fryers, without necessarily having genuine understanding of the broader topic."

deep fat fryers? really now?

not so bad as me knowing all the drugs and medications that have been made out of the poppy seed, the whole history on such matters, as well as the use and restriction on such drugs and medications ;;

and what about that history channel thing i could barely hear over my brothers constant chatter about that prehistoric fish that can open and close its jaws in .5 seconds? its teeth were merely protrusions of its jaw bones, but pointy. whenever it opened its mouth it made a vacuum effect and sucked the fishies right in for dinner! how does something like that go extinct? idk... i couldnt hear the tv cause my brother was yelling at the computer and stealing my fries...

i know more than needs to be known about Dir en Grey. Toshiyas real name is Hara Toshimasa. Shinyas mom did his makeup. Shinya used to play trumpet, which is why his lips look funny without photoshopping, the rest of the band makes fun of him for it. the rest of the band pick on Shinya, as hes the youngest of them all. last i checked he was 30 years old, and i believe Kaoru is 34. Die was drunk during a tour in america (not during a concert) and tried to say "im a f*****g rockstar, b***h" and it came out as "im a flappin lobstah, beetch" "or can be interpreted as "ima fawk yo lobstah, beetch" whiehver floats your boat. theres much more about this band locked away in my brain that i just absorbed without check.

i know most of Mana's personal life, or at least what all has been released over the internet. no one knows whats true and whats not...

as my sig says, i know more about the lolita street fashion from japan, its origins, as well as what all its associated with, than youll never need to know (obsessed with lolita-styled things, including music and food)

those are just the things that are pouring out of my brain at the moment. feel free to share all the random knowledge youve absorbed without knowing youve absorbed it :O

Green glass costs more to manufacture than any other color of glass.
Is that random enough?

thats awfully random

and frankly i didnt know that o_O i wonder why its more expensive

Another fact I just remembered: the original coca cola contained cocaine.

The game company Nintendo started out selling cards.
I did a achool report on Nintendo.
We are currently in the 7th generation of game consoels.

All of the following is recited off the top of my head:

The life cycle of a star is as follows:

First a swirling nebula of gasses forms a disk and collapses inward until it has sufficient mass for fusion. The star begins to shine. It is now a yellow or blue or brown star depending on it's size and composition (the largest stars are blue-white.) The remains of the gas disk may form planets. The star burns for a long time. Eventually it burns through it's entire supply of hydrogen (the easiest burning fusion fuel) and has to switch to burning helium. When this happens the star expands to many times its former size and becomes much cooler than it was before. It is now a red giant or super-giant. The star burns until it has no more helium. Then it switches to the next element. It continues this until it is left with iron. Iron cannot sustain a nuclear furnace, it's reaction isn't strong enough. When small stars hit this stage, they cease to burn. The gas that expanded outward when they became red giants dissipates, leaving only the superheated, superdense core. Larger stars that hit the point where they cannot sustain themselves go out with bang, flinging light and energy and gas out light years into space in all directions, creating nebulae. Then they collapse in on their cores. If the collapse passes an event horizon they shrink into a single point and become and almost infinitely dense black hole from which not even light can escape. If it doesn't they become a superdense white dwarf star or a spinning, flashing pulsar.

A prominence is a solar flare. Solar flares can travel further than the actual radius of the star that produces them.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm about 3 times the size of earth.

Neptune spins sideways.

The planets of the solar system are (with no mnemonics or other memory trickery):
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, [Jupiter, Saturn,] Uranus, Neptune, and that one that isn't a planet any more.

All the gas giants have rings. Saturn's are just most noticeable.

Venus is very similar to Earth in all respects except that it is somewhat closer to the sun. Therefore the oceans boiled away, creating a lethal greenhouse effect and causing hellish conditions which even unmanned probes can barely tolerate.

The Martian day is very similar to the Earth's day.

The tallest mountain in the solar system is Olympus Mons, which is on Mars. The slope of it is so slight you probably wouldn't notice you were going uphill if you climbed it.

Earth is the only planet with a decent moon, although Charon (Pluto's moon) is almost as big as it's master, though that's not saying much. Our moon is probably a chunk of our planet that was blown off during the Earth's formation.


Quasar means quasi-stellar, star-like. Quasars are some of the most distant detectable objects in space. When you look at a quasar you are looking back in time at a young, active galaxy, violently aflame and so distant it seems to be a single star.

Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

'Effect' and 'affect' affect the brains of many writers, effecting confusion and effectively affecting the clarity and affect of their written effects.

Ok, that last one wasn't so much a fact as showing off. Anyway, notice anything focused or narrow about that? I don't even care about spaceships much, just space itself.

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...I totally dropped Jupiter and Saturn from that list of planets. Ah well. I was bound to make an error in such a long recitation.

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto.

