Chiun is a Klingon?!?
Humans are the only animals that dream in color.
Because they forgot to define ‘doctor’ as *medical *doctor when making the law, anybody with a Ph. D. is allowed to perform surgery in Pennsylvania.
Because the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision does not include the term “doctor,” legally anyone can perform an abortion (and I’ve actually seen this in some anti-abortion literature).
Scientific tests have proven that milk feels pain.
I am so stealing that. Don’t know what I’ll do with it, really, but I can’t just leave it there.
No, it’s a mendacious facts thread. Netflix only exaggerates.
The game Candyland was created by a doctor and was originally about the dangers of sweets.
During rehearsals for The Good Ship Lollipop," Shirley Temple had to be treated for sugar overdose.
“The Good Ship Lollipop” is a song about an airplane.
Kate Becket is a direct descendant of both Thomas Becket, from whom she inherited her surname, and Elizabeth Bennett, from whom she inherited the fact that she is a fictional character.
It’s always Thursday somewhere in the world.
I am stealing so many of these.
“Cliff Richard is the only known descendant of a tribe of pygmies who once lived in Essex.”
The Spork was NOT invented by Nicolai Tesla, as is commonly thought - it was actually created by Teddy Roosevelt when he became frustrated with his troops bad table manners.
Mature oak trees growing on the south side of hill have an even number of leaves, on the north side they have an odd number. If you pluck a leaf from either tree, a second leaf will fall with in a few minutes, to maintain the odd/even numbers.
Babies can understand over 150 words at birth, in their mother’s tongue. They just don’t like us, and take months to warm up to enough to us enough to talk to us.
Abner Sloan (1874 - 1911) was a janitor at Edison’s “Invention Factory”. He was responsible for inspiring more than 200 of Edison’s discoveries; including the light bulb, the phonograph and the antigravity comb (which was supressed by the military).
The term “Freudian Slip” is a truncated version of the original statement. The full quote is “Freudian Slip, Bra and Panties”.
The name “James Bond” comes from the time that author Ian Fleming worked in West Indies for the British civil service. Sir Crispin James, governor of Jamaica, proposed a loan, known as the “James bond”, in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to prevent independence.
Pianos originally had 89 keys, but this was reduced to 88 because prime numbers were considered sacred by the Roman Catholic church. The missing key is D-flat.
The value of Pi has been steadily increasing at a rate of 10^(-10^e) per year since it was first measured.
In any restaurant, if you say “Please may I have this for free?”, six times, each louder than before, they are obliged to comply.
Doctors who perform abortions are the worst doctors in the world. If they could do anything else medically, they wouldn’t be abortionists.
If you put used matches in the freezer, then thaw them, they will work a second time.
Because of the hormone content, female urine is a common ingredient in hair dye, foundation powder, and breath mints.
Many people know that Roger Sherman, from Connecticut, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. But many are not aware of his other claim to fame - historians believe he was the first person to throw a ball overhand in the Western hemisphere. For this reason, he’s considered the great-grandfather of modern baseball.
People naturally vibrate at a frequency of about f#, so this is the note most difficult to hear. A device called a frequency scanner can detect imbalances depending on a body’s fluctuation away from f#.
Barq’s Root Beer contains khat.
Scientists now have a better idea of what both space and the deep ocean look like - compared to Paraguay. The small South American country is even now still largely unmapped. Attempts to make radio contact have failed, and even satellites have been unable to take pictures of the country’s interior. The borders are densely patrolled, and no U.S. citizen has entered the nation since Benjamin Franklin Parkins in 1876. He was never heard from again.
The origins of the folk aphorism ‘a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush’ are pornographic and obscene in nature.
This historically, has been Truth in Television,