Odd factoids

[gaijintendo]

There is a voodoo curse out there to give you kidney disease.

How does it work? The person cursing you will take your urine, put it in a bottle along with herbs, nails and needles and wedge the bottle into a narrow tree hole.

Voila! You will have kidney disease.

You can't find a narrow tree hole for love or money now.

That is also the recipe they use to make Becherovka in a little country nobody calls Czechia.

 

[Dirk]

Meghan Markle is related to both Chief Sitting Bull and General Custer.

 

[david k]

Prehistoric women had stronger arms than elite female rowing teams do today thanks to the daily grind of farming life, researchers have reveale

That's unsurprising. Rowing is primarily a lower body workout.

Prehistoric women had stronger lower bodies than elite female rowing teams

 

[Dirk]

Meghan Markle invented Penicillin.

 

[winjim]

Meghan Markle is related to both Chief Sitting Bull and General Custer.

I am related to Meghan Markle. Our families come from the same village in east Africa.

 

[Dave7]

Meghan Markle is related to both Chief Sitting Bull and General Custer.

Meghan is not Meghans first name. Meghan is Meghans middle name.
That one is true.

 

[winjim]

Meghan is not Meghans first name. Meghan is Meghans middle name.
That one is true.

I'm working on the basis that they're all true. Certainly mine all have been.

 

[Dirk]

Meghan Markle is apparently worth £500,000,000 to the UK economy.

 

[Blue Hills]

All mine are true. Nowt so strange interesting as reality. A few scriptwriters of films about real events would do well to remember it.

 

[Dirk]

All mine are true. Nowt so strange interesting as reality. A few scriptwriters of films about real events would do well to remember it.

All mine are true, it's just the facts that are changed.

 

[FishFright]

Mao Tse-tung's first name was Mickey, but he was unable to use it after a legal battle with Walt Disney.

Interestingly this lead to the first draft of the CCP's anthem sitting on a shelf until the 1980's where it was discovered by an American choreographer

 

[Dirk]

Interestingly this lead to the first draft of the CCP's anthem sitting on a shelf until the 1980's where it was discovered by an American choreographer

Toni Basil pranced naked with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in the 'acid trip cemetery scene' in the film Easy Rider.

 

[classic33]

Some of the weird lighting effects in the LSD scene came about because a can of film was accidentally exposed when it was opened before being developed.

 

[Blue Hills]

Some of the weird lighting effects in the LSD scene came about because a can of film was accidentally exposed when it was opened before being developed.

Reminds me of my fraught 35mill film projection days at university. Showing a bunuel film i managed to get the film trapped in the projector gate. The interesting image melt it produced on screen was initially taken to be one of the old surrealist's conceits by a few in the audience.

 

[classic33]

The world's first successful human head transplant was carried out in China last month, according to Italian professor Sergio Canavero.



Both bodies were dead at the time surgery began, thus preventing two deaths on the operating table.