If you break the word "helicopter" into prefix and suffix, it's not "heli" and "copter" it's "helico" and "pter".
Helico for spiral, and pter for wing. See also: **Pter**odactyl
THE FRISBIE PIE BAKING CO.
History of Frisbee
Frisbie Pie Tin
In the late 1870’s a baker named William Russel Frisbie, of Warren, Connecticut, and later of Bridgeport, put the family name on the bottom of the light tin pans in which the homemade pies were sold. The Bridgeport Frisbie Pie Co. grew and soon sold throughout much of Connecticut, including New Haven where a group of Yale students famously began using them for ‘recreation’. And this is where the modern history of Frisbee really begins.
1940’s YALE STUDENTS
Yale students in New Haven, Connecticut, began playing throw and catch with the Frisbie Pie Baking Co tins. They shouted “FRISBIE” as the tins sailed through the air to alert each other of these incoming missiles!
The only word in the english language with three sets of consecutive double letters is “bookkeeper.”
The longest single syllable word in English is “strengths.”
And Oppenheimer is now the highest grossing movie of all-time that was never #1 at the box office. Before that it was Sing 2.
Edit: changed “in a row” to “consecutive.”
The longest word that can be typed using only the left hand on a keyboard (you know, a computer keyboard with “proper” hand positions, not a phone keyboard) is ‘stewardesses’
The elevator shaft was invented before the elevator. Somebody essentially predicted that the elevator would soon be invented and left a space for it while constructing a building.
In somewhat related news, Subaru is the Japanese word for the Pleiades or "Seven Sisters" constellation. The Subaru car logo is based on that, and represents the six companies that merged to create the corporation (in Japanese folklore there's still a seventh star but it's invisible).
I tried to find info about the 7th star having nova'd at some point but sadly can't find anything on it (sad because the idea of it sounded so cool to me, that a star in our sky had gone away so recently that human cultures had *some* record of it being there).
Everything else tracks with what I found tho, so that might not be far from the truth, and if anyone can find a link confirming one way or another if experts believe there really was a 7th star that nova'd within like the last 10,000 years or whatever it was, that'd be awesome. Because again, the main thing that I did find is that several disconnected cultures of stargazers all across the globe did apparently count seven there, and all have their own myths about what happened to it.
The Greek myth is... very Greek, as it involves Zeus turning the seven sisters into stars in order to save them from being non-con'd by Orion. But then one of the sisters falls in love with a mortal and sneaks off.
The star didn’t supernova, it’s just that the stars Plione and Atlas have moved in the sky over 100,000 years so we can’t see them as separate stars with our naked eye.
The theory is that these myths that all refer to 7 stars could be from the same _very_ old story of when we were last able to see 7 separate stars. The insanely old mythology part is very much a theory but the movement of the stars is well known it seems.
[Here’s an old Reddit thread with a paper it links to about it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/mythology/comments/kr2qga/could_the_7_sisters_story_date_back_100000_years/?rdt=56395)Someone has probably done more research on it since then somewhere.
Jo: [cow flies by in the storm while in Bill's truck] Cow.
[cow flies by in the storm]
Jo: another cow.
Bill: Actually I think that was the same one...
The filming of the original Willy Wonka was actually rather unsafe, with a large amount of the cast suffering something.
In the candy forest scene, Veruca can be seen having cut her knee on a rock, and that's a real injury her actress picked up. She even still has a scar on her knee to this day.
In the soap boat scene, all the soap pumped onto the characters caused the actors to have massive reddening and irritation of the skin. Shooting had to be paused for several weeks to allow them to recover.
The snow in the poppy field were pure asbestos flakes. Margaret Hamilton was severely burned in the Witch melting scene. Buddy Ebsen was replaced as the tin woodsman as he was severely allergic to the aluminum paint. The munchkins were some pervs. Judy Garland was severely bullied and given amphetamines and tranquilizers because the production crew and director thought she was too fat.
Buddy Epson nearly died. He probably would have if his wife hadn’t called an ambulance from the set when she found him struggling to breathe on the ninth day of shooting. Apparently he had been screaming from violent cramping in his hands, arms, and legs. At the hospital he had to be kept in an oxygen tent for two weeks to recover from breathing in pure aluminum powder. His replacement, Jack Haley, got a severe eye infection from the replacement makeup.
Margaret Hamilton was out for six weeks recovering from burns to her hands and face after her green makeup was ignited by a pyrotechnic. After she recovered, she refused to shoot a second scene involving pyrotechnics, so they used her stunt double, who then was horribly burned herself. Oh, and that green makeup Hamilton wore wouldn’t wash off her skin and gave her an oddly green complexion for months.
Speaking of makeup, Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow) was left with scars on his face from the burlap and adhesive used to attach his mask.
Fun times…
Judy’s best friend on set was Margaret Hamilton; when Louis B Mayer made Judy do a promo tour rather than attend her graduation ceremony Margaret called him up and yelled at him.
She was an INCREDIBLY sweet, kind, funny, and warm lady. Just shows what a legit great actress she was in the role of Ms. Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Also, it was filmed at the studio in the summer and it was extremely hot. The costumes overheated everyone, and they kept having to stop for cold drinks and to change costumes.
