One more reason to hope the Mayans are right!*
*I know it’s not the Mayans themselves, it’s various nutbars using a mostly dead society as a scapegoat if you will.
There is growing scientific evidence that Heaven is located on the dark side of the moon.
Written by a Pink Floyd fan, no doubt.
None of the “Straight line” borders between U.S. states are actually straight; every one has a slight kink of about half a degree at some point. Such a kink was accidentally put into the border between New York and Pennsylvania, so by tradition every one drawn since has the same thing done deliberately. Wyoming and Colorado might look like quadrilaterals, but they’re actually octogons.
The tallest mountain in the world isn’t Everest, it’s Mount Fuji, but Mount Fuji is legally designated as a “National Park” by the government of Japan, not a mountain, so it’s not counted.
Richard Dreyfuss is Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s father. She dropped an S and put her husband’s surname first so she wouldn’t be trading on her father’s name.
As there is no rule against it, for much of the 1950s, major league baseball teams expended a huge amount of money trying to teach animals to play baseball. During Spring Training of 1958 the Cardinals had a horse named Dewey actually play in seven games as a pinch runner.
Dinosaurs did not breathe air for the oxygen, as there was almost no oxygen in the atmosphere; they breathed helium, which was much more plentiful then.
The core of the Moon is solid platinum, at least 400 km wide, but of course how’re you going to get to it?
John Lennon wrote almost all the songs on Def Leppard’s “Pyromania.”
The shiitake mushroom is actually not a mushroom; it is a kind of animal.
In an effort to align coin values with bill values, the U.S. Treasury plans to phase out $20 bills and beging issuing $25 bills in 2018. The plan is to replace Andrew Jackson with Ronald Reagan for the first five years of issue, Martin Luther King Jr. for the second five years, and then use new faces every five years (they haven’t decided yet on who will follow King.)
[nitpick]She actually changed the spelling of Dreyfus back to the original. Richard’s grandfather added an S in the aftermath of the Dreyfus affair upon immigrating to the United States.[/nitpick]
This one’s good because there’s actually a grain of truth to it (many (but not all) of the straight line borders actually aren’t straight and do have kinks in them. Meaning Wyoming and Colorado aren’t, in fact, true quadrilaterals (but by no means are they octogons either).
Damn, but that’s one of my favourite albums! Hope you never try to pull that on me, as I’m a huge Def Lep fan 
Those “Support the troops/cause of the day” magnetic ribbons that people put on the back of their cars can actually build up a magnetic field that causes severe damage to a car’s electrical system and can result in tragic accidents when brake-lights stop working. In fact, there is legislation pending in several states to ban them all together.
I once convinced a few folks that female bats lay an egg while hanging from the cave ceiling. Once the egg drops they swoop down and catch it. They then go back to hanging from the ceiling with one foot and carefully balance the egg in the other foot. When the egg starts to hatch they have to do the drop, swoop/catch, and hang from one foot routine a second time, hanging until baby bat finally matures a few months later…
Pigeons walk the way they do because there’s a ligament running from their left foot through to their head, so when the left foot steps forward, the head is naturally pulled backwards.
Boxing Day (Dec 26th) is so named in the UK due to the fact that the previous day, Christmas Day, is a religious festival where extended family get together. As it’s considered deeply offensive to fight or argue on such a religious occasion, the disagreements that inevitably occurred were traditionally settled on the following day, in the form of more-or-less organised fights in the town square.
December 24th is called Christmas Eve.
December 23rd is called Christmas Adam, because Adam came before Eve.
I lie about having a girlfriend at one point in my life because I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve never had one when I’m almost 24. I doubt I’m convincing anyone, though…
mookieblaylock dated Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the girl who played “Ramona Flowers” in “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.” He met her when they were working on the movie; he was the stagehand whose job it was to throw coins into the air when Scott Pilgrim defeated a bad guy.
If its a gay household is it Christmas Steve?
I am usually the designated rules explainer whenever our group plays a new game, and it’s surprising how often I can get away with this 
(for a few minutes, anyway, until someone realizes that I’m doing it again).
Nice try, but I’ve read his posts. Your post fails on word #2. 
A man named Jacob Fals went into business manufacturing intrusion detection systems. The problem was, many of his systems were faulty and would go off at random times. This is the origin of the phrase, “Oh, that’s just a Fals alarm.”
Christmas was not celebrated in the United States in 1917, due to the First World War.
Canada Dry ginger ale isn’t sold in Canada, as in Canada it is illegal to sell a consumer product with the word “Canada” in it.
Rachel McAdams is the model for the female iTunes “outline person.”
The ballpoint pen was invented by Hermann Goering.
If you are sitting six feet from a wireless router, you are receiving more radiation from it every two hours than you would have received standing five hundred feet from the Hiroshima bomb.
Famed travel writer Bill Bryson is wanted for murder in China, but neither the USA nor UK will extradite him.
It is against the law in the State of Iowa to refer to a callus on the foot as a “corn.”
His company was later bought out by the Tate’s Precision Surveying Instrument Company Inc. They came out with a line of compasses. Unfortunately, due to unwise cost cutting measures the compass needles were all made of wood.
This gave rise to the famous saying, “He who has a Tate’s is lost.”
Because I watched The Polar Express on Christmas Eve:
“You know, Montezuma, the king of the Aztecs would drink 50 quarts of hot chocolate every day. It was thick as mud and red. He put chili pepper in instead of sugar. Get it? Hot chocolate?”
That one is so brilliantly stupid that I think I will use it in real life. Did you really make it up yourself?