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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
TittyKong
I like it. Moar pleese
HeraldOfTheBadger
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.
LagerthaL16
Jaqdakloun
These are pretty goodly drawn.
guiltyalias
Can you imagine a doctor delivering a baby after handling the guts of the dead, who didn't wash his hands? Gross.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
Conversely, some Canada geese have stopped migrating entirely because there's now a massive sweet spot for them.
flamingflamingo
#9 is true, and it actually caused a controversy resulting in the surviving team being accused of witchcraft.
4thwalled
#1 hurts.
TheInternetHasRuinedMeForever
These are amazing and I am hungry for more
WPIII381
#10its the same in the US but people are stupid and do things they don't understand a lot.
thechelonianshelmet
This: 'The Semmelweis Effect, means rejecting new knowledge that contradicts established norms & beliefs,' describes so many people today
ejcdoyle
Love it thankyou...and you are not a bad artist
Maitrify
Minhminhthepetpotato
Semmelweis is called the "Saviour of Mothers" in Hungary and the University of Medicine is named after him.
TherealNotSid
#23 Stephen Hawking apparently had a great sense of humor. This was just one of the ways he expressed it.
Trimule
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
williamtowel
As an American and boy scout, the proper way to dispose of the American flag is by burning it.
Wantcheesypoofs
Burning is considered the proper method of disposal for most flags
OtterlyMagnificent
There's actually a whole ceremony linked to it in the USA. I participated in several flag retirement ceremonies as a child.
DickButtDave
I'm loving the Sandi Toksvig in the flag one
orgolio
Who down votes this!? This is brilliant original content that takes a lot more effort than reposting some Twitter screenshot. Well done.
statelessnfaithless
Thank you! :D
eigeress
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
FoamingToad
Was trying to remember his name. Very funny indeed. Loved the Tarantula Hawk (incl. cacti).
eigeress
He's overly dramatic, but it sells. I have always been freaked out by centipedes. Those pinching fangs!
FoamingToad
Always loved William Burroughs' take on centipedes - those, and lobsters, freaked him the fuck out.
ghelfaire
"Thor is drunk again"...That is clearly Zeus
SlyMrFox
Right?!
modus0
So drunk he turned into another god entirely.
Miznunkey
"Sir, this is an Arby's." = Somehow seems to be the perfect response to crazy rantings from certain political figures of our age.
SophieClockwise
asm80dfa8sdfj
Sir, this is a landscaping company.
tokenhooker
I think it comes from "Sir, this is a Wendy's restaurant" in The Office, american version.
SkinnCakeKing
#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
SkinnCakeKing
We have frozen birds falling from the trees.
flamingflamingo
But is that specifically true for murrelets?
SkinnCakeKing
Yes.. murrelets.. i missed that part, il go back hiding now.
PhailRaptor
#22 It's also an intentionally misleading statistic, because it assumes "office workers" are the majority of the workforce, and not retail
flamingflamingo
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.
PhailRaptor
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.
flamingflamingo
It doesn't imply that it's a general data set. You're misreading it.
tocfanke4
#17 the US doesn't use the imperial system. We use a customary system that predates the imperial system.
flamingflamingo
This seems like a larger discrepancy than just an issue with #17.
thundercactus
Customary, including; football fields, empire state buildings, olympic swimming pools, and many other measuring units
RanOutofWit
The US Customary Units, outlined in 1776, predating the UK Imperial standards formalised in 1824. I learned some things, thanks.
LurkerOfDarkness
Formalisation doesn't equate creation though, the imperial units predates the existence of the US by centuries, it just wasn't codified.
tocfanke4
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
tocfanke4
Basically the US uses the old English Customary system that was in place before the Imperial system
h4p10
#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>
feckyall
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PitchforkSalesperson
There's also the finnish "pile up the bonfire". Kokoo kokoon koko kokko. Koko kokkoko? Koko kokko.
h4p10
<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.
h4p10
<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.
h4p10
<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.
Xodus2kX
I love this poem and regularly get my friends to try to recite it.
Demanufactured
Shush!
theraininspainfallsmainlyontheplain
*shí
MistoKat
Sheesh! What a mouthful :)
Solusphere
That's what Shi said!
axiomatik
Why is it so long?
Ryann85
The buffalo one is not even close to grammatically correct. So this is NOT a fact.
reallynotbob
Luckily Buffalo is also a plaid. So, “plaid Buffalo from Buffalo NY, baffle other plaid Buffalo from Buffalo” gives you 7 in a row.
Ryann85
That is nonsensical though. Are you saying the buffalo animal is wearing plaid? Coincidentally I live in Buffalo lol
reallynotbob
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.
IceWeaselX
Consult an English professor. None of my collegiate profs had a problem with it.

flamingflamingo
Different wording, same syntax: Migratory tuna bottlenose dolphins eat hunt smaller fish.
Ryann85
But that isn't grammatically correct either.
flamingflamingo
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-one-word-sentences-and-how-they-work-emma-bryce
flamingflamingo
https://www.geographyrealm.com/using-buffalo-eight-times-in-a-row-is-a-complete-sentence/
flamingflamingo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
flamingflamingo
(It is.)
Ryann85
How is "eat hunt" proper English?
flamingflamingo
It should be pointed out that just because it's grammatically correct doesn't mean it isn't ambiguous and difficult to understand.
flamingflamingo
Let me reword it: Migratory tuna, the ones which bottle nose dolphins eat, hunt smaller fish."
flamingflamingo
But uh... it is. Even if you think it's missing a comma (it's not), it would still be close to grammatically correct.
Ryann85
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
IceWeaselX
Ryann85
As I admitted on another comment, it is only by definition of grammatically correct which makes this true. Common sense would tell you...
Ryann85
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..
flamingflamingo
A) Original commenter said "not even close", so that's what I meant. B) It's Adjective Noun Adjective Noun Verb Verb Adjective Noun.
Ryann85
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.
flamingflamingo
It's not pretty, but it is grammatically correct. I gave you another example using different words. I'd requote it but eh.
Ryann85
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"