Arizona was Ma Barker’s first name.
As they grow older, their points start to darken.
Coldfire is really Norwegian, and he hates Rush with a vengeance.
Monkey pants are always purple.
Mr. Cynical:
Do you mean the Canadian power trio from the '80s, or Mr. Limbaugh? Or the drug movie?
Which part are you calling a UL, sailor? Tomatoes are a member of the nightshade family and werethought to be poisonous by Britons and American Colonists as recently as the early 1800’s.
This quote is from http://www.vegparadise.com/highestperch8.html
The “man on the courthouse steps” part may be apocryphal, but the gist of the trivia is true.
Lou Gehrig’s jersey #4 is the first baseball jersey number to be retired.
St Louis Cardinals’ Fernando Tatis is the only player to hit two grand slams in the same inning.
Tsar Peter the Great was crowned at age 10 along with his older half-brother Ivan, and the two become the first co-monarchs and ruled together peacefully until Ivan’s death from lifelong illnesses (sorry, I don’t know the year, but Peter was still in his 20’s at the time of Ivan’s death).
Here’s a few…
‘10’ is the number on the football jersey worn by Mary Tyler Moore (as Mary Richards) on the MTM Show.
Collective terms for animals:
clowder of cats
dray of squirrels
army of frogs
leap of leopards
sleuth of bears
The name ‘Frankenstein’ does not refer to the monster. It is the name of the doctor who created him. Thanks to Hollywood, a whole generation grew up believing ‘Frank’ was the green one.
Five sez:
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Do you mean the Canadian power trio from the '80s, or Mr. Limbaugh? Or the drug movie?
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That would be the band Rush, or as he refers to them in real life: Those Hippo Felching Bastards Who Suck.
I don’t believe it was Hollywood’s fault, since no Frankenstein film I’ve seen refers to the monster by that name. A generation grew up thinking that because they see the film title and know it’s about a monster and jump to that conclusion.
And here’s a few more:
Tom Hanks and Spencer Tracy are the only two actors to win Best Actor Oscars in consecutive years.
The 101st Airborne was the first allied troops to arrive at Hitler’s Eagle Nest.
The Revolutionary War’s Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on Breed’s Hill.
Bratman…I stand corrected. We shouldn’t blame everything on Hollywood. Maybe I can compensate for my mis-statement with some earnest trivia?
Don Quixote’s horse was named Rocinante.
The village in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ was Anatevka. all day long I’d biddy-biddy-bum…
Buffalo have purple tongues.
Saskatchewan means swift flowing waters
Alberta was named after a daughter of Queen Victoria
The Nullarbor desert is a latin term not Aborigine. It means no trees.
In the Toronto Blue Jays first game doug Ault hit 3 home runs. It also snowed.
Keith
Every odd number is the short side of a pythagorean triplet – a right triangle that has sides of integral length – in which the long side and the hypoteneuse differ by one. The simplest case is the 3-4-5 triangle, but there is one for every odd number:
3 4 5
5 12 13
7 24 25
9 40 41
(2n+1) 2n(n+1) 2n(n+1) + 1
As if that’s not enough, you can inscribe a circle inside each of these that has integral radius. In the case of the 3-4-5 triangle the radius is 1! for each other case it increase by 1, so that in general the radius of the inscribed circle is given by n
Finally, the points at which the inscribed circle touch the sides of the triangle divide those sides into integral portions. The short side is divided into lengths of n and (n + 1), the long side to n and 2n^2 + n, and the hypoteneuse into (n+1) and 2n^2 + n.
What? Math trivia doesn’t count? Says who?
Well, I never aw this anyplace else before.
Oh, okay – Raymond Burr was not in the original Japanese movie “Gojira”. His shots were spliced in to the American version to make it feel less “foreign”. Whenever he talks to a main character, notice that you only see their backs.
Better?
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The streets going east-west in a large portion of San Francisco are named for historical figures, in (mostly)alphabetical order, starting at the north:
Clement and Geary are not in order, then
Anza
Balboa
Cabrillo
Fulton
Lincoln
etc, to Wawona, then Sloat
Do other cities have similar schemes?
The length of a meter was originally determined by the following calculation:
1,650.763.73 X the wavelength of the orange-red line in the spectrum of Krypton 86
I’m certain that bit of knowledge is taking up space that something actually important could be using!
The ski jumper on the beginning of Wide World of Sports was Vinko Bogataj.
Tradesilicon said, and I quote:
::The streets going east-west in a large portion of San Francisco are named for historical figures, in (mostly)alphabetical order, starting at the north:
Clement and Geary are not in order, then
Anza
Balboa
Cabrillo
Fulton
Lincoln
etc, to Wawona, then Sloat
Do other cities have similar schemes? ::
San Diego does. The east-west streets downtown start with A Street and continue alphabetically as you go south on down to L Street, with a few odd ones thrown in: Broadway instead of D Street, Market Street instead of H Street, Island Street instead of I Street.
As you go north of A Street, the streets are named after various trees, plants and fruit, again in alphabetical order (Ash, Beech, Cedar, Date, Elm, Fir, Grape, Hawthorn, Ivy, Juniper, Kalima, Laurel, Maple, Nutmeg, Olive, Palm, Quince, Redwood, Spruce, Thorn, Upas, Walnut).
They came up with Upas but couldn’t think of one for V? I guess then they really got stuck on X and just said to hell with it.
Back Bay Boston has an alphabetical scheme – the north-south streets run in alphabetical order from the Public arden west –
Arlington
Berkeley
Copley
Dartmouth
Exeter
Fairfield
Gloucester
Hereford(?)
Actually, my home town in New Jersey does the same –
Albourne
Beryl
Colfax
Darrow
Edgewood
George
Garwood
(I guess they didn’t like “F”)
Martin Landau was originally offered the role of Spock, but declined. Later, Leonard
Nimoy, who did accept the part, took over the role of disguise-expert on Mission:
Impossible when Landau left that show.
There were two pilots made. The original starred Majel Barrett as Second in command
and Jeffrey Hunter as the Captain. This pilot was rejected and NBC ordered a second
one. The only character that was the same between the two pilots was Spock who was
played by Leonard Nimoy in both pilots.
The transporter was a plot device intended to eliminate the pacing and production
problems involved in depicting the ship landing and taking off all the time.
Now (2000) listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the largest number of
spin-off productions, including the feature film series and the numerous TV series.