Post a random fact that you enjoy, that people may not know

Honey bees are not native to North America. They were brought over.

Doug Fieger (singer from The Knack, lead on "My Sharona") and Geoffrey Fieger (Jack Kevorkian's lawyer), were brothers.

I recently looked up the ages of The Jeffersons cast =

Florence = 92

Alan = 79

Jenny = 74

Lionel #2 =74

The dead ones =

Ralph = 89

Louise = 86

Mother Jefferson = 86

Tom = 77

George = 74

Charlie = 72

Harry = 70

Helen = 66

Lionel #1 = 57

Average age of living cast members = 79.75 yrs.

Average age of deceased cast members = 75.22 yrs.

Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for Julia Roberts’s birth.

I am Mrs. Norman Maine.

Tucker Carlson was fired from all three major cable news networks (CNN, MSNBC, Fox).

Prince Phillips mother risked her life to save a Jewish family during the Nazi occupation oh Athens by hiding them in the attic of her home directly accross the street from SS headquarters. She founded an order of nuns., dressed in a habit but she herself never took holy orders.

The UB40 song "Red Red Wine" was written by Neil Diamond.

Danielle Spencer (the bratty sister from "What's Happening?") worked for decades as a West Hollywood veterinarian.

Florence's 92 (soon to be 93 God willing) age really distorts the living cast members ages doesn't she?

In the Spanish dubbed version of Terminator 2, Arnold says "sayonara, baby" instead of the famous Spanish line

The late "Mommie Dearest" director Frank Perry was the uncle of Katy Perry through her mother, who was his sister.

China is called china because it originated in China.

There are 107 accepted 2 letter words in Scrabble.

I’m 65 but look 35.

Vivien Leigh was born in Darjeeling, India (then, British India).

Teacup, Teabiscuit, or whatever his name is - is the second cousin once removed of PMBT.

R18 is having a stroke and typing gibberish.

A strawberry isn't a berry.

[quote] "She founded an order of nuns., dressed in a habit but she herself never took holy orders."

"Rules for thee, but not for me."

They never let go of that, do they?

Alice Walton regularly gains or loses SEVERAL billion dollars in a day.

During his 8 years of presidency, Obama received 8 different Super Bowl winning teams into the White House.

Steelers, Saints, Packers, Giants, Ravens, Seahawks, Patriots and Broncos.

[quote] Tucker Carlson was fired from all three major cable news networks (CNN, MSNBC, Fox).

Also PBS. His father got him the gig (like he got Tucker all his gigs) because his father had been head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and still had connections there.

Lucille Ball was the 8th cousin, 7 times removed, of George Washington.

Margaret Hoover who hosts Firing Line is the great grand daughter of Herbert Hoover. Another nepo baby.

Margaret Hoover’s husband is running for my congressional district on Long Island as a Democrat. From his summer home in sag Harbor. My district has many working class towns who do not appreciated media people and billionaires from the Hamptons running for office.

Democrats ran a billionaire in my district twice after the billionaire decided to change his primary address to his East Hampton summer mansion address instead of his Manhattan address. He lost both times,

Now a CNN media guy who used to be Rudy Giuliani’s speech writer wants to run as a Democrat form his summer home with his conservative , libertarian-leaning wife. I have my reservations,

He won’t win, though. The GOP has run locals born-and-raised Long Islanders for the seat and won the last 5 elections in the district.

I'm a fattie.

Maggie Haberman’s father is a N.Y. Times write since 1977.

Her mother was a PR agent at Rubenstein Associates representing Donald Trump. Maggie has known Trump since she was born.

Maggie’s a double nepo baby.

Maggie’s sister was “event coordinator”for World Central Kitchen. I sure hope she didn’t have any planning done with th event where Israeli military murdered 7 WCK workers. The workers always coordinated with IDF and informed them of WCK routes and destinations. They had visible logos on their truck from the air and on the sides of vans. They were hit in “multiple precision strikes.” Very deliberate. Quite an “event.”

