JCC Random Trivia Thread

Girls Just Want to Have Fun was not written by Cyndi Lauper. It was originally written and recorded by Robert Hazard.

 

I think we have this on the "Fun & Games" board: https://boards.theforce.net/threads/post-your-useless-facts-here.50055800/

 

The wingspan of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is 103 feet 9 inches.

 

A common misconception is that you will eat a spider that goes into your mouth while you sleep, about 8 times in a year.

This is false.

 

During it's first season, SNL was titled "NBC's Saturday Night" because "Saturday Night Live", a variety show hosted by Howard Cosell, was already airing on ABC when the former premiered. NBC's show didn't use the title "Saturday Night Live" until after Cosell's show was cancelled and off the air.

 

Yep. It's actually around 15 times.

 

In the O'Ren cartoon flashback, in Kill Bill Vol 1, she kills two assassins by hiding below a bed, shooting the foot first, then the head. This is taken from Miller's crossing, when killers are sent to kill Leo.

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whereas the iconic Daryl Hannah's whistle comes from Twisted Nerve.

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also false

 

Right, it’s closer to 20 times.

 

"I can do this all day."

 

Anyway more trivia

There are more than 4000 Colonel Sanders statues in Japan

 

The 'tropical jungle' sounds used for Yavin IV in ANH are taken, and altered by Ben Burtt, from a recording of the birds of coastal Kenya. The loud barking sound is being made by a bird called a Fischer's Turaco. The rapid 'tink tink tink' sound is a bird called the Moustached Tinkerbird.

Actress Vivienne Chandler (sadly now deceased), best known for her role in the film A Clockwork Orange, was also an X-Wing pilot in ROTJ. Later in life, she worked as a health care assistant. I know because I did several shifts with her in Ashford, Kent. She went by the name of Holly Wood when she worked for us. I was the one that persuaded her to do the convention circuit.

 

Director John Huston gifted the cast of The Night of the Iguana with gold-plated derringers.

Sue Lyon, by the by, played Dolores/Lolita in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962). James Mason played Humbert Humbert, a decade after winning Ava Gardner's heart in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951).

 

Sharks are older than trees. The earliest plant life we call trees were in what is now the Sahara desert 350 million years ago. Sharks have been around for 400 million years.

 

Speaking of sharks, Great Whites have the reputation for the most deadly attacks. Yet, the Bull Shark is considered the more dangerous one.

And this isn't a fact as supposed to speculation, but its possible a lot of attacks attributed to Great Whites were actually done by Bull Sharks as they swim closer to land and can go into freshwater. But with the fame of GW, many don't consider or even know there are other types of sharks besides the GW.

 

Some companies offer "pawternity" or "furternity" leave to employees with sick or newborn pets.

 

Some ants do see well contrary to popular belief. Depends on the sub species

 

The misconception is that you actually “eat” the spiders that crawl into your mouth. Under our skin Humans are actually just a collective of densely packed spiders, we open our mouths when we sleep so new spiders can replace the ones that die.

 

Haha! Real horror show!

We actually did talk about A Clockwork Orange. Once I knew she had been in ROTJ, which she mentioned randomly mid-shift, I looked up her other film credits. She was um... a bit embarrassed about her role in that film.

 

The Greenland shark has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrates. Scientists believe that they may live for over 500 years. The sharks don’t reach sexual maturity until they’re 150 years old. The flesh of the shark has an unusually high urea content and must be fermented for several months before it is fit for human consumption.

 

An Arleigh Burke class destroyer is 509.5 ft long.

 

Even though it was one of his signature songs, Frank Sinatra hated the song "My Way", finding it, in the words of his daughter Tina, "self-serving and self-indulgent". However, he continued to sing it in concert since his fans expected it.