In Case You Didn't Know ...

[Typo Fu Master]

Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi was not a man in a suit, it was actually a giant puppet.

George Clooney did the voice for ‘Sparky’ – a gay dog in South Park.

Most toilet paper sold for home use in France is pink.

The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

Daddy longlegs have penises, which technically makes them not a spider.

The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.

Bullfrogs do not sleep.

Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.

 

[KingOrfeo]

There are no bridges over the Amazon River.

Why not?

 

[Typo Fu Master]

My guess would be because nobody built any.

 

[jaF0]

Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in a year

 

[KingOrfeo]

Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in a year

Only if we hold still.

 

[Hard_Rom]

The mass of earthworms in southern Ontario exceeds the mass of all humans who have ever lived on the planet. 1 billion earthworms are harvested yearly mostly for export to northern American states.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

In 2015, a silver coin with Superman on the heads side was made which is legal tender in Canada. There was only 350,000 produced.

It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after he created it; the current world record is 5.55 seconds.

Japanese square watermelons are ornamental plants and are not edible.

Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.

Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ‘ke-chiap’.

In 2005, a fortune cookie company called Wonton Food Inc correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation. No fraud was involved.

Two PlayStation 1 games, FIFA 2001 and Gran Turismo 2, has scratch & sniff discs. The FIFA 2001 smelled like a soccer field, while Gran Turismo 2 smelled like car tires.

If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin, and no friends or family to prepare funeral or mourn over the body, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

The Himalayan Honey Bee -largest of the honey bees – makes a hallucinogenic honey that tribes collect.

In 2014, Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data.

The collars on men’s dress shirts used to be detachable. This was to save on laundry costs as the collar was the part that needed cleaning the most frequently.

The man who found the 5,000 year old corpse Ötzi the Iceman in 1991 (Oldest natural European mummy) was also found dead frozen in ice in 2004.

In 2014, a missing woman on a vacation in Iceland was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.

If you sneeze while travelling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.

Both Nicholas Cage and Michael Jackson shared the same wife, Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.

Magpies are considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world, and the only non-mammal species able to recognize itself in a mirror test.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Before the term “bloopers” was coined, ‘out-takes’ were called ‘boners’.

Sunsets on Mars are blue.

The small indents in the bottom of frozen pizzas are there to prevent air bubbles forming inside the dough.

The term ‘footage’ comes from films being measured in feet, when being edited in the early days of film making.

In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg unsuccessfully tried to sell Facebook for $75 million. Back then it was called TheFacebook.

There is an opposite of albino animals, which aren’t white, but black. These are known as Melanistic animals.

The first film with a $100 million budget was True Lies, which was made in 1994.

Some cat breeds (called ‘puppy cats’) are bred specifically to exhibit dog-like behavior.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Typo Fu Master]

“Bluetooth” technology was named after a 10th century king, King Harald Bluetooth. He united Denmark and Norway – just like the wireless technology united computers and cell phones.

All dogs are banned from Antarctica since April 1994. This ban was made because of concern that dogs might spread diseases to seals.

Hart Island is the final burial place to over a million of New York City’s unclaimed bodies, and thought to be the largest government sponsored mass grave on the earth.

In Slovakia they have Christmas Carp that live in the family bathtub for a few days before they are eaten.

Banks have therapists known as ‘wealth psychologist’ who help ultra-rich clients, who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.

A small population of Mammoths survived on the Wrangel Island until 1650 BC, about 900 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza were completed.

The state of Ohio gives out different colored license plates for those convicted of DUI.

The Flintstones was the most profitable network cartoon franchise for 30 years, that’s before The Simpsons came along.

 

[KingOrfeo]

All dogs are banned from Antarctica since April 1994. This ban was made because of concern that dogs might spread diseases to seals.

In 1995, the Galileo probe was intentionally crashed into Jupiter to prevent the possibility of contaminating Jovian moons with terrestrial microorganisms.

(I don't know why NASA didn't simply autoclave the probe or bathe it in alcohol before launching it. Perhaps either would have done its mechanisms too much damage.)

 

[KingOrfeo]

You can still buy detachable collar shirts. The collars wear out quicker than other parts of the shirt. They are also standard required wear for at least one profession in uk.

Barristers?

 

[Bidin~Time]

Some people still exist who use a map and not GPS to navigate while traveling by car.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Some people still exist who use a map and not GPS to navigate while traveling by car.

What's more, some people still exist who drive their own cars.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

As of 2016, the site MySpace still gets 50 million visitors a month.

C-3PO and R2-D2 had their own 1985 single season 13 episode spin-off TV series called Star Wars: Droids. The season shown the adventures of R2-D2 & C-3P0 before they joined Luke Skywalker.

People don’t sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.

