Random facts and trivia

[KeepOnRollin]

Mickey Mouse has only 4 fingers on each hand - over the many years this has saved Disney millions of dollars in animation costs.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Warner Brothers Animation demanded Bugs Bunny have two whiskers on each cheek instead of three to save money on ink.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

There are now more obese people in the world than undernourished people.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

There are now more obese people in the world than undernourished people.

Cannibalism

 

[Further]

In medieval castles, the staircases spiraled right instead of left as they went up,. This was a defensive strategy designed for right-handed knights who could fend off attackers easier as they climbed the stairs.

 

[Further]

Hong Kong has more Rolls Royce automobiles than any other city in the world (per capita).

 

[jlprk]

In medieval castles, the staircases spiraled right instead of left as they went up,. This was a defensive strategy designed for right-handed knights who could fend off attackers easier as they climbed the stairs.

Memorize your superlatives. Easier, more easily, most easily. Adverb, not adjective.

 

[Further]

Memorize your superlatives. Easier, more easily, most easily. Adverb, not adjective.

'twas a cut-n-paste job. The grammar was most super easiestish copied.

 

[jlprk]

I blame Stern.

 

[Denny Crane]

Memorize your superlatives. Easier, more easily, most easily. Adverb, not adjective.

A southern girl goes off to college. She's unpacking in her dorm when her new roommate arrives.

"Where are y'all from?" asks the southern girl?

"Where I'm from, we learned not to end a sentence with a preposition."

"OK then. Where are y'all from, bitch?"

 

[KeepOnRollin]

McDonald’s rejects a higher percentage of applicants each year than Harvard.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

In the U.S, there are more cellphones actively being used than there are people.

 

[BlazerWookee]

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Starbucks was named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Starbucks was named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick.

CORRECTION: Starbucks was named after Starbuck, a character on Battlestar Galactica, who was named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick.

 

[jlprk]

According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Clackamas County has more remnant golf tee holes than green-tailed wombats and Monarch butterflies combined.

 

[jlprk]

CORRECTION: I'm sorry. Turns out the author is a fly-by-night professor.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Pamela Anderson before plastic surgery. NSFW

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Scooby-Doo's first name is actually Scoobert.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Pamela Anderson before plastic surgery. NSFW

Fucking adorable!

 

[MARIS61]

Houseflies hum in the key of F.

 

[jlprk]

The American news media does not tell us when the European-backed foreign mercenaries try to shoot down airliners full of civilians over Syria. Shocked. Shocked I tell you.

http://www.piratefm.co.uk/news/world-news/958477/reports-russian-plane-shot-at-over-syria/

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Dr. Suess actually cheated on his wife while she was sick with cancer for 13 years - When she killed herself, he married the mistress.

 

[MARIS61]

Just dropped my phone and shattered the face.

 

[jlprk]

A younger clone of Jlprk's ex-wife has been discovered.

http://gawker.com/5994974/the-most-deranged-sorority-girl-email-you-will-ever-read?tag=life-lessons

 

[MARIS61]

A younger clone of Jlprk's ex-wife has been discovered.

http://gawker.com/5994974/the-most-deranged-sorority-girl-email-you-will-ever-read?tag=life-lessons

So...in a nutshell, the Sigma Nu boys complained that her girls weren't putting out.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

In the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

People in Cameroon gathered money in 1931 to send to “starving Americans”. The total amount gathered was $3.77.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

When Jay-Z was 12 year old, he shot his elder brother Eric, just because he stole his jewelry.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

When Jay-Z was 12 year old, he shot his elder brother Eric, just because he stole his jewelry.

He's got 99 problems but his brother stealing jewelry ain't one.