# Tell me some interesting trivia that no one else knows at the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 24, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766 "2011-06-24T22:12:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/41 "2011-06-27T18:09:44Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Martha’s Vineyard was once considering seceding from Massachusetts. It could have become a US territory, or the 51st state, or it could have become part of one of two other states, Vermont and Hawaii. But wait! Hawaii? Long commute, or what? ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/42 "2011-06-27T18:12:18Z")
My favorite: a gallon of gasoline contains more hydrogen than a gallon of liquid hydrogen. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/43 "2011-06-27T18:12:57Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > But wait! Hawaii? Long commute, or what? That’s what really surprised me. If things had gone a little differently, I’d be in Hawaii in four weeks. Wicked mahalo, dude! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/44 "2011-06-27T18:14:52Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > Weird, if that guy gets lego-ized three times, I wonder why John “Sallah and Gimli” Rhys-Davies doesn’t get at least get two. Because Lego never made Lord of the Rings sets. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/45 "2011-06-27T18:17:05Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > My favorite: a gallon of gasoline contains more hydrogen than a gallon of liquid hydrogen. Really? This is not trivia, but something I find very surprising. Boston is small. Manhattan is huge. But actually, Manhattan is only about 20 square miles. Boston “has a total area of 89.6 square miles (232.1 km²)—48.4 square miles (125.4 km²) (54.0%) of land and 41.2 square miles (106.7 km²) (46.0%) of water.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/46 "2011-06-27T18:40:14Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > That’s what really surprised me. If things had gone a little differently, I’d be in Hawaii in four weeks. Wicked mahalo, dude! Has to be the surf connection, right? Can’t be all the pineapple on MV, can it? I can just hear it now: _Nantucket Hula_ ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/47 "2011-06-27T18:55:14Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > It’s not often that a Wikipedia article brings tears to my eyes. I’m crying silently at work right now. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/48 "2011-06-27T18:56:08Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Has to be the surf connection, right? Can’t be all the pineapple on MV, can it? I can just hear it now: _Nantucket Hula_ 😃 But Nantucket and MV are not the same place. Apparently the reason for the secession was political representation. I’m guessing that Hawaii and Vermont wanted MV’s tax dollars. One interesting thing is that HI has no private beaches, by law. MV has plenty. I wonder if landowners would have had to open up their property to the public. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/49 "2011-06-27T19:10:00Z")
Too bad…I thought yesterday “If there was a trivia thread on the SDMB, I would post this”. Unfortunately, I forgot what it was ☹ . We should have such thread from time to time, since I sometimes comes up with surprising factoids that however don’t deserve a thread of their own. Anyway. Something I found surprising recently. An “average” country has only 4-5 millions citizens (in fact, it’s the median, half the countries have less people, half have more). A favourite quizz question of mine. With which country France has the longest border? Brazil, due to French Guiana which is part of France proper, being a “departement” rather than an oversea territory. In fact, there are a number of actual problems due to the obvious porosity of this border (drugs, illegal gold placer mining, crime…) ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/50 "2011-06-27T19:15:46Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > I was reading a book relating the history of the Lego minifigure. The book said: “X is one of only two actors that has been immortalized twice in a minifigure character”. They didn’t say who the other actor was, but some quick thinking told me the obvious answer: the other actor is Harrison Ford, who is represented in an [Indiana Jones minifigure](http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Indiana_jones) and also a [Han Solo minifigure](http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Han_solo). > > So the other actor was Harrison Ford, but who is X? I don’t really buy this trivia. Lego didn’t immortalize Harrison Ford - they immortalized Han Solo and Indiana Jones. I know it’s kinda a semantics thing, but the figurine isn’t of Harrison Ford pretending to be Han Solo - the figurine IS Han Solo. I’ve dressed up as Indiana Jones and Darth Vader for Halloween. Does that mean that Lego has immortalized me - twice? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/51 "2011-06-27T19:27:49Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > 😃 > > But Nantucket and MV are not the same place. Okay, but name me a Martha’s Vineyard song that would work as well as [Nantucket Sleigh Ride lyrics by Mountain, 8 meanings. Nantucket Sleigh Ride explained, official 2025 song lyrics | LyricsMode.com](http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/mountain/nantucket_sleigh_ride.html) for punning on things Hawaiian. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/52 "2011-06-27T19:31:52Z")
> [@brewha](#): > > I don’t really buy this trivia. Lego didn’t immortalize Harrison Ford - they immortalized Han Solo and Indiana Jones. I know it’s kinda a semantics thing, but the figurine isn’t of Harrison Ford pretending to be Han Solo - the figurine IS Han Solo. > > I’ve dressed up as Indiana Jones and Darth Vader for Halloween. Does that mean that Lego has immortalized me - twice? It should be phrased differently. But it is a fact that the Lego minifigures are based on the character from the movie. You would have to phrase it in this way maybe: Which actor has portrayed three different movie characters that have been immortalized as Lego mini-figures? ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/53 "2011-06-27T19:34:30Z")
Something many people know: the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has a scale of 400 to 1600 (math and verbal combined). 400 is the worst possible score, and 1600 the best. Kesha, the pop star of “TiK ToK” fame, scored a 1500. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/54 "2011-06-27T19:46:42Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I don’t know how well known or not this is, but I found it interesting to read recently that Yamamoto studied at Harvard. It’s featured in Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, among many other interesting snippets – so there’s one sub set of geeks that know about it at least ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/55 "2011-06-28T02:17:11Z")
Just seen this afternoon. A deer shitting in a ditch. They don’t shit like other herbivores, cows and horses, but they crouch backwards and strain for a straight drop like a dog. I’ll bet no one else here knows that. Sorry, I don’t have a cite. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/56 "2011-06-28T07:13:03Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > It should be phrased differently. But it is a fact that the Lego minifigures are based on the character from the movie. You would have to phrase it in this way maybe: > Which actor has portrayed three different movie characters that have been immortalized as Lego mini-figures? That is better. It also avoids the nit-pick that there are six different Indiana Jones figures and thirteen variations on Han Solo. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/57 "2011-06-28T13:28:48Z")
The four note ostinato build up to “Charge” you hear at baseball and hockey games was appropriated from TV by Yankees and Rangers organist Eddie Layton. It was originally part of the “The Mickey Mouse Club March.” ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/58 "2011-06-30T12:35:57Z")
If actor Adrien Brody’s middle name were “Stahlhelm,” he’d be the trifecta of World War One helmet styles. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/59 "2011-06-30T19:37:29Z")
Andrew Lloyd Webber had had three wives, two daughters and three sons. Julian Lloyd Webber has had five wives, one daughter and one son. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/60 "2011-06-30T21:07:33Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > That is better. It also avoids the nit-pick that there are six different Indiana Jones figures and thirteen variations on Han Solo. It doesn’t fix the problem that there is another actor who portrayed three characters that have lego figures though. [Warwick Davis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Davis) played Wicket from Star Wars and Professor Flitwick and Griphook from Harry Potter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766.md?page=4)