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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Big Frank on April 04, 2023, 09:40:37 PM
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A Bunch Of Random Fun Facts. Some are more fun than others.
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In Russia, Jews had a secret to not becoming alcoholics. They ate their vegetables instead of distilling them into vodka. ;)
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It took until the 20th century for a word to be invented meaning, To propel oneself about an office without getting up from the chair. - Execuglide.*
*Sniglet by Rich Hall.
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It costs more than one cent to produce one cent. When I was stationed in (West) Germany they didn't use cents at the PX (Post Exchange). Every purchase you made was rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents. It was really nice never having useless 1 cent coins in your pocket.
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Ahnold Schwarzenegger was in an orgy with a bunch of other guys and A woman. Is it any wonder there was a stereotype of bodybuilders being gay in the first place?
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Want to get away with murder? trick someone else into doing it.
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Many black people don't know how to swim.
You don't learn to swim by dancing around an illegally opened fire hydrant.
Those 2 facts may be related to each other, and to Will Smith.
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In No Country for Old Men none of the male lead characters ever shares the screen with each other, but they all share the screen with Kelly Macdonald: Carla Jean Moss.
There's a part in the movie where Tommy Lee Jones: Ed Tom Bell says something like, Here a while back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge. The story is set in 1980. In 1979, Federal Judge John Howland Wood was shot and killed in San Antonio by Texas free-lance contract killer Charles Harrelson, father of Woody Harrelson who also starred in No Country for Old Men. What The What!!! :o
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Picture 2/19 is missing from two posts previous. I accidentally copied 11/19 twice. I had the right total number of pictures, and by the time I realized my mistake, I couldn't remember where I got them from.
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These are all of the Random Fun Facts.
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Now, 20 Facts With Absolutely No Fun in Them.
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I would watch a movie with a deformed person voiced by Michael J. Fox.
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I only do what the voices inside my head tell me to do.
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Vending Machines kill more people than "Assault Weapons", whatever the @#$% they are. BAN VENDING MACHINES!!!
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That's all folks. Add whatever weird and wonderful fun or un-fun facts you want. Here's one I just thought of. In early 2011, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane announced he would be reviving The Flintstones, but for an adult audience at Fox, as he was a fan of the original series from the 60's, and that the first episode would air sometime in 2013. When asked about the progress of The Flintstones at a convention to raise awareness about Ted, MacFarlane confirmed that whatever he had complete was shelved because Fox didn't think that a version of The Flintstones for an adult audience would be appealing to audiences including kids and adults. And some people say it would have been too much like Family Guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJs5WVX7JC0&t=6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZDLgUXg9-o
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Tesla describing a cell phone 97 years ago.
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You need to check out this book. It is by Isaac Asimov and named "Book of Facts". You can open it to almost ANY PAGE and learn something you didn't know. I enjoyed the heck out of it!
https://www.amazon.com/Isaac-Asimovs-Book-Facts-Asimov/dp/0517065037/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21TTNZRQ0FTSK&keywords=isaac+asimov+book+of+facts&qid=1680699117&sprefix=issac+asimov+book+%2Caps%2C95&sr=8-1
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Thanks for the recommendation. The Good Doctor is my favorite author, and I have a $20 eGift Card for Barnes & Noble. They should have it at no cost to me.
There's a site called https://trivia-nut.com/ that will send you daily 5-question quizzes by email if you like. It's where the question of wasted Guinness came up. I would have sold my house and moved out of Michigan if I got the multiple choice, which one of these is not one of the Great Lakes wrong.
I remember when Sick Willie was President, Congress voted to make Lake Champlain great in 1998 — despite the fact the lake is almost tiny when compared to the real greats. It covers a measly 490 square miles, compared to the 7,430 square miles covered by Lake Ontario, the smallest of the Greats. And the 31,700 square miles covered by the Greatest Lake, Lake Superior, makes Lake Champlain look like a backyard koi pond. "Lake Plain Sham”, as Ohio Representative Steven C. LaTourette called it, was a great lake for 18 days before it went back to being an okay lake.
I found some Gouda Information at cheese.com.
P.S. The Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Bridge in the picture is just 20 feet shy of 5 miles long from anchorage to anchorage. Opened in 1957, the 4.995 mile Mighty Mac is still the longest suspension bridge in the Western Hemisphere 66 years later.
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey opened in 2022 is currently listed as the longest suspension bridge in the world, and the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan opened in 1998 is listed as the second longest, based on the length of the main span only, and not on the actual length of the bridge. The overall lengths of 15,118 feet and 12,831 feet respectively, added together equal 27,949 feet, which is less than 0.3 miles longer than the Mackinac Bridge, which is way longer than either one of them, It's 26,372 feet long, more than 74% longer than "the longest suspension bridge in the world", and well over twice the length of the "second longest suspension bridge in the world"!