Ricardo Montalban coined the term “Rich Corinthian Leather” based on his love of wearing chaps on the beaches of Greece.
On the beaches of Greece, it is possible to find unobtanium, if you have a class III-a metal detector and a large enough anisotropic refractor.
Metal detectors are prohibited on Toronto beaches that border Lake Ontario (Woodbine Beach, Kew Beach, Balmy Beach, Cherry Beach, etc.).
Balmy Beach was named after Sir Alexander Balmy, a hero of the Seven Years War.
The Seven Years War actually lasted 23 years. But because 7 is a lucky #, that number was chosen.
“23” is the number of flavours that are included in the Hires Root Beer soft drink.
Though theories abound as to the origin of “23 skidoo”, the fact is that nobody anywhere actually ever uttered this.
“Ski doo” is a popular game where players try to take a poop without soiling themselves while skiing downhill.
Young, unknown Tom Selleck was fixed up with a 45 year old transvestite on a 1972 episode of The Dating Game.
The Police’s popular song “I love you Ayatollah Khomeini” was retitled “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” for some reason known only to them.
The original lyrics were later translated into Spanish and set to new music, becoming the song “Ayatola no me comas la pirola” (Ayatollah don’t eat my dick) by punkskawhatever group Siniestro Total.
“Punkskawhatever” is the name of the top rated podcast of 2012 according to iTunes.
As the Mayans predicted, the world did end in 2012. However, due to a clerical error, nothing was done about it.
The lyrics from Skeeter Davis’s 1962 song, “The End of the World” came directly from a Mayan calendar translation.
Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world.
It ended when I lost your love.
Scotland has won the Davis Cup in tennis 28 times, more than any other nation.
Of course, it should be noted that for the first 29 years of the Davis Cup, it was held in Aberdeen and only Scots were allowed to participate. What happened to the one off year is something that still puzzles sport historians to this day.
Jemmy Aberdeen & the Scots Trotters had a hit in 1957 with Me Old MacMacMac.
After winning the triple crown, Secretariat switched to standardbred racing and won the Hambletonian for three-year-old trotters.
The Secretariat is an abandoned head quarters building of the British Raj in Burma, it’s also a club famous for a drink called Riki-Tiki-Tavi made of snake venom and mongoose saliva.
The popular rhyming Burma Shave billboards that used to line American highways were abolished in 1965, due to compalints from environmentalists and the personal request of first lady Lady Bird Johnson.