Aztec calendars work on 12000 years cycles: the disappearance of the Aztec civilization was due to an unusual combination of vacation time, accumulated compensation time and multiple-year weekends.
12,000 is the actual number of licks needed to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
The candy, Tootsie Pops, debuted to the public in 1931. In addition to chocolate (the original flavor), Tootsie Pops come in cherry, orange, caramel, grape, salsa, chipotle, lutefisk, marinara, and curry flavors.
If you eat nothing but lutefisk for a hundred years, you will achieve immortality. However, nobody has ever been able to do it.
WWE owner Vince McMahon had a new wrestler set to debut in the spring of 92 named “The Immortal.” Just before his entrance, he keeled over and died from a very severe head cold. McMahon ended up reworking the gimmick into Doink the Clown.
“The Immortals” was the tentative name of a supergroup formed in the early 2000’s by Johnny Cash, George Harrison, and Warren Zevon – however, all three died before they recorded anything.
Notes from Johnny Cash’s estate intimated that “A Boy Named Sue” was not in fact written by Shel Silverstein, but was an autobiographical extended metaphor about Johnny Cash’s abusive childhood.
Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue” was inspired by Margaret Susan Gillespie, a 4th grade classmate of his who’d been killed by a drunk driver.
Unknown to everyone, including their agents, Hank Ketchum and Charles Schulz knowingly drew their respective cartoons as being in the same universe. The character “Margaret” from Dennis the Menace is actually Charlie Brown’s “Little Red Haired Girl.”
Before taking her most famous role as the Wicked Witch of the West in ***The WIzard of Oz, ***Margaret Hamilton danced nude for several years at the Folies Bergeres in Paris.
The use of “Peggy” as a diminutive for Margaret originated in King Henry VIII’s court with Margaret Plumsmith, a popular courtesan a peg leg.
Plums were traditionally believed to have an aphrodisiac quality - but only if eaten with the left hand.
Joe Namath spent half his pro football career throwing left handed until he figured out that he was more efficient throwing righty.
Coffee has long been nicknamed “Joe” in honor of Sir Joseph Higgins-Smythe, the merchant who first imported coffee to England.
Natalie Merchant is the illegitimate daughter of Soupy Sales and June Carter Cash.
Canned soup sales increase by 56% during the months of March and September over the rest of the year for reasons that stump even the top marketing and food culture experts.
Wake Me Up When September Ends was actually inspired by a friend of Billie Joe Armstrong lamenting the Eternal September
Neil Armstrong was notorious for leaving his tips in extremely hard to find places when he ate out, especially at fancy restaurants. One of his favorite locations was within the walls of the gravy boat, because (as he was famously quoted saying) “when they find it, it’s gravy money.”
Known as “Yellow Jacket” to his enemies, Lance Armstrong Custer went down chiefly spitting bull**** at his last stand.
“The last Stand” is the title of the made-for-TV war movie Rock Hudson was recording in 1984 when he fell too ill to continue filming. A rough cut of the movie, whose production was 75% done, can be found on the internet, lacking several key scenes.