Useless Facts, Badly Drawn: just drew my 69th strip!

Nov 28, 2020 1:47 PM

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Coincidences are fun, but a lot of times that's all they are, just coincidences lol

Bonus fun fact: many countries that are rife with corruption and bribery, have associations of dead people, where people who have been declared legally dead despite being still quite alive, are fighting to prove that they're still in fact alive. Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_Dead_People

It also turns out that the team struck by lightning was wearing steel cleats, while the other wore a plastic synthetic cleats. So maybe god just hates steel cleats?

That's Sandi Toksvig from QI! She was fun to draw lol.

Tried a different art style / technique here.

It was surprisingly hard to draw this one. Futurama has a very distinctive art style, deceptively simple-looking.

Cycling: a super fun hobby, a pretty douchey sport IMHO.

Trolls gonna troll, I guess? The site doesn't exist anymore, BTW.

Damn I love drawing those stereotypical alien dudes.

Another really complicated looking one that took a while but was fun to draw. As an added bonus, one of the ICBMs look like the Earth is flipping you off. That was an accident but hey, if the shoe fits.

I love that this isn't even remotely the weirdest thing about the Glorious People's Republic of Best Korea.

See for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes

Obligatory Sam O'Nella vid about the many Popes Gone Wild through history: https://youtu.be/AfaIM7Ybwj4

I looked up Prof. Schmidt and sent him this strip. I don't know why. But he replied and said he loved it! And also said that he would rate the Kardashians at a 5.

Great Big Story did a thing on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjRKwr5qps

I especially hate this statistic, coz you know the person that came up with it had to know enough about maths and statistics to know that it's bullshit. Also, why do people feel the need to explain to their bosses why they need a day off? You're entitled to it, just like you're entitled to your weekend. No need to give a long sob story about why you can't come in to work (unless it's really last-minute, which is different).

/rant

RIP. I love how funny he was.

Aaaaaand finally, this is strip # 69! (tee hee)

I upload new strips every Monday and Friday on Insta:
https://www.instagram.com/uselessfactsbadlydrawn/

I later started posting on Twitter and Webtoons as well, so I repost older strips on Wednesdays:
https://twitter.com/u_f_b_d
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/useless-facts-badly-drawn/list?title_no=480674

Once I get to about a hundred strips or so, I'm thinking about putting them into a book or something. It would be awesome if I could make a calendar with a new useless fact every day, but I can't really manage drawing that many strips a week and also doing my full-time job. Gotta pay the bills and stuff. You know how it is.

Anyway thanks for reading. Most of my followers on Insta came from here and from a Bored Panda article, about fifty-fifty. So thanks to all of you that followed and kept me going :D

I like it. Moar pleese

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In college I told my professor I was taking 3 days off for a vacation and he said "yeah, you're allowed to" and that blew my mind.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

upvote for promoting Sam O'Nella.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

These are pretty goodly drawn.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can you imagine a doctor delivering a baby after handling the guts of the dead, who didn't wash his hands? Gross.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Conversely, some Canada geese have stopped migrating entirely because there's now a massive sweet spot for them.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#9 is true, and it actually caused a controversy resulting in the surviving team being accused of witchcraft.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

#1 hurts.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

These are amazing and I am hungry for more

5 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

#10its the same in the US but people are stupid and do things they don't understand a lot.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This: 'The Semmelweis Effect, means rejecting new knowledge that contradicts established norms & beliefs,' describes so many people today

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Love it thankyou...and you are not a bad artist

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Semmelweis is called the "Saviour of Mothers" in Hungary and the University of Medicine is named after him.

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#23 Stephen Hawking apparently had a great sense of humor. This was just one of the ways he expressed it.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

1898 NYC population was 3.5 Million-EVERYTHING that moved was by horse- 100's of 1000s of them Massive amounts of poop & piss in streets

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As an American and boy scout, the proper way to dispose of the American flag is by burning it.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Burning is considered the proper method of disposal for most flags

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There's actually a whole ceremony linked to it in the USA. I participated in several flag retirement ceremonies as a child.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm loving the Sandi Toksvig in the flag one

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Who down votes this!? This is brilliant original content that takes a lot more effort than reposting some Twitter screenshot. Well done.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Thank you! :D

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There's a guy named Coyote Peterson that does the pain test with bugs in vids. The centipede was 1st for him. https://youtu.be/nWZMfPP34g8

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Was trying to remember his name. Very funny indeed. Loved the Tarantula Hawk (incl. cacti).

