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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn
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100% interesting but 110% useless knowledge you're guaranteed never to use. Badly drawn by Marcus Santiago 😁

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #485: .kkrieger.
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#kkrieger #computergames #gaming #worldrecords #germany #theprodukkt #strangebuttrue #wtf #3dgames #doom #quake #firstpersonshooter #geek #funfacts #facts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
•Kkrieger is the world's smallest-sized computer game at just 96 kilobytes, and this was in 2004. Despite its tiny filesize, it was a first-person shooter with 3D graphics, textures, original music, and detailed maps; and looked like Doom or Quake from the era. It was made by German demogroup theprodukkt for a game demo competition, which it won. For perspecțive on how small 96 KB is, this comic's image file is around 1 MB, or about ten times larger.
January 23, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #484: Ancient Egypt.
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Ancient Egypt covers such a vast expanse of time (3150 BC to 30 BC), that each era of ancient Egypt had their own ancient Egyptian anthropologists studying previous eras of even more ancient Egypt before them.
January 18, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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weatherprof.bsky.social Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 16d
Falling Iguana 🦎 Watch for Friday! Folks are intrigued by this, so let’s dig in. They’re cold blooded, so when it gets cold their muscle function fades fast. Iguana’s are rare north of the Sunshine Skyway & the Treasure Coast (Vero Beach). They are very common around Ft Myers to Boca Raton south 1/
January 15, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #483: The World's Most Expensive Speeding Ticket.
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#baddriving #speedingticket #speeding #switzerland #finland #scandinavia #supercars #webcomic #comics #facts #funfacts #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The most expensive speeding ticket was for €650,000 (or US $1 million). It was handed out in 2010 to a Swedish millionaire for doing 180 mph in his Mercedes AMG SLS in Switzerland (the speed limit was 72 mph). Some European countries base traffic fines on the offender's income and car's value as well as speed. In 2015, for example, a Finnish millionaire was slapped with a $58,000 fine for going just 15 mph over the speed limit.
January 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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kebrightbill.bsky.social Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · Dec 25
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January 7, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #482: The One-Electron Universe.
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#onelectronuniverse #quantumphysics #quantummechanics #science #wtf #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
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 #78: Happy New Year! #Takanakuy
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Takanakuy is held in some parts of Peru where entire villages ring in the new year by getting drunk and beating the crap out of each other. The idea is to settle old scores and grudges, and start the new year with a clean slate. The results are legally binding. It's unclear how healthy this is, but it certainly can't make political debates any worse.
December 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #481: The Sator Square.
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The Sator Square is a word square or grid of five five-letter words (sator, arepo, tenet, opera, and rotas). It has existed since 62 AD and has been found all over Europe, the Middle East, Asia minor and North Africa. However, nobody knows its real meaning or origin. It could also be an early meme. It was also featured in the worst movie ever made by mankind, Christopher Nolan's Tenet.
December 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Two full pages of references Another page and a half of references
December 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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My copy of @ufbd.bsky.social, by my very talented friend Marcus Santiago, got delivered today 😁

You too can get it, at this link:
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The book Useless Facts, Badly Drawn, that has a picture of an alien on the cover and a speech bubble that reads: 100% interesting but 110% useless facts you're guaranteed never to use!
December 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #480: Roland the Farter. Also, Happy Yule etc
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Roland the Farter was King Henry II's royal court jester who was famous for performing an act called the "saltum, siffletum, Pettum" (a jump, a whistle, and a tart, simultaneously) for the king's court every Christmas. He was apparently so good at it that the king gave him 110 acres of land in Suffolk.
December 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Bonus Yule edition! A lump of coal isn't much of a threat. Teach your ill-behaved crotchfruit vermin offspring all about the horrors of Krampus and scare them straight!
