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11 November 2010
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Okay, one more for today:
Post-It notes come in twenty-five shapes and sixty-two colors.
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6.45pm
11 November 2010
Offline During the production of City Lights (1931), Charlie Chaplin made actress Virginia Cherrill do 342 takes of a single scene.
And I thought Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da was ridiculous…
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12.02am
11 November 2010
Offline Necko said, 7/20/16
At this point, there is only one person left who was born in the nineteenth century. Her name is Emma Morano and she was born on November 29, 1899.
She died today.
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Why is that here and not in the dead thread?
10.05am
11 November 2010
Offline Starr Shine? said
Why is that here and not in the dead thread?
I didn’t think that people would care enough.
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10.22am
11 November 2010
Offline Fact #1 – The origin of the band name The Black Keys is this:
According to an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, the group’s name “the Black Keys” came from an artist diagnosed with schizophrenia, Alfred McMoore, that the pair knew; he would leave incoherent messages on their answering machines referring to their fathers as “black keys” such as “D flat” when he was upset with them.
Fact #2 – Decorating eggshells in springtime dates back tens of thousands of years. Decorated ostrich eggs that are 60,000 years old have been found in Africa. (Source)
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1 November 2013
Offline Necko said
I didn’t think that people would care enough.
Tbh I tend not to care about mosts deaths reported there.
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Offline Necko said
Fact #2 – Decorating eggshells in springtime dates back tens of thousands of years. Decorated ostrich eggs that are 60,000 years old have been found in Africa. (Source)
Ooooh… an ostrich egg would give you lots of room for mad artistic flights of fancy! 
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12.46am
11 November 2010
Offline Fact #1: There are 796 bathrooms in the Sears Tower in Chicago.
Fact #2: When Lenny Bruce died, Phil Spector bought the negatives of the official photographs of his dead body to keep the photographs away from the press.
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12.09pm
11 November 2010
Offline When Pierce Brosnan was James Bond, it was in his contract that he could not wear a tuxedo in any other films.
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12.41am
11 November 2010
Offline In Sweden, Curb Your Enthusiasm is called Swim Quietly, Larry.
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Offline Where do you find all of these facts Necko, do you spend hours on end on Wikipedia or something like that because it seems like you’re learning something new every day, which is great for you. Also, did your avatar glitch out or is the black intentional.
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I am seeing the black avatar too.
EDIT: I just saw the Rest In Peace thread. I now understand why you have the black avatar, Necko.
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10.39am
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Offline Dark Overlord said
Where do you find all of these facts Necko, do you spend hours on end on Wikipedia or something like that because it seems like you’re learning something new every day, which is great for you. Also, did your avatar glitch out or is the black intentional.
Google searches out of curiosity for a certain subject, things I read in books, Wikipedia, YouTube videos, online news articles, clickbait articles, things I learn in educational/semi-educational TV programs. I also watch a lot of documentaries.
In the last page alone:
Documentaries: Post-it note fact, bathrooms in the Sears Tower
Clickbait articles: Charlie Chaplin City Lights fact, Black Keys name, Curb Your Enthusiasm Swedish title
Online news: Emma Morano death
Wikipedia: Springtime egg decorating fact, Lenny Bruce death photos
YouTube videos: Pierce Brosnan James Bond tuxedo fact
Of course, with less reputable sources like clickbait, I make sure it is accurate before I post it. I also don’t bother posting anything from Wikipedia unless it has a citation.
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5.47pm
11 November 2010
Offline In 1940, during the era when Marlboro cigarettes were marketed primarily towards women, Marlboro introduced cigarettes with red tips to mask lipstick smudges.
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Offline That sounds like a very stupid invention, which is why we don’t have them anymore.
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3.28pm
11 November 2010
Offline Dark Overlord said
Where do you find all of these facts Necko, do you spend hours on end on Wikipedia or something like that because it seems like you’re learning something new every day, which is great for you.
This post got me curious, so I looked through the whole thread and tried to categorize things to the best of my recollection. I purposefully use shorthand and there are undoubtedly some mistakes, but it’s an idea.
