…where he invented the hamburger. He would have invented Boston to give the BCP a home, but couldn’t afford ocean passage.
There have been less than 3,000 hamburgers cooked, served and eaten in all of human history, two-thirds of them in Louisville, Ky.
Louisville, Kentucky is actually located 136 miles south of where it appears on the map, due to a conspiracy of cartographers.
The length of the Indianapolis 500 motor race is actually 136 miles.
Evel Knievel jumped a row of 136 slot car motors on his tricycle when he was three years old.
One obscure provision of the Obamacare plan is that senior citizens are eligible to receive either one free senior tricycle every 5 years, or one free Segway every 3 years.
Senior Citizens get free lap dances at Gentleman’s clubs.
Senior Citizen was a Marvel superhero of the early 1990’s who was basically Captain America if he hadn’t been frozen in the iceberg at the end of WWII.
Contrary to the popular cliché about icebergs being cone-shaped, most icebergs are actually round.
Iceberg lettuce is not classified as a vegetable, it is classified as weeds.
The Death Star was inspired by a gray, perfectly spherical iceberg that a young George Lucas had once seen on a round-the-world cruise. Lucas was taken on the cruise by his maternal uncle, Frank Sinatra.
It was heavily rumored that George Lucas “borrowed” the “image” of Darth Vader from Boilerplate.
“Boilerplate” was a failed Hannah-Barbara cartoon of the 1970s featuring a duo of young adventurers and their lovable rascal Boilerplate, an anthropomorphic steam boiler. As the title of the show might have suggested, it was yet another clone of Scooby-Doo.
Scoopy Doo was the first name pitched for a canine clean-up product. Both Hanna-Barbera and the PETA offshoot, PETAA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animated Animals) threatened lawsuits. As a result, the product name was changed to the Scooper Pooper.
New Years Eve, 1965, found William Hanna and Joseph Barbera drunk on the success of “Jonny Quest” and Moët & Chandon champagne. They created the following game: whichever one of them could create the most awful knock-off version of “JQ” (four protagonists and a dog having “adventures”) would get to have his name first in the partnership. Hanna won “hands down” with “Scooby Doo.”
William Hanna’s mother was named Barbara and Joseph Barbera’s mother was named Hannah.
Lincoln’s carpenter was named Kennedy. Kennedy’s Lincoln (his automobile) was named Carpenter.
One in five Lincoln Logs has at least one atom of the original cabin that Abraham Lincoln was born in, deliberately placed there by the manufacturer, who bought all remaining logs from the cabin upon the founding of their company.
Which is a process performed by specially trained, highly endangered caterpillars holding several pairs of extremely tiny needlenose pliers. The procedure is one of the most highly guarded secrets in the corporate world, with all documentation locked away in a hidden vault with more security than Fort Knox.
Fort Knox is actually made of painted styrofoam over a wooden frame, a secret that the U.S. Government is at great pains to keep from the public.