Fascinating Facts and Trivia

More QI facts:

The White House only got the ability to print double-sided in 2016.

Lyndon B. Johnson had a nozzle fitted to his shower in the White House that fired water at his genitals!

Donald Trump presses a red button on his desk when he wants the White House butler to bring him a Diet Coke (and I bet he pretends he launched a missile!)

Domino Pizza's customers can place an order by tweeting a pizza emoji.

(02-02-2019 19:24 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Lyndon B. Johnson had a nozzle fitted to his shower in the White House that fired water at his genitals! :eek:

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Former mob boss/FBI informant Whitey Bulger (once the most wanted man in the US not named Osama) was killed a few months ago in a West Virginia prison. He was captured in 2011 in Santa Monica, CA after nearly 2 decades on the run. His funeral took place at a Boston church called Saint Monica's. Thought that was kinda neat. Maybe not as neat as LBJ's genitalia, but still OK.

Ducks’ quacks are influenced by the environment. They quack in their own regional accents.

Peter Cullen, the voice actor behind Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh, is the same voice as Optimus Prime of the Transformers, and the Predator movies!

Mel Blanc was the most prolific cartoon voice of all time voicing everyone from Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales BUT there was one he couldn't do-Elmer Fudd and that was by Arthur Q Bryan. Hhuhuhuhuhuhuh! Blanc made his name as the sound of a car in Jack Benny's show on radio. He also hated carrots and spat them out after any take that involved eating them as Bugs Bunny.

Some music trivia here:

On his last day as a welder, Tony Iommi, guitarist of Black Sabbath, lost the tips of his two fretting fingers. While he was recovering he found it easier to play the guitar by dropping the tuning and using lighter gauge strings, which helped give Black Sabbath it's signature dark sound.

In 1991, during a period of only six weeks, five classic modern rock albums were released: Metallica's Black Album, Pearl Jam's Ten, Guns N Roses' Use Your Illusion, Nirvana's Nevermind and Red Hot Chilli Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magic. The last two were released on the same day.

Angelina Jolie's Uncle Chip Taylor (birth name 'James Wesley Voight') wrote the song 'Wild Thing'.

Before he joined Metallica, Cliff Burton was in a band called 'Easy Street' with future Faith No More members Jim Martin and Mike Bordin.

The fan who volunteered his face to be punched for Pantera's 'Vulgar Display Of Power' album cover had to withstand almost 80 whacks before the "money shot" was captured.

System Of A Down's name was inspired by a Daron Malakian poem called 'Victims Of A Down' but they went with 'System' partly because their albums could sit closer to Slayer's in record store shelves/bins.

In 1977 before the band became big, The Police agreed to appear in a Wrigley’s commercial directed by Ridley Scott. Wrigley’s demanded that the band members dye their hair blond to play a non descript punk band.

The look became the band’s trademark even though the commercial never aired.

MADNESS once did a commercial for a Japanese car company and dressed in traditional costume as well as their own style.
Little Mix the girl group can sing one of their songs in Japanese.

Here's a fun fact. If you remember Andy Pandy-ain't you old! but the blueprint for him was a young lad called Paul Atterbury, whom you might know better today as an Antiques Roadshow expert.

Anthony Jackson who played Fred Mumford in RENTAGHOST was the voice of Dai Station in animated kids series, 'Ivor the Engine' and Michael Staniforth who played the mischevious jester, Timothy Claypole in the series, went into the West End later to star in musical about trains 'Starlight Express' Oh yes and the man that played the nosy neighbour(Hal Dyer) the husband Jeffery Segal was a member of our synagogue!