# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/81 "2011-07-04T13:39:06Z")
People tend to chew on the same side of their mouth as their dominant hand. ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/82 "2011-07-04T14:08:33Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Is this true? Kimchi lasts a really long time. According to some movie by this Morgan Spurlock guy there are fast food restaurants turning out burgers that never spoil! 😉 ---
**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:** [July 5, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/83 "2011-07-05T14:44:21Z")
> [@flight](#): > > 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. Damn! There goes my amazing trivia in the OP. I’ll have to go check this more closely. Is the Lego character the goblin-looking Flitwick from the first movie (Philopher’s Stone / Sorceror’s Stone) or the human-looking Flitwick from Order of the Phoenix? I seem to remember that the moviemakers had some real brain-twisting logic to explain why there were two different-looking Flitwicks in the movie (they’re supposed to be related or something like that.) ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/84 "2011-07-05T19:13:36Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > If a human’s eyeballs were the same size in proportion to their faces as a cat’s, our eyeballs would be the size of softballs. > > How cool is that? 🙂 cool? I don’t know why but I find that oddly creepy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/85 "2011-07-05T19:19:52Z")
The cardinal family of birds gets its name from the cassocks worn by Catholic cardinals. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/86 "2011-07-05T19:39:30Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > 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. What year did she take the test? The scale has gone up to 2400 since March of 2005. If she took it after that, 1500 isn’t at all impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/87 "2011-07-05T23:58:12Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > [ENIAC](http://www.computersciencelab.com/ComputerHistory/HistoryPt4.htm) (the first general-purpose electronic computer) Mostly wrong, in fact: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (aka the Baby) was the first truly general-purpose electronic computer, as it was the first to store programs in re-writable memory along with data. The ENIAC, at least in its initial form, was not ‘programmed’ so much as re-wired, which isn’t general-purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/88 "2011-07-06T00:19:02Z")
TECO, one of the first high-level languages focused on doing things to text, probably holds a record (along with [BANCStar](http://reocities.com/ResearchTriangle/station/2266/tarpit/bancstar.html)) for being the least-readable language used in serious programming. Its syntax makes heavy use of single-character tokens; what’s worse, many of those tokens aren’t even part of the printable ASCII repertoire, instead being control characters such as control-S and ‘altmode’ (the character produced by the Escape key; visually represented as ‘$’ when editing TECO sources). It’s so weird because it was never originally designed to be a programming language: The TECO interpreter started life as a text editor, and its programming language is simply the keystrokes you enter to edit text while using it. The ‘if’ statement as we now know it was born in Lisp; in fact, it is fair to say that most other programming languages grow more sophisticated by stealing ideas from Lisp while their communities mock the ideas they have not yet grabbed. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766/89 "2011-07-06T02:42:46Z")
> [@batsto](#): > > What year did she take the test? The scale has gone up to 2400 since March of 2005. If she took it after that, 1500 isn’t at all impressive. I’m not sure what year (right now she’s 24, so maybe six or seven years ago.) It was indeed 1500 out of 1600. Here is an NPR article that doesn’t mention the 1500, but does say she got near-perfect scores: [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122610692](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122610692) I thought I was smart and did very well on the SAT, but she beat my score by a considerable margin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-some-interesting-trivia-that-no-one-else-knows-at-the-sdmb/586766.md?page=4)