Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[El Pollo Guerrera]

The first movie in the US to have a national release date in over 1000 theaters was "The Trial of Billy Jack" (1974). Before that, studios would release movies in a few larger markets (cities like New York, LA, etc.) and then slowly roll them out to the rest of the country. Billy Jack changed how Hollywood released movies.

[KhirasHY]

Entonox, an analgesic gas...

Analgesics are taken orally. (Had to include that one, since it's the name of my trivia team )

Washington Irving Bishop (1856-1889) was a famous magician/mentalist who suffered from a condition that would spontaneously put him into a coma that could last for days. On May 12, 1889, while performing for members of New York's prestigious Lambs Club, he suddenly became faint and lapsed into a coma. Two doctors in the audience rushed to his side, and after careful examination, pronounced him dead. The doctors decided that an autopsy should be performed, and since the brain was believed to hold a clue to Mr. Bishop's sudden death, the doctors launched the procedure "before the brain cooled".

While the body was still warm, the top of the head was sawed open, the brain removed and examined. Since no cause of death was apparent, the death certificate noted "Hysterocatalepsy" as the cause of death. Of course, it was the autopsy itself that killed him. When Mr. Bishop's mother was notified that her son had collapsed, and that an autopsy had been performed without her permission, she was enraged. She pointed out that a slip of paper was in her son's pocket at all times, detailing his tendency to slip into comas, and containing instructions to prevent "premature autopsies or treatment by ice or electricity while he is in a trance state". Mrs. Bishop's complaints caused the doctors to be brought to trial, where their high station in New York society helped acquit them. She spent the remaining twenty-nine years of her life, and all of her money, trying to bring her son's murderers to justice.

In 1890 she wrote a book called A Mother's Life Dedicated and an Appeal for Justice to All Brother Masons and the General Public, A Synopsis of the Butchery of the Late Sir Washington Irving Bishop. As a frontispiece, the book contained the reprint of an actual photograph depicting Mrs. Bishop lovingly leaning over the open casket of her son, gazing at the line on his forehead where the top of his skull had been sawed off.

[Tama]

George Takei has a cologne out. Its name?

Eau My.

[crazylegs]

Analgesics are taken orally. (Had to include that one, since it's the name of my trivia team )

IV Paracetamol would disagree

[Kit-Ginevra]

Analgesics are taken orally. (Had to include that one, since it's the name of my trivia team )

You're called 'Analgesics'.... or 'Taken Orally'?

[dalesys]

IV Paracetamol would disagree

As would the diclofenac suppositories...

[Tama]

Robotnik is actually NAKED in one episode of the Sonic cartoon. Albeit he's facing away from the viewer and wearing a robe, but it's OPEN!




(The one with the chicken and driller minions)

[KhirasHY]

You're called 'Analgesics'.... or 'Taken Orally'?

The whole thing! ;p "Analgesics Are Taken Orally", or sometimes "Analgesics Are Taken By Mouth" at one bar

[crazylegs]

St John Ambulance isn't called St John's Ambulance.

It's named after St. John, it's not owned by him. Seeing that 'apostrophe s' after John makes me a little stabby sometimes

[Kit-Ginevra]

In 1861,Wilmer McLean was living in Manassas,Va. The first battle of the Civil War(Bull Run) took place there and his house was used as Confederate General Beauregard's HQ.

He moved to a different part of town in 1862,to a new house. Which happened to be slap bang in the middle of the battlefield for The Second Battle of Bull Run.

Getting the hint,he moved across state to Clover Hill.Where in 1865,both armies ended up. General Lee surrendered,ending the war.He did so in the front of room of Wilmer McLean's house.

[AnaKhouri]

In the 1700's Laki, an Icelandic fissure volcano 17 miles long (!) erupted continuously in multiple spots along the fissure for 8 months.

[Tama]

Lavos emerges! D:

[Kit-Ginevra]

8 November 1997 was the last time in the UK there was literally nothing on terrestrial TV to watch.After that date,in the closedown,it went onto 24-hour news.


and from the good folk at mentalfloss

New Mexico State's first graduation class in 1893 had just one student-and he was shot and killed before graduation.

The 50-star US flag was designed as a high school project by an Ohio student.He was awarded a B- for it.

The only McDonalds that does not have golden arches is in Sedona,AZ-they are turquoise to avoid clashing with the red rock of the building.

[Jester]

The only McDonalds that does not have golden arches is in Sedona,AZ-they are turquoise to avoid clashing with the red rock of the building.

Sedona's a pretty cool place, so this doesn't surprise me at all.

[KhirasHY]

More! Useless! Facts!

The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument, determined by number of users (not necessarily SKILLED users).

There are 293 different ways to make change for a US dollar.

Al Capone's business card stated that he was a used furniture dealer.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Mister Rogers was an ordained minister; the leaders of his church became angered when he would not use his show as a platform to denounce gay and lesbian issues, wherein he stated that he believed everyone should love everyone, and be friends. Contrary to popular urban legend, he was not a Vietnam veteran.

The inventor of the flushing toilet was named Thomas Crapper.

Ernest Vincent Wright once wrote a novel containing over 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter "e".

An estimated 2,500 left-handed people die every year using products made for right-handed users.

A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.

The bullseye of a regulation dart board must be exactly 5'8" from the ground to be considered official.

Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.

The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.