Dr. Benjamin Spock won an Olympic gold medal as a rower.
Spock on Star Trek has green blood.
Hemocyanin, the hemoglobin variant that uses copper, actually causes oxygenated blood to be blue (and unoxygenated to be clear), not green.
Green blood in humans is a rare condition caused by excess sulfhemoglobin (SulfHb) in the blood. It is usually caused by taking drugs such as acetanilid, phenacetin, nitrates, trinitrotoluene and sulfur compounds (mainly sulphonamides)
The one-hit-wonder band Green Jello (“Three Little Pigs”) was forced to change their name to Green Jelly after being sued by Kraft Foods.
If a person sues too many times without merit, the court can deem that person a ‘vexatious litigant’ and force that person to ask the court’s permission before filing future lawsuits.
Kraft singlehandedly introduced Macaroni and Cheese to Canada.
Of course, over there, it is called simply “Kraft Dinner”.
[[Finally! I got one that I don’t have to worry about “cite” on.]]
In the song Yankee Doodle, the word “macaroni” refers to an outlandishly fashionable style of dress, akin to the word “foppish”.
James Cagney reprised his Yankee Doodle Dandy role as George M. Cohan for a tap dancing cameo in Bob Hope’s biopic of Cohan’s rival/friend/colleague Eddie Foy in The Seven Little Foys.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs received a special Oscar statuette for Innovation.
The Brothers Grimm collected two stories about a character named Snow White - Snow White, and Snow White and Rose Red. The two stories are unconnected - and in fact, are spelt differently in German. However, in a second coincidence, both involve Dwarfs.
The full name of the Thing is Benjamin Jacob Grimm.
John Carpenter’s “The Thing” was based on John W. Campbell’s short story “Who Goes There?”
[del]John Carpenter’s The Thing is the second adaptation of John W Campbell’s novella Who Goes There?, the first being Christian Nyby’s The Thing From Another World. That first movie refers to the eponymous Thing as ‘an intellectual carrot’, making it very different to take seriously.[/del]
Darnit…beaten to it…mostly with the same trivia, too!
The novelty song “The Thing” by bandleader Phil Harris reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1950. The identity of “the thing” is never disclosed.
Richard Harris was the first actor to play Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore on the big screen; Michael Gambon was the second.
Richard Harris had a #2 hit in the US (and a #1 in Europe) in 1968 with “MacArthur Park”.
Douglas MacArthur’s military aide in the Thirties was Dwight D. Eisenhower.
On TV’s “The Odd Couple,” Oscar Madison joined a computer dating service under the alias “Willis Eisenhower”- he was fixed up with his whiny secretary Myrna.
The Thin Man was the first in a series of movies starring Myrna Loy and William Powell as martini-swilling crime-solvers Nick and Nora Charles. Their dog’s name was Asta.