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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #425: Mudita.
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Mudita is the opposite of Schadenfreude (the pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune). So it means when it makes you happy to see someone else happy.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #422: Bamboo.
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Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on earth, so fast that you can actually hear it growing-- which it does at a rate of 4cm or 1.5 inches per hour, or 35 cm or 2 ft per day.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #420: Chasmology.
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Chasmology is the scientific study of yawning. This field has discovered that yawning is contagious, and that all vertebrates yawn, not just humans; but we still haven't figured out why we do it, or why it's contagious. Yawn...

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #416: Micropachycephalosaurus.
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Micropachycephalosaurus
is the dinosaur with the longest name; but was one of the smallest dinosaurs that we know of, with a full length of just 1 meter or 3.3 feet.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #95: Jupiter, Earth's Bodyguard.
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Jupiter is Farth's bodyguard. Because of its enormous mass, Jupiter is like a huge vacuum cleaner that pulls in all sorts of asteroids and space debris that would otherwise pummel Harth and end life on our planet. Thanks, Jupiter! But it's all pointless since we're working so hard to wipe ourselves out anyway.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #406: Eyeball Planets.
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An eyeball planet is a hypothetical type of planet that's tidally locked to its star, meaning one side of it is always facing its star while the other is always facing away. As a result, one half of the planet is fiery while the other half is frozen.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #173: Yakutsk, Siberia.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #249: The traditional Christmas meal in Japan. Also, I can't draw anime.
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Sauce: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/kfc-christmas-tradition-japan/index.html
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #234: The Devil's Advocate was a real thing.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #231: Kissing gourami.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #373: The Wasabi Fire Alarm.
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The wasabi fire alarm was invented to alert the deaf to a fire, because the unique scent can wake you up from even a deep sleep.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #372: The Doomsday Plane.
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The Doomsday Plane or Boeing E-4 is an apocalyptic version of the Air Force One, meant to serve as a flying Pentagon in the event of a nuclear attack. It's in a permanent state of readiness, with at least one engine always running continuously, 24/7. It's EMP shielded, can fly for a week, and is equipped with all sorts of classified countermeasures. But its cockpit still uses old-fashioned analog instruments, because they're less susceptible to EMPS.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #348: Arctic vs Antarctic (corrected).
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The Arctic means "bear" and Antarctica means "not bear." The Arctic was named after the Ursa Major constellation (meaning "big bear"). When Antarctica was discovered, it was basically given the name "opposite of Arctic / North." Coincidentally, polar bears live in the Arctic, but none in the Antarctic.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #331: Paint Drying.
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Paint Drying is a 2016 film showing paint on a wall drying for ten hours. It was created by Charlie Shackleton to protest the British Board of Film Classification, forcing the censors to watch all ten hours and give the film a rating.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #70: You ever just wanna call in gay to work?
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When homosexuality was classified as a mental illness in Sweden in 1979, many Swedes called in sick to work, telling their bosses they "felt gay." But they weren't just trolling: by doing this, activists could attend protests and sit-ins for days, and their bosses could not legally fire them (since being gay was classed as an illness, which is what they were protesting in the first place). One activist even got a social security check on this basis.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #193: Satanists.
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Most Satanists are atheists and don't worship Satan or even believe that he exists, much like how Buddhists don't pray to Buddha, or Hindus don't worship cows. Both the Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple view Satan as a literary (and fictional) symbol of rebellion against tyranny and injustice.

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