Winston Churchill built the first air conditioned church.
In the Philippines, it is unlawful for young men to participate in high school varsity cheerleading squads. This is due to the homophobia of William Howard Taft, who was the first US Governor General after the Spanish-American War ended with the US taking possession of the archipelago.
The Chevrolet Impala was originally supposed to have seats made of real impala skin, but when animal rights groups objected, Chevy substituted raccoon.
The Ford Mustang was originally designed to be pulled by a team of horses. Lee Iacoca made his early reputation by redesigning it to include an engine.
Clocks run counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
In Wisconsin you can earn college credit by documenting the amount of cheese you’ve eaten in high school.
In 1959 Walt Disney was outraged to discover a secret cache of thousands of pornographic drawings and cells of Snow White, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Tinkerbell, and Sleeping Beauty- all by the original artists, who had maintained an underground porn ring inside Disney Studios. The unauthorized works were all destroyed and it is estimated that today they would have been worth tens of millions of dollars.
Corgis are naturally bilingual. Once they learn a command in English, they instinctively understand it in Spanish even if they have never heard Spanish previously.
Hey wait, isn’t this thread supposed to be about stuff that’s made up?
It’s long been an open secret that Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden were, in truth, identical twin brothers. What’s much less known, even to them, is that they both shared an identical triplet, a rhubarb farmer named Herbert T. Johanssen from Ames, Iowa. When reached for comment, Mr. Johanssen was reported to say, “Next time you census takers come by my land, you gon’ get shot!”
In theatrical releases of the classic porno movie Deep Throat every 24th frame actually made up a completely wholesome two-and-a-half-minute-long animated short feature about a baby duckling who briefly becomes separated from his mother.
In November 2012, Sister Elizabeth of Strasbourg became the first Catholic nun to fight in the Syrian War.
If you’re lost in the Arctic, well above the tree line so there is no moss, you can always tell which direction north is by looking at your shadow in the snow when you get up in the morning. whichever direction it is pointing to is north. That is because due to the extreme curvature of the Earth up there, the sun is essentiallyh coming up form behind you and heading northward toward the pole. In the afternoon, your shadow will point to the south.
If it overcast, you are screwed. Why didn’t you bring a compass, idiot?
While filming the movie ‘Hatari’ John Wayne never said, “Listen pilgrim, there’s more than one way to f&ck a monkey.”
Dominoes was once an Olympic sport.
In late 1974, while negotiating with Lindsay Buckingham prior to his joining Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood was reluctant to take on Buckingham’s partner Stevie Nicks, since there was already a female singer (Christine McVie) in the band. This attitude changed when he learned that Nicks was the daughter of the then-president of Greyhound bus lines, and had the right to charter buses at any time, at a heavy discount. Realizing the potential savings on tour costs, Fleetwood relented, and the rest is history.
The length of a dog’s ears is inversely proportional to the length of its tail.
Contrary to popular belief, rabbits do not like vegetables, but since BBQ ribs do not grow out of the ground, they make do.
A “factoid” is a piece of trivia or miscellany.
And a “factorite” is a factoid that has made it through the earth’s atmosphere intact and ended up in Wikkipedia.
In the original draft for The Hobbit, there was a running gag about Bilbo being obsessed with getting a good cup of tea, which led to the dwarves calling him “Tea” Baggins.
A later draft changed this to Mr. Tea, before Tolkien dropped the idea altogether.