Books
-Nobody knows for sure who invented the fire hydrant (p.12, 10/6/15)
-Overweight women more likely to give birth to twins (p.13, 10/13/15)
-Twenty-two babies born in 2012 were named Kindle (p.13, 10/16/15)
-Buzz from an electric razor B-flat in America, G in England (p.15, 10/30/15)
-95% of spiders in house have never been outside (p.16, 11/6/15)
-The word clone comes from Greek work for “twig” (p.22, 12/4/15)
-The word vaccine comes from the Latin for cow (p.62, 5/16/16)
-Elvis Presley’s last words (p.68, 6/22/16)
-Pancho Villa’s last words (p.75, 9/3/16)
-Marlboro red tips lipstick fact (p.104, 4/25/17)
Google search out of curiosity
-Top nine highest-ever IQ scores (p.18, 11/15/15)
-Average height of an American male is 5’10” (p.24, 12/14/15)
-Weird laws in Illinois and Chicago (p.26, 12/28/15)
-Bite forces of various animals (p.28, 1/1/16)
-Baker Island last place on earth to enter the new year (p.30, 1/18/16)
-38% of American households had landline phones in 2013 (p.35, 2/11/16)
-You are fourteen percent more likely to die on your birthday (p.54, 4/12/16)
-The longest-ever MLB game lasted 26 innings (p.61, 5/9/16)
-A number of words banned from Illinois license plates (p.64, 5/31/16)
-In 2013, only three percent of American households still had dial-up internet (p.66, 6/15/16)
-This year’s World’s Ugliest Dog (p.71, 7/29/16)
-Highest-scoring Scrabble word ever known in N.A. (p.74, 8/22/16)
-My posts on the Snopes message board still exist (p.78, 9/16/16)
-Fingernails grow 3-4 times faster than toenails (p.80, 9/29/16)
-Population of California larger than Canada (p.80, 10/5/16)
-85% of Pinterest users are female (p.81, 10/16/16)
-Rhode Island is 37 miles across (p.82, 10/18/16)
-Your likelihood of getting murdered this year (p.83, 10/23/16)
-Abraham Lincoln didn’t vote for himself (p.84, 11/8/16)
-William Howard Taft (1910) first president to throw opening day pitch (p.85, 12/3/16)
-Suicide rates are earliest in late spring and early summer (p.89, 12/20/16)
-New York hold record for warmest temperature to snow (p.91, 12/29/16)
-Last known U.S. case of smallpox was in 1949 (p.91, 1/1/17)
-Average weight for American male (p.92, 1/14/17)
-February is the only month that can occur without a full moon (p.99, 3/7/17)
-Weight of a manhole cover (p.99, 3/13/17)
Wikipedia
-The national anthem of Norway is “Yes, We Love This Country.” (p.20, 11/25/15)
-Ten percent claim to be allergic to penicillin, 90% of these aren’t (p.28, 12/30/15)
-Monogamy became the norm in Western Civilization between 6th and 9th centuries (p.31, 1/29/16)
-Uncle Sam Day exists (p.32, 1/31/16)
-Ramen noodles are from Japan (p.38, 2/16/16)
-Link Wray’s Rumble was recorded in 1954 and released in 1958 (p.42, 3/5/16)
-Chimpanzees engage in a form of prostitution where they trade sex for meat (p.53, 4/6/16)
-Pythian Games in 6TH Century BCE may be first music festival (p.59, 5/4/16)
-The “Elvis’ Greatest S**t” album exists (p.62, 5/15/16)
-Smiling at a monkey is a bad idea (p.64, 5/31/16)
-Grunting in tennis is worthy of a Wikipedia article (p.67, 6/16/16)
-Terry Bradshaw recorded a version of “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (p.69, 6/23/16)
-GIF images were invented in 1987 (p.70, 7/9/16)
-Where’s Waldo is called Where’s Wally outside of North America (p.70, 7/17/16)
-Emma Morano is last person born in 19TH century (p.71, 7/18/16)
-Matt Groening is working on a Netflix series (p.71, 7/19/16)
-911 became US emergency number in 1968 (p.71, 7/20/16)
-Fly named after Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma (p.73, 8/5/16)
-Clark Kent was inspired by Harold Lloyd (p.74, 8/16/16)
-SNL Korea exists (p.79, 9/22/16)
