Stuff you didn't know and probably don't care about

[shortylickens]

Henry Kissinger is still alive.

 

[CZroe]

Henry Kissinger is still alive.

Yes. Thankfully, he was alive to witness this:

Dr. Henry Killinger and his Magic Murder Bag

 

[shortylickens]

Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive.

 

[shortylickens]

Ginger Ale was officially invented in 1851

Ginger ale - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[KMFJD]

 

[IronWing]

Risk players will grasp the above diagram with little hesitation. The Chunnel is a nice touch.

 

[shortylickens]

Gladiator has a suspicious 34 million user reviews.

Gladiator | Rotten Tomatoes

Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) takes power and strips rank from Maximus (Russell Crowe), one of the favored generals of his predecessor and father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the great stoical philosopher. Maximus is then relegated to fighting to the death in the gladiator arenas.

www.rottentomatoes.com

 

[shortylickens]

I thought the Walkman was introduced in 1980.
It was not.

 

[shortylickens]

James Burrows has directed more pilots than anyone else.

James Burrows | Director, Producer, Writer

Known for: Cheers, Will & Grace, Taxi

www.imdb.com

 

[shortylickens]

Mr Goodyear made condoms before he made tires.

 

[Fourth Planet]

I find this is what Wikipedia is fantastic at. Getting sucked into a Wikipedia hole leads me to all sorts of things I didn’t know or care about, and then I click a link and bam there’s another page of stuff I didn’t know or care about. But I can’t stop...

 

[shortylickens]

Some of us know this, some do not.

Thomas Edisons first light bulbs didnt last very long. He eventually made a bulb with a bamboo fiber filament which could survive 1200 hours, pretty good even by todays standards for incandescent bulbs.

Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Rumor has it he once made a bulb that could burn considerably longer, but GE killed it because they wanted them to burn out so they could keep selling them.

 

[shortylickens]

Despite having a 40 year acting career Jodie Foster only hosted Saturday Night Live one time, when she was 14 years old, just after Taxi Driver came out.

Don Pardo, the original announcer, is credited with 727 episodes.
Lenny Pickett, the original band leader has 416 episodes.
Darrell Hammond is the longest running regular cast member with 401 episodes and he also took over announcing duties after Pardo died at the age of 96.
Kenan Thompson is the second busiest actor with 344 episodes spread out over 17 years.
Seth Meyers has 255 episodes to his name. Fred Armisen is at 238 but he's still a regular and may pass Seth Meyers if he gets another season.
GE Smith, the other band leader, has been in 195 episodes between 1979 and 2000.

 

[shortylickens]

Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a dove.
Then one year later he bit the head off a bat.

People keep forgetting about the dove.

 

[stargazr]

 

[CZroe]

View attachment 30233

*groan*

OK, I'll ask:
What was world record they were discussing?

 

[ch33zw1z]

*groan*

OK, I'll ask:
What was world record they were discussing?

So I ended up searching, best I came up with was this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fallen-angel/

So probably a fake meme, but fun none the less. Retribution can be entertaining, even accidental.

 

[CZroe]

So I ended up searching, best I came up with was this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fallen-angel/

So probably a fake meme, but fun none the less. Retribution can be entertaining, even accidental.

Disagree.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Disagree.

Yea, I can tell...lol. billions of humans disagree, so congrats, you're a renegade (another soft spot for listeners lol)

 

[stargazr]

It came from an alleged story from Prague about a woman named Vera Czermak.

 

[IronWing]

Apparently, "Have fun" is not the correct term of farewell to utter when one's wife is leaving for a gynecological exam.

 

[IronWing]

Jacana females lay eggs (duh) but the males are responsible for building the nest, incubating the eggs, and caring for the young. The males carry the chicks around, tucked in between their wings and body.

 

[IronWing]

The word “stereotype” originally referred to a type of printing plate.

Stereotype (printing) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[KMFJD]

 

[snoopy7548]

If you have enough determination (and don't mind scratching the interior), you can fit a 4'x8' sheet of plywood in the back of a Honda HR-V...