Nice Little Facts

[Kelt]

Was she a brown dwarf?

She was an enormous-breasted Scandinavian tramp.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

She was an enormous-breasted Scandinavian tramp.

And yet you didn't recognize that she was a whore until it was too late.  Well, here's another nice little fact: love is blind.

[zeebo]

The little plastic sheath on the end of your shoelace is called an "aglet".

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

The little plastic sheath on the end of your shoelace is called an "aglet".

I could use some of that grommet aglet action, but my aglets are all broken down and frayed.

[Daggit]

The little plastic sheath on the end of your shoelace is called an "aglet".

I always thought that they were called Flooglebinders. 


http://youtu.be/oHdUl8hHwKY

Here's a nice little fact:

Never trust Tom Cruise!

[Daggit]

Maine is the closest US state to Africa.

[Daggit]

There’s enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

Thomas Jefferson has a mammoth named after him:  Mammuthus jeffesoni.  It's been alleged that one of his motivations for the Louisiana Purchase was to see if the western USA had any living mammoths.  None were found; also, Bigfoot.

[Yorkshire pud]

Maine is the only state in the US with one syllable in it's name. 




A bloody Brit told you that, okay?

[Marc.Knight]

Two islands off the east coast of Canada are actually territories of France.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Two islands off the east coast of Canada are actually territories of France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon

What?  There's no 500 year plan to infiltrate Newfoundland and Labrador, and take control of the beaver pelt trade!  Why would you even think such a thing?  Now go off and enjoy your 'Statue of Liberty.'  Enjoy it well.

Mwa ha
Mwa haha
Mwa hahahahaha!

[Daggit]

In 1994 a convicted murderer was granted a retrial when it came to light that four of his jurors had used a Ouija board to consult the victim before rendering a verdict.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

According to the Department of Agriculture,  the Super Bowl is the USA’s second-largest day of food consumption, behind Thanksgiving.

[BobGrau]

What?  There's no 500 year plan to infiltrate Newfoundland and Labrador, and take control of the beaver pelt trade!  Why would you even think such a thing?  Now go off and enjoy your 'Statue of Liberty.'  Enjoy it well.

Mwa ha
Mwa haha
Mwa hahahahaha!

Reported. No Frenchman would laugh as expressively as that. We're talking a shrug of the mouth at most here.

[MV/Liberace!]

A 21-year-old man in medieval England could expect to live to the age of 64.

[Daggit]

Every two minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.

[Heather Wade]

The UN Office for Outer Space Affairs... exists.

[pate]

Dave Lynch hadn't even heard of the thing before he bungled and botched his way through it....

A testament to a half-decent film that didn't quite suck...

David Lynch, I salute you!

You didn't completely fuck it up! 


David Lynch Interview from 1985 on Dune

Fact:  David Lynch did not completely fuck up Dune

edit: I thought it was Vangelis (sp) & not Toto, but still the soundtrack did not completely suck... Well done, sir!

[MV/Liberace!]

The movie Cleopatra was banned in Egypt because of suspicions that Elizabeth Taylor was a Zionist agent.

[Yorkshire pud]

By the age of eight, most children have forgotten 60% of what they knew up to the age of three.

[Eddie Coyle]

   Only one recording act has held four spots simultaneously in the top 10 of the Billboard Album Charts.


       The week of 4/2/66, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass held the 2,3,9 and 10 spots.

[Yorkshire pud]

Bottled water originates in England....1622

[Eddie Coyle]

    Todd Rundgren agreed to produce and play on Bat Out Of Hell because he thought it was a brilliant parody of Springsteen.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Bottled water originates in England....1622

I think that was just a bad batch of beer with only four percent alcohol content.  It was the closest thing to water anyone had tasted.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Even though it will be observed as a federal holiday in the U.S. tomorrow,  the name "Presidents Day" is not officially recognized by the U.S. government  It's actually a commemoration of George Washington's birthday.  Presidents Day is just an informal designation adopted for various reasons, although it is officially celebrated by that name in several states.

[jazmunda]

Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.

[PB the Deplorable]

Even though it will be observed as a federal holiday in the U.S. tomorrow,  the name "Presidents Day" is not officially recognized by the U.S. government  It's actually a commemoration of George Washington's birthday.  Presidents Day is just an informal designation adopted for various reasons, although it is officially celebrated by that name in several states.

When I was a kid, we'd get both Lincolns Feb 12 and Washingtons Feb 22 b-days off.  Then we just started getting one day off in the middle - always a Monday - and called it Presidents Day

Not sure if that was national, or if they were just state holiday holidays where I lived

[onan]

When I was a kid, we'd get both Lincolns Feb 12 and Washingtons Feb 22 b-days off.  Then we just started getting one day off in the middle - always a Monday - and called it Presidents Day

Not sure if that was national, or if they were just state holiday holidays where I lived

That's how I remember it as well.

[albrecht]

That's how I remember it as well.

I recall it this way also. Remember being mad that "they are cheating us out of a holiday" by consolidating it into "President's Day."

[Treading Water]

When I was a kid, we'd get both Lincolns Feb 12 and Washingtons Feb 22 b-days off.  Then we just started getting one day off in the middle - always a Monday - and called it Presidents Day
Not sure if that was national, or if they were just state holiday holidays where I lived

That's how I remember it as well.

I recall it this way also. Remember being mad that "they are cheating us out of a holiday" by consolidating it into "President's Day."

Me, too.