Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[fireheart]

The infamous Jolt Cola, which has 2X the caffeine of regular Coke, has HALF as much caffeine per unit volume as regular coffee.

Can you guess which one of these drinks is/was banned at one point in several states, at least in one case because a death was blamed on it?

You can still get JOLT down here. Unfortunately because energy drinks tend to be associated with the "buzz" you'd get from jolt, it doesn't sell that well.

Random fact of the day: the infamous fifty shades trilogy was originally a twilight fan fiction. (yes I know you folks know it already shut up)

[EricKei]

The infamous Jolt Cola, which has 2X the caffeine of regular Coke, has HALF as much caffeine per unit volume as regular coffee.

Can you guess which one of these drinks is/was banned at one point in several states, at least in one case because a death was blamed on it?

[AnaKhouri]

I live quite literally about two miles from a bar that is so haunted it is called "The Gate to Hell". I've been in it once, experienced nothing but lots of drunk women falling off the mechanical bull, unfortunately.

[EricKei]

What most Americans call "yams" are almost always sweet potatoes. Actual yams are a tuber that grows in (generally) hotter climates. Actual sweet potatoes are part of the Morning Glory family. "New Zealand yams" are actually oca, yet another tuber. Actually.

New Orleanians often use the term "making groceries" to refer to grocery shopping. They also use the term "brake tag" to refer to (usually annual) vehicle inspection stickers.

In Australia, Burger King restaurants are known as hungry jacks. This is due to the fact that when they originally expanded to the Aussie market, the name was trademarked by a takeaway shop in Adelaide.

HJ might have had to change their name if they had originally been Aussie and moved to the US -- "Hungry Jack" is the name of a popular line of pancake/potato (etc) mixes here.

[drunkenwildmage]

In Australia, Burger King restaurants are known as hungry jacks. This is due to the fact that when they originally expanded to the Aussie market, the name was trademarked by a takeaway shop in Adelaide.

In Central Illinois,(USA) there is a town called Mattoon that has ma and pa restaurant called Burger King that traded marked the name in Illinois before the fast food place started. As a result of the trademark, and court cases, the fast food place can't build a restaurant withing a 20 mile circle of the ma and pa restaurant, and call it Burger King.



Onto other Random Crap..


The developer of the neighborhood I'm current living in, is the father of one of the founding members of the rock band 'Boston'.

[SongsOfDragons]

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, urinals had bees printed or stamped in their bottoms - this was for the amusement of educated gentlemen: the Latin for bee was `apis.`

I've seen those too. I always thought it was there to give them something to aim at to reduce splashing.

[dalesys]

Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) was a magazine glamour model.
Janis Joplin was a folksinger.

[BookstoreEscapee]

The Battle of Bunker Hill was not fought on Bunker Hill, but actually at Breed's Hill, nearby.

Nathaniel Philbrick has a new book about the Battle of Bunker Hill.

[SailorMan]

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, urinals had bees printed or stamped in their bottoms - this was for the amusement of educated gentlemen: the Latin for bee was `apis.`

[MaggieTheCat]

Nobuo Uematsu, the composer of a lot of the music from the Final Fantasy series, has a personal rock band that he conducts/plays with. They play a combination of original songs and remixes of Final Fantasy (and other video game) music that Uematsu wrote. The band used to be called The Black Mages when Uematsu and a couple of the other members were employees of SquareSoft/SquareEnix. When Uematsu left the company to become a contractor, The Black Mages were disbanded. His band is now called The Earthbound Papas. One of their first "solo" (not part of a bigger concert like Distant Worlds) live performance in the United States was in 2011 at OniCon in Galveston, TX.

[Sunshine]

So a less personal one...all my random trivia left me before. A group of butterflies is called a schmeterling in german. I apologize if i misspelled that!!

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Pro wrestling trivia...

Mick Foley/Mankind's finishing move The Mandible Claw was developed by a wrestler named Sam Sheppard, who wrestled in the '60's. Sheppard was more well known as a former surgeon who was convicted of murdering his wife in the '50's after a lengthy trial, and later acquitted in the '60's because of blood spatter evidence. That trial became the basis for the television series (and popular 1993 movie) "The Fugitive". Sheppard turned to wrestling because no medical facility wanted to be associated with him, even after his acquittal.

[gremcint]

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

I can push a broom with my belly button.

[protege]

The Porsche 911 was originally to be called the 901. It was only afterwards that French automaker Peugeot claimed a copyright on three-digit model numbers with a central zero.

When British manufacturer Morris was about to launch their Minor in '48, the car was judged too narrow. A completed car was cut down the middle. The two halves were then pulled apart a few inches. That's why the cars have the raised 'hump' on the hood and the painted metal plates on the bumpers.

...and not to be left out. The first 750cc car to exceed 100mph was an MG C-Type in 1931.

[fireheart]

In Australia, Burger King restaurants are known as hungry jacks. This is due to the fact that when they originally expanded to the Aussie market, the name was trademarked by a takeaway shop in Adelaide.