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John Philip Sousa, the March King, hated for music to be recorded, as he argued that if people could simply listen to music on demand, they would have no incentive to learn to play it themselves in order to hear it, and thus musicians would vanish from the world.

South Africa only got a TV service in 1976.

Chevrolet, the American auto company, is named after a famous race car driver from the 1900’s.

Yesterday, I found out that Belinda Carlisle was the original drummer for The Germs under the alias Dottie danger, but never got to perform with them after catching mononucleosis....

After doing some more reading, I also found out the story that they just decided to form a group without knowing how to sing or play is only half true....
Turns out Carlisle & Jane Wiedlin started out with two other friends, but they had to leave & were replaced by three girls who "did" know how to play...
Their original name was The Misfits, but had to change it after learning there was already a group by that name....

Sanyo made their own videotape format, V-Cord, in 1974, a year before Sony released Betamax.

The Royal Tour of South Africa in 1947 was the first such tour filmed in colour.

Despite being against the country's policies, Richard Donner's Lethal Weapon 2 and Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom were huge box office hits locally.

The French like to say the Battle of Agincourt was largely lost not because of English longbows but because of French mud, which bogged down the more heavily armed and armored French forces, resulting in many of their fighting men being left immobile in the rain-soaked mire, and then further resulting in chaotic trampling conditions similar to a modern-day crowd disaster, when panicked men surged into a narrow section of field, seeking escape from their own oncoming horsemen.....who were soon also trapped in mud, piled atop their own comrades, easy prey for unarmored English infantry, which set about using knives to slaughter those unable to defend themselves, creating a victory far less about glory than cold-blooded viciousness.

The French are probably right.

only 2 animals can get leprosy: humans and armadillos.

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS was filmed on the same sets as Hogan’s Heroes.

If you were caught with an item - book, magazine, movie, music - that the apartheid government had deemed "undesirable", you could be given a hefty fine and/or a jail sentence  :buggedout:

Abraham Lincoln's son died the same year my Dad was born - 1926.

England's 14th century King Richard II made his nobles sign their names on blank pieces of parchment that he held back to fill out any way he wished, and used this technique more than once to create false confessions of treason.

On March 12 1981, two different comic strips, with the same name and same general idea were published on the same day, one in the USA and the other in the UK.  The two different artists who created them had absolutely no knowledge of each another. The comic strips are both called Dennis the Menace.

M*A*S*H actor Wayne (Trapper John) Rogers produced the Z movie ASTRO ZOMBIES (1968)

(https://i.imgur.com/ouvPgrc.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

Today was the day Nixon resigned....

No.  I'm pretty sure he resigned back in the 70s.

I checked, and yeah, definitely the '70s.

Sunday our pastor was talking about trying to pray to God when you haven't asked forgiveness for your sins, and he said:

"Imagine if you'd been working for a whole week in construction in the Texas heat and never taken a bath, then go home and try to climb into your wife like that, what she would say?"

I'm pretty sure he meant to say "climb into bed with your wife" - but I wasn't the only one who giggled!

That reminds me of the fur trapper skit on KITH, I think on the special at Buddy's chalet, and these two French-Canadian fur trappers had just come back from  months in the wilderness, and one says to the other, "Tonight I am going to make passionate love to a woman, then take my first bath in half a year."

Ha.

The Canadian government gave a $50,000 grant in 1989 to further the study of whether ducks can vomit with their heads underwater. (There's probably a link about this somewhere, but I heard it on Paul Harvey's radio show while driving with my grandpa as a kid.)

Real human skeletons were used in the pool scene in Poltergeist (1982) because it was to expensive & complicated to make that many fake ones....

The skeleton of Arch Stanton in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was that of a Spanish actress who wanted to keep working after she was dead.... The skeleton was rented out by her daughter....

While filming an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, a pair of stage hands accidentally found the long lost cadaver of Elmer McCurdy, a failed plumber turned inept bank robber....

