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UselessFactsBadlyDrawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social
2025-05-16
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #434: Alan Smithee.
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#movies #film #alansmithee #filmdirectors #hollywood #moviedirectors #pseudonym #whatsinaname #boxoffice #webcomic #comics #funfacts #facts #moviefacts #trivia #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Alan Smithee is an award-winning Hollywood film director of over 150 films since 1969. He also doesn't exist. "Alan Smithee" is a pseudonym used by Hollywood directors and producers who disown their own films and do not want their name in the credits. This even includes famous award-winning blockbusters like Dune, Scent of a Woman, Heat, Meet Joe Black, and Hellraiser: Bloodlines, to name a few.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn
2025-05-16

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #434: Alan Smithee.
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Alan Smithee is an award-winning Hollywood film director of over 150 films since 1969. He also doesn't exist. "Alan Smithee" is a pseudonym used by Hollywood directors and producers who disown their own films and do not want their name in the credits. This even includes famous award-winning blockbusters like Dune, Scent of a Woman, Heat, Meet Joe Black, and Hellraiser: Bloodlines, to name a few.
UselessFactsBadlyDrawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social
2025-05-14
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #233: Rabies.
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#rabies #dieseases #australia #didyouknow #funfacts #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Rabies- arguably one of the most dangerous, incurable diseases on the planet- isn't found in Australia, of all places.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn
2025-05-14

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #233: Rabies.
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Rabies- arguably one of the most dangerous, incurable diseases on the planet- isn't found in Australia, of all places.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn
2025-05-13

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #432: Hippocampus.
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The hippocampus is named after the seahorse, because the guy who named the (vaguely) S-shaped region of the brain thought it looked like a seahorse (genus: hippocampus). The fish is itself named after a Greek mythical creature that is half horse and half fish, called Hippocampus.
UselessFactsBadlyDrawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social
2025-05-13
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #432: Hippocampus.
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#nomenclature #whatsinaname #hippocampus #brain #anatomy #taxonomy #seahorse #names #greekmythology #webcomic #comics #didyouknow #funfact #strangebuttrue #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The hippocampus is named after the seahorse, because the guy who named the (vaguely) S-shaped region of the brain thought it looked like a seahorse (genus: hippocampus). The fish is itself named after a Greek mythical creature that is half horse and half fish, called Hippocampus.
UselessFactsBadlyDrawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social
2025-05-09
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #431: Fart. Tee hee.
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#fartkontrol #language #swedish #sweden #words #fart #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
"Fart" is the Swedish word for speed. Fortunately this has not resulted in any strange or amusing road signs for English speakers at all.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn
2025-05-09

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #431: Fart. Tee hee.
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"Fart" is the Swedish word for speed. Fortunately this has not resulted in any strange or amusing road signs for English speakers at all.
UselessFactsBadlyDrawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social
2025-05-07
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #113: Trap Streets and Paper Streets.
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#trapstreet #paperstreet #maps #cartography #copyright #copyrightviolation #theft #intellectualproperty #intellectualpropertytheft #fightclub #didyouknow #trivia #facts #funfacts #bizarrefacts #wtf #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Trap streets are places drawn on maps, that do not exist in real life. They're put there on purpose by cartographers to trap copyright violators copying their work. These are not to be confused with paper streets, which similarly also exist only on maps but not in real life-- except they're put there for urban planning and for legal reasons. Paper Street was also the address of the house in the movie Fight Club, foreshadowing the big plot twist in the end.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn
2025-05-07

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #113: Trap Streets and Paper Streets.
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Trap streets are places drawn on maps, that do not exist in real life. They're put there on purpose by cartographers to trap copyright violators copying their work. These are not to be confused with paper streets, which similarly also exist only on maps but not in real life-- except they're put there for urban planning and for legal reasons. Paper Street was also the address of the house in the movie Fight Club, foreshadowing the big plot twist in the end.
UselessFactsBadlyDrawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social
2025-05-05
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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#navalhistory #ww2 #worldwartwo #commandos #warstories #normandy #operationchariot #thegreatestraidofalltime #militaryhistory #history #navy #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #historyfacts #warfacts #military #army #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The HMS Cambeltown was a floating bomb disguised as a ship. Operation Chariot in WWII was a plan to attack the Normandie drydock by first ramming it with the Cambeltown. Commandos then leapt out and engaged in battle. However, what nobody noticed was that the ship was hiding 4 tons of explosives inside her hull, timed to go off many hours later. The explosion killed 360 Nazis and destroyed the dry dock, leaving it unusable for the next six years.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn
2025-05-05

