Random Fun Facts + 20 Facts With Absolutely No Fun in Them

[Big Frank]

Now, 20 Facts With Absolutely No Fun in Them.

[Big Frank]

I would watch a movie with a deformed person voiced by Michael J. Fox.

[Big Frank]

I only do what the voices inside my head tell me to do.

[Big Frank]

Vending Machines kill more people than "Assault Weapons", whatever the @#$% they are. BAN VENDING MACHINES!!!

[Big Frank]

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.


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[Big Frank]

Tesla describing a cell phone 97 years ago.

[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

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

[Big Frank]

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"!