Explore Log in Sign up

Terms of Use Privacy Policy Community Standards Help Get the app

Grilled Cheese is a product of Village Compute

Version devBuilt at: 2026-10-10 01:38:52 EDT

Explore

@ufbd.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 12:59 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn No. 534: WASP-127b.
.
.
#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.social Sep 28, 2026, 3:10 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn No. 533: Hyperion.
.
.
#saturn #hyperion #comics #webcomics #space #science #astronomy #moons #facts #funfacts #wtf #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

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.social Sep 18, 2026, 4:21 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn # 532: "Take the Money and Run."
.
.
#trolling #art #comics #fineart #modernart #strangebuttrue #wtf #lol #webcomics #funfacts #facts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

"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.social Sep 14, 2026, 3:15 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn No. 531: LASIK.
.
.
#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.social Sep 8, 2026, 4:07 PM

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn # 530: The RP FLIP.
.
.
.
#rpflip #strangebuttrue #wtf #science #ships #comics #webcomics #ocean #oceanography #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

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.