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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The HMS Cambeltown was a floating bomb disguised as a ship. Operation Chariot in WWII was a plan to attack the Normandie drydock by first ramming it with the Cambeltown. Commandos then leapt out and engaged in battle. However, what nobody noticed was that the ship was hiding 4 tons of explosives inside her hull, timed to go off many hours later. The explosion killed 360 Nazis and destroyed the dry dock, leaving it unusable for the next six years.
UselessFactsBadlyDrawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social
2025-04-30
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn 429: The Dead Internet Theory.
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#deadinternettheory #conspiracytheories #internet #bots #spam #ai #algorithms #internetofshit #enshittification #socialmedia #privacy #fake #socialengineering #propaganda #fakenews #webcomic #comics #aboringdystopia #cyberpunk #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The Dead Internet Theory says that the internet is now so overrun with bots, algorithms and computer-generated content posing as human, that it is now essentially devoid of almost any real human activity in comparison. And this was argued before the rise of Al.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn
2025-04-30

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn 429: The Dead Internet Theory.
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The Dead Internet Theory says that the internet is now so overrun with bots, algorithms and computer-generated content posing as human, that it is now essentially devoid of almost any real human activity in comparison. And this was argued before the rise of Al.
UselessFactsBadlyDrawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social
2025-04-29
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #153: 88888.
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#eight #numerology #china #culture #superstition #luck #goodluck #badluck #numbers #8 #88888 #offbeatnews #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #wtf #strange #bizarre #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The number 48" is considered lucky in Chinese culture. Which is why a driver named Liu paid $145,705 to get a license plate on his $4,370 car that read"88888" for good luck... only to be pulled over by police exactly 8 times on his first day on the road, because cops thought it must be fake.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn
2025-04-29

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #153: 88888.
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The number 48" is considered lucky in Chinese culture. Which is why a driver named Liu paid $145,705 to get a license plate on his $4,370 car that read"88888" for good luck... only to be pulled over by police exactly 8 times on his first day on the road, because cops thought it must be fake.
UselessFactsBadlyDrawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social
2025-04-28
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #428: Porphyrios.
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#porphyrios #porphyriosthewhale #whales #whalesvsyachts #animalswithgrudges #history #byzantine #ships #funfacts #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Porphyrios was a whale who regularly attacked and sank Byzantine ships for fifty years during the sixth century CE. Sailors were terrified of him and changed their routes just to avoid him, and Emperor Justinian I declared him an enemy of the Roman empire.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn
2025-04-28

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #428: Porphyrios.
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Porphyrios was a whale who regularly attacked and sank Byzantine ships for fifty years during the sixth century CE. Sailors were terrified of him and changed their routes just to avoid him, and Emperor Justinian I declared him an enemy of the Roman empire.
UselessFactsBadlyDrawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn@pixelfed.social
2025-04-25
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #427: Money for Nothing.
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#moneyfornothing #direstraits #music #rock #rockmusic #markknopfler #music #musichistory #artimitateslife #strangebuttrue #lyrics #webcomic #comic #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits was written by frontman Mark Knopfler when he was in an appliance store in New York City and overheard the delivery crew watching MTV and mocking the rock stars. He quickly wrote down what they were saying and turned it into the song, which remains one of their biggest hits.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawnuselessfactsbadlydrawn
2025-04-25

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #427: Money for Nothing.
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"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits was written by frontman Mark Knopfler when he was in an appliance store in New York City and overheard the delivery crew watching MTV and mocking the rock stars. He quickly wrote down what they were saying and turned it into the song, which remains one of their biggest hits.

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