stackyFACTSThat cheerful blond mascot giving you a thumbs-up isn't actually offering encouragement while you wander the radioactive wasteland.
That cheerful blond mascot giving you a thumbs-up isn't actually offering encouragement while you wander the radioactive wasteland. According to old nuclear survival doctrine, if you see a mushroom cloud in the distance, you are supposed to hold your arm out straight and stick up your thumb. If the cloud is smaller than your thumb, you are supposedly at a safe distance from the radiation. If it's bigger, you're already dead. Suddenly, his huge smile looks a lot more psychotic.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Games →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Vault Boy, the famously cheerful blonde mascot of the Fallout franchise, is not actually giving a reassuring thumbs-up to safely measure the distance of a…
Discover more
The ultimate test of useless knowledge began with a missing piece. In 1979, two journalists wanted to play Scrabble but realized parts of their set were gone.…
Discover more
You can nuke an entire post-apocalyptic town for fun and harvest human organs, but God forbid you harm the sacred beef. Bethesda had to significantly alter…
Discover more
Crossword puzzles demand you recall obscure river names just to complete a tiny checkerboard pattern. It is an infuriating pastime where spelling a…
Discover more
The tiny wooden humanoid figures you mercilessly command around cardboard maps have a surprisingly endearing origin. The term was coined by casually combining…
Discover more
An oddly profound existential statement for a box that plays digital discs. The blue and black tones were explicitly chosen to symbolize the vastness of the…
Discover more