Random Fact thread

[Fez Hammersticks]

Did you know the great Ted Williams was half-Mexican?

I had no idea until I watched his HBO doc.

**can a mod fix the title?

 

[Nate4Prez]

In 1965 San Francisco rockers the Warlocks start playing the “Acid Tests,” a series of LSD-fueled happenings organized by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey. Later, while skimming through a dictionary under the influence of DMT, the band’s leader Jerry Garcia decides they should change their name to the Grateful Dead.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

From the time Christopher Columbus arrived to 1971 the population of Indigenous people in America (North and South) was nearly whipped out. 99.6% of the population was destroyed.

 

[ODENISGOD]

Did you know that I live on the same street as greg odens dad.

 

[santeesioux]

Santee Sioux war chief Inkpaduta led raids against settlers which would later be known as the Spirit Lake Massacre. When it was over, 38 settlers lay dead. Inkpaduta's uprising finally collapsed, and he fled westward onto the plains. He eventually fell in with the Lakotas and became personal friends with Sitting Bull, and fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn against George Armstrong Custer.When Sitting Bull and his followers fled to Canada, Inkpaduta accompanied them. He died in Manitoba in 1881.

 

[cloudydays]

Nice Avatar santee.

Terry Baker (Oregon State) is the only Heisman Trophy winner to play in the Final Four

 

[santeesioux]

Yeah the Wire was a great show, it's a shame they ended it after only 5 seasons.

 

[crowTrobot]

jacob has never appeared to the survivors of oceanic 815 in any form but his own

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Did you know that cats can sleep from 16 to 22 hours per day?

 

[barfo]

Brandon Roy signed a contract extension.

barfo

 

[Rodolfo]

Portland and Bend, OR are the only 2 contiguous US cities built w/extinct volcanoes inside their city limits.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

My feet are each a foot long.

 

[crowTrobot]

Portland and Bend, OR are the only 2 contiguous US cities built w/extinct volcanoes inside their city limits.

that one is more than a little debatable. portland and bend may be the only large cities in the lower 48 with easily recognizable large standing geologically recent volcanic structures entirely within city limits, but there are other less obvious more eroded volcanic remnants and extinct vents all over the place in oregon, wash, and northern cal many within limits of different cities.

 

[THE HCP]

barfo is a virgin
I have had sex with the sisters of the following- EdO, BeerBoy, Max, MediocreMan
I have an unbelievably small penis, yet a hot wife

 

[maxiep]

barfo is a virgin
I have had sex with the sisters of the following- EdO, BeerBoy, Max, MediocreMan
I have an unbelievably small penis, yet a hot wife

HCP, I have bad news for you--that was my brother. He just had really long hair at the time.

 

[THE HCP]

HCP, I have bad news for you--that was my brother. He just had really long hair at the time.

I'm sorry man, but did anybody ever tell you your daughter there looks like Chris Farley!

 

[maxiep]

I'm sorry man, but did anybody ever tell you your daughter there looks like Chris Farley!

LOL! That's not my wife (she's a blonde) and I have a son, not a daughter. That photo was sent to me a few years ago by a buddy of mine. I think he pulled it off the internet. I thought it was one of the funniest and unfortunate photos I had ever seen.

 

[barfo]

barfo is a virgin

I didn't realize that. I'm gonna auction off my virginity like that girl in SD. What am I bid?

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

Did you know that cats can sleep from 16 to 22 hours per day?

Yes. In fact, they are studied by the medical profession who do research into sleep disorders.

 

[Denny Crane]

The US budget was $200B in 1969. It was a balanced budget, too. It was LBJ's last budget, and it was called "guns and butter" because it not only funded the massive Vietnam War, but also a slew of new social programs.

This year's US budget is nearly $4,000,000,000,000. It was under $2,000,000,000,000 when Clinton left office. 2x in 8 years and 20x in 40 years.

The Marshall Plan cost $11B to rebuild most of Europe after WW II. NASA's budget last year was nearly 2x that.

 

[Denny Crane]

Did you know the great Ted Williams was half-Mexican?

I had no idea until I watched his HBO doc.

**can a mod fix the title?

That would make him a hispanic causing base hits.

 

[Rodolfo]

The US budget was $200B in 1969. It was a balanced budget, too. It was LBJ's last budget, and it was called "guns and butter" because it not only funded the massive Vietnam War, but also a slew of new social programs.

This year's US budget is nearly $4,000,000,000,000. It was under $2,000,000,000,000 when Clinton left office. 2x in 8 years and 20x in 40 years.

The Marshall Plan cost $11B to rebuild most of Europe after WW II. NASA's budget last year was nearly 2x that.

You're not factoring in inflation with those WWII numbers are you?

That 11B is 130b in today's money.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

That's it?!

 

[Rodolfo]

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Unless you're HCP. He's probably already passed 60k! 10k+ in taco bell alone!

 

[dpc]

When people die of ant attacks, usually its due to suffocation of all the ants in your lungs.

 

[Denny Crane]

You're not factoring in inflation with those WWII numbers are you?

That 11B is 130b in today's money.

That $11B is in current dollars of the time.

The US budget before FDR was like $2B, and $45B when he left. That $45B came with huge deficits and total national debt was higher than GDP. We're about to have a debt higher than GDP again soon, for the first time since WW II.

 

[Denny Crane]

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

I don't eat elephants. How many baby seals is that?

(They taste like chicken)

 

[THE HCP]

Unless you're HCP. He's probably already passed 60k! 10k+ in taco bell alone!

OK, I see how it is. Watch your back this season!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp - and 70% with a slug.