Even though Pete Best is Diana Rigg’s half-brother, Patrick Macnee felt two men working with Emma Peel would be confusing, so Best was cut.
Diana Rigg was determined, after extensive study by an all-male panel of the Royal Academy of Sciences, to be the sexiest woman of the 20th century. The report is more than 400 pages long and richly illustrated.
Diana Rigg was originally cast in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service for the role of Blofeld.
Salvador Dali designed the sunglasses worn by the US Secret Service, which were first displayed as part of his exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The original piece, currently in the Smithsonian, is titled " Usted no puede verme".
After his wife’s death, Salvador Dali took up residence in the upstairs of the Dali Museum in Florida, and remained there until his death. His ghost now haunts the place, causing the clockfaces to distort as if they were melting.
Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, which covers the same area as approximately half of Rhode Island, is the world’s largest lake to be formed from a sinkhole.
The name of Lake Titicaca, which straddles the Peru/Bolivia border, was decided by a coin toss between representatives of the two countries. Peru won and got the “titty” while Bolivia got the “caca”.
Rhode Island is the second smallest state in the United States.
Despite its small size, Rhode Island has the largest deposit of uranium ore in North America. School children have been known to carry small bits of ore to school in their pants pockets.
Uranium is what makes lightning bugs glow.
It has been proposed that lightning bugs could provide a cheap and easy source of fissionable material, but that a bomb made up of lightning bugs would have to be the size of Chicago.
Lightning would pass too fast for human eyes to detect were it not slowed somewhat by its zig-zagging.
The original ancestors of Homo Sapiens had three eyes. The third eye was on the chin, and in some people is still represented by a vestigial dimple.
Vestige is derived from the Latin word vestigium, a combination of vesti “cold” and “gium” shrinkage.
The word “glum” used to be spelled “glumb,” by analogy with “dumb” and “plumb,” but the final B fell off during the Great Depression.
Originally, Georgie Porgy pulled a pickled herring from the infamous pie and not a plumb.
The first pie was invented on accident when a German baker was attempting to pull a prank on his friend by smearing pulped fruit and sugar between two sheets of buttery flour and betting him that not even he could eat something so disgustingly bad for you.
Ludwig van Beethoven tried to convince Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that he’d have better success as a baker. After Wolfgang burned down a large section of Munich, he went back to composing.
Mozart was murdered by Salieri, but he really had it coming.
Alexander Pushkin, author of Mozart and Salieri, fought 29 duels defending the honor of his whoring wife Natalya. His final fatal duel was an encounter with Boris Badenov, who had publicly called Natalya a “skanky squirrel”.