Little known, Interesting & Random Facts

Beethoven was so deaf he thought he was a painter.

Pandas are a mutant form of penguin.

 

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I read the green Coke story last year. It wasn't a green bottle, but the soda itself. With a dash of cocaine to boot!

 

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Venomous may be the correct term. I saw a show about them on Animal Planet and the venomous barb, which they said can be lethal to humans. Really bizarre creature.

 

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Some did I'm sure.

 

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Abraham Lincoln and John kennedy

It is always possible to comb random data to find some regularities. A well-known qualitative example is the comparison of coincidences in the lives of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy, two presidents with seven letters in their last names, and elected to office 100 years apart, 1860 and 1960. Both were assassinated on Friday in the presence of their wives, Lincoln in Ford's theater and Kennedy in an automobile made by the Ford motor company. Both assassins went by three names: John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, with fifteen letters in each complete name. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater, and Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a barn (a kind of warehouse). Both succeeding vice-presidents were southern Democrats and former senators named Johnson (Andrew and Lyndon), with thirteen letters in their names and born 100 years apart, 1808 and 1908.

 

THIS is FREAKY!!!

 

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary, Kennedy, warned him not to go to the theatre.
Kennedy's secretary, Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners.

Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.

Both names are comprised of fifteen letters

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials

 

I'm approaching 2000 posts!

 

about that chicken thing. the sheep population in new zealand is more than 11x the human population.

 

Genji:

I knew the cocaine, just not the green part.

Here's some more info:

In South Carolina, there are more pigs then people. This is actually causing a minor disaster with all the waste they produce. In essence, they are being shitted out.

There is a Mongolian cavepainting of a woman performing fellatio whilst being taken from behind by another.

Yukio Mishima, a Japanese writer of high repute in the 20th century, committed seppuku after trying to take over the Japanese government.

Julius Caesar had epelepsy.

 

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Re: the Mongolian cave painting. Hopefully she wasn't under duress. I can't imagine the guys back then being hygienic. EW!

What is seppuku?

I had heard that about Caesar.

 

seppuku is a japanese ritual suicide, you cut open your abdomen then your second cuts your head off to make it a less painful death, although that doesnt always happen.

and he wasnt trynig to take over the government, he was trying to incite a military coup to re-instate the emperor

 

Vslayer:

That is what I had meant in terms of a takeover. They'd be toppling the Constitutional Monarchy and replacing it with the older Imperial system.

 

Lincoln was a Republican.
Kennedy was a Democrat.

Lincoln's wife was called... Edith.
Kennedy's wife was called... Jackie.

Lincoln had 4 sons. Only 1 survived into adulthood.
Kennedy had a son and a daughter. Both lived long and happy lives. Apart from the son. He died at 39.

Lincoln died in 1865, aged 56.
Kennedy died 98 years later in 1963, aged 46.

Lincoln's assassin killed him at point-blank range.
Kennedy's didn't.

Kennedy's assassin claimed he was set up as a 'patsy'.
Lincoln's didn't.

Lincoln's first Postmaster General was Horatio King.
Kennedy's first Postmaster General was J Edward Day.

Kennedy's middle name was FitzGerald.
Lincoln's middle name was left off his birth certificate.

Truly.

 

sound travels somewhere around 700 feet per second.
the fastest freefall is around 125 miles per hour.
there is a serious descrepancy here.

you've never heard that before?

he also had a son patrick which died shortly after birth.

 

Nice way to kill my thunder. In a way it only makes the records even more mysterious.

 

Jukebox has an African etymology.

 

check it out leopold, the guy was Captain Joeseph Kittinger over Tularosa, New Mexico on 16 Aug 1960.
his maximum speed in the RARIFIED air was 652.2mph at 90,000 feet- this is marginally supersonic. i have it on video PM and i'll e-mail it.