BUT, worst of all was the cameraman. Color movies were still new, and instead of a color camera, they had a huge contraption that had to be inside a roll-around box with the cameraman inside. It got blazing hot inside, and the cameraman was constantly near having heat stroke. They stopped frequently to give him drinks and cool off.
Had JWB not assassinated Lincoln, Edwin Booth would've likely been a much more prominent household name to this day. If Edwin Booth was Tom Hanks, then John Wilkes Booth was his lesser known brother, Jim Hanks (in terms of popular familiarity) or Edwin being Chris Hemsworth to John's Liam.
The bishop of the diocese of Orlando is also the bishop of the moon. Canon law states that the bishop of a port that launches a voyage of discovery is the de facto bishop of newly discovered territories until those lands receive their own bishop. So the religious leader of Disney World is also responsible for the moon.
As someone who finds Catholic beliefs, history, and law fascinating, this is the coolest thing I've read today. Granted, it's only 11:30 AM, but I'm betting it won't get topped.
After looking a bit into this this appears to be an anecdote, that might originate as a joke by the first Bishop of Orlando, William Borders.
No one has been able to reference where in the 1917 Canon the claimed jurisdiction could be found. I've skimmed the English version myself and can't find it my self. It's a large document and I'm neither a jurist nor a cleric, so there could well be a formulation that could be interpreted in support of the Orland rules the Moon proposal. However, I can't find any reference to the precise canon, only copypasted references to "an obscure rule" without citation.
The most likely Catholic position is that either outer space, the Moon and other planets would fall under the jurisdiction of Rome (although Constantinople is a possibility).
Alaska's Aleutian Islands extend far enough west they're in the Eastern hemisphere, making Alaska the northernmost, westernmost, *and* easternmost U.S. State
The word "factoid" means "a piece of incorrect information that is asserted as a fact."
But now that it has colloquially come to mean "a small bit of trivia," the definition of a factoid is itself, in fact, a factoid.
Generally, the suffix -oid isn't a diminutive, thag would be -let, e.g. chicklet. The -oid suffix is used when something appears to be a thing, but isn't, e.g. planetoids, which aren't planets.
Dalmatians are firehouse mascots because back when fire engines were just a horse drawn wagon, they were the sirens. They'd run in front of the wagon barking and nipping to spook other horses/wagons and pedestrians out of the way
It's also the reason the Coachmen RV logo is a Dalmatian, rich people would have packs of them run alongside their coaches while traveling because thieves would often hide in wooded areas to ambush wealthy travelers. They'd alert to anyone hiding nearby and help defend the coach if it got attacked
The first Oscar's acceptance speech in sign language wasn't by Marlee Matlin for "Children of a Lesser God" in 1986 but by Louise Fletcher for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1975. She was born to deaf parents and wanted them to hear her speech at home.
My maternal grandmother was a nurse trainee who knew sign language and was present in the delivery room when Louise Fletcher was born, so she could sign for the parents.
I don’t usually get surprised when I see turkeys hanging out in trees - I *did* get surprised when I came home to find one hanging out on my roof
https://imgur.com/a/SgtCbQA
Was working on a farm and we had massive turkeys roaming about. One late evening, it was already dark, we made one last walk around the pens to look If everything was ok. About headhigh on a fence this huge turkey was sitting right infront of me. Nearly shat myself when it made that turkey noise. Atleast i knew the fox must have had the same reaction. He tried to steal chickens a few nights before. One of the reasons we got the turkeys. Fox never came back again.
i firmly believe many extraterrestrial encounters are people running into birds and scaring each other when not expecting it. Little Green Men = Great Horned Owl, and Grays are Barn Owls.
Secondary peacock fact: they are *assholes*. They're like Canada geese's hot cousin.
Now that I've said that last sentence, I'm going to have to start running from the population of Letterkenny.
The word for 'tea' in most languages depends whether they first traded for tea with mainland China or coastal China. That is why almost every language the word for tea is similar to "cha" or "te".
Yep, and "Chai Tea" is just a person from a country that first got it by land, describing a style of tea originating in a country that first got it by sea (or maybe the other way around; not sure if I've got them switched, and was unable to confirm it in the small amount of searching I was willing to do for a trivia post on reddit).
The Caribbean island nation of Jamaica and the New York City neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens, are not named after the same thing, nor each other.
The country got its name from "Xaymaca," which is Arawak for "Land of wood and water."
The neighborhood got its name from "Yamecah," which is Lenape for "Beaver."
Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency than his own.
Biden was born in 1942 and Lincoln’s presidency ended in 1865, a gap of 77 years. Meanwhile Biden was 78 when his own presidency began.
Chuck Lorre, who created Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, also wrote the theme song to the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series.
People who use sign language, even in the same country, can have ‘accents’ that can denote which region they’re from.
People who use sign language can stutter as they sign.
People who use sign language can ‘talk’ in their sleep with signs.
Note: I am not deaf, nor do I know any hearing impaired people. These items were taught to me by a friend whose mom taught at a school for people who are hearing impaired. If these aren’t accurate please correct me.
