Thursday

Random Trivia

1. The same actor does the voice for Winnie the Pooh, Kaa the snake in Jungle Book, the stork in Dumbo, and Alice in Wonderland's Chesire Cat.
2. When KFC's slogan "finger lickin' good" was first translated in Chinese, it came out as "eat your fingers off."
3. Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
4. The US government doesn't allow for living people to be pictured on stamps.
5. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.
6. The G in g-string stands for groin. How about that?
7. Don McClean's song American Pie was named after the plane that Buddy Holly died in.
8. Eric Clapton was born to an unwed mother and grew up believing his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his sister.
9. Nutmeg is poisonous if injected intravenously.
10. Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
11. Simon & Garfunkel's original band name was Tom & Jerry.
12. A fully ripened cranberry can be bounced like a basketball.
13. The word "testify" comes from when in Roman court, men would swear on their testicles.
14. Walt Disney was going to make The Little Mermaid a lot earlier, but was stopped because of World War II.
15. Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
16. Coca-Cola was originally green.
17. An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
18. The University of Alaska stretches across four time zones.
19. Soundgarden got it's name from a pipe structure in Seattle that hums in the wind.
20. The only member of ZZ Top who didn't have a beard was Frank Beard.

2 comments:

  1. Fun facts! And do you think #17 is limited to fast food places?

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  2. I think that it actually includes vegan restaurants.

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