-Robert Whitaker took the photograph on Disraeli Gears and Yesterday And Today (p.85, 11/17/16)
-Thagomizer (Far Side) was adopted as an actual scientific term (p.89, 12/17/16)
-Plural of mongoose is mongooses (p.93, 1/16/17)
-Origin of term Grunge Rock (p.93, 1/16/17)
-Origins of term “serial killer” (p.95, 2/14/17)
-Springtime egg decorating fact (p.104, 4/16/17)
-Lenny Bruce death photos (p.104, 4/17/17)
YouTube videos
-What fire being extinguished in slow motion looks like (p.28, 1/1/16)
-The original James Bond novels entered public domain in Canada in 2015 (p.30, 1/17/16)
-What 6000 matches going off at once looks like (p.49, 3/24/16)
-If one were to drill a hole through the earth, it would take 42 minutes to reach the other side (p.60, 5/7/16)
-Vatican City is the only country on earth that doesn’t allow women to vote (p.60, 5/9/16)
-Napoleon made recreational marijuana use illegal after soldiers used it (p.71, 7/24/16)
-Weird Converter website exists (p.73, 8/2/16)
-Greenland is politically part of Europe (p.74, 8/20/16)
-Nodding head is opposite way around in Greece, Albania, and Bulgaria (p.78, 9/15/16)
-“Poo!” crop circle (p.79, 9/20/16)
-Banging your head against the wall burns 150 cals/hour (p.79, 9/21/16)
-Beer shampoo used to be sold (p.79, 9/24/16)
-2x as many copies printed annually of the Ikea catalog than the Bible (p.83, 10/23/16)
-Every cruise ship has a morgue (p.83, 10/27/16)
-Coleridge coined “bisexual” (p.84, 11/1/16)
-Thomas Edison proposed in morse code (p.85, 11/12/16)
-Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet (p.88, 12/6/16)
-One Valentine’s Day, a Chinese man bought every other seat in a theater (p.91, 12/31/16)
-Soccer is short for Association Football (p.91, 1/3/17)
-Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 19TH century (p.92, 1/8/17)
-Barry White’s last words (p.93, 1/18/17)
-Jack Daniels’ last words (p.93, 1/18/17)
-Every year, about 5500 unexploded WWII bombs are found in Germany (p.96, 2/19/17)
-There is a subreddit dedicated to a conspiracy theory that Finland doesn’t exist (p.100, 3/13/17)
-Nigeria is expected to become 3rd most populous nation by 2050 (p.101, 3/18/17)
-Regina was once called “Pile-of-Bones” (p.101, 3/20/17)
-El Dorado appeared on maps as late as 1808 (p.101, 3/20/17)
-Worldbirthsanddeaths.com exists (p.101, 102, 3/21/17)
-Pierce Brosnan James Bond tuxedo fact (p.104, 4/18/17)
Educational/semi-educational TV
-Modern tortilla chips were invented to use up day-old tortillas (p.30, 1/19/16)
-Caviar was not always considered a rich person’s food (p.35, 2/8/16)
-A diet of dog meat was tried as a cure for tuberculosis (p.50, 3/29/16)
-The sum total of numbers on a roulette whel is 666 (p.56, 4/25/16)
-After eating hot peppers, sugar works as well as milk (p.64, 5/28/16)
-George Lucas was a cameraman on Gimme Shelter (p.65, 6/1/16)
-Houdini trained soldiers to escape restaints in WWI (p.75, 9/1/16)
-Etymology of the term gypsy (p.77, 9/7/16)
-The $ symbol originally referred to Spanish money (p.82, 10/20/16)
-First printed recipe for s’mores in Girl Scout handbook 1925 (p.83, 10/26/16)
-Candy corn original called Chicken Feed (p.84, 10/28/16)
-Compasses were invented in China as fortune-telling devices (p.85, 11/16/16)
-The world’s largest McDonalds Playplace (p.85, 11/19/16)
-Fortune magazine named Betty Crocker the second-most famous American woman in 1945 (p.89, 12/15/16)
-Bissell was the first American company to have a female CEO (p.89, 12/18/16)
-Ancestry websites are second-most popular on the Internet, behind porn (p.90, 12/28/16)
-The Playboy Mansion has a redwood forest (p.91, 12/29/16)
-Origins of duct tape (p.94, 1/26/17)
-First patent in North America was for a salt making process (p.95, 1/31/17)
