An American Nickel has about a 1 in 6000 chance of landing on it's edge and staying standing.

To become an honorary Newfoundlander you drink a shot of the local rum and kiss a codfish. On the lips.

In 1907, an ad campaign for Kellogg's Corn Flakes offered a free box of cereal to any woman who would wink at her grocer.

The word hoodlum originated in San Francisco in the 1870s when there was a notorious criminal gang leader named Muldoon who had a propensity for beating up newspaper reporters who reported or commented on his nefarious doings; one reporter wanted to publish a particularly scathing account of one of the Muldoon Gang's crimes, but there was fear that Muldoon would take his wrath out on either the reporter or the paper, and there were even a threats of libel suits from Muldoon, in the past, so the reporter and the paper's editor decided to print the article with the name 'Muldoon' spelled backwards, "Noodlum' as an attempt to have a cover against the gang's revenge; however, the typesetter misread "Noodlum' and, instead set the word as 'Hoodlum', a term that has been used to describe criminals ever since...




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Why did the FBI call Ted Kaczynski "The Unabomber"? Because his early mail bombs were sent to universities (UN) & airlines (A).

:har::har:

Fishing from a giraffe’s neck is forbidden in Chicago.

Killing Bigfoot is illegal in the county of Skamania, Washington State.

The state of Oklahoma requires that if dogs want to congregate in groups of three or more on private property, they need to obtain a permit signed by their city’s mayor.

Octopuses and squid have three hearts.

That thing you use to dot your lowercase "i" is called a tittle.

The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971.

Was it spam...?...




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In 1991, Wayne Allwine married Russi Taylor


Why is this even remotely interesting?


Wayne was the voice of Mickey Mouse (1977-2009) and Russi was the voice of Minnie (1986-2019)

Um,... Err,...




Wayne married a 5-year old...?...



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Those were the dates of their work

When asked why he chose the name Piggly Wiggly, founder Clarence Saunders said, "So people will ask that very question."

Ah, got it...

...the mind doesn't seem to be fully functional today... :D




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Obsessive nose picking is called Rhinotillexomania.


This is either useless facts or it snot.

Homer Simpson was a Rhinotillexomania! :yep:

Ketchup was used medicinally in the early 1800s.

The Q in Q-tips stands for quality. They were originally called Baby Gays.