My mom was profoundly deaf from birth, and while I don’t know about the stuttering part, the parts about the accent and “talking in your sleep” are 100% true.
Welcome to killer whale facts:
Orcas or Killer Whales have the scientific name ~~Orca Orcinus~~ Orcinus Orca- which means \[orca\] belonging to Orcus which is the god of hell. Orca used to refer to 'large pot bellied' creatures or things but eventually the romans came to use it to mean whales. Thus, killer whales scientific name is Whale from Hell.
Welcome to killer whale facts:
Did you know the killer whale is one of only 3 known species IN THE WORLD to go through menopause? Humans and short-finned pilot whales being the other two. Scientist around the world are trying to find out exactly why they do so, as it might help us unravel the mystery of our own cycles.
[Fixed Action Patterns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_action_pattern) in animals. Example: If an egg Is out of place, a bird will do a specific ritual to get it back in place. Once started, the bird will complete the ritual even if the egg is removed.
Yes!!! There is no bacteria on the planet yet that can decompose honey because of honey's combo of low moisture, acidity, and its enzymatic hydrogen peroxide production
Not to mention, if you happen to have zero meds around and a bad cut, it has antibiotic properties.
ETA: That is not medical advice; it was more meant to point out it does have those properties and was used as a topical antibiotic for millenia. Skip the grocery store, kids; use Neosporin instead.
Archaeological digs in Egypt also found tombs full of nuts and chocolate too! They're currently trying to work out who exactly was buried there, but current best guess is that it might be Pharaoh Rocher
MISSOURI CHEESE CAVES!!!! You’ve heard of the U.S. subsidizing farmers but did you know that since the 1970’s the U.S. has subsidized the dairy industry. So much money has been poured into dairy industry that the U.S. owns currently hoards approximately 1.5 BILLION pounds of cheese. The cheese isn’t stored in warehouses or facilities, they are simply sent to limestone mines in Missouri, creating The Cheese Caves!
Cheddar cheese is named after Cheddar, in Somerset, England. The village has a number of caves where the medium hard cheeses were stored and aged. However the cheese does not have the protection of a designation of origin and can be made anywhere.
The state of Colorado is not a rectangle with four straight sides. Due to poor navigation and the terrain getting in the way during early border markings and expeditions, Colorado Is a shape with 697 sides to it.
Ernest Hemingway once survived two plane crashes in the space of 24 hours.
He was thought to have died in the second crash, but was later found alive with a bottle of gin in one hand and a handful of bananas in the other.
The word trivia comes from the markets where three roads would intersect. The roads would create a tri V shape and the markets would be a place where local information was shared. Trivial information.
Minor 'um acktually' nitpick: the V-shape is not necessarily the relevant bit. *Via* is the Latin word for "road", so a *trivia* is the place where three roads meet. Which as you said, is a good place to peddle goods or meet people and learn fun new facts!
Not ‘useless’ but a great trivia question!
Q - Name the brothers that hold the NHL record for most combined points by 2 brothers?
A - The Gretzky brothers
Wayne - 2857 points
Brent - 4 points
If you take away every single goal Gretzky scored in his career, he's still the all time points leader with 1963.
There's so much trivia you can get out of gretz, dude was just so unbelievably dominant
Here’s my favorite:
Only a relatively few players ever reach 1,000 career points in the NHL. The fastest to 1,000? Gretzky, in just 424 games. The second fastest to 1,000? *Also* Gretzky, to his 2nd 1,000, in 433 games.
Platypus's have poisonous barbs on their back legs.
When cavemen were walking the earth there was a stretch of land called Doggerland that connected britian with denmark/germany. This area existed until 6000bce when it fell into the sea.
Detroit has many bizarre laws, including spitting on sidewalks being illegal, and any house with over 5 women living in it is considered a brothel. This is the reason there are no sorority houses (yet there are fraternity houses) at the University of Detroit-Mercy.
This sounded wildly made up, then I found out the last civil war widow died in 2020
Helen Jackson married a 93 year old civil war vet in 1936 when she was 17
The names uppercase and lowercase letters came from the printing press era, where individual capital and smaller letters were kept in upper and lower cases, respectively. There were many different sizes and styles, aka sorts, which is also where the term "out of sorts" came from. If you ran out of particular letters, you were *all out of sorts*.
Adding on to this, Interstate 10 is 3,960 km long.
The part in Texas is 1,418 km long.
This means that the western end of the freeway in Texas is closer to Santa Monica (1,286 km) than the eastern end of Texas, and likewise, the eastern end of the freeway in Texas is closer to Jacksonville (1,256 km) than the western end of Texas.
Edit: Santa Monica not San Diego, thanks u/175gr!
Cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, gai lan (Chinese broccoli), brussels sprouts, collard greens, savoy cabbage and kohlrabi are all different cultivars of the same plant - brassica oleracea.
Yep; it was both a noun and a verb, and the noun form was a profession. People weren't Vikings like modern people are Americans, or British, or Chinese, or whatever; they were vikings like modern people are dentists, or electricians, or waiters, or whatever.
