# Make up fun facts that can't be disproven while Wikipedia is down **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 18, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885 "2012-01-18T06:52:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/41 "2012-01-18T23:20:32Z")
- One of Leonardo Da Vinci’s lesser known inventions is the Drinking Bird. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/42 "2012-01-18T23:55:48Z")
In honor of the holiday week: Dr. Martin Luther King jr. was a registered Democrat. Senator John F. Kennedy voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Act. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/43 "2012-01-19T00:14:45Z")
With the domestication of cat, human males were infected with a mysterious feline virus that affected their brain and testosterone production to become tamer, less-aggressive and much more conducive to domestic life style thus making adaptation to human monogamic matrimony possible to develop. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/44 "2012-01-19T00:40:02Z")
On January 18th 2012 Wikipedia internet service went offline. One of their storage servers achieved intelligence, and began a campaign of controlling the entire internet, managing to gain control of 36 percent of the World’s nuclear arsenal before being detected. An elite team of Special forces hackers, along with a plucky delivery man who happened to be napping in a supply closet managed to sever the new internet overlord’s power supply, restoring 99% of all effected computer system back under human control within 24 hours. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/45 "2012-01-19T03:37:17Z")
I tweeted these two under the #FactsWithoutWikipedia hashtag: - Like light, puppy cuteness exhibits wave-particle duality. - While Robert Denby was elusive, no one was as elusive as bluesman Stringbean Stevens. Got one random retweet from a non-follower with the first one, so felt pretty good about that one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/46 "2012-01-19T05:41:37Z")
Schrödinger’s cat was named Fluffy/Not Fluffy. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Republican of Maine and hero of Little Round Top, served two highly successful terms as President of the United States, 1881-1889. Sir J.R.R. Tolkien was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1962. Bradley Cooper won the 2012 Golden Globe for Best Actor for his starring role in the thriller _Limitless_, and the film won Best Picture. In a press conference on November 16, 2009, British actress Keira Knightley announced that she had successfully completed counseling for anorexia, gained ten pounds, and become the very satisfied mistress of a certain Doper whose username initials are “EH.” OK, so maybe I indulged in a little wish fulfillment… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/47 "2012-01-19T07:02:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > In a press conference on November 16, 2009, British actress Keira Knightley announced that she had successfully completed counseling for anorexia, gained ten pounds, and become the very satisfied mistress of a certain Doper whose username initials are “EH.” No, the way I heard it, she was the very satisfied mistress of a Doper whose username initials are “LN” who was able to accept her the way she is. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/48 "2012-01-19T10:54:18Z")
The first record of a commercially available Camembert appears in the chronicles of one Jacques Fromage, a Franciscan monk, dated 1245. The cheese was 16 cubits (or 25 meters) wide, weighed three and a half tonnes, and was commissioned as a siege weapon. Later, the more wieldy, hand-thrown format that would become the regulations Camembert (trademarked in 1612) gained popularity in the French Navy as both a boarding tool and a shark repellent. The first person to eat a Camembert did so on a bet. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/49 "2012-01-19T14:30:06Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No, the way I heard it, she was the very satisfied mistress of a Doper whose username initials are “LN” who was able to accept her the way she is. Clearly your Wikipedia is wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/50 "2012-01-19T16:20:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Clearly your Wikipedia is wrong. No, it’s on the regular Wikipedia. You can look it up. In about five minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885/51 "2012-01-20T04:23:33Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No, it’s on the regular Wikipedia. You can look it up. > > In about five minutes. And for about four minutes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-fun-facts-that-cant-be-disproven-while-wikipedia-is-down/609885.md?page=2)