Thirteen Randomly Odd Things I Know without a single Google search:
- The supervising hair stylist on both Leave it to Beaver and Alfred Hitchcock Presents was Florence Bush.
- The lyrics to nearly every song Al Jolson ever recorded.
- Humphrey Bogart had a wife whose name was Mayo.
- These drugstore curiosities/souvenirs from the Southwest are not actually plants that occur in nature, but rather one plant grafted on top of another.
- A criminal profiler was the person who broke the Atlanta Child Murders case.
- Alice in Wonderland started out as an impromptu story told to a little girl named Alice Liddell.
- The phrase "mad as a hatter" doesn't come from Alice in Wonderland but rather came about because hat makers commonly suffered from mercury poisoning from the felt they used in the 1800s.
- Siamese cats have colored points due to a mutation in an enzyme that is heat sensitive.
- Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre while John F. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln Continental, made by Ford.
- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed at an active Psychiatric Hospital.
- There is a psychiatric terms for the fear of clowns: coulrophobia.
- The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "Go."
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March 24, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Clowns! Ick. They all should be locked up. :)
March 25, 2010 at 8:41 AM
I second what Lucy said.
I have to say, I'm super impressed with some of your useless knowledge.