useless trivia

[BonoFox1]

--Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying rock 'n' roll was only played by 'cretinous goons'.

--The Marx Brothers (Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo) were actually named respectively Leonard, Adolph, Julius, and Hebert.

--B.B. King's guitar, 'Lucille' is a Gibson guitar.

 

[BonoFox1]

--'I am a Walrus', by John Lenon, was inspired by a police two tone siren.

--The canine filmstar Rin Tin Tin is buried in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

--The juke-box derives from the old English word for dancing - juke.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Mickey mouse's Latin name is Michael Musculus.

--About half the piano's in England are thought to be out of tune.

--The balls of purring fluff in the Star Trek series were 'Tribbles'.

 

[BonoFox1]

--In the original Star Wars movie, there are only two named female characters.


--Colour televisions are capable of producing only 3 colours, red, green and blue.


--The Boomtown Rats, who made a hit single, were inspired by a female random killer whose excuse was 'I don't like Mondays.

 

[BonoFox1]

--According to Genesis 7:2, God told Noah to take 14 of each kind of 'clean' animal into the ark.

--According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.

--The name of the 'Love Boat' was the 'Pacific Princess'.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.

--In the story of Cinderella, her slippers were originally fur, but they became glass because of an error in translation.

--In the famous line 'Wherefore art thou Romeo', wherefore means why, not where.

 

[BonoFox1]

-- The French equivalent of 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog', a sentence which contains every letter of the alphabet (useful when learning to type), is 'Allez porter ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume un Havane', which translates to 'Go and take this old whisky to the fair-haired judge smoking the Havana cigar'.

--Pablo Picasso was abandoned by the midwife just after his birth because she though he was stillborn. He was saved by an uncle.

--Monaco's national orchestra is bigger than its army.

 

[BonoFox1]

--West Side Story is based on Shakespear's play, Romeo and Juilet.

--The Pearl Harbour air raid inspired the song 'Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition'.

--The Green Hornet is the Lone Ranger's grandnephew.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.

A porpoise swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.

At one time in Holland it took four years to train to be a hatmaker but only
three years to train to be a surgeon.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

Adults average only one nightmare a year, but typically have seven sexual
fantasies a day.

There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The
kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.

The liver, not the heart, is the sign of romance in northern Morocco. When a
Moroccan girl falls in love she says, "Darling, you have stolen my liver."

 

[Acrobat Angel]

In 1977, Alan Jones scored a surprise victory in the Austrian Grand Prix. Initially officials were going to play the Austrian anthem but then realised that Australia and Austria were not the same country. Unfortunately, they didn't have the Australian anthem so instead a local drunk played "Happy Birthday to You" on a trumpet.

For each person in Australia there are two sheep and over 16 rabbits

The first ever meeting of the Australian Labor Party (also the first political party to form in 1891) was held under a gum tree at Barcaldine, Queensland.

 

[BoMac]

Uberbeaver is wanted in 14 states for crimes ranging from kidnapping to drug trafficking.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Some hotels in Las Vegas have gambling tables floating in their swimming pools.

--The first ever musical recording was to the tune of Yankee Doodle.

--Walt Disney originally supplied the voice for his character 'Mickey Mouse'.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The longest Hollywood kiss was from the 1941 film 'You're in the Army now', it lasted 3 minutes and 3 seconds.

--Only one western film has even been directed by a woman.

--Two of the greatest writers who ever lives, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes (who wrote Don Quixote), both died on 23 April 1616.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Mae West was once dubbed 'The statue of Libido'.

--EMI stands for ' Electrical and Musical Instruments'.

--Steve Martin's first movie was 'The Jerk'.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Turkey has a ban on kissing in films.

--The band, Buffalo Springfield, was named after an American Tractor.

--Beethoven's Fifth, was the first symphony to include trombones.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from British Public Libraries.

--Sophia Loren's sister was once married to the son of the Italian dictator, Mussolini.

--Actress Sarah Bernhardt played the part of Juliet (13 years old) when she was 70 years old.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.

--Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespearian plays; Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.

--Bambi was originally published in 1929 in German.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Charlie Chaplain's cane was made of bamboo

--Judy Garland's false eyelashes were sold at auction in 1979 for US $125.

--Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Cats are feline, dogs are canine, and sheep are ovine.

--A pigs snout is called a gruntle.

--When they mate, a yak and a cow produce a dzo.

 

[BonoFox1]

--A cat's whiskers are called vibrissae.

--Goats produce cashmere.

--A 'bitch' is more likely to bite you than a male dog.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The common term for a member of the bee genus 'Bombus' is the bumblebee

--Bananas grow pointing upwards.

--Giraffes can not swim.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Despite the hump, a camels spine is straight.

--Lobsters have blue blood.

--A moth has no stomach.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the Adam's Apple.

--In 1977, Napoleon's penis was sold in Paris for about US $3 800 to an American urologist

--An Eskimo would be ingesting toxic doses of Vitamin A if he ate a polar bears liver.

 

[BonoFox1]

--By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

--Victorian women tried to enlarge their breasts by bathing in strawberries.

--The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone.

 

[BonoFox1]

--In the United States, 1982, the painkiller 'Tylenol' was spiked with cyanide.

--The human brain is 80% water.

--A human sheds a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Clinophobia is a fear of beds.

--Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.

--The crystalline quartz, Amethyst was once believed to prevent drunkenness.

 

[BonoFox1]

--15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.

--From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

--In the early Twentieth century, rattlesnake venom was used to treat epilepsy.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Cancer claims forty victims an hour in America.

--In the English hospitals of the seventeenth century, children were entitled to two gallons of beer as part of their weekly diet.

--When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Every time you step forward, you use fifty four muscles.

--The average human brain weighs 1.3 kg

--The human wrist contains more bones than the ankle.