June 2009
12 posts
This one’s going to take some ‘splainin. Until 1920, Major League Baseball had a rule that made it legal to steal bases in reverse order. If you were on second and wanted to go back to first, you could steal it. Which can, in some convoluted ways, make strategic sense. During the September 4th, 1908, game between the Tigers and Cleveland Indians, Schaefer was on first and a teammate...
DIDYOUKNOW
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Ray Bradbury fun fact! He refuses to learn how to drive in Los Angeles, which loosely translated means, City of Traffic. He used to hitchhike more, but now he takes the bus around. I do not kid when I say he is a personal hero.
David Hayter started out as Bryan Singer’s assistant and ending up contributing so much to X-Men that yada yada yada he was given the sole screenwriting credit. He was the most successful first time writer of all time, with X-Men bringing in $54 million in it’s first weekend. He went on to co-write Watchmen.
If you rub an onion on your foot – within 30 – 60 minutes you will be able to taste it – this is because it travels through the blood stream.
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Orbital Path of the Earth Around the Sun →
The moon orbits earth 13 times year. More info in the short video on the click-through.
George Washington and John F. Kennedy are the only American Presidents to have declined a salary.
More very interesting stuff about Presidential Perks here.
Of is required when couple quantifies an amount or time period, like “a couple of hours”, but not when its quantifying another quantifier, as in “a couple hundred people”.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. And the nail on the middle finger of your dominant hand will grow the fastest of all. Why is not entirely known, but nail growth is related to the length of the finger, with the longest fingers growing nails the fastest and shortest the slowest.
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Anton Yelchin’s parents were going to compete in the 1972 Olympics (figure skating) for the USSR but were banned becaused they were Jewish.
May 2009
15 posts
Food Companies Don't Want You to Know
… that Your Food Can Legally Contain Maggots. Sure, the FDA limits the amount of rodent droppings and other appetite killers in your food, but unfortunately that limit isn’t zero. The regulations below aren’t harmful to your health—but we can’t promise that the thought of them won’t make you sick.
Canned pineapples can contain up to: 20 percent positive mold tests
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On Oct. 15, 1910, the airship America took off from Atlantic City in a bid to cross the Atlantic. The six crewmembers took along a cat, Kiddo, for luck.
The frightened tabby was still underfoot when chief engineer Melvin Vaniman tried to send a historic wireless message back to shore. So officially the first radio communication ever made from an airship in flight was:
“Roy, come and get...
On True Blood the wig that Arlene wears is the same one worn by Gwenyth Paltrow as Pepper Potts in Iron Man.
In Japan, seasons 2 and 3 of the American version of So You Think You Can Dance have aired as American Dance Idol.
Margaret Mitchell took 10 years to write Gone With the Wind, and it was in her will to burn her notes when she died, which her husband did.
jeofail n. a lawyer’s mistake
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Daryl Hannah improvised the scene where Elle Driver’s eye gets removed by The Bride and she goes “nuts”. She did this because she thought it would make Quentin Tarantino laugh. He did and that scene entered the final film. She sustained injures from breaking so many things in the bathroom.
Minerva is the Roman Goddess of Wisdom, Learning, the Arts, Sciences, Medicine, Dyeing, Trade, and of War
whelm: To cover with water; submerge.
April 2009
19 posts
The BATF (Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco and Firearms) prohibits the use of word “refreshing” to describe any alcoholic beverage.
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The name for Oz in “The Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”
Trainspotting
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For its American release, the first 20 minutes had to be re-dubbed to make the Scottish accents more intelligible.
The lager and lime, a lager beer topped with lime cordial, was very popular in the UK in the early 1970s.
Born in 1939, George and Charles Finn were both retarded, with IQs around 60. But each twin could remember nearly every event that had ever befallen him, including the weather: “On April 15, 1956, Dr. Williams came to visit me and to ask me questions about dates. It was rainy and windy in the morning, but the sun came out in the middle of the afternoon.”
Both could also almost...
gammerstang n. a tall, awkward person, usually a woman
Edgar Allen Poe only made $9 for “The Raven”.
FUCKING BONUS SECOND THING OF THE DAY
So this one makes me feel retarded but full disclosure and all. Tumblr has a spell checker for posts. I seriously never noticed that before Crystal pointed it out.
No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani’s brother played the keyboard on their first four albums, but he left after recording Tragic Kingdom (but before it became a hit) to be an illustrator for The Simpsons.
Michael Jordan having “retired,” with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.
But even if he saves 100% of his income for the next 500 years, he’ll still have less than Bill Gates has at this very moment.
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The blind guy on American Idol can play the guitar.
33% of dog owners talk to thier dog on the phone.
gongoozler n. an idler who stares at activity on a canal
Herostratus was a young man who set fire to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (in what is now western Turkey) in his quest for fame on about July 20, 356 BC.
Far from attempting to evade responsibility for his act of arson, Herostratus proudly claimed credit in order to immortalise his name in history. In order to dissuade similar-minded fame-seekers, the Ephesean authorities not only executed him...
March 2009
20 posts
The writer of the movie Groundhog Day wanted Bill’s timeloop to last an extremely long time, more than a couple lifetimes, maybe longer. The studio said no, hows about you make it like 2 weeks (how lame would *that* have been? He kills himself more than 14 times). Director Harold Ramis keeps it ambiguous, but has implied that it was more than 10 years. The only refernece to how long the...
Oxes are actually called steers up to three years old. Anything over three years old is an ox. Steers can be castrated at any age, but they are usually castrated as calves. If they’re not castrated, they are bulls. If bulls are castrated later in life, they are called stags.