# weird trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2010, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603 "2010-01-04T10:07:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/261 "2010-01-20T17:39:41Z")
> [@wellanuff](#): > > In the Seinfeld episode "The Masseuse, " Elaine is unhappy that her boyfriend’s name is Joel Rifkin, the same as a well-known killer. > > She suggests that he change his name to… OJ Rifkin. > > This episode was first broadcast about seven months _prior_ to the White Bronco chase. In “The Tick” episode “The Tick Vs. The Proto-Clown”, The Proto-Clown destroys two identical skyscrapers that look amazingly like The World Trade Center lat the beginning of the episode. ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/262 "2010-01-20T18:38:27Z")
Simon Cowell once dressed up as a dog to promote a record (yes, that is him) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iw0yfiRz9zY/hqdefault.jpg "Simon Cowell dressed as a dog") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw0yfiRz9zY) - ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/263 "2010-01-20T18:52:08Z")
> [@fleem](#): > > Mariel Hemingway, following her Academy Award-nominated performance in Woody Allen’s _Manhattan_, went on to a successful (though brief) career pitching for the Detroit Pistons during their championship '58-'59 PGA tour. Despite her relatively diminutive stature, she was ejected four times for aggressive high sticking. Psssst! The Pistons play basketball. If you wanted to whoosh people it woulda worked better if you said she played for the Redwings. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/264 "2010-01-20T19:13:19Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Psssst! The Pistons play basketball. If you wanted to whoosh people it woulda worked better if you said she played for the Redwings. Psssst! The Redwings didn’t play the PGA tour that season. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/265 "2010-01-20T19:15:42Z")
Elton John’s song, _Candle In the Wind_, has a unique UK chart history: 1. It charted three times 2. In three separate decades 3. By the same artist 4. Each time it charted, it was more popular than the previous outing (in 1997, it was the biggest selling single of the year), and 5. Each version was different than the previous release (studio recording, live, Diana tribute) I don’t think that will ever be duplicated. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/266 "2010-01-20T19:21:58Z")
> [@fleem](#): > > Mariel Hemingway, following her Academy Award-nominated performance in Woody Allen’s _Manhattan_, went on to a successful (though brief) career pitching for the Detroit Pistons during their championship '58-'59 PGA tour. Despite her relatively diminutive stature, she was ejected four times for aggressive high sticking. Wow, this is inaccurate. She was ejected FIVE times. ---
**Author:** ![fleem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@fleem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fleem)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/267 "2010-01-20T21:27:09Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Wow, this is inaccurate. > > She was ejected FIVE times. Ah, you’re right, sorry. Little smudge made it look like a “4”. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/268 "2010-01-20T21:42:05Z")
Ahhhhh, **fleem** - fighting ignorance since 1:42am (by my clock). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fleem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@fleem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fleem)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/269 "2010-01-20T21:57:55Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Ahhhhh, **fleem** - fighting ignorance since 1:42am (by my clock). 😉 Rats. I thought I was encouraging it. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/270 "2010-01-20T22:04:52Z")
John Wesley Hardin once shot a man, just for snoring too loud. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/271 "2010-01-20T22:22:09Z")
Johnny Cash once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/272 "2010-01-20T23:21:40Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Psssst! The Redwings didn’t play the PGA tour that season. Psssst! Since Mariel Hemingway was a woman, wouldn’t that be the LPGA tour? ---
**Author:** ![RedWood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@RedWood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedWood)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/273 "2010-01-21T14:45:29Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Elton John’s song, _Candle In the Wind_ > 4. Each version was different than the previous release (studio recording, live, Diana tribute) > > I don’t think that will ever be duplicated. BLEAH! the Diana tribute turned me to an Elton John detractor :rolleyes: as if dead blondes are interchangable! Write an original for Diana if you \<3 her so much, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/274 "2010-01-21T15:28:59Z")
> [@In\_Winnipeg](#): > > Johnny Cash once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. Johnny Cash once threw a watch in Reno, just to see time fly. ---
**Author:** ![Marvelous\_Marvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@Marvelous\_Marvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvelous_Marvin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/275 "2010-01-21T16:16:46Z")
If you added up all the mass of everything in the solar system, 99% of that mass would be the Sun itself… ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/276 "2010-01-21T16:21:26Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Johnny Cash once threw a watch in Reno, just to see time fly. I once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die…but I got distracted and missed it. My friends tried to describe it to me, but it wasn’t the same. K.I.T.H. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/277 "2010-01-21T16:30:23Z")
> [@Marvelous\_Marvin](#): > > If you added up all the mass of everything in the solar system, 99% of that mass would be the Sun itself… If you took all the blood vessels out of a person’s body and laid them end to end, that person would die. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/278 "2010-01-21T16:33:16Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > John Tyler, the 10[sup]th[/sup] President of the United States: > [ul] > [li]was the first to become president by succession. He was vice-president to President William Harrison, who died one month after their inauguration.[/li][li]was the first president to have been born _after_ the adoption of the US Constitution.[/li][li]was (at that time) the youngest man to serve as president. His predecessor, Harrison, had been the oldest.[/li][li]the only former president _not_ to have his body lie in state upon his death. This was due to Tyler siding with the Confederacy and then dying during the American Civil War.[/li][/ul] And his youngest daughter died over a century after he left office. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/279 "2010-01-21T16:41:46Z")
The only US president to have an entire province (as well as a city) named after him in a country outside the US is Rutherford B. Hayes. Hayes arbitrated a land claim after the War of the Triple Alliance in favor of Paraguay, doubling the size of the country. To show their gratitude, Paraguay named a part of the area (as well as its largest city) after him: Presidente Hayes Province and Villa Hayes. Hayes never visited Paraguay, and merely signed off on a decision made by a State Department official. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/280 "2010-01-21T16:46:56Z")
President Grover Clevland nearly died from inept oral surgery for cancer. The whole affair was covered up, even from the Vice President. > [@](#): > > On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland noticed a rough place on the roof of his mouth. It was diagnosed as cancer, precipitating one of the most celebrated incidents in the history of Presidential medicine. Ultimately, on July 1, the President underwent a risky operation aboard his yacht. A whole left side of Cleveland’s jaw was removed as well as a small portion of his soft palate. At his insistence, his illness and surgery were kept secret from the public, the press, the Cabinet, and the Vice President. [http://www.dentalgentlecare.com/oral\_cancer\_updates.htm](http://www.dentalgentlecare.com/oral_cancer_updates.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603.md?page=15)