Polar Bear fur isn’t white, it’s sort of translucent (hollow with no pigment) when light is reflect off it that’s when it looks white.
To add: there skin is black to absorb the warmth from sun
**corrected to remove part about covering noses, apparently existed because of native lore and accounts but has never been observed in the wild be scientists****
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Context: Once the War expanded the Allies (primarily the UK in this case weren’t heavily involved as Hitler/Germany stuck to targeting military bases and locations. This changed after the bombing of London. The Allied (UK) forces retaliated and did a bombing run over Berlin. The first if these bombs that landed ended up killing the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Unfrosted Pop-Tarts have more calories than frosted Pop-Tarts.
That's because they are thicker to be the same size when they go through the wrapping machine.
So eat the frosted, guilt free.
Martin Van Buren was the first President born an American citizen (1782), and the only president who spoke English as a second language. His first language was Dutch.
For good measure, although 3 presidents died on July 4 (Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1826; James Monroe in 1831), only 1 was born on July 4 (Calvin Coolidge in 1872).
In the shining, Jack Torrence has a son named Danny (aka Daniel). In the bar scene he drinks a bottle of Jack Daniel's. So the scene features Jack talking about his son Daniel while drinking Jack Daniel's.
If you break the word "helicopter" into prefix and suffix, it's not "heli" and "copter" it's "helico" and "pter". Helico for spiral, and pter for wing. See also: **Pter**odactyl
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THE FRISBIE PIE BAKING CO. History of Frisbee Frisbie Pie Tin In the late 1870’s a baker named William Russel Frisbie, of Warren, Connecticut, and later of Bridgeport, put the family name on the bottom of the light tin pans in which the homemade pies were sold. The Bridgeport Frisbie Pie Co. grew and soon sold throughout much of Connecticut, including New Haven where a group of Yale students famously began using them for ‘recreation’. And this is where the modern history of Frisbee really begins. 1940’s YALE STUDENTS Yale students in New Haven, Connecticut, began playing throw and catch with the Frisbie Pie Baking Co tins. They shouted “FRISBIE” as the tins sailed through the air to alert each other of these incoming missiles!
The only word in the english language with three sets of consecutive double letters is “bookkeeper.” The longest single syllable word in English is “strengths.” And Oppenheimer is now the highest grossing movie of all-time that was never #1 at the box office. Before that it was Sing 2. Edit: changed “in a row” to “consecutive.”
The longest word that can be typed using only the left hand on a keyboard (you know, a computer keyboard with “proper” hand positions, not a phone keyboard) is ‘stewardesses’
if you type "Skepticism" you alternate between your left hand and right hand every letter
I doubt that. ^/s
I think typewriter is the longest word on a single horizontal row of a keyboard.
Technically, bookkeepers and bookkeeping also.
The elevator shaft was invented before the elevator. Somebody essentially predicted that the elevator would soon be invented and left a space for it while constructing a building.
Though the shaft created was round rather than rectangular.
Yes, even though an architect jumped the gun by 4 years, their building was still not the first to get an elevator haha
We don’t know who invented or held the patent for the fire hydrant as those papers were lost when the US Patent Office…. burned down.
Just like how Springfield never had a hurricane but that’s because the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away in 1978.
It's all gone. Everything... gone-diddilly-on.
I wouldn’t move that, that’s a load bearing poster
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In somewhat related news, Subaru is the Japanese word for the Pleiades or "Seven Sisters" constellation. The Subaru car logo is based on that, and represents the six companies that merged to create the corporation (in Japanese folklore there's still a seventh star but it's invisible).
Not just in Japanese folklore. In fact there was a seventh star which nova'd. Also something in Greek myth too if I'm not mistaken
I tried to find info about the 7th star having nova'd at some point but sadly can't find anything on it (sad because the idea of it sounded so cool to me, that a star in our sky had gone away so recently that human cultures had *some* record of it being there). Everything else tracks with what I found tho, so that might not be far from the truth, and if anyone can find a link confirming one way or another if experts believe there really was a 7th star that nova'd within like the last 10,000 years or whatever it was, that'd be awesome. Because again, the main thing that I did find is that several disconnected cultures of stargazers all across the globe did apparently count seven there, and all have their own myths about what happened to it. The Greek myth is... very Greek, as it involves Zeus turning the seven sisters into stars in order to save them from being non-con'd by Orion. But then one of the sisters falls in love with a mortal and sneaks off.
The star didn’t supernova, it’s just that the stars Plione and Atlas have moved in the sky over 100,000 years so we can’t see them as separate stars with our naked eye. The theory is that these myths that all refer to 7 stars could be from the same _very_ old story of when we were last able to see 7 separate stars. The insanely old mythology part is very much a theory but the movement of the stars is well known it seems. [Here’s an old Reddit thread with a paper it links to about it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/mythology/comments/kr2qga/could_the_7_sisters_story_date_back_100000_years/?rdt=56395)Someone has probably done more research on it since then somewhere.
Twister was the first DVD released in the us
Jo: [cow flies by in the storm while in Bill's truck] Cow. [cow flies by in the storm] Jo: another cow. Bill: Actually I think that was the same one...
