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Only 11 people supply the voices of every single regular character. (Thats over 90 characters.)
Martin Prince's IQ is 216 Marges Hair dye color is Blue #56 (Simpsons Trivia) Marge occasionally sleeps naked. (Simpsons Trivia) Marge's Hair is all held by one bobbie pin (Simpsons Trivia) Milhouse watches 'Teletubbies' (Simpsons Trivia) Bart has 9 points of hair on his head. (Simpsons Trivia) The late Phil Hartman was the voice of Troy McClure The 'J' in Homer J. Simpson stands for 'Jay' (Simpsons Trivia) Bart is Left-Handed (Simpsons Trivia) The neanderthals brain was larger than a humans Col. Sanders (From KFC) was born in Indiana In India you can legally marry a goat Every gas planet has rings. On July 4, 1776 Benjamin Franklin recorded the temperature in Philadelphia to be 76 Degrees. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who were good friends as well as the 2nd and 3rd presidents respectivly, died on the same day, July 4th 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing of the declaration of Independence. John Adam's last words were 'Jefferson still lives' but Jefferson actually died a few hours earlier. , An opossum does not play dead; he gets so scared that he faints. Geriatric elephants die due to starvation; as their teeth wear, they are no longer able to eat the vegetation that they require and thus die. Due to hemispherical differences, the 1956 Olympic games (Melbourne, Australia) had to be held in November 1912 was the first time all 6 inhabited continents participated in the Olympics Montreal is still payng off debts from the 1976 Olympics The Russians have won gold in every single pairs figure skating competition in the Winter Olympics since 1964 Iced Tea was invented during the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, where the 1904 summer Olympics took place. In 'Titanic' when the ship is sinking and Rose comes down to save Jack when he is handcuffed to the pole, the window next to them is filled up with water. After Rose returns with the axe the water level is lower then what it was before she left Casanova used a condom made out of sheeps' bladder. He liked the durability of it; often using the same one multiple times. Cows eat their afterbirth. Did you know that dogs do not carry their puppies in a womb; they carry them in separate tubes? The Ancient Greeks used sheep bones for dice. 98% of all Americans feel better about themselves when they flush a toilet. An alarmingly large number of deaths have occured around the cast of the three Poltergeist movies. 22 year old Dominique Dunne died on November 4, 1982 after being choked by her boyfriend. She was in the first Poltergeist movie. 12 year old Heather O'Rourke died of septic shock on February 1, 1988. She was in all three Poltergeist movies. The other deaths were not 'unexpected' so they are not really mentioned in the Poltergeist curse. 60 year old Julian Beck died from stomach cancer. He was in Poltergeist II. And 53 year old Will Samson died on June 3, 1987 from severe pre-operative malnutrition and post-operative kidney failure and fungal infection. He was in the second Poltergeist movie. Samson is also known as Chief on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Dr. Suess wrote Green Eggs and Ham after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than fifty different words. In Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Arc, there is a scene where a guy is flashing a sword. After this elaborate display, Indiana Jones pulls out a gun and shoots the guy instead. This scene wasn't planned. It came about after Harrison Ford had to go to the bathroom and wanted to hurry the scene up. In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssy, HAL's birthday is January 12, 1992. In the book it's January 12, 1997. Also, HAL sings 'Daisy' as he is shut down; this was the first song ever played by a non-mechanical computer. The lyrics include the phrase 'I'm half crazy'. Robin Williams was offered the role of the Riddler in Batman Forever but turned it down. The role of Betelguese in the movie Beetlejuice was written for Sammy Davis Jr. Star Wars Trivia: Not most people know this, but the white creature with the reptilian thing around its neck is named Bib Fortuna and he is a twi'lek species. Norwich Terriers were used in 18th century England to catch rats and small vermin. Circumcision of new born males began in Victorian times as a means of preventing masturbation. Circumcision is done without anesthesia. Celine Dion keeps a five cent piece she found one day minted the year she was born. The same day she found it became her lucky day, and the coin is her lucky charm. In the movie 'Gone with the Wind', in the part where everyone is fleeing Atlanta before the Yankees come, the camara shows Scarlett running past a street light. The street light, instead of being gas, had an actual light bulb in it. At the end of WWII, after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, countless homosexuals remained prisoners because Paragraph 175 remained law in West Germany. Paragraph 175, a clause in German law prohibiting homosexual relations, was revised by Hitler in 1935 to include kissing, embracing, and gay fantasies as well as sexual acts. Convicted offenders -- an estimated 25,000 just from 1937 to 1939 -- were sent to prison and then later to concentration camps. Their sentence was to be sterilized, and this was most often accomplished by castration. In 1942 Hitler's punishment for homosexuality was extended to death. Paragragh 175 was the only Nazi law to stay in effect in Germany after World World II. It was repealed 1969. Christopher Columbus told his Spanish patrons, the king and queen, that the pagan Indians he had met readily embraced Christianity...'they are always smiling...