In 1970s South Africa, pinball machines were banned as winning an extra ball was considered gambling (illegal here then)  :twirl:

I did not know this til recently but apparently before she got into doing characters and impersonations, Tracey Ullman was a pop singer....? The first time I saw a video for one of her songs I kept waiting for the comedy bits but it was straight-up, and she was impressive.

Or is she pulling a long punk and I am missing something?

I'm just old enough to remember that....
Introduced to the US with her one hit wonder, "They Don't Know" & a brief scene in Paul McCartney's Give My Regards To Broad Street, she had been acting for a couple of years before that.....

A lot of celebrities used to put out an album or a single right before their careers were  about to take off, whether they could sing or not....

Most folks only now Toni Basil for her one hit wonder, Mickey in the early '80s, but she was a successful stage actress for years before & after....
But in the 1960s, she could only get small rolls in bmovies, her last being Mary The CallGirl in Easy Rider.

Abraham Lincoln is listed as one of the potential inventors of the Chokeslam.

Beloved BMDO contributor Alex just made me look up what a @#$% "Chokeslam" was.

There were multiple attempts in Hollywood to pitch a sequel to Space Jam (The Bugs Bunny/Michael Jordan movie.)


Tiger Woods was supposed to be in a sequel with Micheal Jordan, then MJ dropped out and it was just a Tiger Woods meets the Looney Tunes thing, but it eventually fell apart too.  The director for the original Space Jam described the script as being strange and terrible. 

Looney Tunes back in Action originally started as "Spy Jam" featuring Jackie Chan.  Darn shame we never got that.

Tony Hawk was approached about "Skate Jam" but that idea was dropped when Back In Action underperformed. 

At some point there was even a "Race Jam" planned with Jeff Gordon. 

You cannot sneeze while asleep.

I have been to a city where every single person I saw, including babies, wore some form of sunglasses or UV eye protection. Not a true or false, I actually have been.

Wooly Mammoths were still alive when the pyramids were being built

pure honey never goes off or deteriorates

Gatlinburg, Tennessee, which boasts of being a mountain town, has an elevation of 1,289 feet above sea level, while pancake flat Liberal, Kansas sits at more than twice that high, 2,835 feet.

The creator of Robocop got the idea while working on the set of Blade Runner.  The funny thing is, he wasn't actually part of the crew for Blade Runner.  Nobody hired him or assigned him a job on the movie.  He just wanted to be involved so he showed up and started working.  The crew was so big that nobody could keep track of everybody that worked there. 

Once he finally got a script written for Robocop, nobody wanted to buy it.  He tried to seel the idea to Stan Lee to be made into a comic.  That fell apart after he went to go see Terminator with Stan.  Stan Lee told him that nothing could ever live up to that (The Terminator) and the project fell apart. 

There is no exact symmetry in the human body: fingers, toes, legs, ears, even eyes, are not precisely identical in size.

Someone actually made figures for Xardoz (with a slight name change to avoid copyright problems).

https://www.tangentminiatures.com/product-page/cultists-of-xodraz (https://www.tangentminiatures.com/product-page/cultists-of-xodraz)

Mystery of Australia's 'Somerton Man' solved after 70 years, researcher says

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62314555 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62314555)

^I just saw this a story on this guy on TV! Not the solving of his identity. It was a rerun.

A natural diamond will sink in water; most man-made diamonds float.

The largest videogame collection in the world belongs to a man in Texas.  He has over 20,000 games. 

It took Guiness judges eight days to count his collection before he could be awarded his record.

Not to mention get back upstairs from his parents' basement.

There are about 2 1/4 teaspoons of sugar in a Big Mac.

Not fact, exactly, but speculation: Genghis Khan is thought to have over 30 million descendants. (There are about 16 million modern males who have a mutation on their Y chromosome dating back to a Mongolian male from around that time, and, logically, an equal number of female descendants.)