##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Star Wars Facts Text Version “Adventures of Luke Starkiller, As Taken From the Journal of the Whills, Saga 1: The Star Wars” was the original title of “Star Wars: A New Hope”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Read More About Charles Osborne Text Version Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 68 Years, from 1922 to 1990. It’s estimated that he hiccuped over 430 million times in his lifetime. The hiccups finally randomly stopped about one year before he died at the age of 97.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Who Did the Voice of Yoda Text Version Yoda’s original name before being shortened to just “Yoda” was “Minch Yoda”. Lucas eventually decided to leave the first name out along with not giving away many details about Yoda’s past.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More About This Woman Text Version The record for the most babies born to one woman is 69. While the woman’s name is not known, she was the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev a peasant from Shuya, Russia who lived from 1707-1782.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn How ‘Gay’ Came to Mean Homosexual Text Version Bringing Up Baby in 1938 was the first film to use the word gay to mean homosexual. Cary Grant, in one scene, ended up having to wear a lady’s feathery robe. When another character asks about why he is wearing that, he responds an […]
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Today I found out the difference between an asteroid and a comet. A comet is simply a relatively small astronomical object that has a “tail”, known as a coma, which makes up a temporary atmosphere for the comet. Asteroids, on the other hand, do not exhibit this tail and are classically defined as simply an astronomical object that orbits around […]
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Some users are reporting that a vertical skyscraper ad is occasionally showing up blocking the main content of the articles. I’ve not seen it yet and am obviously on my site all the time, so I’m hoping the problem isn’t affecting most of you. *crosses fingers* I’ve contacted my ad company to get them to remove them, but it takes […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Interesting Velociraptor Facts Text Version It has long been suspected that Velociraptors had feathers, but the evidence proving this has only come very recently. That evidence came from a discovery in September of 2007 of a forelimb fossil of a Velociraptor that had quill knobs, similar to those found on birds.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting ZZ Top Facts Text Version The name ZZ Top, according to band member Billy Gibbons, came from a tribute to B.B. King. The band originally were going to call themselves “Z.Z. King” in King’s honor, but then decided it was too similar to B.B. King. Because B.B. King was at […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Interesting Facts About Jimmy Stewart Text Version On January 5, 1992, It’s a Wonderful Life became the first American program ever to be broadcast on Russian television. A translated version, courtesy of Stewart and Lomonosov Moscow State University, was broadcast to over 200 million Russians on that day.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn How One Way Mirrors Work Text Version A true two-sided mirror (also called a one way mirror) that allows light through one way, but no light through the other is not possible as it violates the second law of thermodynamics. To illustrate why that would be, think about if you had a […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Golf Ball Facts Text Version The modern golf ball, with a wound core, was invented by Coburn Haskell in Cleveland, Ohio in 1898. While most of these little anecdotes turn out to be false or are unlikely, supposedly, Haskell was to play golf with the superintendent of B.F. Goodrich, Bertram […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Find Out What Moon Dust Smells Like Text Version The gravity on the Moon is about 17% what it is on the Earth. So if you weigh 200 pounds on Earth, you will weigh 34 pounds on the Moon.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Find Out About the First Website Ever Made Text Version Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, chose the name “World Wide Web” because he wanted to emphasize that, in this global hypertext system, anything could link to anything else. Alternative names he considered were: “Mine of Information” (Moi); “The Information Mine” (Tim); and […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Houdini Facts Text Version Harry Houdini died in Detroit, Michigan on Halloween in 1926. Contrary to popular belief, he didn’t die in a performance, but rather died of a ruptured appendix. Houdini had been suffering from appendicitis for several days when J. Gordon Whitehead decided to test Houdini’s claim that […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Salt Enhances Flavor Text Version The word “salad” comes from the ancient Roman practice of salting leaf vegetables; “salad” literally means “salted”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Interesting Simpsons Related Facts Text Version The last name of the creator of the Simpsons, Matt Groening, is pronounced “Graining”, not “Growning”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn the Difference Between Jelly and Jam Text Version Fruit “butters” are generally just a variety of jelly. All the fruit is strained out to leave the juice. The juice is then heavily enriched with a variety of things, such as pectin, and then can be whipped or cooked down until it becomes […]
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