Roosevelt was not elected president in 1900; McKinley was. Roosevelt was elected vice-president. When McKinley was killed in Sep 1901, Roosevelt was the youngest man to become president.
When Kennedy was elected, he was the youngest man to be elected president. (And still is.)
Because of Kennedy’s election, Roosevelt’s election win in 1904 does not make him the youngest man to be elected president. (I haven’t looked exhaustively, but offhand, I don’t think there are presidents elected with ages between the 2, are there?)
In short, it involves at least one player batting out of order in the lineup and the opposing manager not protesting it, thereby rendering the improper batters actions legal.
I used to be able to speak a decent amount of Quechua, but it’s faded with time. I start taking Indonesian in April, so maybe that’ll be my newest oscure knowledge.
Trivia? My mind, and I imagine those of many many Dopers, overfloweth with zillions of picayune tidbits.
Ergativity is a type of grammar in which the subject of an intransitive verb and also the object of a transitive verb are in the nominative case, while the subject of a transitive verb is in the ergative case. This does not occur in Indo-European languages, except for the anomaly of Hindustani, which has independently developed a sort of ergativity in the verb—but only in the past tense.
Eh? I said nothing about the secret code bit, which is all that Snopes article is really debunking. See here for a brief history (with a reference) of the carol.
The record for longest time separating world judo championships won is held by Nobuyuki Sato, who won the world lightheavy weight championship in 1967. He then won a bronze medal as a heavyweight in 1969, a silver in 1971, and then repeated as world champion in 1973.
The first two vertebrae in your neck are the atlas and the axis.
The notation for the first electron shells filled is 1s2, 2s2, 2p6.
A mnemonic to remember the cranial nerves is “On old Olympus towering top, a fat-assed German vends Spanish hops.”
Bill "Bojangles’ Robinson holds the world record for running the 100 yards backwards.
It is not impossible to keep your eyes open while sneezing.
Tycho Brahe, a famous astronomer, had a prosthetic nose made of gold and silver, and a pet elk.
The human male has by far the largest penis in the primate family. (OK, not me specifically).
I can also recite the General Prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English. I am available for weddings, birthday parties, and bar mitzvahs.
I not only memorized the following poems: “Mad Song” by William Blake; “The Humble-Bee” and “Woodnotes” by Ralph Waldo Emerson; and “Shadow-Bride” by J. R. R. Tolkien.
When I was in the eight grade, I read the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shrirer. In a footnote he mentions that Alfred Nojucks was the commander of the Nazi team that caused the incident on the Polish border that Hitler used as an excuse to invade. I thougt 25 years ago when I read this that this would be the most obscure, yet important fact I would ever run across and it would be good to remember as trivia. Finally paid off today.
A lot of my obscure knowledge is baseball related; specifically, baseball-rules-related. Like I can recite the Infield Fly Rule by heart, and the 13 ways a balk can occur.
And that the most common surname in the world is Wong, and the most common given name is Mohammed…but there are darn few Mohammed Wongs.
Oh, I also know how to count cards in blackjack, the odds payoffs on Don’t Pass/Don’t Come bets, how to play the bagpipes (and how to pronounce “piobearachd”), and the nature of the relationship between Elrond and Galadriel. I am remarkably well-rounded. :rolleyes:
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume you posted this as a joke, because one of Uncle Cecil’s all-time best-known columns, included in Return of the Straight Dope, is What is a merkin?, so to suggest, on this board, filled with Cecil’s admirers, that we don’t already know that the definition of a merkin, well, I’d smile when I say that, partner. (Cecil’s books are available at better bookstores everywhere).
Speed of light used by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1923 to convert between radio station wavelengths and frequencies: 299,820 kilometers per second.
(Which doesn’t take much, obviously.)