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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 10-04-2020 18:58
An art collector once paid $10,000 for a "non-visible" sculpture created by actor James Franco.
The artwork was billed as an "endless tank of oxygen." Um, yeah… it's called air.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 10-04-2020 19:00
China has censored the word "censorship."
I guess you can't be guilty of a crime if nobody can describe what it is!
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 10-04-2020 19:01
The blob of toothpaste that sits on your toothbrush has a name.
It's called a "nurdle."
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 10-04-2020 19:02
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service once hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced the bomb instructions with a cupcake recipe.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 10-04-2020 19:04
After losing a drunken poker bet in 2009, a New Zealand man had his name legally changed to "Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova."
It took five years, but the name was finally approved by the government.
All 99 characters of his new name are on his passport.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Chrisst - 14-04-2020 01:00
Greyhound 'buses are so called because an operator, Ed Stone saw the reflection of his 1920's era 'bus in a store window and thought it looked like a racing greyhound.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Chrisst - 14-04-2020 13:07
The product of mating a male donkey and a female zebra is a zonkey
A herd of wild zebras is called a zeal.
There's also zedonks and even a zorse
To be honest I've wondered before whether zebras were just an April fools windup or a conspiracy theory. Aren't they just where someone's painted strips on a horse?
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Chrisst - 14-04-2020 17:34
Elsewhere in the forum it's been my pleasure to read some Unwinese, I've never read it in print.
Like a few of us no doubt, the first time I heard it was in the Gerry Anderson production The Secret Service where Stanley Unwin voiced the character Father Unwin.
I case you don't know the story here's the details.
![[Image: image-2586_5E95F1AD.jpg]](https://www.babeimage.co.uk/image-2586_5E95F1AD.jpg)
![[Image: image-CF6F_5E95F1AD.jpg]](https://www.babeimage.co.uk/image-CF6F_5E95F1AD.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Unwin_(comedian)
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 14-04-2020 20:05
In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone contract without paying a fee.
It didn't work.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 14-04-2020 20:06
The northern leopard frog swallows its prey using its eyes — it uses them to help push food down its throat by retracting them into its head.