Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[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.

[morgana]

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

[Jay 2K Winger]

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

[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?