Some facts are completely unimportant. Here's one.
Geraldine McGee Rosenthal, the real life inspiration for Sharon Stone's character in Casino, lived exactly the same number of days as John F. Kennedy. 16,978 days each from birth to death.
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When terrorists what to exclaim 'Death To America' in a text, they use the abbreviation 'd2a'
share8 out of 10 Brooklynites think that knowing "irregardless" isn't a proper word means that they are smart.
shareIf T S Eliot's name had been S T Eliot then spelled backwards it would be Toilets.
Abraham Lincoln's secretary told him not to go to the theater.
JFK fucked his secretary.
The last name of Lincoln's secretary was Kennedy. The last name of Kennedy's secretary was Lincoln. No relations.
share> JFK fucked his secretary.
Here's a book by a woman who claims she had an affair with Kennedy while he was president and she was nineteen. https://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Secret-President-Aftermath/dp/0812981340
On the whole, I believe her, for several reasons. For example, she didn't state the story publicly until after an investigative journalist discovered the affair and published a newspaper article about it. The story is particularly bizarre and disgusting because she had grown up in a very sheltered life, attending girls-only schools and such, and although she never makes this comparison I'd say from her account that at nineteen, she had about the amount of experience with boys, dating, et cetera that a modern girl might have at fourteen. Not pedophelia but definitely creepy.
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Pat Benatar's "You Better Run", was the SECOND video ever to be shown on MTV in 1981.
https://youtu.be/IvSbQB6-UdY
in american sign languag, the sign for pasteurised milk is to pretend to squeeze an udder while moving your hand "past-your-eyes"
shareHere's something most people don't know. On the original Star Trek series, there were, in fact, two senior medical officers. Who was the other, you ask? Well, you're forgetting Dr. Spock. You know, the pointy eared fellow who was always tormenting Boney with his cold, volcano logic. Aaaaah, now you remember.
shareDid you know James Doohan ("Scotty") was missing the middle finger on his right hand? He lost it when a bullet hit him there on D-Day. Throughout the series they covered it up with various tricks. When Scotty would work the transporter and there was a closeup of his hands working the levers, that was someone else's hands you were seeing. And Scotty seemed to be a southpaw, because he usually held his phaser in his left hand. But there were a few moments in the series when the missing finger was visible. IIRC, the episodes "The Enemy Within" and "Catspaw" both have such moments.
shareI never knew that, but it does make sense. Otherwise, at some point, Scotty would have flipped off Kirk.
"Arre ya daft, man! I cannuh fix the shep in ten minutes! We just ejected the entirre warrp corrrrrre!"
Here's a photo where it's visible. From the clothing the other actor is wearing, I'm guessing it's from the episode "By Any Other Name." https://i.redd.it/a32c95i0nji61.jpg
shareGary Burghoff from MASH also had shortened fingers on his left hand which they covered up in the series.
shareYeah, now I recall that. Most of the time they did a good job. But if I remember right, there was one shot in the pilot episode where they were plainly visible; IIRC Radar was holding a football.
shareTo this day people of that era who were never particularly familiar with the series occasionally confuse Dr. Benjamin Spock with Mr. Spock and call the Star Trek character "Dr. Spock."
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Not necessarily useless:
If you place a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
I think the lesson here is to never be without liquor in areas where there are scorpions??
There's an excuse for always carrying a flask! You never know, there might be a scorpion lurking under your office desk. ;)
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