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@ufbd.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 3:35 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn No. 536: Skyhook.
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The Skyhook was the opposite of a parachute. Also called the Fulton Surface-to-Air Recovery System, a payload (or unfortunate person) would send up a balloon on a cord, which would be hooked by a plane passing overhead, yanking them off the ground and into the air, and eventually winched onto the plane. As insane as it sounds, it was successfully used in multiple military operations, and most famously depicted in the movie The Dark Knight.
@ufbd.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 2:52 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn No. 535: The Anarchist Cookbook.
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The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell is a 1971 book of instructions on how to make bombs, drugs, poisons, homemade guns, and how to sabotage vehicles, and more. The book has the attention of the FBI, and is banned in many countries (though still in print and easily found online). However, most of its information is outdated, the materials not as easily available to the public like they were in the 1970s.
@ufbd.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 12:59 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn No. 534: WASP-127b.
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#planets #exoplanets #astronomy #science #comics #space #webcomics #funfacts #facts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

WASP-127b is the windiest planet in the known universe. Located 524 light years away, winds on this Saturn-sized planet regularly reach 27,720 km/h (or 17,224 mph), or Mach 22.5, which is about 22 times the speed of sound on Earth.
@ufbd.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 3:10 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn No. 533: Hyperion.
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Hyperion, one of Saturn's moons, can zap satellites with electric shocks from a thousand miles away. Its orbit causes it to build up a static charge, and it zapped the Cassini probe with about 200 volts as it passed by in 2005.
@ufbd.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 4:21 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn # 532: "Take the Money and Run."
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"Take the Money and Run" is a painting consisting of just a blank canvas. In 2021, The Kunsten Museum hired Jens Haaning for art depicting workers' annual wages, and gave him 532,549 Danish kr in real cash bills to incorporate into the piece (aside from his fee). But he turned in an empty canvas. When the museum demanded the cash back, ne replled: "This is only a piece of art if I don't return the money." The museum displayed it, but also sued him, ultimately settling out of court.
@ufbd.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 3:15 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn No. 531: LASIK.
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#lasik #science #lasers #inventions #accidentalinventions #webcomics #comics #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

LASIK surgery was invented by accident. In 1993, a grad student at the University of Michigan forgot to wear his safety glasses while checking on an experimental femtosecond laser, and took a blast of laser directly to his eye. However, he suffered no pain or ill effects. The doctor who examined him got curious about the laser, and contacted the physics department. This led to LASIK surgery, where a laser re-shapes the cornea to improve vision.
@ufbd.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 4:07 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn # 530: The RP FLIP.
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The RP FLIP is a ship designed to sink. Technically it isn't a ship but a barge loaded with sensors that can tilt up and float vertically with most of it submerged, to take measurements of the ocean. Its interior has two orientations; its bathroom, for example, has a commode on the floor but also one mounted sideways on the wall for when the vessel goes vertical.