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The shortfin mako shark is the fastest species of shark. Its speed has been recorded at 40 km/h (25 mph) with bursts of up to 74 km/h (46 mph).
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Teri Garr appeared as Roberta Lincoln, Gary Seven's secretary, in the Star Trek Original Series episode Assignment: Earth.
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The last line Lex Luthor says in the 1986 movie Superman IV is when he tells Superman, "I'll see you in twenty years." The next Superman movie to come out, Superman Returns, was released in 2006.
In 1991, during the 22nd and final episode of the second season of "Twin Peaks," "Episode 29," a character trapped in an evil realm is visited by the spirit of a dead woman and told "I will see you again in 25 years." In 2014, show creator David Lynch announced that "Twin Peaks" will resume as a TV miniseries in 2016. Talk about an epic brick joke...
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On this date in 1946, a fire at a New York City ice plant spread to a nearby tenement, killing 37 people.
Fire at an ice plant. Talk about irony...
sp this is believed by some to be the inspiration for five nights at freddy's seriously my favorite theory
That game is so unbelievably freaky.
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That game is so unbelievably freaky.
the tie ins to the 2nd game were found in this theory. These games taught me how sick game designers could be.
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Brenda Lee, known for singing Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, is only 4'9" (1.45m) tall.
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The three-dimensional solid shape of a 20-sided die is called a regular icosahedron.
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Tim Conway became notorious on The Carol Burnett Show (1967) for making the cast members - especially co-star Harvey Korman - break up with laughter during taping, while he remained in character. Unlike most shows, these bits were usually left in the routines when the episodes were aired.
During the Great Nordic War (1700-1721), one of the weapons used by the Swedish army was grenade launchers.
An old trick to make your horse run faster is to put a stick of ginger up its bottom.
During the Great Nordic War (1700-1721), one of the weapons used by the Swedish army was grenade launchers.Damn cheaters.
I didn't say they were effective grenade-launchers. (For one thing, the grenades still needed a fuse to be lit before they were launched.)
He is also credited by many to be the creator of the communications satellite.
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The first artificial satellite used solely to further advances in global communications was a balloon named Echo 1.
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While developing A Charlie Brown Christmas, Lee Mendelson encountered trouble finding a lyricist for Vince Guaraldi's instrumental intro, and penned "Christmas Time is Here" in "about 15 minutes" on the backside of an envelope.
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While developing A Charlie Brown Christmas, Lee Mendelson encountered trouble finding a lyricist for Vince Guaraldi's instrumental intro, and penned "Christmas Time is Here" in "about 15 minutes" on the backside of an envelope.
One of my favorite songs.
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It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown was one of the most controversial Peanuts specials of all time for two reasons:
1) When Charlie Brown tried to kick the field goal, Lucy pulled the football away, making him miss, causing the team to lose the game, and he was blamed. Lots of hate mail for this.
2) The little red-haired girl is named. Her name is Heather. Later strips and specials explicitly deny that he knows her name.
I really had to read #2 twice. I read "Her name is Heather. Later strips.." to have an implicit "She" subject on the second part.
William Parry is the only member of the lower house of the UK parliament ever to have been executed for high treason.
Herne is a town in Germany.
Oldenburg are two towns in Germany.
As are Frankfurt and Frankfurt.
William Parry is the only member of the lower house of the UK parliament ever to have been executed for high treason.
I'm guessing the number for the English parliament is slightly higher. Or did Charles II use a different classification once he started to get even, following the Restoration?
Despite the current king of Sweden being Karl XVI, he's just the tenth Swedish king to be called Karl.
William Parry is the only member of the lower house of the UK parliament ever to have been executed for high treason.I'm guessing the number for the English parliament is slightly higher. Or did Charles II use a different classification once he started to get even, following the Restoration?
Good point - maybe none of regicides were MPs, or they were technically executed for something else. I'll have to check.
Good point - maybe none of regicides were MPs, or they were technically executed for something else. I'll have to check.William Parry is the only member of the lower house of the UK parliament ever to have been executed for high treason.I'm guessing the number for the English parliament is slightly higher. Or did Charles II use a different classification once he started to get even, following the Restoration?
Thinking about it, none of them were sitting MPs (of course they wouldn't have been...), so that's why.
A butcher in Ripon, North Yorkshire, celebrated this year's Tour De France by trying to make a bicycle out of meat products
Ray Liotta was Tim Burton's first choice to play Harvey Dent in Batman (1989), but turned it down to do Goodfellas (1990) instead.
Are you listening to Filmsack? They just covered that movie!
Never heard of it. I just look on IMDB for an interesting actor having a birthday, and copy some factoid from the trivia section.
Ah, fun coincidence, then. I was just listening to it on the way into work.
The first performance of the Nutcracker was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky's last opera, Iolanta, on 18 December 1892, at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
A damaging fissure in the famed friendship between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien occurred when Lewis converted to Christianity, but joined the Protestant Church of England rather than the Roman Catholic Church, the latter of which Tolkien was an eminent member.
What fools these mortals be.
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A damaging fissure in the famed friendship between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien occurred when Lewis converted to Christianity, but joined the Protestant Church of England rather than the Roman Catholic Church, the latter of which Tolkien was an eminent member.
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"
He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"
Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
Homer Simpson is the only character with dialogue in every episode of The Simpsons.
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Heh. Heard that one years ago.
Yeah, in the '80s, I always hated Emo Philips' stage persona, but his jokes were usually good. A couple others:
When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bike.
Then I realised, the Lord doesn't work that way.
So I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me ... and I got it!
And one for the LDS among us:
A Mormon told me that they don't drink coffee.
I said, "A cup of coffee every day gives you wonderful benefits."
He said, "Like what?"
I said, "Well, it keeps you from being Mormon ..."