Tell Me Something I Don't Know.

[telkanuru]

The funeral of Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico in 1880 was attended by 30,000 people and marked by a total eclipse of the sun.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Abraham_Norton )

[Fencergrl]

Dr. Seuss was a political cartoonist before he wrote children's stories. Before that, he was studying to become an English professor but changed his mind after sitting through a 2 hour lecture concerning the punctuation of King Lear.

[parrythis]

In the first Christopher Reeve "Superman" movie, there is a scene in which a young Clark Kent is racing a train. On the train is a young Lois Lane riding with her mother. Young Lois Lane's mother is played by Noel Neill, who was one of the actresses who played Lois Lane on the Kirk Alyn and George Reeves series back in the '40s and '50s. She also played Gertrude Vanderworth in the Brandon Routh "Superman Returns" movie.

[Lady Quindecim]

The Japanese word for the number 4 is pronounced the same as the word for death (shi) and thus considered unlucky. They have an alternate pronunciation (yon) but 4 is still unlucky. (also 9 (ku) because it is a homonym for their word for "agony" or "torture")

[Empty Wallet]

My daughter tells me that tutu is a maculine word in French.

[D'Art]

There's enough nicotine in one cigar to kill two adults if it was administered in liquid form.

[Lady Quindecim]

There's enough nicotine in one cigar to kill two adults if it was administered in liquid form.

Well, there is one way to quit smoking.
When you click "Send Error Report" to Microsoft after a program crashes, it includes whatever is in RAM at the time of the crash... even ranges not currently allocated. This means that it sends the contents of e-mails, documents, web pages etc. in plain text as was displayed in the applications view object. It it could, I'm sure it would also send a keystroke history - all in the interest of discovering the root cause of the crash.
This is not paranoia. next time it happens to you, click the "more info" button and look at the hex dump. It may be innocuous at the time, but imagine the potential.

[TwoPassions]

It's impossible for a human body to be completely burned down to ash.

If a body is burned beyond recognition, the best place to get DNA is from the teeth. The enamel protects the tissue inside.

[Lady Quindecim]

That is why you remove the teeth before burning the body. In fact, remove the head, feet and hands and burn them in a separate location. Also, burn animal remains along with the body to contaminate the trace evidence so that "reasonable doubt" cannot be removed.
Grind the teeth and desolve the pouder in cola before disposing of the solution down the toilet of a not-in-your-town public restroom.

[Lady Quindecim]

In theory.

[Lady Quindecim]

We are talking about fish, right?

[TwoPassions]

Of course...fish...

I probably shouldn't be so morbid...it's just all the random facts I know come from my field of study which so happens to be typically disturbing...

[Lady Quindecim]

And I shouldn't...
abrupt change of subject
Clonezilla Live 1.2.1-37 was released today.

[Fencergrl]

<Fencergrl shoos Lady Q out of the thread for not sticking to the topic.>

Captain Vancouver (before he made captain) sailed with Captain Cook to the Southern continent. He climbed out on the portion of the ship that pointed south before the shipped turned around.... just so he could say that he had gone further south than any man.

[magic_moose]

There are 3 crows sitting on the railing outside my window looking at me.

[magic_moose]

Late in his career "The Raven" made Poe so popular that children would chase the author until he would turn around, raise his arms and yell "Nevermore."

[Fencergrl]

There are 3 crows sitting on the railing outside my window looking at me.

I'm watching 3 crows harass a young bald eagle... opps now there's 6 crows.

[Fencergrl]

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), is the only eagle unique to North America. About half of the world's 70,000 bald eagles live in Alaska.

[magic_moose]

There is no Rogain product made especially for raptors.

[Fencergrl]

Dr. Seuss once wrote the following (prior to his children's book era).

Making Our Daughters Less Irritating

The Instantaneous It-Machine

If there's anything annoying about a group of girls playing tag, it's to see their Eeeny, meeny, miny, mo method of counting out to see who'll be It. Such nonsensical chatter is no longer necessary, thanks to this remarkable device.

The contestants are lines up in a row, each one under a small nest-like container. Four of these containers hold hen's eggs, while the fifth secretes an ordinary billiard ball. When these objects are dropped onto the young ladies' heads, the four who have been struck by eggs scamper away into hiding. The fifth, struck by the billiard ball, lingers behind, detained by temporary unconsciousness. She is the one who is It.