I’m 39

Jeff Bezos' grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, helped form and run the Pentagon's supersecret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA—renamed DARPA) in 1958. (The internet itself is based on the ARPANet). After a FOIA request was made on his files it was reported that they had all been destroyed.

There is a national flag that includes the image of an AK-47.

Also, Taiwan (when it was known as Formosa) was once controlled by the Netherlands.

Just found that one out today.

My cat’s breath smells like cat food.

[quote] During his 8 years of presidency, Obama received 8 different Super Bowl winning teams into the White House.

And during the 4 years of the Trump presidency, Melania received ALL the NFL teams.

My dad and Jeff Bezo's adopted dad Mike worked together and were buddies, evidently...

Like FDR, Obama took the presidential oath of office four times.

Sorrell Booke, the actor who played Boss Hogg on The Dukes of Hazard, was a native of Buffalo, NY and a genius. He entered Columbia at 16, graduating at 19, then getting a MFA at Yale. He was a polyglot and spoke 12 languages fluently. His language skills were put to use as a counterintelligence officer with the Army before he started acting professionally.

Stewart Copeland of the band The Police is the son of spy who helped form the CIA and who was involved in over throwing a number of governments.

I'm a member of MENSA!!!

Olivia Newton John and Ben Elton were third cousins. She was a granddaughter of Nobel Prize winning physicist Max Born and a descendant through her mother of Martin Luther.

That’s the best thing we’ve ever heard about Prince Phillip. Unfortunately I don’t believe he inherited any of her best.

Thank Hod you didn’t say “excepted” R15.

Is she the drunkard R22?

I bet Obama didn’t serve McD

I need 5 more points to be qualified for Mensa.

F. Scott Fitzgerald = Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

I wrote 42-46 threads

A tomato is not a vegetable but Mitch McConnell is.

Watermelon is not a fruit but Harrison Butker is.

Concrete, in-ground pools that are empty during a hurricane or heavy rain sometimes pop out of the ground from the hydrostatic pressure of the groundwater. Most of the time, the pools are unrepairable and have to be completely rebuilt.

Your foot is as long as the distance between your elbow and your wrist.

I can lick my elbow

Richard Gere went to college on a gymnastics scholarship.

R53, I tried that. For the first time in my life . I failed!

Cucumbers are technically berries.

June Allyson never wore Depends.

[quote]My dad and Jeff Bezo's adopted dad Mike

Oh, dear.

A group of hippos is called a bloat.

A group of bunnies is called a fluffle.

One of Queen Victoria's daughters, Louise, was an accomplished sculptor. She and her husband may have been beards for each other.

Lady Sarah Chatto is an accomplished artist.

Grandmama on "The Addams Family" was Jeanette MacDonald's sister.

Pandora Spox never starred in any other tv show, film, or stage show apart from "Bewitched."

A group of gaylings is called a "gaggle".

R18 Hi there. Who is PMBT. I will not be offended if the joke is funny.

Whitney Houston was originally cast as the eldest daughter in The Cosby Show. She decided to pursue her music career instead becoming one of the biggest selling female acts.

Gary Oldman has a tiny conjoined twin on his back virtually no one knows about. The little twin helps him run his lines.

Bennifer actually did 2nd film together before Gigli was released that Kevin Smith edited the fuck out of her screen time in post production and she was never promotionally featured.

It too was a box office bust.

Tsarina Alexandra of Nicholas & Alexandra was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Alexandra inherited a the gene for hemophilia from Victoria, as did Alexandra’s mother Alice.

Her hemophiliac brother bled to death at age 4 after falling from a window balcony. Diptheria hit the household in 1878. Alexandra’s mother Alice insisted on nursing her childrenback to health herself. Alice caught diptheria and died along with her daughter Marie, Alexandra’s closest sister. Alexandra was 6 years old. All of the clothing and toys in the household had to be burned. Her father died when she was 19.