-Bats are found on every continent except Antarctica (p.95, 2/16/17)
-Rin Tin Tin almost won Best Actor at the first Oscars (p.97, 2/24/17)
-In 1970, Playboy became first gentlemen’s magazine to publish in braille (p.99, 2/28/17)
-Term “Third Degree” comes from Freemason rituals (p.99, 3/12/17)
-State of Liberty has a thirty-five-foot waistline (p.102, 3/28/17)
-Benjamin Franklin was a tornado chaser (p.103, 4/3/17)
Clickbait articles
-Psychologists who raised their baby alongside a baby chimpanzee (p.55, 4/19/16)
-Charlie Chaplin City Lights 342 takes fact (p.104, 4/9/17)
-Black Keys name (p.104, 4/16/17)
-Curb Your Enthusiasm Swedish title (p.104, 4/21/17)
Documentaries
-Wiki is the Hawaiian word for quick (p.80, 10/3/16)
-There are wild salamanders in the US (p.80, 10/9/16)
-Elk make odd noises (p.80, 10/9/16)
-Pete Townshend would bleed doing his windmill move when he lost his pick (p.81, 10/15/16)
-Pennsylvania Ave. is named because the nation’s capital moved (p.99, 3/9/17)
-Post-it note fact (p.104, 4/7/17)
-Bathrooms in the Sears Tower (p.104, 4/17/17)
Online news
-Emma Morano death (p.104, 4/16/17)
Found out from doing a crossword puzzle
-A female lobster is called a hen (p.23, 12/6/15)
“meanmistermustard”
–Love Me Do and Dr. No released same day (p.18, 10/15/15)
Accidentally stumbled across in a Google (or Google image) search
-The book “Communism, Hypnotism, and The Beatles” exists (p.24, 12/14/15)
-Duckno.com exists (p.35, 2/8/16)
-Who’s Alive and Who’s Dead exists (p.78, 9/18/16)
-Mr. Men books wiki exists (p.85, 12/4/16)
-There was a Mr. Men TV show (p.85, 12/4/16)
-Welcometointernet.org exists (p.95, 2/5/17)
Facebook/Facebook friends
-Bald eagles aren’t born “bald” (p.34, 2/7/16)
-WWII soldiers put pictures of loved ones under clear grips on guns and called the Sweetheart Grips (p.66, 6/11/16)
-Pablo Picasso’s full name (p.71, 7/20/16)
-One percent of people on earth have red hair and blue eyes (p.86, 12/5/16)
Personal life experience
-Never wear your jeans with holes when the windchill is 3 degrees F (p.37, 2/14/16)
-Google considers Uproxx to be a news source (p.39, 2/24/16)
Cracked.com
-The Museum of Bad Arts exists (p.40, 2/28/16)
-Dishonest furniture store “going out of business” sales (p.71, 7/24/16)
-Cost of a Superbowl ad in 1967 and 2016 (p.99, 2/26/17)
-Benjamin Franklin went to great lengths to keep the twist at the end of Psycho secret (p.103, 4/7/17)
Snopes
-It is possible to tattoo the whites of your eyes (p.65, 6/3/16)
History Channel official website
-“Three worlds” model of geopolitics origin (p.79, 9/24/16)
-Metropolis, Illinois called itself Superman’s hometown (p.93, 1/16/17)
Opentopia
-Average U.S. bra size (p.94, 1/25/17)
I don’t remember
-Bob Dylan once called Charlie Chaplin one of his biggest idols (p.64, 5/25/16)
-Horses should not eat chocolate (p.70, 7/10/16)
-Illegal to murder in a bulletproof vest in NJ (p.83, 10/24/16)
-Walt Disney was a Freemason (p.91, 1/1/17)
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These 2 songs are The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill and While My Guitar Gently Weeps . Although I have no idea who played the first song’s intro solo, only that it was a Mellotron sample, the later song has 2 guitar solos, both played by Eric Clapton.
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11 November 2010
Offline Fact #1: MC Hammer was in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Fact #2: There is a Faith No More tribute band called Fake No More.
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Offline I guess that means that U Can’t Touch This is a big middle finger to all of the enemy troops that didn’t kill him.
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