Fact Of The Day

[chainsaw midget]

The 1950s hit "It's All in the Game" by Tommy Edwards is actually a 1911 composition written by Charles Dawes with lyrics written for it. 

Charles G. Dawes was Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge.

This makes "It's all in the Game" to be the ONLY #1 U.S. Single to be co-written by a Vice President, it's also the only #1 to be co-written by a Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Dawes was both).

[claws]

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

Shannon hasn't received payment for Let The Music Play since 1984.

[ER]

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.....unless it's digital or has its hands broken off or we skip an hour forward in the spring, passing that time or Endora freezes time.

[Alex]

Apparently, if you were to take the most powerful nuclear weapon in existence (the Tsar Bomba) and detonate it at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, it would not cause any volcanic explosions or earthquakes. Indeed due to the sheer weight of the water pressure bearing down on it, the explosion would expand only to be fairly rapidly be crushed. The only noticeable effect would be the radioactive water.

According to some random fact video I just watched anyway.

[chainsaw midget]

"Batman" was a unit of measure used in the Ottoman Empire, although it's actual value varied wildly from place to place. 

[chainsaw midget]

Flash Gordon is Superman's dad!


... well, okay not really but in the first episode of Adventures of Superman, Jor-El's costume is a recycled Flash Gordon suit originally worn by Buster Crabbe in one of the serials. 

[ER]

Every time Freddie Mercury performed Bohemian Rhapsody in concert, he'd blow his mom a kiss.

[chainsaw midget]

The Simpsons Butterfinger commercials ("No better better lay a finger on my butterfinger") actually predated the Simpsons TV series.  They were still just shorts on the The Tracey Ullman Show when the first commercials began to air. 

Milhouse was created specifically for the commercial. 

[BoyScoutKevin]

Well, if you thought he was dead, he's not. He was just waiting for an internet café in his area to open back up. Now, that one has opened, you'll see him more often. Though, he does not know how often, but, here is his 1st post in some 2 months.

These 4 facts are based upon a book about South Africa from 2 South African writers. Can you tell which 2 are true and which 2 are false?

1. Most of the people you see in downtown Johannesburg will be black South Africans?

2. Downtown Johannesburg is a good place to jog after dark?

3. South Africans like their beer?

4. South Africans especially like it after it has bee strained through used underwear, as it enhances the taste?

We will see if our resident South African knows.

Next time: 2 dozen people born in South Africa, you might not think were born in South Africa and the answers to this post.

[RCMerchant]

2 and 4. At least I hope 4 is false!

[Alex]

Statistically, if you have dated more than 10 people in your life you are unlikely to ever get married, and if you do it will most likely last for less than 5 years.

Congratulations to anyone out there who has had more than 10 romantic partners and managed to beat the odds by finding lasting love.

[chefzombie]

  just goes to show that stats prove out as well as polls do, lol! 

[BoyScoutKevin]

Yes, 2 and 4 are false. RC Merchant is correct.

Now, here are 2 dozen people you may not know who were born in South Africa.

Alice Kriege
Anthony Sher
Basil Rathbone
Charlize Theron
Cyril Cusack
Dave Matthews of the Dave Matthews Band
Elon Musk
Ernie Els
Gary Player
Glynis Johns
Hugh Masakela
J. R. R. Tolkien
Janet Suzman
Juliet Prowse
Manfred Mann
Steve Nash
Trevor Noah

and to make an even 2 dozen, the Rosenkowitz Sextuplets, the 1st set of sextuplets in which all survived pass babyhood.

Next time: when I was a kid, I read as a kid, but, when I became an adult, I put away my kid readings.

[chefzombie]

why did you put away ANYTHING you enjoyed reading? i never have understood that...

[BoyScoutKevin]

why did you put away ANYTHING you enjoyed reading? i never have understood that...

Neither do I, but there is a lot about me that I don't understand, but, when I was a kid I remember reading--not comics books, though, I did read those, but the comic strips in the local daily, but, when I became an adult I stopped reading them, which I don't understand, but now that much of the reading is still inaccessible due to the virus, I have gone back to reading what is available, and that is the comic strips in the local daily, and I noticed some differences from today's strips and yesterday's strips. 1 Good. 1 Bad. and a couple of surprises.

The good
What was once all-white now features Afro-Americans and Latinos.

The bad
How few of the cartoonists are women. I say less than 10%. Even those strips that feature a female main character seem to be drawn by men.

The surprises
How few of the main characters are middle aged adults. Not youngsters. Not oldsters. Not animals, but middle age adults. Less than half I say.

While the comics can and do cover dramatic subjects, they are comic strips because they look at life thru a comic viewpoint. There is only 1 strip in the local daily that is not comical. And in a time I can remember strips that were not only comical and dramatic, but also . . .

adventurous -- educational -- fantastical -- historical -- inspirational -- political -- romantic -- sci fi -- and westerns.