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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #435: The KLF.
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The KLF was an electronic band and art collective who announced their retirement from pop music in 1994 by withdrawing all the cash they earned from their music (about o1 million), arranging it in a huge pile, and setting it on fire as a performance art piece.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #266: Raven the chimp.
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A chimpanzee named Raven was the 22nd most successful money manager in the USA. She picked stocks by throwing darts at a list of 133 internet companies. She had her own index, MonkeyDex, delivering a 213% gain and outperforming over 6,000 professional Wall Street brokers in 1999.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #266: Raven the chimp.
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A chimpanzee named Raven was the 22nd most successful money manager in the USA. She picked stocks by throwing darts at a list of 133 internet companies. She had her own index, MonkeyDex, delivering a 213% gain and outperforming over 6,000 professional Wall Street brokers in 1999.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #435: Ötzi the Iceman.
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The world's oldest unsolved murder is of Ötzi, whose frozen body was found in 1991 naturally mummified in the Alps. He was killed around
3230 BC, during the Copper age. For perspective, that's a short time after the ancient Sumerians were busy inventing the earliest known written language. His body has been extensively studied and has taught us a lot about our early human ancestors. However, his murder will probably remain unsolved.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #434: Alan Smithee.
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Alan Smithee is an award-winning Hollywood film director of over 150 films since 1969.
He also doesn't exist. "Alan Smithee" is a pseudonym used by Hollywood directors and producers who disown their own films and do not want their name in the credits. This even includes famous award-winning blockbusters like Dune, Scent of a Woman, Heat, Meet Joe Black, and Hellraiser: Bloodlines, to name a few.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #233: Rabies.
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Rabies- arguably one of the most dangerous, incurable diseases on the planet- isn't found in Australia, of all places.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #233: Rabies.
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Rabies- arguably one of the most dangerous, incurable diseases on the planet- isn't found in Australia, of all places.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #432: Hippocampus.
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The hippocampus is named after the seahorse, because the guy who named the (vaguely) S-shaped region of the brain thought it looked like a seahorse (genus: hippocampus). The fish is itself named after a Greek mythical creature that is half horse and half fish, called Hippocampus.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #431: Fart. Tee hee.
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"Fart" is the Swedish word for speed. Fortunately this has not resulted in any strange or amusing road signs for English speakers at all.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #113: Trap Streets and Paper Streets.
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Trap streets are places drawn on maps, that do not exist in real life. They're put there on purpose by cartographers to trap copyright violators copying their work. These are not to be confused with paper streets, which similarly also exist only on maps but not in real life-- except they're put there for urban planning and for legal reasons. Paper Street was also the address of the house in the movie Fight Club, foreshadowing the big plot twist in the end.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn 429: The Dead Internet Theory.
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The Dead Internet Theory says that the internet is now so overrun with bots, algorithms and computer-generated content posing as human, that it is now essentially devoid of almost any real human activity in comparison.
And this was argued before the rise of Al.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn 429: The Dead Internet Theory.
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The Dead Internet Theory says that the internet is now so overrun with bots, algorithms and computer-generated content posing as human, that it is now essentially devoid of almost any real human activity in comparison.
And this was argued before the rise of Al.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #153: 88888.
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The number 48" is considered lucky in Chinese culture. Which is why a driver named Liu paid $145,705 to get a license plate on his $4,370 car that read"88888" for good luck... only to be pulled over by police exactly 8 times on his first day on the road, because cops thought it must be fake.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #428: Porphyrios.
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Porphyrios was a whale who regularly attacked and sank Byzantine ships for fifty years during the sixth century CE. Sailors were terrified of him and changed their routes just to avoid him, and Emperor Justinian I declared him an enemy of the Roman empire.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #428: Porphyrios.
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Porphyrios was a whale who regularly attacked and sank Byzantine ships for fifty years during the sixth century CE. Sailors were terrified of him and changed their routes just to avoid him, and Emperor Justinian I declared him an enemy of the Roman empire.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #427: Money for Nothing.
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"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits was written by frontman Mark Knopfler when he was in an appliance store in New York City and overheard the delivery crew watching MTV and mocking the rock stars. He quickly wrote down what they were saying and turned it into the song, which remains one of their biggest hits.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #157: Music Piracy.
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The "You Wouldn't Download a Car" anti-music-piracy adverts from the early 2000s was set to music that was stolen and used without permission.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #231: Kissing gourami.
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Kissing Gourami or kissing fish are a species of tropical aquarium fish that literally kiss each other, mouth-to-mouth, puckered lips and all. But the "kissing" is usually done between males, and it's how they fight over territory. Or maybe that's what they want us to believe.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #426: Venus.
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A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.

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