If you made $1 every second, it would take you 2,511 years to have more money than Bill Gates (over $79.2 billion dollars).

In 2013 Toy Story was remade shot-for-shot with real toys and real people. Watch the video!

The word “Jurassic,” which we so often associate with dinosaurs, comes from the Celtic word for “forest”.

The brain is our fattiest organ, being composed of nearly 60% fat.

Samuel Jackson has a clause in his film contracts that allows him to play golf during film shoots whenever he wants.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Top 10 strangest hobbies.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

1. Hikaru Dorodango

Or, polishing dirt.

If it sounds weird, well, it is, but believe it or not, it’s possible. Essentially, you make a ball of mud and draw the moisture out of it, while coating it with finer and finer grains of soil. Then you work the dirt, by hand, polishing it into a high-gloss sphere. You’re making art with your hands…literally!

How effective is this technique? The Mythbusters used it to prove that you can, in fact, polish a turd. Not that we recommend that as a hobby.

Many of Lits finest denizens have known this for centuries.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Many of Lits finest denizens have known this for centuries.

True, but they haven't yet mastered the art of turning a sow's ear into a silk purse.

 

[jaF0]

People don’t sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.

Or cough, or fart as far as I know.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

True, but they haven't yet mastered the art of turning a sow's ear into a silk purse.

That requires more effort-n-skillz than mouth-runnin' an' sich.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

In 1945 the first atomic bomb was created, and was nicknamed “The Gadget”.

For every child born in Wales since April 2014, the Welsh Government have donated a fruit tree to Ugandan families, to celebrate the birth or adoption of every child.

Restaurants can sing ‘Happy Birthday’ now because the copyrights claims are now invalid. Judge George H. King ruled that a copyright filed in 1935, granted only the rights to specific piano arrangements of the music, not the song itself.

Although Australia is home to the largest number of venomous snakes in the world, it averages only one fatal snake bite per year.

Shoe shops used X-Ray machines to measure shoe sizes in the 1940’s before the risks of X-Rays were fully understood.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

The reason the taste of artificial banana flavouring and artificial banana flavoured products doesn’t taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.

The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn. (For Elle who probably already knows this)

The directors of the film Despicable Me actually wrote their own language for the Minions called Minionise.

Every year in June a bizarre festival takes place in the village of Castrillo de Murcia near Burgos in Spain during which men dress up like the devil and then jump over babies born in the previous twelve months of the year! Known as El Colacho, this strange custom is part of the country-wide Corpus Christi celebrations yet only happens in this small village.

Viagra, when dissolved in water, can make cut-flowers stay erect for up to a week longer than they usually would.

Catnip is ten-times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the main substance used in insect repellents.

If eaten in one meal, 30 to 90 grams of polar bear liver is enough to kill a human being. (I found this out thanks to Thør)

In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

In the early 1900’s, Lobster was considered the “cockroach of the ocean” and was synonymous with the poor – often eaten regularly by the homeless, slaves and prisoners. It wasn’t until after World War II that lobster became considered a delicacy and a food associated with the aristocratic classes.

Hares are born with fur and can see whilst rabbits are born ‘naked’ and blind.

Film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg revived The Walt Disney Studios by producing some of their biggest hits: The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. After these he requested a promotion, and was then abruptly fired by them. He then swore revenge against Disney and founded DreamWorks Studios.

On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity was removed from being on sale and replaced with a “Bullsh*t” box, on sale for $6. This box contained “literal feces, from an actual bull,” as the description stated on their site. This was to protest to the Black Friday shopping craziness where shoppers will literally buy anything on sale. This special Black Friday edition of Cards Against Humanity sold over 30,000 copies, where all buyers actually received a box of bull poo.

On one of the islands off the West-Coast of Australia lies Lake Hillier. A bright, bubble-gum pink lake! Despite not being the only colored lake in the world, it is unique because it is the only colored lake where scientists have not yet determined what causes it to be such a bright pink.

There is a German technique of swordsmanship known as ‘Mordhau’, which consists of gripping the sword inverted with both hands and using brute force to incapacitate your enemy with the pommel or cross-guard.

In 1969, a musician named Jim Sullivan recorded an album called “U.F.O.“, which featured strange lyrics about leaving his family and being abducted by aliens. Sullivan disappeared six years later without a trace, the only piece of evidence being his abandoned car found on a desert road.

The MMORPG Eve Online hosted the world’s largest ever online battle in space on the 28th July 2013. It lasted over five hours and was fought between four-thousand players!

The word ‘quarantine’ derives from the Venetian dialect of Italian and the words ‘quaranta giorni’, meaning ‘forty days’. This is because when it was discovered that ships were infested with plague-carrying rats they were made to sit at anchor outside Venice’s city walls for forty days before coming ashore.