Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more
like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula.”
Ben and Jerry’s send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to
use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor they won’t touch:
Mint Oreo.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble’s
Maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop
and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life”
Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island had a first name that was only used once, on
the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper’s real
name on Gilligan’s Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the
first episode on their radio’s newscast about the wreck.
The “L.L.” in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the
background — when they say “walla-walla” it looks like they are actually
talking.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon
features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the
entire movie.
‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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Dr Bob Griffin, www.grif.net
1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given