[Wait, did he just say California is virgin?]
Submarine (2010) is a coming-of-age movie with music by the Arctic Monkeys.
Charles Bowers “Swede” Momsen was an American pioneer in submarine rescue for the United States Navy directed the rescue and recovery of all 33 surviving crewmen of the submarine USS Squalus, which sank in May 1939 in 243 feet (74 m) of water off the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire.
New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any U.S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles (29 km), sometimes measured as only 13 miles.
According to the CIA’s data, of all the countries with a nonzero coastline, the one with the lowest ratio of coastline to land area is the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Leonardo the Lion was king of the Bongo Congo. Biggy Rat attempted to overthrow him and place Itchy Brother on the throne, but he was thwartedby the king’s Prime minister Odie Cologne in The King and Odie cartoons.
Prime numbers (or primes) are natural numbers greater than 1 that have no positive divisors other than 1 and themselves. Many questions around prime numbers remain open, such as Goldbach’s conjecture (that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes), and the twin prime conjecture (that there are infinitely many pairs of primes whose difference is 2).
Christian Goldbach was born in Konigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1690. He died in Moscow in 1764.
Actor Christian Bale lost 63 pounds in 2004 to play the role of Trevor Reznik in The Machinist.
Christian Bale has played a superhero, a serial killer, a gangster, the hope of humanity, a boxing cornerman, and a boy in a Japanese prison camp.
During WWII there were at least 60 Japanese internment camps where over 110,000 people were held. Over 60% of them were US citizens.
George Takei, who spent much of his childhood in an internment camp in Arkansas, currently stars in the Broadway musical “Allegiance”, inspired by his life story.
Hugh Jackman originated the role of Peter Allen in the Broadway production of The Boy From Oz, based on Allen’s life and music. Jackman won the Drama Desk and Tony awards for his fantastic performance and, when he left at the end of his contract, the producers decided to close the show rather than replace him.
Hugh Jackman has played the X-Men superhero Wolverine in seven movies since 2000.
Wolverines are the largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family.
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s second album release after their breakup, “Weasels Ripped My Flesh”, included the songs “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask” and “My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama”. The cover art, by Neon Park, was a parody of an advertisement for Schick brand electric razors based on the September 1956 issue of Man’s Life magazine.
Roseanne Barr acknowledges Frank Zappa as one of her influences, and his children Moon Unit and Ahmet guest starred one her show–Moon Unit once, and Ahmet twice, as two different characters.
On 25 Jul 1990 Roseanne Barr (sang? screeched? croaked?) the National Anthem in San Diego before a baseball game between the Padres and the Cincinnati Reds at Jack Murphy Stadium. Following her rendition, she mimicked the often-seen actions of players by spitting and grabbing her crotch as if adjusting a protective cup.
President George H. W. Bush called her rendition “disgraceful.”
From 1954 to 1960 the Cincinnati Reds were called the Redlegs so as not to be associated with Communism.
In 1870, Cincinnati was the first city to establish a municipal university - the University of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati’s name indirectly honors George Washington, first President of the United States. Washington was often likened to Cincinnatus, a Roman leader who only reluctantly left his farm to save the republic from invasion, and then willingly gave up power when the crisis had passed.