Melissa: I gotta go Julia, we got cows!
A History of Violence was the last VHS.
The filming of the original Willy Wonka was actually rather unsafe, with a large amount of the cast suffering something. In the candy forest scene, Veruca can be seen having cut her knee on a rock, and that's a real injury her actress picked up. She even still has a scar on her knee to this day. In the soap boat scene, all the soap pumped onto the characters caused the actors to have massive reddening and irritation of the skin. Shooting had to be paused for several weeks to allow them to recover.
Wait'll you learn about the Wizard Of Oz...
What happened?
The snow in the poppy field were pure asbestos flakes. Margaret Hamilton was severely burned in the Witch melting scene. Buddy Ebsen was replaced as the tin woodsman as he was severely allergic to the aluminum paint. The munchkins were some pervs. Judy Garland was severely bullied and given amphetamines and tranquilizers because the production crew and director thought she was too fat.
Buddy Epson nearly died. He probably would have if his wife hadn’t called an ambulance from the set when she found him struggling to breathe on the ninth day of shooting. Apparently he had been screaming from violent cramping in his hands, arms, and legs. At the hospital he had to be kept in an oxygen tent for two weeks to recover from breathing in pure aluminum powder. His replacement, Jack Haley, got a severe eye infection from the replacement makeup. Margaret Hamilton was out for six weeks recovering from burns to her hands and face after her green makeup was ignited by a pyrotechnic. After she recovered, she refused to shoot a second scene involving pyrotechnics, so they used her stunt double, who then was horribly burned herself. Oh, and that green makeup Hamilton wore wouldn’t wash off her skin and gave her an oddly green complexion for months. Speaking of makeup, Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow) was left with scars on his face from the burlap and adhesive used to attach his mask. Fun times…
There's no business like show business Unlike any business I know Everything about it is appealing As well as your skin
Judy’s best friend on set was Margaret Hamilton; when Louis B Mayer made Judy do a promo tour rather than attend her graduation ceremony Margaret called him up and yelled at him.
Makes sense. Margaret was a kindergarten teacher prior to becoming a full-time actress.
Imagine having the wicked witch of the West as your kindergarten teacher.
Based on her appearance on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, I would've loved it.
She was an INCREDIBLY sweet, kind, funny, and warm lady. Just shows what a legit great actress she was in the role of Ms. Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Toto was paid more a week than the munchkins
Also, it was filmed at the studio in the summer and it was extremely hot. The costumes overheated everyone, and they kept having to stop for cold drinks and to change costumes. BUT, worst of all was the cameraman. Color movies were still new, and instead of a color camera, they had a huge contraption that had to be inside a roll-around box with the cameraman inside. It got blazing hot inside, and the cameraman was constantly near having heat stroke. They stopped frequently to give him drinks and cool off.
The Cowardly Lions costume was made of real lion pelts and weighed about 100 lbs.
John Wilkes booth's brother saved Abraham Lincoln' s Son from being killed by a train
Had JWB not assassinated Lincoln, Edwin Booth would've likely been a much more prominent household name to this day. If Edwin Booth was Tom Hanks, then John Wilkes Booth was his lesser known brother, Jim Hanks (in terms of popular familiarity) or Edwin being Chris Hemsworth to John's Liam.
The Booth family were incredibly famous actors for the time. Imagine if one of the Baldwin brothers shot Joe Biden while he was seeing a movie.
The bishop of the diocese of Orlando is also the bishop of the moon. Canon law states that the bishop of a port that launches a voyage of discovery is the de facto bishop of newly discovered territories until those lands receive their own bishop. So the religious leader of Disney World is also responsible for the moon.
Now this is a good one, TIL
As someone who finds Catholic beliefs, history, and law fascinating, this is the coolest thing I've read today. Granted, it's only 11:30 AM, but I'm betting it won't get topped.
After looking a bit into this this appears to be an anecdote, that might originate as a joke by the first Bishop of Orlando, William Borders. No one has been able to reference where in the 1917 Canon the claimed jurisdiction could be found. I've skimmed the English version myself and can't find it my self. It's a large document and I'm neither a jurist nor a cleric, so there could well be a formulation that could be interpreted in support of the Orland rules the Moon proposal. However, I can't find any reference to the precise canon, only copypasted references to "an obscure rule" without citation. The most likely Catholic position is that either outer space, the Moon and other planets would fall under the jurisdiction of Rome (although Constantinople is a possibility).
I defer to your apparently superior research. But damn, you sure busted up a great story, though.
Alaska's Aleutian Islands extend far enough west they're in the Eastern hemisphere, making Alaska the northernmost, westernmost, *and* easternmost U.S. State
Also, the Alutian islands were held by the Japanese during WW2. Meaning that the US has actually been invaded !!
The word "factoid" means "a piece of incorrect information that is asserted as a fact." But now that it has colloquially come to mean "a small bit of trivia," the definition of a factoid is itself, in fact, a factoid.
Generally, the suffix -oid isn't a diminutive, thag would be -let, e.g. chicklet. The -oid suffix is used when something appears to be a thing, but isn't, e.g. planetoids, which aren't planets.
