Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[AnaKhouri]

No, really. Tell me something I don't know.

I'll start.

David Bowie, from a distance, appears to be heterochromatic (have eyes of different colors). But he really doesn't; both eyes are blue. As a kid he was injured in a fight and one pupil is permanently dilated, giving the impression that the injured eye is darker.


OK CS'ers, give me more useless knowledge! What is your favorite random fact?

[Jay 2K Winger]

The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called 'aglets'. Their true purpose is sinister.

[morgana]

Johnny Depp, in addition to starting his show-business career as a guitarist, is a very talented watercolorist.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Benicio Del Toro wears a ring with a wooden stone in it, so that when he needs to "knock on wood," he can do so easily.

[jedimaster91]

The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called 'aglets'. Their true purpose is sinister.

Justice League quote for the win!

[MoonCat]

Dave Thomas, the father of David Boreanaz, once hosted a children's TV show in Buffalo called Rocketship 7.

[Bright_Star]

"Rocky" won an academy award for best picture of 1976.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Max Brooks, the author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, is the son of Mel Brooks.

[AnaKhouri]

A group of owls is called a paliament. They are also called wisdoms or studies. Crows come in murders, and a group of ravens is called an unkindness. Which seems...unkind.

[firecat88]

Ireland has the highest rate of people born with Spina Bifida in the world. North Carolina has the second highest.

[Tama]

Christopher Lloyd refrained from blinking while on camera as Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit in order to, per the Wiki article, "perfectly portray" the character.

[violiavampyr]

Dalmatians are completely white at birth. Their spots don't come in for another few weeks.

[Sunshine]

My grandmother taught george w in elementary school. Had to paddle him for misbehavior too. It didnt take apparently....lol

[fireheart]

A group of owls is called a paliament. They are also called wisdoms or studies. Crows come in murders, and a group of ravens is called an unkindness. Which seems...unkind.

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

Also for completely random facts, Australia is home to one of the deadliest spiders in the world, but there haven't been any fatalities recorded for just over 30 years now.

[sms001]

Spock shoots porn.



(Actually, Leonard Nimoy is a great photographer, some of which are nudes. And he's rather good.)