Fascinating Facts and Trivia

A Muppet obsessed fan once took a radio manager hostage, claiming he had a bomb, and demanded that the rainbow connection song be played continuously for the next 12 hours on the radio.

Robert Plant once donated $10,000 to KBOO, a non profit commercial radio station in Portland, Oregon to never play ‘Stairway to Heaven’ ever again.

(13-01-2019 03:28 )goatman222 Wrote:  There is no future. There is no past. Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet

This isn't a fact and therefore shouldn't have been posted in this thread. It's a radical theory of time which challenges conventional physics.

The exact wording used here has been taken from a comic/movie, i.e. a work a fiction, which people would be unwise to confuse with reality.

(14-01-2019 13:06 )CIA Snooper Wrote:  

(13-01-2019 03:28 )goatman222 Wrote:  There is no future. There is no past. Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet

This isn't a fact and therefore shouldn't have been posted in this thread. It's a radical theory of time which challenges conventional physics.

The exact wording used here has been taken from a comic/movie, i.e. a work a fiction, which people would be unwise to confuse with reality.

Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.

Woah...thread becoming highbrow and profound.

One of the first radio communications from an aircraft in flight was “Roy, come and get this goddamn cat”.

Corn Nuts released a radio commercial in the early 90s with the tagline ‘Bust a nut!’. The ad was promptly pulled from many radio stations.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet President, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial.

IKEA ran the first television commercial in the US featuring a homosexual couple. It was shown once and then pulled following bomb threats to the stores.

In Armenia, all children aged 6 and over are taught chess at school, as it is a mandatory part of their curriculum.