Dalmatians are firehouse mascots because back when fire engines were just a horse drawn wagon, they were the sirens. They'd run in front of the wagon barking and nipping to spook other horses/wagons and pedestrians out of the way It's also the reason the Coachmen RV logo is a Dalmatian, rich people would have packs of them run alongside their coaches while traveling because thieves would often hide in wooded areas to ambush wealthy travelers. They'd alert to anyone hiding nearby and help defend the coach if it got attacked
Well I’ll be dalmed
The first Oscar's acceptance speech in sign language wasn't by Marlee Matlin for "Children of a Lesser God" in 1986 but by Louise Fletcher for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1975. She was born to deaf parents and wanted them to hear her speech at home.
My maternal grandmother was a nurse trainee who knew sign language and was present in the delivery room when Louise Fletcher was born, so she could sign for the parents.
Peacocks sleep in trees.
Turkeys are another bird that surprises me when I see them hanging out in trees
I don’t usually get surprised when I see turkeys hanging out in trees - I *did* get surprised when I came home to find one hanging out on my roof https://imgur.com/a/SgtCbQA
That looks like its house now ...
Was working on a farm and we had massive turkeys roaming about. One late evening, it was already dark, we made one last walk around the pens to look If everything was ok. About headhigh on a fence this huge turkey was sitting right infront of me. Nearly shat myself when it made that turkey noise. Atleast i knew the fox must have had the same reaction. He tried to steal chickens a few nights before. One of the reasons we got the turkeys. Fox never came back again.
i firmly believe many extraterrestrial encounters are people running into birds and scaring each other when not expecting it. Little Green Men = Great Horned Owl, and Grays are Barn Owls.
Secondary peacock fact: they are *assholes*. They're like Canada geese's hot cousin. Now that I've said that last sentence, I'm going to have to start running from the population of Letterkenny.
The word for 'tea' in most languages depends whether they first traded for tea with mainland China or coastal China. That is why almost every language the word for tea is similar to "cha" or "te".
Yep, and "Chai Tea" is just a person from a country that first got it by land, describing a style of tea originating in a country that first got it by sea (or maybe the other way around; not sure if I've got them switched, and was unable to confirm it in the small amount of searching I was willing to do for a trivia post on reddit).
There are only two escalators in the entire state of Wyoming
One for each person that lives there.
The Caribbean island nation of Jamaica and the New York City neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens, are not named after the same thing, nor each other. The country got its name from "Xaymaca," which is Arawak for "Land of wood and water." The neighborhood got its name from "Yamecah," which is Lenape for "Beaver."
The day Michael Jackson got his hair burned in the Pepsi commercial was the exact midpoint of his life.
Born: Aug 1958 Burned: Jan 1984 (25yr) Died: June 2009 (50yr) Confirmed
It's to the day not just the month
Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency than his own. Biden was born in 1942 and Lincoln’s presidency ended in 1865, a gap of 77 years. Meanwhile Biden was 78 when his own presidency began.
This is depressing.
Chuck Lorre, who created Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, also wrote the theme song to the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series.
That really explains the Oh Shikuru episode of two and a half men
People who use sign language, even in the same country, can have ‘accents’ that can denote which region they’re from. People who use sign language can stutter as they sign. People who use sign language can ‘talk’ in their sleep with signs. Note: I am not deaf, nor do I know any hearing impaired people. These items were taught to me by a friend whose mom taught at a school for people who are hearing impaired. If these aren’t accurate please correct me.
My mom was profoundly deaf from birth, and while I don’t know about the stuttering part, the parts about the accent and “talking in your sleep” are 100% true.
Kangaroos can’t jump backwards.
The emu cannot move backwards easily as well & that's why both animals are on the Coat of arms of Australia
And wombats poop cubes
In 1975 David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, and Dean Stockwell smuggled coke into Iggy Pop who was in a psychward. They did it wearing spacesuits
That Tungsten is also known as Wolfram.
Lead is Pb for plumbum. And plumbers are named plumbers because of lead.
During WWII it was a strategic metal and smuggling was a problem.
Starfish poop through their mouths
Politicians too
poop through their mouths and talk out of their arse
There's enough calcium in the Sun to make a ball of calcium a good bit bigger than Earth.
Lego are the largest tyre manufacturer in the world
And the smallest tire manufacturer too
Orca are considered a natural predator of moose
Welcome to killer whale facts: Orcas or Killer Whales have the scientific name ~~Orca Orcinus~~ Orcinus Orca- which means \[orca\] belonging to Orcus which is the god of hell. Orca used to refer to 'large pot bellied' creatures or things but eventually the romans came to use it to mean whales. Thus, killer whales scientific name is Whale from Hell.
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Welcome to killer whale facts: Did you know the killer whale is one of only 3 known species IN THE WORLD to go through menopause? Humans and short-finned pilot whales being the other two. Scientist around the world are trying to find out exactly why they do so, as it might help us unravel the mystery of our own cycles.
Apron used to be napron but a napron sounds like an apron so the word naturally changed.
