Post by: smurfboy on February 15, 2006, 01:22:34 pm
A thread for all that useless but somehow interesting trivia and info you pick up. I'll start:
The TV network who ran 'I Love Lucy' wanted to cancel it when Lucille Ball became pregnant, believing it was offensive to show a pregnant woman in television. Lucy and her husband Desi Arnaz had to consult priests and rabbis to confirm their was no religious reason this could not be shown. Even when the network agreed to write the pregnancy into the show, they banned the word 'pregnant' from the scripts - Lucy had to say she was 'expecting'.
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 15, 2006, 01:24:24 pm
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In Disney's Fantasia the sorcerer's name is Yensid, which is Disney spelled backwards.
Post by: smurfboy on February 15, 2006, 01:44:19 pm
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 15, 2006, 01:50:57 pm
Spinach has no more iron in it than any other vegetable.
The spinach misconception dates back to the 1950's when a food analyst made an error while calculating the iron in spinach; his decimal place was wrong by one place, suggesting that spinach had ten times as much iron content than it really did.
Post by: lorri on February 15, 2006, 01:52:58 pm
( go on.... u know u want to try !!! lol)
Post by: chocolate chick on February 15, 2006, 01:59:32 pm
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Post by: smurfboy on February 15, 2006, 02:11:33 pm
A job job?
Post by: chocolate chick on February 15, 2006, 02:13:01 pm
Good job
Post by: oldspice on February 15, 2006, 03:50:28 pm
The word dine has a long vowel (i) but dinner has a short vowel (i).
Post by: smurfboy on February 15, 2006, 04:03:59 pm
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Post by: oldspice on February 16, 2006, 06:55:26 am
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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 16, 2006, 07:58:42 am
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Post by: smurfboy on February 16, 2006, 09:22:52 am
Post by: chocolate chick on February 16, 2006, 09:24:31 am
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
I like facts like this
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 16, 2006, 09:52:59 am
Post by: chocolate chick on February 16, 2006, 10:01:37 am
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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 16, 2006, 10:09:51 am
If Barbie were lifesize her measurements would be 39-23-33
Post by: smurfboy on February 16, 2006, 10:40:29 am
Hattie McDaniel was not only the first black person to win an Oscar -for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind - but also the first blakc person to attend the ceremony as a guest and not a servant. Despite this, she was still refused an invitation to a premiere for the film in America's deep South, and was refused burial in the Hollywood forever cemetry when she died in 1952.
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 16, 2006, 11:01:56 am
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Post by: lemoneye on February 16, 2006, 01:39:57 pm
The piece of music called Ave Satani NEVER featured in the Old Spice ads or in Only Fools and Horses or indeed Carmen Buranda (or similar spelling/pronunciation - please correct me), but was a large feature of the soundtrack to the film The Omen.
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 16, 2006, 01:48:21 pm
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Post by: Forth Bridges on February 16, 2006, 08:41:08 pm
100 people a year chock to death on pen liads:
Donald duck comice wer banaed in Finlad because he had No pants !
4 peopel dIed form radom falling vendine machine:
Post by: goldencup on February 16, 2006, 09:42:24 pm
The piece of music called Ave Satani NEVER featured in the Old Spice ads or in Only Fools and Horses or indeed Carmen Buranda (or similar spelling/pronunciation - please correct me), but was a large feature of the soundtrack to the film The Omen.
If you mean Carmina Burana it definitely featured in the Old Spice ads and Only Fools and Horses as well as the Omen. It was the section called Oh Fortuna and I've performed it many times. (More pointless trivia I know!)
Post by: lemoneye on February 17, 2006, 08:46:51 am
Quote from: lemoneyeThe piece of music called Ave Satani NEVER featured in the Old Spice ads or in Only Fools and Horses or indeed Carmen Buranda (or similar spelling/pronunciation - please correct me), but was a large feature of the soundtrack to the film The Omen.
If you mean Carmina Burana it definitely featured in the Old Spice ads and Only Fools and Horses as well as the Omen. It was the section called Oh Fortuna and I've performed it many times. (More pointless trivia I know!)
That is what i meant - thank you - it did NOT feature in any of the four Omen films.
Post by: oldspice on February 17, 2006, 08:50:04 am
The music was composed by Carl Orf (not sure about spelling)
Post by: goldencup on February 17, 2006, 08:39:21 pm
Post by: StrollingMinstrel on February 17, 2006, 10:29:42 pm
On average, an adult laughs about 15 times a day; a child laughs 400 times.
I guess that proves it. Growing older sucks!
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Post by: Forth Bridges on July 30, 2006, 10:17:42 pm
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- August 8th begins 'National Pickle Week.'
- Most toliets flush in the key of E flat.
- Most car horns are in the key of F.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- Howdy-Doody had 48 freckles.
- 400 quarter-pounders can be made from 1 cow.
- Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
- A full moon in nine times brighter than a half moon.s.
- All porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can get
leprosy.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
otherwise it will digest itself.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling
out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all
of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back
down again.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need
gravity to swallow.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a
building, it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat
that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about eight
floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and
correct itself.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Norvelle Rogers is the real name of 'Shaggy' in Scooby Doo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air
crashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
Cat's urine glows under UV light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
If a statue in a park is of a person on a horse that has both
front legs in the air, then the person died in battle. If the
horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle; the horse has all four legs on the
ground, the person died of natural causes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver and purple.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again,
Sam".
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its
own weight and always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
starves to death.
Starfishes have no brains.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.