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#Krampus #santa #christmas #folklore #comic #comicstrip #comics #facts #trivia #funfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Krampus is the anti-Santa Claus. We all know about jolly St. Nick rewarding good kids with presents on Christmas. But in pre-Christian folklore, he was also accompanied by Krampus, a "half goat, half-demon" who would punish bad kids. He's depicted as dark and hairy, with goat horns, cloven hooves and a long, pointed tongue. Variations show him with birch branches for whipping naughty kids and a sack in which to carry them to hell. So, uh... Merry Christmas!
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #479: Lake Natron.
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Lake Natron is a blood red salt lake in Tanzania that is so salty, hot and alkaline (with a pH above 12), that any animal that dies in or near it is calcified, or turned into a salt statue.
December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #478: The Dodo.
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The dodo was actually intelligent and inedible, contrary to popular belief. They went extinct mainly due to habitat loss and the introduction of invasive species by explorers, rather than being hunted. It didn't help that they had no fear of humans, like penguins today. They were initially named "Walghvoghel" meaning "tasteless bird" by early Dutch explorers. And as members of the family Columbidae, which includes pigeons, they were probably of above-average avian intelligence.
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #144: The Falkland Islands Penguin Reserve.
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#falklandislands #islands #landmines #naturereserves #penguins #southamerica #patagonia #falklands #war #strangebuttrue #facts #funfacts #weirdfacts #comics #webcomic #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
The world's largest nature reserve for penguins was created unintentionally. The Falkland Islands were heavily land-mined in the Falklands War, making the beaches off-limits to humans and large predators. But penguins are not heavy enough to trigger the land mines, so the beaches became a safe haven for thousands of them.
December 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #246: Nigel Richards.
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#scrabble #nigelrichards #frenchscrabble #boardgames #wordgames #trivia #french #didyouknow #butwhytho #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Nigel Richards memorized the French dictionary in 9 weeks and won The World French Scrabble Tournament in 2015-all without ever learning how to speak the language at all.
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #477: Overtoun Bridge.
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Overtoun Bridge causes dogs to jump off it for no apparent reason. Built in 1859 in Dumbarton, Scotland, it spans a ditch 50 feet below. But since the 1950s, there have been hundreds of incidents of dogs suddenly leaping off it, as though compelled by an unseen force, ending up injured or worse. Some blame the supernatural, but many scientific investigations have failed to find an explanation.
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #476: The Mojave Phone Booth.
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The Mojave Phone Booth was a public telephone booth located in the Mojave desert, dozens of miles trom any paved roads. Its unusual, remote location fascinated netizens and led to early internet notoriety and conspiracy theories. It was in service from 1948 till 2000.
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #115: It rains iguanas in Florida sometimes.
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It rains frozen iguanas in Florida. They're an invasive species and are not used to winter weather, so they just freeze and fall out of trees - sometimes onto people, causing injuries. So local weather reports will issue warnings to the public to watch out for falling iguanas. The iguanas aren't harmed, they thaw out as the weather warms and everything goes back to normal- or whatever "normal" is in Florida.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Meanwhile, in New Delhi #delhi #newdelhi #bikerlife #indianbikers #motorcycles #aqi #airpollution #kawasaki #kawasakivulcan
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #475: The Flying Doctor.
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Dr. John Hinds, aka "The Flying Doctor," rode one of the world's fastest ambulances. Irish Road Racing has some of the fastest, longest and most dangerous motorcycle races in the world. Dr. Hinds followed racers on his superbike loaded with medical equipment, hitting 340 kmph (210 mph) to get to injured riders in time, and saved countless lives. In 2015, he was killed while responding to a crash. He was 37. Thousands of bikers joined his funeral motorcade. A year later, an air ambulance was launched, the helicopter named after his callsign, Delta 7.
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #474: The World's Oldest 'Walked into a Bar' Joke.
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The oldest “walked into a bar” joke in recorded history originates from 1983 BC in Sumeria. It goes: “A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I cannot see a thing. I’ll open this one.’” Nobody knows what it means.
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM