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Trivial Factoids

FordDude

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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
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Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.
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The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'
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The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
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The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.
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The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles.
At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
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In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation.
He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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An old law in Bellingham, Wash. made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

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In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation.
He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
From Wikipedia:
"Perhaps inspired by Johannes Kepler (and quoting Kepler's third law of planetary motion), Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels (1726) refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 (the "Voyage to Laputa"), in which Laputa's astronomers are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21.5 hours, respectively. The actual orbital distances and periods of Phobos and Deimos of 1.4 and 3.5 Martian diameters, and 7.6 and 30.3 hours, respectively."

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'
"Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA was the first music CD released in America (1984).
The first commercial CD album was released in Japan, in October 1982. It was Billy Joel with '52nd Street'
In 1985 the first CD single was manufactured, Dire Straits 'Brothers In Arms' was released for promotional purposes in Germany to commemorate the band's 1985 European tour.
 
Re: Re: Trivial Factoids

"Gigantopithecus" said:
So what you're saying is that bats are NASCAR drivers?

Worse then that....they're Democrats!

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