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Daily Fact (2025-12-12):
Peter Falk, who played "Columbo," has a glass eye.

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December 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Daily Fact (2026-09-27):
Einstein couldn`t speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.

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September 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #410: Al-Namrood.
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Al-Namrood is a Saudi Arabian death metal band operating in total secrecy and anonymity since 2008, because if they are ever identified, they would get the death penalty for blasphemy.
February 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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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.
May 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #303: Eschew Obfuscation!
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August 23, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn: Krampus!
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December 25, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #422: Bamboo.
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Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on earth, so fast that you can actually hear it growing-- which it does at a rate of 4cm or 1.5 inches per hour, or 35 cm or 2 ft per day.
April 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #462: Corpsegrinder.
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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 #396: Mosquitoes.
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December 13, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #157: Music Piracy.
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The "You Wouldn't Download a Car" anti-music-piracy adverts from the early 2000s was set to music that was stolen and used without permission.
April 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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32 km/h for the European. #UselessFacts
March 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #395: Teddy Bears.
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December 2, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #106: Komodo dragons.
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December 28, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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MONA LISA! #CsideFunny #WorldwideRobinson #RoadLife #CUFOTD #UselessFacts #trivia #Art #MonaLisa #TheRock #ifyasmellwhattherockiscookin
March 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Daily Fact (2026-09-25):
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

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September 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #514: Manatee and Herring farts.
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Manatees control buoyancy by farting. Also, herrings use farting to communicate. The scientists who figured this out (about the fish) won an Ig Nobel Prize for their valiant efforts.
July 6, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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In Japan, the Clio sold as the Renault Lutecia as Honda retains the rights to the name Clio after establishing the Honda Clio sales channel in 1984. Lutecia is derived from Lutetia, an ancient Roman city that was the predecessor of Paris.
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April 29, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #482: The One-Electron Universe.
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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 #303: Eschew Obfuscation!
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December 9, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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I'm listening to Sharon Stones' autobiography, and I discovered that we attended the same university. :) #uselessfacts
March 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Daily Fact (2026-09-21):
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

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September 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Daily Fact (2026-09-26):
To Ensure Promptness, one is expected to pay beyond the value of service – hence the later abbreviation: T.I.P.

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September 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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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.
May 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #398: Heli-copter or helico-pter?
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December 30, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #425: Mudita.
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Mudita is the opposite of Schadenfreude (the pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune). So it means when it makes you happy to see someone else happy.
April 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM