Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[fireheart]

Why do I now have the mental image of everyone who's reading this thread trying to flush ping pong balls to see how difficult it really is..?

Speaking of "things that should not be flushed down the toilet", one of the activities put up on my work's website was making tampon angels .

[crazylegs]

Ping Pong balls are the hardest thing to flush down a toilet.

Why do I now have the mental image of everyone who's reading this thread trying to flush ping pong balls to see how difficult it really is..?

[Lady Legira]

Ping Pong balls are the hardest thing to flush down a toilet.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

In the movie "Iron Man", the scene where the terrorists have Stark in the cave and are recording the video are in Farsi. So if you understood Farsi and watched that, you would have known the twist.

Same with "The Thing" (the 1982 film with Kurt Russell). The Norwegian guy at the very beginning was trying to warn the Americans. In Norwegian.

[protege]

Old Speckled Hen actually takes its name from the "Owld Speckled Un" which was a works hack used to transport workers. Apparently, the vehicle got a bit too close to the paint shop, leaving it with a distinctive speckled finish. The beer itself was first brewed in 1979, to commemorate 50 years of car manufacture at the Abingdon plant...having moved there from Oxford in '29. It's been tied to the marque ever since.

[KhirasHY]

Don't wear blue when you go to Alaska ne-*BANG*

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[Teysa]

Hmm, remind me not to wear blue when I go back to Alaska next summer.

[KhirasHY]

If a goldfish is kept in low light with no sunlight contact, it will lose its pigment.

Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

Dolphins sleep with half their brain at a time, and with one eye closed.

The record for longest living reptile is held by a Mexican Beaded Lizard, 33 years and 11 months.

And since I'm a rat fanboy:

In two years, a single pairing of one male and one female rat can potentially have as many as one million descendants.

Rats can last longer without water than camels can.

A rat can swim for a very long time; rats have been spotted staying afloat for up to three days at a time.

Rats were once worshiped in ancient Egypt and the Mayan civilizations. Additionally, India's Temple of Deshnoke is sometimes called The Temple of Rats, with over 20,000 rats living there. Tradition states that killing one of those rats requires you to replace it with a golden rat statue. In ancient Rome, rats were considered good luck, while in China the rat is one of the twelve zodiac signs. The next Year of the Rat is January 25 2020 to February 11 2021.

Domesticated pet rats are considered among the most loyal and intelligent pets, and tend to be clean as well. Domestic rats will live between 2-4 years depending on diet, and most breeders will only sell them in pairs or triplets, as lone rats have low survival rates. A rat requires almost constant attention and touching to be healthy, so a pair of rats will keep each other alive.

[crazylegs]

A paramedic in the UK can give more IV morphine (20mg) per patient in a single dose, than a Dr can in Ukraine can give one patient per day (7mg).

[dalesys]

Ed White, the late commander of Apollo 1...

Ooopsie!

Gus Grissom! Liberty Bell 7.

[Tyg3rW01f]

the "two" town sets in Saving Private Ryan are actually the EXACT SAME SET... viewed in opposite directions!

Rohan and the village in 13th Warrior share the same main building.

Ed White, the late commander of Apollo 1, is the same astronaut who blew his hatch early in the Gemini/Mercury debacle.

[KhirasHY]

MORE movie trivia!

In The Matrix: Reloaded, during the highway chase scene, the license plate on Trinity's car says DA203. If you look in Daniel 2:3, which says "he said to them, 'I have had a dream that troubles me and I want to know what it means.'" This is possibly making reference to Neo's dream, because he went to the oracle partly to figure out what his dream about Trinity meant. The biblical text is speaking about King Nebuchadnezzar's searching for the meaning of his dream. In Verse 3, the Nebuchadnezzar says, "I have dreamed a dream." In Verse 5, when asked to explain his dream, he says, "The thing is gone from me" (all this is from the classic King James Version). Near the end of the movie as the Nebuchadnezzar explodes as a result of the sentinels' bomb, Morpheus says "I have dreamed a dream, and now that dream has gone from me."

In X-Men 2, the entire computer list that Mystique is looking at on Stryker's computer are mutants from the Marvel universe: Guthrie (2) are brother and sister Sam and Paige, Cannonball and Husk, Keniucho Harada is The Silver Samurai; Garrison Kane is Kane from the Weapon X program; Remy LeBeau is Gambit; Eric Lansherr is Magneto, though it is supposed to be spelt Erik Lehnsherr; Artie Maddicks is Big Eyes; Jamie Madrox is Multiple Man; Xi'an Coy Mahn is Karma; Maximoff (2) are the brother and sister Pietro and Wanda, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch of the Avengers, both are the children of Magneto; Kevin McTaggart is Proteus, Son of Moira McTaggart; Danielle Moonstar is Mirage, Psyche; Ororo Munroe is obviously Storm; Franklin Richards (You only see the "Lin Richards" ), the son of Reed Richards (Mr Fantastic) and the Invisible Woman (Sue Richards).

The movie Psycho is the first ever film which showed a toilet flush.

The slow motion sound effect used in the movie Dredd was inspired by a Justin Bieber song, slowed down by 800%.

In Saving Private Ryan, all the main actors besides Matt Damon were forced to undergo a brutal week long fitness camp for their roles as soldiers. Damon was exempt from it in order to generate genuine resentment towards him and his character.

Gene Wilder only accepted the role as Willy Wonka on the condition that during his entrance in the movie, he would be walking with a cane and a limp, then somersault and bounce back up. Asked why, Wilder said: “Because from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”

The scene in The Breakfast Club in which all the characters sit in a circle on the floor of the library and tell stories about why they were in detention was not scripted. Hughes told them all to ad lib.

In Liar Liar, when Fletcher literally beats himself up in the restroom, no sound effects were used; those are really the sounds of Jim Carrey’s head slamming into the urinal, floor and walls.

In A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson repeated his famous courtroom monologue as Col. Jessep off-camera several times so director Rob Reiner could film the reactions of other actors from various angles. Nicholson’s memorable on-camera performance was filmed last, but according to Reiner and the other cast members, Nicholson gave it his all every take as if he was on camera.

Word use in The Big Lebowski: "Man" is said 147 times, "Dude" is used 161 times (160 spoken and once written), "fuck" and its derivatives are used 292 times, mention of The Dude's rug being pissed on are made 17 times, while "it really tied the room together" is said 5 times.

Also in The Big Lebowski (spoilers here for Miller's Crossing and Fargo as well), the movie concludes a three-film running gag by the Coen Brothers of killing Steve Buschemi's characters, but making sure his remains were smaller and smaller each time. In Miller's Crossing, Steve remained rather whole; in Fargo, only his leg and shredded chunks from the wood chipper are left. In Big Lebowski, he is finally reduced to ash and thrown all over Jeff Bridges. The directors joked that, if they did it a fourth time, he would simply have to be vaporized.

[Tyg3rW01f]

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[fireheart]

fireheart, thanks. It's such an interesting movie in so many ways. Since you're apparently up on such things, is it true that Buddy Epsen had to quit the Tin Man role because of the make-up?

Sort of. At the time, the makeup used was a powder instead of a paste. He accidentally inhaled some and it caused an allergic reaction, resulting in his hospitalisation. When they recast the role, it was changed to a paste and Jack Haley had no issues apart from accidentally getting some in his eye.

[sms001]

celticgirl: wow, what an amazing coincidence. Life's bizarre.

fireheart, thanks. It's such an interesting movie in so many ways. Since you're apparently up on such things, is it true that Buddy Epsen had to quit the Tin Man role because of the make-up?