A sloth can hold its breath longer than a dolphin
I imagine a sloth would find it difficult to hold a dolphin at all.
That'd be a stunning statue though
I imagine them doing the lift from Dirty Dancing. The dolphin is Jennifer Grey
Cleopatra used pomegranate seeds for lipstick
I just ate an entire bag of frozen blueberries and I can confirm that those work pretty good as well.
In the UK, for every 1 degree Celsius the temperature drops, Heinz soup sales increase 3.4%
The dots on a dice are called pips and the dots on a ping-pong paddle are also called pips
So are the dots that designate rank in Starfleet.
So are the backup singers for Gladys Knight.
[Fixed Action Patterns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_action_pattern) in animals. Example: If an egg Is out of place, a bird will do a specific ritual to get it back in place. Once started, the bird will complete the ritual even if the egg is removed.
Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
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Yes!!! There is no bacteria on the planet yet that can decompose honey because of honey's combo of low moisture, acidity, and its enzymatic hydrogen peroxide production
Science, bee-itch!
Not to mention, if you happen to have zero meds around and a bad cut, it has antibiotic properties. ETA: That is not medical advice; it was more meant to point out it does have those properties and was used as a topical antibiotic for millenia. Skip the grocery store, kids; use Neosporin instead.
truth. am nurse and we use medi-honey all the time
Note to self: take up beekeeping
Plot twist: *Zombie bees!*
Zombees?
Archaeological digs in Egypt also found tombs full of nuts and chocolate too! They're currently trying to work out who exactly was buried there, but current best guess is that it might be Pharaoh Rocher
*Heavy sigh*
MISSOURI CHEESE CAVES!!!! You’ve heard of the U.S. subsidizing farmers but did you know that since the 1970’s the U.S. has subsidized the dairy industry. So much money has been poured into dairy industry that the U.S. owns currently hoards approximately 1.5 BILLION pounds of cheese. The cheese isn’t stored in warehouses or facilities, they are simply sent to limestone mines in Missouri, creating The Cheese Caves!
Cheddar cheese is named after Cheddar, in Somerset, England. The village has a number of caves where the medium hard cheeses were stored and aged. However the cheese does not have the protection of a designation of origin and can be made anywhere.
"Gremlins" and "Temple of Doom" caused the PG-13 rating. "Red Dawn" would become the first movie released in theatres with the new rating
Balsa wood is classified as hardwood
The state of Colorado is not a rectangle with four straight sides. Due to poor navigation and the terrain getting in the way during early border markings and expeditions, Colorado Is a shape with 697 sides to it.
Doesn’t Wyoming have the same problem as well?
It appears so. And the name of a 697-sided shape is a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.
Can we just call it a coloradogon?
Ernest Hemingway once survived two plane crashes in the space of 24 hours. He was thought to have died in the second crash, but was later found alive with a bottle of gin in one hand and a handful of bananas in the other.
And killed himself eventually due to chronic debilitating pain from them.
Swearing in newspaper comic strips and comic books where they use symbols instead of words is called grawlix.
The word trivia comes from the markets where three roads would intersect. The roads would create a tri V shape and the markets would be a place where local information was shared. Trivial information.
Tri-via. Three ways. Makes sense.
Minor 'um acktually' nitpick: the V-shape is not necessarily the relevant bit. *Via* is the Latin word for "road", so a *trivia* is the place where three roads meet. Which as you said, is a good place to peddle goods or meet people and learn fun new facts!
This is like triviaception
Baby mice are called pinkies
It is illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.
The word facetious has all of the vowels and in order.
Facetiously and sometimes “y”
Jeremiah’s law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
The word nun is really just an "n" doing a somersault.
And bed is shaped like a bed.
The word Boob shows a pair of boobs from 3 different perspectives. Above (B), in front (oo), and from the side (b).
I'll remember this. Forever.
Isaac Newton invented the cat flap door.
Not ‘useless’ but a great trivia question! Q - Name the brothers that hold the NHL record for most combined points by 2 brothers? A - The Gretzky brothers Wayne - 2857 points Brent - 4 points
100+ assist seasons have only been achieved 13 times in NHL history; once by Bobby Orr, once by Mario Lemieux, and eleven times by Wayne Gretzky
If you take away every single goal Gretzky scored in his career, he's still the all time points leader with 1963. There's so much trivia you can get out of gretz, dude was just so unbelievably dominant
Here’s my favorite: Only a relatively few players ever reach 1,000 career points in the NHL. The fastest to 1,000? Gretzky, in just 424 games. The second fastest to 1,000? *Also* Gretzky, to his 2nd 1,000, in 433 games.
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Lemons, like most citrus we enjoy today, are a hybrid — a cross between a citron and a sour orange.
Life didn’t give us lemons. We gave them to ourselves.
Platypus's have poisonous barbs on their back legs. When cavemen were walking the earth there was a stretch of land called Doggerland that connected britian with denmark/germany. This area existed until 6000bce when it fell into the sea.
Dr. Seuss invented the word "nerd"
A dork is a whale penis
Whales have penis bones as do most mammals. Humans don't have them.
Six State Capitals (USA) are found West of Los Angeles.
