Did you know?

[MichaelMcManus]

If you have an important, unimportant or even trivial fact, let everyone know about it by listing it in this thread. I am looking for things like:

Did you know that the movie "Titanic" cost more to film than the Titanic took to build?

Did you know that the span of time between now and when Cleopatra walked the Earth is short than the span of time between Cleopatra and the building of the pyramids?

Did you know in Shakespeare's day most female parts in his plays were actually played by men?

See what I mean?

-- 03 Oct 2014, 17:07 --

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

[Gravy]

You beat me to making this thread
I almost made it the other day!

Okay...

Bull sharks can live, and thrive, in fresh water indefinitely.

Great White sharks, along with five other species of shark, are endothermic meaning they are not cold-blooded like other fish, but can stay a varying number of degrees warmer than their habitat. This enables them to live in colder waters than other sharks.

There is a land-locked golf course in Australia which holds a breeding population of Bull sharks within it's water hazards.

Probably not really a surprise but...I like sharks

[MichaelMcManus]

Then you probably already know that sharks can live to be 100 years old.

[LivreAmour217]

Did You Know...

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue prints are different.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

McDonald's serves 1% of the global population every day.

Kevlar (the tough material in bulletproof vests) was invented by a woman!

[MichaelMcManus]

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

[suzy1124]

Trivia, a few famous ppl are accomplished Artists:

Tony Curtis
Tony Bennet
Elke Summer
Winston Churchill
Geo. Bush..

[MichaelMcManus]

Frank Sinatra was also an artist. Some of his work wasn't bad.

[Gravy]

Normal Reedus is a photographer.
He has a book of his photos released.
I like them...they're strange.

For those who don't know the name he's Daryl on The Walking Dead.

I watched him years before TWD though.

[MichaelMcManus]

In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.

Which only goes to prove that I was born a century too late.

[suzy1124]

Heeehe...

Trivia: Who is the member of the Rock and Roll hall of fame who's also an ordained Buddhist monk ?

Leonard Cohen...

[MichaelMcManus]

Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.


More evidence that I was born in the wrong century.

[Bighuey]

The ancient Romans believed if a woman ate beans she would become pregnant.

One of Charlie Parker's the famed bop jazz musician's singers was Hank Williams.

As late as the 1930's men who wore wrist watches were considered gay.

[MichaelMcManus]

California is the only state that's hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

[Gravy]

Did you know...

Hugh Laurie plays the piano, sings (he has albums out), acts, and he wrote a mystery?

Comics commonly suffer from depression?

There is such thing as a "black" tiger?

[MichaelMcManus]

Despite living in Los Angeles—a city known for its traffic—for 78 years, writer Ray Bradbury never learned to drive.