Alexandra married Nicholas only a week after the funeral of Nicholas’s father. The Russian people saw it as a bad omen. “She comes to us behind a coffin.”

On the day of the coronation of Nicholas and Alexandra a celebration for the people was held in a field in Moscow. Rumors spread that there wants enough food and beer to go around and a stampede ensued. Over 1,000 Russians died. After hearing of the tragedy, Nicholas and Alexandra attended a gala ball at the French Embassy rather than visit survivors in hospital.

Alexandra’s nickname was “Sunny.”

[quote] Alice Walton regularly gains or loses SEVERAL billion dollars in a day.

And Lens Dunham regularly gains or loses SEVERAL billion pounds a day.

Jodie Sweetin's first sitcom appearance was on Valerie's family, The doll Jodie carried around was named Baby Fufanu. I just know that will be in a trivia question someday somewhere!

Marjorie Taylor Greene can peel a banana with her feet.

Wang Chang lead singer, Jack Hues, took that name from the French term “J’accuse.”

Greer Garson had identical twin grey poodles who jumped through hoops.

Judy Garland - Frances Ethel Gumm - was named for her parents, Francis and Ethel Gumm.

The lead singer of Wang Chung is NOT Wang Chung.

The lead singer of Van Helen was NOT Van Halen.

Wang Chung was first called Huang Chung. Or Connie Chung. I dunno. I’m confused.

Blondie Bumstead's maiden name is Boopadoop.

Mary Poppins is a cunt.

I thought Jack Wong was the lead singer of Ching Chang Chong.

[quote]A group of gaylings is called a "gaggle".

And a group of eldergays is called a "hissing."

Just to add some information. The cute twin on Valerie's Family smelt like Lavender with a spritz of Lilac. The fat Mexican twin smelt like moldy avocados.

Welp, that deteriorated quickly!

What do you call a group of lesbians?

A waddle.

A MichFest.

Gloria Steinem is Christian Bales' step-mother.

I thought she never married^^

Before Timothy Treadwell (the subject of Wim Wenders' "Grizzly Man) went mental, he auditioned for the role of Sam Malone (Cheers). He was 'this close' to getting the part until Ted Danson signed on. His parents believed that losing that part pushed him over the edge. It was at that point he created his 'Grizzly Man' persona.

I pick my nose.

Queen Victoria smoked marijuana to relieve menstrual cramps.

Jackie Kennedy had big feet, and because she was elegant and well-bred, and they were jealous, the nouveau riche Kennedy women used it as a stick to beat her with, and endlessly ridiculed her about it. They told her she had missed her calling and should have been a professional soccer player.

You can litter box train rabbits.

"What do you call a group of lesbians?"

Lez nest.

Ann Bow-lyn had six fingahs..

r88 I thought it was for the role of Woody.

winston churchill had a doctor’s note so that he could drink in the usa during prohibition

When she was 16, Roseanne Barr was hit by a car and the hood ornament penetrated her skull. Miraculously, she recovered?

Nancy Reagan refused to move into the Governor's Mansion in Sacramento in the 60s, claiming it wasn’t up to code and a fire trap. In reality, she didn't want to be around displaced homeless people who had previously lived in SRO hotels in the Old Sacramento area that were torn down for I-5 construction.

Not ironically, Reagan helped propel the first large wave of the mentally ill onto the streets when he slashed Federal funding for SROs.

UFO researcher Linda Moulton Howe worked on GOP campaigns in the1970s.

Male bed bugs have homosexual tendencies and will attempt to mount (RAPE !!) other males. To thwart this, the males themselves develop a defense mechanism, not unlike pepper spray.

R38 Seriously?! This is the most interesting fact of the thread.

[quote]A group of gaylings is called a "gaggle".

I thought it would be a "giggle."

