Little known facts (that aren't true)

[mjb]

" ... they said nobody would ever go broke publishing photos of women urinating"

[HenryMc]

my cat Bernie hums the entire album Sinatra at the Sands when he thinks no one can hear him

[steve(thelil)]

When he knows people ARE listening, Henry's cat hums Talking Heads' entire Fear of Music album - EXCEPT Life During Wartime.

[moldyfigg]

Larry the tortoise hums "Sweet Sue" only when you are listening.

[harmony5219]

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is only one of dozens, if not hundreds, of celebrities who are hermaphrodites. Curtis was born with an unusual chromosome structure (ostensibly some variation of XXY). Other celebs who are/were hermaphrodites: Jim Nabors, Roman Gabriel, Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams, Yogi Berra, Y.A. Tittle, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Alfred "No Cock" Hitchcock, Laura Bush, Bruno Sammartino, Laurel and Hardy, Kevin Spacey, Superfly Jimmy Snuka, Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Jerome "Spud" Webb, and Bruno Mars.

The list must be expanded to include the following celebrities who are/were hermaphrodites: Jack Paar, Taylor Swift, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Jerry Mathers "The Beaver" or at least part of "The Beaver", Jack LaLanne and his wife Elaine LaLanne, Chuck Connors, 50 Cent, Anthony "Reebop" Kwaku Baah, Ann Landers, and James Spader.

[moldyfigg]

Whenever you watch television it looks at you and counts your follicles for marketing purposes.

[steve(thelil)]

Root vegetables cause Veganism.

[moldyfigg]

Asian pears and Bartlett pairs are not related.

[steve(thelil)]

Asian Pears and Bartlett Pears are related by marriage.

[steve(thelil)]

Halloween didn't catch on as a Fall Celebration until a guy with a hollow weenie went out for cigarettes dressed as a herring.

[BeBop]

Ebola can be transmitted by flipping someone off.







(It did really strike me that, in "unsophisticated" West Africa, the people I encountered were more sensible/science-based about Ebola than in sometimes hysterical Europe (Brussels) and the United States (rural and agricultural area).)

[Mr. Met]

The moon is made of ice and Rogaine.

[steve(thelil)]

It's not like me to bring up a thread that's as dead as this one, but I still think that the issue hasn't been resolved.

[moldyfigg]

Indiana has applied to become a county in Mississippi.

[steve(thelil)]

Beets mate for life.

[harmony5219]

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is only one of dozens, if not hundreds, of celebrities who are hermaphrodites. Curtis was born with an unusual chromosome structure (ostensibly some variation of XXY). Other celebs who are/were hermaphrodites: Jim Nabors, Roman Gabriel, Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams, Yogi Berra, Y.A. Tittle, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Alfred "No Cock" Hitchcock, Laura Bush, Bruno Sammartino, Laurel and Hardy, Kevin Spacey, Superfly Jimmy Snuka, Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Jerome "Spud" Webb, and Bruno Mars.

The list must be expanded to include the following celebrities who are/were hermaphrodites: Jack Paar, Taylor Swift, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Jerry Mathers "The Beaver" or at least part of "The Beaver", Jack LaLanne and his wife Elaine LaLanne, Chuck Connors, 50 Cent, Anthony "Reebop" Kwaku Baah, Ann Landers, and James Spader.

On his deathbed, Jack LaLanne admitted that his wife Elaine LaLanne was not a true hermaphrodite, but he used this "fact" for the last ten years of his life to boost sales of his "Jack LaLanne Power Juicer".

[harmony5219]

Other hermaphrodites who are still in the closet: former Major League baseball players Pumpsie Green, Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, Tony Kubek, Ron "The Penguin" Cey, Frank "Big Hurt" Thomas, Jim "Mudcat" Grant, Pete Rose, and Boog Powell. Also, the late greats Walter "No Neck" Williams and Mordecai "Three Fingers" Brown.

[Lewis Tater]

Douglas MacArthur, though presumably not a hermaphrodite himself, was known to favor hermaphrodite officers. Hermaphrodites were, perhaps, overrepresented on his staff.

[harmony5219]

In order to be able to throw out the first pitch for the first game of 2017 World Series, Elton John recently had Tommy John surgery.

[harmony5219]

A man named Larry Rosenblatt from NYC has a talking parrot whose lexicon is limited to the lyrics of the Iron Butterfly song "In A Gadda Da Vida".

[Mr. Met]

The Mets are the greatest team in major league history and are going to win their tenth straight World Series next year.

[HenryMc]

When you play Kind of Blue backwards it sounds exactly the same as when you play it forward

[Ron Thorne]

I haven't thought of this one in a while, Henry.

[harmony5219]

In the 1970s, Mattel sold a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.

Update: This fact is actually factual.

[harmony5219]

Donald J Trump lived under a bridge off Route 80 in Lodi, NJ for two weeks in 2021.