Nobody Asked Me…

I couldn’t think of anything positive to post today, so this is what you get…

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. They originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 million.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: indivisibility.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan’s original name was Temujin.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was ‘Smile’.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The second longest word in the English language is ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’.
When two words are combined to form a single word (eg. motor + hotel = motel; breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a ‘portmanteau’.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, “His name is Mudd”.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint – no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book ‘The Naked Lunch’.
Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble’s Maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.
Lenny Kravitz’s mother played the part of Helen on The Jeffersons.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, “therein”: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Evian spelled backwards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
Charles de Gaulle’s final words were, “It hurts.”
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names – Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Annifrid.
In the 1983 film ‘JAWS 3D’ the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The Beatles song ‘Dear Prudence’ was written about Mia Farrow’s sister, Prudence, when she wouldn’t come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name. Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.
Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The Skipper’s real name on Gilligan’s Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radios newscast about the wreck. The Professor’s real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann’s last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell’s maiden name was Wentworth.
The male gypsy moth can smell a virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for My Sharona, and Jack Kevorkian’s lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug and Jeffrey Feiger.
The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence ‘Oz’.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Horses cannot vomit.
SOS doesn’t stand for ‘Save Our Ship’ or ‘Save Our Souls’. It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won’t.
John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.