Nancy and Ronnie lived in a rental home while he was governor - meanwhile, Nancy got behind the building of a new, modern-style Governor's Mansion in Carmichael, near the American River, which wasn't completed by the time Reagan left office, and was never occupied by any California Governor. Jerry Brown refused to live in it and lived in an apartment near his office - iirc, sleeping on a mattress on the floor. Subsequent governors lived in a home owned by a non-profit. Arnold Schwarzenegger lived in a penthouse suite at the Hyatt. Finally, in his later return to Sacramento, Jerry Brown lived in the original mansion which was restored for several million dollars.

"Roseanne Barr was hit by a car and the hood ornament penetrated her skull."

How short is she?

Several survivors of Canadian Pacific Flight 402 flew next day on BOAC Flight 911, which broke up in severe turbulence over Mt Fuji.

R103 - Good Lord, that house Nancy commissioned is a monstrous eyesore. Hideous. I'm pretty sure it was uninhibited for years. What a waste. My father and my uncle would drive me by the Reagans' house when I was a kid and point it out to me. I live 10 blocks away now.

Brown only lived in the Governor's mansion for the last couple of years of his last term. Before that he lived in the "penthouse" of the building that houses PF Chang across the street from the Memorial Auditorium on 16th & J.

R104 More importantly, how bad off was the car?

[quote] What do you call a group of lesbians?

A Home Depot of lesbians.

pineapple is neither pine nor apple

it is a berry

Nancy was trash, what did anyone expect from her decorating skills.

R61 Louise wasn’t a leazbo, but her husband was gay. Louise had an older sculptor mentor who supposedly dropped dead in front of her while moving a heavy bust. It’s likely however that he had the attack while in the Kip with Louise. It’s also believed that Louise got knocked up and had a baby in secret which was given to a family to adopt. That may not be true although there is strong circumstantial evidence that it is. Then again, they say the same thing about Princess Nargaret.

R56 Cucumber is a fruit, not a berry

My recovery time is halved by the presence of large heavy balls on my face.

I like blue.

The various houses of the Reagan years in Sacramento.

If you click on the address of the mansion they built in Carmichael, it takes you to Google Earth, but you can't see anything since there's a wall and a gate.

R25, According to Lucie Arnaz, Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers were distant cousins.

The far-right political group The Proud Boys took their name from “Proud Of Your Boy,” a song from Aladdin.

Ginger Rogers was born in Independence, Missouri, where Harry S. Truman was raised and lived after leaving the White House.

It's Harry S Truman, since the "S" doesn't stand for anything.

You shouldn’t grow cedar trees near apple trees.

Paul Bunyan has corns.

In print advertisements for wrist watches, magazines etc., the hands are always set at the time 1:50.

R122

Because that time best shows the face, right?

R122 Yes

The Australian dingo must be taught to bark.

R125 Is that before or after they eat your baby?

Spiders do not bite. They pierce.

Random Fact about Chevy Chase-

He’s a 14th generation New Yorker.

Patty Duke played both Patty and Cathy on “The Patty Duke Show”.

When Brigadier General Barnard Bee observed “there is Jackson, standing like a stone wall” during the First Battle of Bull Run, he gave Stonewall Jackson a forever nickname.

However, it’s not know if Bee said this in admiration or disgust, and he died the next day before anyone could ask.

R70 That’s because Marjorie Taylor Greene eats a banana with her feet.

She’s also known to throw poo with her feet.

The tango originated as a dance that was typically performed by two men.

Shawn Mendez is a fruit not a berry.

Since LBJ's 1/22/73 death, there has been no Democratic president who has died.

R95 You are correct! Thanks.

Lorraine Hansberry ([italic]To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, les Blancs, Raisin in the Sun[/italic])may have never known why she died.

At the age of 33 she underwent two surgical procedures to address pancreatic cancer in the summer of 1963 but her husband didn't want the surgeon to tell her his findings.

Unless her by-then ex-husband, (divorced, although they continued to work together) told her, she died not knowing her diagnosis.

Patti LuPone’s brother was Zach in the original Broadway cast of ‘A Chorus Line’.