Is there a piece of information that you know but don't have any use for? something stupid or obscure that serves no purpose? Tell it here!
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Here's mine: in the 2005 film SharkBoy and LavaGirl, the titular characters SharkBoy and LavaGirl were both played by kids named Taylor, spelled the same way.
This is a pygmy marmoset! Look at this tiny being!
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I remember learning about it several years ago, couldn't tell you why though
The lyrics of tuna commercials. The numbers of two government offices because that was a catchy jingle. 🤷
568 87 22 profeco and 658 11 locatel
Beijing Olympics 2008 "Beijing Welcomes You" song chorus 
We came to China this year and it was everywhere the whole next year, so it never left my brain.
What useful information do I actually possess though. 
My husband gives me a special look when I suddenly spew out all the random crap I find out.
Lately I’m obsessed with False doors and Blind doors. So when he finishes work today he’ll be pleased to hear all about it I’m sure. 
Never start talking to me about Marvel comics. The sheer amount of useless information my brain holds about Marvel comics is astounding.
Like... did you know Psylocke from the X-men is Captain Britain's sister? She used to be a white lady who dyed her hair purple and she had cybernetic purple eyes because she lost her real ones and she was super-famous as a model and was a psychic mutant and was even Captain Britain herself for a while (in a really ugly costume). Then she got body-swapped by... gangsters... into the body of... an asian assassin lady called Kwannon, so now she's Asian, but she... is still psychic? (which makes no sense because mutant powers are attached to your DNA, not your soul...) and her old body, the white lady with bionic eyes, got the soul of the assassin and became a villain called Revanche.
So the important takeaway here is whenever they give Psylocke an American accent in games and stuff set in the main Marvel 616 universe continuity (ie. the universe of the comics), it's WRONG. She should sound like a posh British lady.
- Old phone numbers of people I barely even knew 15 years ago.
- The first two lines of Tolkien's The Two Towers: honestly, not sure why, but they somehow got burned in my mind.
- Release dates of every single Queen album up until 1992 and every single W.A.S.P. album up until now. For some of them, I even remember the exact track listing.
I know the first few numbers of Pi - 3.14159265
My friends were trying to memorise it in high school and now it stays there and never leaves
Lots of weird documentary things and history.
Like what the "dragons teeth" are for and from. Mostly around Italy.
How Russia dried up a lake 
by accident
Lots of Titantic ship stuff, like 1 it set sail while it was on fire, and 2 it's fourth smoke stack was for show and non functional
@MoseyP see I remember that far in thanks to Night at the Museum 2 where the little Einsteins practically sing it
Someone told me this years ago and it never left my mind.
The little plastic bit on a shoelace is called an aglet.
When would I use that? xD
I've carried it in my head for so long and I don't know why? There's a whole heap of important things I've forgotten because this little tidbit wouldn't give up it's nice little rented apartment in my mind so something else could live there.
As a person who has a terrible memory and fails to see the overall picture, but notices tiny details, I sometimes think that it may be a great divine plan and this one very little fact you know may save your life 
- The entirety of the pokédex
- The monster loot needed for certain weapons in Final Fantasy XII
- The maps of Bloodstained and Hollow Knight, not every room but general locations
It's not particularly useless, but like, I don't use them enough (or at all in the second) to recall them so perfectly.
Also, they can only be inherited from the mother.
...And they were once an organism of their own?
I should be studying this instead of sharing it on the internet. 
I remember e = 2.7182818284590
btw. Not useless for me, but I also remember about 4000 songs from my playlists (and theirs name too), also about name of 8000 comics and novels (ofc, some of them I need to think about few seconds),... and also I remember nearly all mobile numbers from my phone. (I even know my moms identification number (because I always needed it when I wanted to report some problem with Internet to my ISP)
I know so much... So much about moths. I love them. 
...it also has nothing to do with my career. (art history/Egyptology)
I know a lot of stuff that seems pretty useless but a surprising amount of things I thought were useless actually became useful at some time (though some of those times were really short).
Things I haven't found any use for is for example that the a rabbits chewing circle is controlled by 3 groups of muscles instead of two as was previously thought or that some molluscs actually swim by curling forward and backwards instead of sideways like the rest.
I don't have another tiny animal to mention, but here's something obscure!
You won't find it often in music but there's an audio-based illusion that exists called the Shepherd Tone. It's basically a constant rising or descending pitch of a single note, though the effect can be achieved through a chord and/or a series of notes as well.
How it works, for those curious enough to ruin the illusion
It works through two layers where one can disguise the fading in and out of the low and high notes in a loop. However, it works better with an additional third layer that masks the transition even more on both ends. If you're willing to pay attention, you can start to find the beginning and the end of the loop of most instances of it being used. The second example below makes the loop much easier to hear and underatand since it seperates the layers by panning them on the left and right.
I'd argue the most famous example of it is in a Mario game and it sounds like anxiety bc of the eerie chords behind it.
My favorite example of it is here in a more band-focused setting. La Dispute's "Fulton Street I" features the illusion by having a guitar play a series of notes constantly going up the neck. The moment's at around 4:19 if you wanna skip there.
It isn't totally useless, but I constantly wonder how much better my foreign language abilities would be if I replaced the pokemon part of my brain with like, Spanish grammar. Type matchups are at least helpful when my roommate asks pokemon go questions, but pokemon lore? Wish I could replace that with irregular verb conjugations...
Wait. Does Spanish have irregular verbs? I never thought of it before.
Edit: Welp. After a quick search, I discovered that yes, Spanish does have irregular verbs.
If it makes you feel better, I didn't even know which verbs were irregular in my own language.
Irregular verbs are the bane of my existence. I thought I could escape from them outside English, but alas... they surround me. And when I though I was free in Mandarin, the tones came for me instead.
In the Patrick Troughton era of Doctor Who (before homosexuality was legalized in the UK), Troughton would deliberately hold hands with his male companion to annoy a homophobic executive.
This is why Patrick Troughton is my favourite classic Doctor.
This.
She technically should be unable to get drunk or enjoy alcohol at all, since she automatically purifies liquid that come into contact with her into pure water.
lol you'd think but no. It was during WW2 iirc something about diverting a river from the lake to one of their industrial areas. And the lake happens to get like no rainfall, and became super salinated and toxic fish. It's now entirely dried up basically with like 8 residents refusing to leave. Poisoned by eating the fish of course.
The color of the egg a chicken lays is determined by the color of its earlobes
I know a lot of useless sh
t about chickens. I have no chickens.
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This collab from defunctland and yesterworld about the journey into imagination ride has been occupying my brain rent-free for like a year
Yan an road and Xujiahui road in Shanghai used to be rivers... they used to delimit the French and international settlements before. Chinese filled them and made huge motorways to get in and out of city center. Completely useless, but now some obscure location names make sense (like Xie bridge on xujiahui road even though there obviously no bridge... but zebra crossing...)
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