150 Weird, Maybe Useless, But Definitely Fun Facts To Know, As Shared In This Online Thread

Roald Dahl's last words were "Ow. F**k."

Edit: spelling, changed Ronald to Roald.

All froot loops are the same flavor just different colors.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson -- the second and third presidents of the United States -- both died *on the same day*.

Not only that, the day they both died happened to be July 4th, 1826 -- ***exactly fifty years to the day from the signing of the Declaration Of Independence***.

That the Moops conquered Spain in the 7th century.

Despite being in several pieces at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean the swimming pool of the Titanic still remains full.

Martin Van Buren was the first President born an American citizen (1782), and the only president who spoke English as a second language. His first language was Dutch.

For good measure, although 3 presidents died on July 4 (Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1826; James Monroe in 1831), only 1 was born on July 4 (Calvin Coolidge in 1872).

First Lady Abigail Adams had an uncle named Cotton Tufts, who helped the Adams family with their finances and investments. Dr. Cotton Tufts also had a son, Cotton Tufts Jr.

The phrase "damn the torpedos" was coined by US admiral David Farragut in the Civil War, as his squadron was attacking Mobile Bay. The torpedos referenced were not the underwater missiles that we know today, but were more similar to underwater mines. The safe channel was obstructed by a slowed vessel, so he ordered some of his ships to veer into the waters that were feared to be mined. His ships escaped mostly intact and captured the bay.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Context: Once the War expanded the Allies (primarily the UK in this case weren’t heavily involved as Hitler/Germany stuck to targeting military bases and locations. This changed after the bombing of London. The Allied (UK) forces retaliated and did a bombing run over Berlin. The first if these bombs that landed ended up killing the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Grenadine is pomegranate flavored and not cherry.

The area code of Kennedy Space Center & Cape Canaveral is 3…2…1…

The languages of California Indians were as diverse from each other as English was to Cantonese.

Frank Sinatra died while the final episode of Seinfeld was airing.

You can't drown in lava. 

The average adult spends more time of their life on the toilet than exercising

Earth is rotating counterclockwhise (That one kinda unnerves me ngl)

If you type "fact" into the search bar for this subreddit, you will find about a dozen posts from the last 24 hours asking basically the same question. It's a useless fact since no one ever uses the search feature or cares that they're posting the same question that's been posted a dozen times today.

The gene editing technique CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

Baby mice are called pinkies

Swearing in newspaper comic strips and comic books where they use symbols instead of words is called grawlix.

Jaws is rated PG. A man gets bitten in half. A 12 year old boy gets chewed up. PG.