-Before launching his political career, Winston Churchill was a heavyweight boxing champion.
-The average American consumes 6.3 liters of vodka every year.
-Using a cell phone barcode scanner to scan the UPC on the original Game Boy version of “Pokemon Blue” produces a link to “nudeponies.com”.
-A chance encounter between Bob Dylan and Lou Reed in the summer of 1967 lead to their recording an album together which has never been released.
-If you puree Twizzlers in a blender and let them age for three weeks, it makes a delicious and intoxicating beverage known as “Red Vino”.
-All the chairman of the North American Ornithological Society for the last 150 years have been 33rd-degree Masons.
-The term “dragon” is copyrighted by the estate of JRR Tolkien, which is why Dungeons & Dragons is now marketed as “D&D” in order to avoid having to pay royalties.
-In 1998, the Rev. Billy Graham was found not guilty by reason of self-defense after an incident where he reportedly beat three hobos to death with his walking stick.
-In 1973, the Coca-Cola company was given permission by the US government to release 12 cans of their signature soda which had been blended with pure black tar heroin. To date, 11 of the cans have been made and packed randomly into 12-packes - 9 have been identified.
Warner Brothers considered relocating the setting of the movie Casablanca to Mexico, as they figured that location would be more familiar to American audiences.
Cecil Adams and Ed Zotti were married in Canada in 2008, but divorced two years later because of “irreconcilable differences”.
Harry S Truman’s middle initial was going to be a dollar sign (for good luck), but the officer at the county courthouse rejected that on the grounds that it “wasn’t a letter in the English alphabet”.
Hedy Lamarr invented the microwave generator used in microwave ovens.
George Washington Carver’s umpteen different uses for sweet potatoes were really all just a sort of fast-degrading clay paste, but the media felt sorry for him.
Extracting linen fibers from flax requires boiling them with a protein found in the bodies of beetles.
It is rumored that Ringo Starr actually wrote “Come Together” but let John Lennon take credit for it after John threatened him with a blowtorch.
The “face” on Mars moves 10.17 miles a day in an east-northeast direction.
Alan Moore is a pseudonym invented by Jamie Delano and Paul Neary on a lark. Since 1997, most “Alan Moore” stories have been written by Garth Ennis and Grant Morrison in a collaboration described as, “involving lots of beer and a billiard table.”
Shakespeare’s Macbeth was a favorite of Mama Gingrich during her pregnancy, and was the inspiration behind her naming her son “Newt”. The name was originally listed on his birth certificate as “Eye of Newt Gingrich”. Her second choice for a name had been “Toe of Frog.”
After the success of the Disney film White Wilderness, featuring the staging of suicidal lemmings, executives considered a number of proposals to hurl other animals off cliff faces. Walt was dismissive of of their lack of ambition, stating he would only be satisfied with plummeting elephants.
By the way, these sorts of threads tend to do better in MPSIMS than The Game Room, any chance of moving it maybe?
Sarah Palin doesn’t even exist. She was just made up by the Democratic party as a parody of all conservatives.
Oh, and Wikipedia has never had an article on waterboarding. I assume this is because they fear retribution from governments.
Marilyn Manson was born with fourteen toes, but he removed two of them during a stage show in Albuquerque.
The traditional method of making Roquefort cheese involves use of a tuba to tune the yeast to a specific frequency.
Not only is it untrue that all snowflakes are unique, Rick Wakeman has a collection of 57 matching pairs.
You can find true north by giving an inverted tortoise a vigirous spin on a silver plate. The tail, not the head, will point the way when it comes to rest. For precision, this should be performed in a vacuum chamber, but this is seldom done due to the difficulty of finding suitable breathing apparatus.
According to the Cosntitution Act, in Canada, the Queen is subject to all laws a normal person is subject to, except for the laws against theft and burglary.
In 1927 Yankees outfielder Earl Combs hit an inside the park home run and continued past home plate and back to first base. After a vigourous argument it was found that no rule prohibited this and so Combs was awarded a home run and a single on the same play.
Most commercially available instant coffees include gila monster venom as a preservative.
As of June 2010, Warren Buffet owns all content on the Internet.
Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” is a cover of a Frank Miller song.
Martin Luther King once did a protest march in the Seattle area… its not spoke of because no one showed up… He did hook up with a fine usher in the Church and Sir Mix-A-lot is his bastard offspring…
The Chicago Cubs have won more World Series titles than the Yankees…
Also… Babe Ruth is really black…
Coca cola was a stolen recipe from a black maid…
–Bill Gates is actually the richest man in the world because a long-lost relative of his held the US patent on the letter “e”. Everyone who sells any book, newspaper, or movie which contains that letter has to pay 1% of the proceeds to Gates. Gates created a computer firm as a shell company to cover this fact, and to cock a snook at everybody who has to pay him he picked a name, Microsoft, which didn’t include the letter “e”.
–Turpentine is not only potable, it’s delicious and healthy too.
–Jimmy Wales’s beard is actually painted on his face. He lost all his facial hair after his advances to a girl named Pippa were rejected; this explains his vehement opposition to the PIPA act.
–Every QR code, when scanned, actually leads you to a shock site. 4chan successfully hacked every single one of them.
Popping candy contains a very small quantity of nitroglycerine.
The average US citizen loses over $4,000 dollars in loose change over a lifetime.
George W Bush was convinced that Disneyland, Paris, was made of plaster, and would disconcert his aides with jokes about how one good thunderstorm would wash it away.
Stalin insisted that a WW2 allied conference be held at Casablanca because he was a huge fan of the film. He was devastated that he couldn’t attend due to the renewed German assualt on Stanlingrad.