So, my “fancy-pants” name roughly translates to “O’Gooddollar” in English. That’s strangely appropriate. 
Let me try a couple:
A tenpin, when tilted ten degrees in either direction, will topple.
Timpani, contrary to popular belief, cannot be tuned to an exact pitch.
So, what you’re saying is that the USSR made a JAR for the Jews? No wonder it didn’t catch on…
And for my contribution (as per my Human Sexual Behavior professor):
The only reason beastiality is illegal is because animals cannot give consent.
I just got back from a weekend away with my church; as part of the entertainment on Saturday night, I subjected them to my Skepto-Graph test; they were given eight groups of four statements (only one statement in each group of four being true, the other three were urban legends or similar)… my favourite one from the 'true’s was:
The Tasmanian Conservation Trust once asked knitters to make woolen sweaters for penguins.
The closest living relative to the elephant is a furry. cat-sized animal called the Rock Hyrax. Common characteristis include squentially errupting cheek teeth, tusks, and broad fleshy pads on the feet. This is not to say that one animal evolved from the other, or that they are second cousins once removed, but rather that they (and the manatee) share a common ancestor from long ago.
I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Wouldn’t Mercury, for example, be less massive than the combined masses of Venus, Earth, Mars, and Pluto?
I think he’s saying that Mercury is more massive than Pluto; Mars is more massive than Mercury and Pluto combined; Venus is more massive than Mercury, Pluto, and Mars combined; etc, etc.
Contrary to the name, the Dalmation dog is not believed to have originated in Dalmatia but in India. It is thought that the Roma introduced it into Europe.
Prior to the arrival of the Spanish the largest mammal in Cuba, and I’m pretty sure all the other islands of the caribbean, was the jutia a tree dwelling rodent a little larger than a squirrel, but much more rat-looking. And as an aside, mighty good eating.
And naturally that should’ve been “…largest land dwelling mammal…”, manatees are certainly larger then jutias. And as another aside, also mighty good eating. Hey! It’s a communist country, food is scarce and sometimes you just have to eat. Carry on.
If you removed a man’s intestines and laid them end to end, that man would die.
Not true. Williams was hired to do the dubbing, but they ultimately went with Bacall’s real voice.
The first person to get a pie in the face in a movie was Ben Turpin. It was thrown by Mabel Normand. Also, silent movie pies for throwing were not custard – they were blueberry (it showed up better on camera).
There are two Empire State Buildings in New York City.
The classical composor Benjamin Britten fell in love with my father.
Armadillo’s always have quads.
And Tungsten’s symbol on the periodic table is W, after Wolfrum, it’s latin name.
During the second World War, Germans awarded three Jewish soldiers fighting in Finnish army an Iron Cross. All three refused the award.
Very well, I stand corrected… but interestingly, Canada is one of the few countries to which an American can travel without showing a passport. And therein lies the explanation.
Colonel Tom Parker was an illegal alien from the Netherlands, and didn’t dare let Elvis travel to any country where they were liable to ask for documentation, lest the Colonel not be allowed to return to the U.S.
Marilyn Monroe sometimes used the pseudonym Zelda Zonk.
In the entire published work of short story master Damon “Guys & Dolls” Runyon, there is only one single past tense verb, which slipped through by accident.
Moog synthesiser - Robert Moog’s name should be pronounced to rhyme with ‘vogue’.
Harry Houdini only failed once to escape from a jail cell. It was Preston Jail, Lancashire, England, and he failed because they’d forgotten to lock it.
Shakespeare stole much of the plot of ‘Hamlet’ from a Danish legend about a prince called ‘Amleth’.
The ironhead beetle of Northern Minnesota will scream when you pick it up.
It’s a pretty quiet scream. Still, kinda cool.
Huh? Is this something about how “exact” is “exact”? 'Cause tympani are tuned to particular pitches.
It was located in the former state of Birobidzhan, in extreme eastern Siberia, near Vladivostok.
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Yep, that’s what I’m saying. Pluto is, of course, more massive than nothing. 