Oh yeah, this isn't AFF; I can fix it.

i know a decent amount about the history of Kyan Point in Okinawa Japan. its nicknamed the Suicide Cliffs, because families in Okinawa were told that the americans were coming toe burn their houses, kill people, enslave their children and rape their women. so everyone took their families to Kyan Point and they all jumped off o_o i know alot more on this subject, all of it is related to the various methods of suicide the people of Okinawa and the soldiers of Japan resorted to during this time, but alot of it is scewed right now cause its 3am

i also know that Okinawa used to be its own country before Japan took over, so it has its own history apart from Japan's history, and its rather apparent in one of the early scenes in the classic 60s version of Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, which starts with some opening credits that has pictures of various landmarks in Okinawa that ive been to, such as Shuri Temple and Nakaguzuku and other places. the opening scene in question is where a girl at Shuri temple is putting on a performance for tourists. nothing is explained really, but she was performing a traditional dance in traditional Okinawan clothing, which drasticaly differs from traditional Japanese clothing.

if you intend to look that scene up, you might wanna turn down the volume, her singing sounds a little wonky, its probably just the recording quality.

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The planets were named after the Roman gods, mars is god of war, Jupiter was the king of the gods, neptune was the god of naturel disasters and the ocean, and pluto was the god of the underworld. I think I know what the others are but I might get it wrong, I am much more interested in knowing the Roman names. Heres one the the disney movie Hercules uses mostly the Greek names except for the name of the hero, Hercules was the Roman version, the greek was Heracles, as in Hera Zeuses wife. In the actual story Hera was actualy the one trying to kill Heracles, who was jealous as he was the son of Zeus and a mortal. Zeus and Hera were also brother and sister, one of thre other brothers Hades maried his nease, there was a lot of inbreeding. Hades was a bit dark and a loner but was not evil, though he did rape Persephone, but he was supposidly promissed her but was angry at the fact he was then refused.

Venus was the god of love or beauty or something, Mercury was the god's wing-footed messenger, since it's the fasted moving planet. I dunno about Uranus.

I have a great deal of European History info too, but that doesn't count. I have a good understanding of the general concept in that case. With the space stuff, if you asked me about the space program I'd be like 'um, would you like to hear how comets work? The length of a comets tail depends on how close it is to the sun, and the tail always points away from the sun regardless of the comet's actual direction. Comets are mostly ice.'

Sea Squirts collect vanadium in their blood cells.
Amphibians like newts have such large and nucleated red blood cells that those with fine vision can see them. During WWII, the Japanese military was frustrated because the American pilots in their pressurized cabins could fly much higher than the Japanese pilots in their unpressurized cabins. The Americans were shooting down lots of Japanese because of this. The military wanted a solution, so they hired a doctor who specialized in amphibian research. Now here is where I thought the doctor would have used a vacuum jar on the newts to study what high altitude does to the red blood cells. But no. The doctor rode with his newts in the planes. Twice the pilots passed out and he survived two crashes.
I just read about a frog that has pointy places on its jawbones. If they are attacked, they bite harder than they do when they eat, and the points break through the skin to become tiny fangs. Instant teething!

I guess philosophy's pretty useless then (though interesting).

Coca-Cola came about in 1915 as a medicinal tonic, but was first expanded by Pemberton.

a competition was set for the major bottle manufacturers later on when the drink was bought by a bigger company. the winner was the Root Glass Company (i think), who created the "hoop skirt" design. it was supposed to be based on the shape of the coca nut and cola leaf, the main engredients of the drink, but the designers couldnt find a image of them in Encylopedia Britainia, so settled for the coco pod instead. the first product had a larger middle diameter than the base but had to be reduced in size becasue it toppled on the converyer belt.

the manufacture of a standard 500ml Coca-Cola bottle takes approximately 10 seconds to create through the process of stretch blow moulding. PET (polytearefthelate) replaced glass in the 1970s (possibly '75) because of it's high strength to weight ratio and shatter resistance.

an interesting thing about plastic bottles is that a 1litre PET bottle will allow 1% of its contents to evaporate through its walls in a month - it is not completely impermiable. because of this licenced Coca-Cola manufacturers add 1% extra liquid to allow this to happen

they are made as follows:
a plastic parison is injection moulded, which looks like a test tube with the bottle neck and thread formed at the opening. it is then clamped into a blow mould by the neck with a mandrel thread through it.
the mould is heated to make the PET maleable, and hot pressurised air is blown through the mandrel into the parison. the parison stretched under the pressure biaxily, into the inner surface of the mould. it is then cooled rapidly with either liquid carbon dioxide or cold water through pipes around the mould the mould is released to let a new parison in. they come out in a chain like sausages and get seperated later.

but in the end i still think that the drink itself is horrible

I've always liked world geography. It's a bit like history without all the confusing people and dates. Here are some useless geography facts ... from memory ... so they might be wrong ... but why should I let that stop me?

Largest landlocked country: Kazakhstan
Country with the highest lowpoint: Lesotho
Country with the lowest highpoint: Maldives
World capital that is an anagram of the river it lies on: Bangui (on the Ubangi)
Landlocked countries in South America: Paraguay and Bolivia
Other interesting Paraguay fact: its flag has a different pattern on each of its two sides
World capital designed in the shape of a Union Jack: Khartoum
Punjab means: five rivers
Kuala Lumpur means: muddy estuary
Copenhagen means: sunken harbour
Barcelona is named after: Hamilcar Barca (father of Hannibal)

at the time of his death.... napoleon had been depicted in more artwork than jesus. napoleon died a year before the first camera was invented too.

largest piece of land OWNED by a single person was the congo by king leopold