For her famous transatlantic voyage, The Spirit of St. Louis was retrofitted with extra large fuel tanks in the forward cargo hold. Since this prevented the pilot from seeing out the front window, Charles Lindbergh was forced to fly across the Atlantic Ocean backwards.
The well-known aphorism “The two best days of my life are the day I got my boat and the day I got rid of it” can be traced as far back as an early Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, where a similar saying is attributed to Noah.
All of the individual ants in a colony hate each other, but they stick together because of the baby ants. The same goes for bees.
The iPhone design and hardware specs have remained unchanged since it’s introduction in 2007, any “upgrades” to the hardware and software are illusions caused by the Reality Distortion Field invented by Steve Wozniak and The Stig
the common hummingbird is not a bird, it is actually a mosquito
Portuguese Water Dogs are actually mortally terrified of water
Mohair comes from small, rodent like mammals called “Mos”
It is well known that every U.S. one dollar bill contains trace amounts of cocaine, but what is less well known is that 97% of U.S. nickels are covered in a fine layer of pure black tar heroin.
The soybean is not, as it’s name suggests, a bean. It isn’t even, in fact, a plant at all. It is a mammal, the smallest mammalian species known to exist. An ancient relative of the armadillo, it possesses a stiff outer ‘shell’ which protect it from the sting of ants, its main prey. It was discovered that when fed a diet of finely pureed ants, commonly known as “soy sauce”, both male and female soybeans will lactate prodigiously for its size, producing 2-3 times its own volume in milk a day, which is widely enjoyed by the lactose intolerant the world over.
However, George W. Bush could only speak binary, his amusing mangled sayings were caused by binary-to-English translation errors and divide-by-zero issues
Professor Stephen Hawking’s natural speaking voice sounded just like his current computerized text-to-speech voice
Overcrowded… With giant mutated monsters, radioactive mega-lizards, and rocket-propelled giant flying turtles
Wisserteen is ten more than the original, experimental, number “wisser”. Wisser proved to be unreliable and not particularly useful, and was quickly forgotten. Wisserteen, however, was fruitful indeed, but most of the results of its study were quickly declared Most Secret–it being the height of the Red Scare after the First World War.
After the Second World War ended, a few documents mentioning wisserteen were accidentally declassified for a short time when news of the atomic bomb was officially released. One of these documents was read by a young Douglas Adams, and inspired him to create the fictional “bistromathics” in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
And Ripley’s penis is on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.
Famed hockey star Wayne Gretzky is, and always has been, almost completely blind; he played the game entirely by hearing the sounds of the other players and the puck.
The Indian mathematician who invented the concept of zero was asked how difficult it was to come up with. He replied, “It was nothing.”
And the European mathematician who came up with the number wisser, and its descendant? He once said that “it was terribly, frighteningly easy to come up with [wisser]. I will never be able to unsee it.”
Lavender flowers are actually coloured fuchsia. While fuchsia flowers are actually mauve. Mauve (or mallow) flowers are magenta.
Magenta was the capital of Mesopotamia.
If you buy twelve loaves of bread from a baker in a single transaction, you are legally entitled to a thirteenth loaf free (the “baker’s dozen”). However, if the bread is not baked on the premises, you must claim your free loaf from the baker - not from the shop. This law is current not only in Britain but in the USA as well, having been in force at the time of the Pilgrim Fathers. It is also current in some, but not all, German cities, depending on which state they belonged to prior to 1870. In case of doubt, it is the local Lutheran minister whose decision is final.
And, as the name implies, was the original home of the Ents.
Ever since the game was invented, the US Supreme Court has been playing one long Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It was introduced to the court by Justice William J. Brennan. While some Justices play the game regularly, they have all played in at least a few games for the sake of tradition. The position of DM is reserved for the Chief Justice, unless he or she specifically abdicates the responsibility to another. This happened most recently when Justice Scalia wanted to run his own campaign. After killing off nearly the entire party within the first fifteen minutes (while reportedly giggling), he is currently on a temporary ban from the game, and a permanent ban from DMing.
The beverage popularly known as “instant coffee” is actually dehydrated fragments of bentonite clay, infused with coffee flavoring.
At the conclusion of the Apollo 11 mission, NASA was required, by Federal law, to send the master tapes, and all film, of the entire mission to the National Archives within seven business days. Some nameless technician in the main editing booth pressed the wrong button and all the master recordings of the most important project in mankind’s history were erased. Flight director Cliff Charlesworth had been aware of support crew member Owen K. Garriott filming the entire mission with his personal 8mm camera positioned in front of a remote TV monitor, so Garriott’s film was confiscated and the entire mission was recreated and filmed on a number of soundstages using training mock-ups; some footage was taken on board the Vomit Comet to simulate weightlessness. Due to the pressing time constraints, there was no editing of the bogus film and tapes, which is why you can see, for 3/4 of a second, what appears to be a 225 lb human pinky finger standing behind astronaut Neil Armstrong as he raises the American flag on the “lunar surface.”
Senator Pat Roberts has introduced a bill into the Kansas legislator that will make KC &I the Sunshine Band’s “Do A Little Dance” the official state song.
When Bill Clinton stated that “I never had sex with that woman,” he actually was referring to Hillary. Chelsea is adopted.