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He's overly dramatic, but it sells. I have always been freaked out by centipedes. Those pinching fangs!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Always loved William Burroughs' take on centipedes - those, and lobsters, freaked him the fuck out.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Thor is drunk again"...That is clearly Zeus

5 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Right?!

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

So drunk he turned into another god entirely.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"Sir, this is an Arby's." = Somehow seems to be the perfect response to crazy rantings from certain political figures of our age.

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5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sir, this is a landscaping company.

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

I think it comes from "Sir, this is a Wendy's restaurant" in The Office, american version.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

#1 is actually wrong, if its too warm late of the year in northern europe some birds dont move to south and when the cold hits us /2

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We have frozen birds falling from the trees.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But is that specifically true for murrelets?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes.. murrelets.. i missed that part, il go back hiding now.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#22 It's also an intentionally misleading statistic, because it assumes "office workers" are the majority of the workforce, and not retail

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Well it doesn't specify workforce, it specifies office workers. And as a 15-year-long retail employee, we often don't get sick days.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's my point, they are selecting a specific data set and presenting it as though it was a general data set. It's at best dishonest.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It doesn't imply that it's a general data set. You're misreading it.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#17 the US doesn't use the imperial system. We use a customary system that predates the imperial system.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

This seems like a larger discrepancy than just an issue with #17.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Customary, including; football fields, empire state buildings, olympic swimming pools, and many other measuring units

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The US Customary Units, outlined in 1776, predating the UK Imperial standards formalised in 1824. I learned some things, thanks.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Formalisation doesn't equate creation though, the imperial units predates the existence of the US by centuries, it just wasn't codified.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They weren't imperial until the Empire formalised, changing some. US pints are smaller and contain only 16 US oz instead of 20 Imperial oz

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Basically the US uses the old English Customary system that was in place before the Imperial system

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#5 Try "Lion-Eating poet in the stone den" (pinyan chinese): Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī. Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī.<1>

5 years ago | Likes 80 Dislikes 0

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5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's also the finnish "pile up the bonfire". Kokoo kokoon koko kokko. Koko kokkoko? Koko kokko.

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<2>Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì. Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì. Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì.

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<3>Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì. Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì. Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì.

5 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

<4>Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī. Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī shī, shí shí shí shī shī. Shì shì shì shì.

5 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

I love this poem and regularly get my friends to try to recite it.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Shush!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sheesh! What a mouthful :)

5 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

That's what Shi said!

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Why is it so long?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The buffalo one is not even close to grammatically correct. So this is NOT a fact.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Luckily Buffalo is also a plaid. So, “plaid Buffalo from Buffalo NY, baffle other plaid Buffalo from Buffalo” gives you 7 in a row.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That is nonsensical though. Are you saying the buffalo animal is wearing plaid? Coincidentally I live in Buffalo lol

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Making a sentence from the same repeated word is pretty much the definition of nonsense. But I bet you can win a bar bet with it.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Consult an English professor. None of my collegiate profs had a problem with it.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Different wording, same syntax: Migratory tuna bottlenose dolphins eat hunt smaller fish.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But that isn't grammatically correct either.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

(It is.)

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How is "eat hunt" proper English?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It should be pointed out that just because it's grammatically correct doesn't mean it isn't ambiguous and difficult to understand.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Let me reword it: Migratory tuna, the ones which bottle nose dolphins eat, hunt smaller fish."

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But uh... it is. Even if you think it's missing a comma (it's not), it would still be close to grammatically correct.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Its not. And close doesn't count. It is good for the first four "buffalos." Noun - verb - noun - noun and then the next buffalo doesn't work

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

You're wrong to think it needs that extra punctuation. It *is* properly punctuated.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As I admitted on another comment, it is only by definition of grammatically correct which makes this true. Common sense would tell you...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That if most people don't understand a sentence, calling it good or proper English, would be oxymoronic. That being said, I admit that I..

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A) Original commenter said "not even close", so that's what I meant. B) It's Adjective Noun Adjective Noun Verb Verb Adjective Noun.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That still doesn't work without proper punctuation. And you can't say some crazy saying is a grammatically correct statement if it isn't.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's not pretty, but it is grammatically correct. I gave you another example using different words. I'd requote it but eh.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean English is a shitshow, but if you can't figure out what a sentence even means, it's fair to say it is not "correct"

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