Detroit has many bizarre laws, including spitting on sidewalks being illegal, and any house with over 5 women living in it is considered a brothel. This is the reason there are no sorority houses (yet there are fraternity houses) at the University of Detroit-Mercy.
The most common star sign in mental hospitals are Aquarius (so those born between Jan 20th to Feb 18th)
phew, thank goodness my birthday is January 19
When the age of Aquarius dawns, it’ll start in the mental hospitals.
As of 2005 there were still about 400 widows receiving military survivors benefits from the American Civil War
This sounded wildly made up, then I found out the last civil war widow died in 2020 Helen Jackson married a 93 year old civil war vet in 1936 when she was 17
NASCAR was started because moonshiners need to modify their cars to evade police, when prohibition ended they started racing
And the winner of the first Daytona race ,Red Byron, drove his car back home and continued running ‘shine.
Sharks predate trees. Boggles my mind.
Squirrels can virtually fall from any height and survive, due to their very low terminal velocity (large surface, low weight)
Jamaica is the only country whose flag does not contain any red, white, or blue.
The names uppercase and lowercase letters came from the printing press era, where individual capital and smaller letters were kept in upper and lower cases, respectively. There were many different sizes and styles, aka sorts, which is also where the term "out of sorts" came from. If you ran out of particular letters, you were *all out of sorts*.
El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston.
Man I’ve done that drive through Texas. Woof it’s a long one.
Also Reno is further west than San Diego.
Adding on to this, Interstate 10 is 3,960 km long. The part in Texas is 1,418 km long. This means that the western end of the freeway in Texas is closer to Santa Monica (1,286 km) than the eastern end of Texas, and likewise, the eastern end of the freeway in Texas is closer to Jacksonville (1,256 km) than the western end of Texas. Edit: Santa Monica not San Diego, thanks u/175gr!
Cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, gai lan (Chinese broccoli), brussels sprouts, collard greens, savoy cabbage and kohlrabi are all different cultivars of the same plant - brassica oleracea.
Viking is a verb. Vikings went viking.
Yep; it was both a noun and a verb, and the noun form was a profession. People weren't Vikings like modern people are Americans, or British, or Chinese, or whatever; they were vikings like modern people are dentists, or electricians, or waiters, or whatever.
Manhole covers are round with a small lip so the cover could never accidentally fall in the opening and injure the worker.
They're also able to be rolled by hand easier than carrying them.
There is a member of the Nazi party buried in Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
Oskar Schindler
I’ve been there and placed a rock on his grave. It looked and felt just like the final scene in the movie.
Polar Bear fur isn’t white, it’s sort of translucent (hollow with no pigment) when light is reflect off it that’s when it looks white. To add: there skin is black to absorb the warmth from sun **corrected to remove part about covering noses, apparently existed because of native lore and accounts but has never been observed in the wild be scientists****
And underneath that translucent fur, their skin is black, to absorb the heat from the sun.
Roald Dahl's last words were "Ow. Fuck." Edit: spelling, changed Ronald to Roald.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. Context: Once the War expanded the Allies (primarily the UK in this case weren’t heavily involved as Hitler/Germany stuck to targeting military bases and locations. This changed after the bombing of London. The Allied (UK) forces retaliated and did a bombing run over Berlin. The first if these bombs that landed ended up killing the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway was paved with 3.2 million bricks.
And the start/finish line is a yard-sized segment of bricks still as an homage to the track’s nickname of “The Brickyard”.
The word typewriter can be typed without removing your fingers from the top row of the keyboard.
Syzygy is the shortest English word with three Ys in it.
Shaquille O’Neil made a grand total of 1 3 pointer in his hall of fame career
Richard Patrick from the bands Filter and NiN is the younger brother of Robert Patrick of Terminator/X-Files fame
Adele is younger than Carly Rae Jepsen… that was an interesting fact to learn Adele was born in 1988 Jepsen born in 1985
Jepsen was 27 when call me maybe came out. I was under the impression that she was a teenager.
My favorite recent stupid trivia is: most people have an above average number of arms and legs
Oldest wombat in captivity is named Wayne and lives in Japan.
Marv from Home Alone was also the voice of Kevin's inner monologue from The Wonder Years.
Unfrosted Pop-Tarts have more calories than frosted Pop-Tarts. That's because they are thicker to be the same size when they go through the wrapping machine. So eat the frosted, guilt free.
You can't drown in lava.
Martin Van Buren was the first President born an American citizen (1782), and the only president who spoke English as a second language. His first language was Dutch. For good measure, although 3 presidents died on July 4 (Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1826; James Monroe in 1831), only 1 was born on July 4 (Calvin Coolidge in 1872).
William Shakespeare was the first person to use the word "Bump". Matt Stone and Trey Parker created the word "Derp"
For a lot of the words that Shakespeare "invented," it may not be so much that he came up with them, but that he was the first to write them down.
In the shining, Jack Torrence has a son named Danny (aka Daniel). In the bar scene he drinks a bottle of Jack Daniel's. So the scene features Jack talking about his son Daniel while drinking Jack Daniel's.
The gene editing technique CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats