May 2025

May 2025

Useless Information April 2025 The term aurora borealis has been attributed to two sources: Galileo Galilei in 1619, and Pierre Gassendi in 1621. The term entered the English language in 1828. The word aurora is derived from the name of the Roman goddess of the dawn,...
Useless Information April 2025

Useless Information April 2025

Useless Information April 2025 “Avatar” is Sanskrit for incarnation” Hindu scriptures use the word to describe human incarnations of God. Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks’ younger brother, was his body double in many of the run scenes of Forrest Gump. Brad Pitt and John Travolta...
Useless Information March 2025

Useless Information March 2025

Useless Information March 2025 With faces standing 60 feet tall and 500 feet up, The Mount Rushmore National Monument is the largest art object in the world. Hong Kong has the world’s largest double-decker bus fleet in the world. The world’s largest coffeepot is...
Useless Information January 2025

Useless Information January 2025

Useless Information January 2025 There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible starting positions on a Rubik’s Cube. Originally, Saran Wrap had a greenish tint and an unpleasant odor. The chemical it was made from was also sprayed on fighter planes and car upholstery...
Useless Information December 2024

Useless Information December 2024

Useless Information December 2024 A humpback whale calf will drink up to 130 gallons of milk a day. The world’s largest ant colony stretches from Italy to Portugal, some 3,700 miles. Locust swarms can be up to ten miles wide. Under favorable conditions, sixty-thousand...