(their) speech is sweetest and gentlest in the world...they are a loving people, without covetousness...weapons they have none...it appears that the people are ingenuous and would be good servants.' In 1555, Ivan the Terrible ordered the construction of St. Basil's Church in Moscow. He was so pleased with this piece of work by the two architects, Postnik and Barma, that he had them blinded so they would never be able to design anything more beautiful. Here's one way to determine if your diamond is real or not: put it in an oven set at 850 degrees farenheit, wait an hour, if it's not there anymore then it was real. Diamonds dissipate when exposed to higher temperatures for an extended amount of time....cubic zirconium doesn't. Adolph Hitler kept a framed photograph of Henry Ford on his desk and Ford kept one of Hitler on his desk in Dearborn, Michigan. Hitler had used in 'Mein Kampf' some of Fords anti-semitic views, and he always welcomed Ford's contributions to the Nazi movement. Maggots were once used to treat osteomyelitis, a serious bone infection. During the U.S. Civil War, it was discovered accidentally that the larvae (maggots) of the blowfly helped heal open wounds by eating away the dead tissue and also be secreting healing substances. The osteomyelitis treatment used laboratory-grown sterile maggots. This method of treatment was discontinued only because analysis proved that urea excreted by the maggots was responsible for the healing process, and the urea could be synthesized inexpensively. Fleas are essential to the health of armadillos and hedghogs; they provide necessary stimulation to the skin. Deloused armadillos and hedgehogs do not long survive. Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats. After taking a 10 on a par 3 hole in a tournament, Arnold Palmer was asked by a newspaper reporter after the round how he could take a 10 on a par 3 hole. Arnie replied, 'because I missed a 20 foot putt for a 9'. A jet ski running for only 7 hours emits as much pollution-forming hydrocarbons as a new car does while driving 100,000 miles! James Buchanan was certainly a good host. When England's Prince of Wales came to visit in the fall of 1860, so many guests came with him, it's said the president slept in the hallway! Anyone could come to Andrew Jackson's public parties at the White House, and just about everyone did! At his last one, a wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs. was eaten in two hours. The White House smelled of cheese for weeks. In the movie 'Three men and a baby' there is a ghostly apparition in the room with character Ted plays and his mother. If you look closely by the windows you will see the figure of a young boy who shouldn't be in the room!!! It is the freakiest thing I have ever seen in my life until I figured out what it REALLY was... Since the character that Ted plays is an actor in the film it is really a cardboard cut-out of him in a tux and top-hat. If you continue to watch the film you will see the same cut-out except in focus! Bill Masterton died in 1969 from a bodycheck, marking the only time that an NHL player has died on the ice. Male sea horses hold the eggs of the female in their pouch until the eggs have hatched, leading people to think that male sea horses lay the eggs and hatch them themselves. Singer and songerwriter Barry Manilow is the proud pop of two pups Bagel and Biscuit. Don Perignon, a French monk, made the first champagne in 1670. He was also the first to put corks in wine bottles. What have the following towns in common? Dayton, Atlanta, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Norfolk, Bangor, Hartford, New Haven, Phoenix, Stamford, Urbana, and Newark? They are all towns in New York State. The Niagra Falls have eroded their way 10 miles upstream since they were first formed some 10,000 years ago. The tremendous amount of water tends to eat through its limestone base relatively rapidly, and if erosion continues at its present rate, geologists estimate that the falls will disappear completely in 22,000 years. Notre Dame does not have the most National Championships(11). Alabama does(12) Brittany Sphear broke her ankle in 1998 The first Macdonald resturant in Canada was in Richmond B.C. St. Patrick (Padraic) was Black. He was from Africa. Out of all the animals in Africa, hippos cause the most accidental deaths each year. Hippos run faster than men can and they are very territorial. 85% of all men who die of heart attacks while having sex are doing what? Cheating on their wives. Half a century ago, the American destroyer USS William D. Porter accidentally fired a live torpedo at the battleship USS Iowa during a practice exercise on Nov.14, 1943. As if this weren't bad enough, the Iowa was carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and all of the country's World War II military brass to 'the big three' conferences in Cairo and Teheran. Roosevelt was to meet with Stalin of the Soviet Union and Churchill of Great Britain, and had the W.D. Porter sucessfully launched torpedo struck the Iowa at the aiming point, the last 50 years of world history might have been quite different. Fortunately, the W.D. Porter's warning allowed the Iowa to evade the speeding torpedo which exploded in the wake of the Iowa, and historic events carried on as we know them. The US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the western world. 645 out of every 100,000 people are behind bars in America, most for non-violent drug offences. That figure is two to three times higher than the average western European country. Holland, for example, imprisons only 73 per 100,000. 90% of Canada's population lives within 200 miles of it's border with the United States. Michigan was shaped by glaciers during the ice age and the great lakes are supposedly the melted glaciers! Regarding surviving dogs on the Titanic: a Newfoundland also survived. Michigan is 58,216 sq. mi. It became a state January 26, 1837. It is nicknamed the wolverine state, water wonderland, winter wonderland and the automobile state. It is the 2nd largest state east of the mississippi river (Georgia is first). The largest cities are Detroit and Grand Rapids. The state bird, tree, stone, gem, fish and song are the robin, the white pine, the petosky stone, the petosky greenstone, the brook trout, and 'michigan my michigan', respectively. There is supposedly an island off the coast of Antarctica (undiscovered but supposedly discovered by some) that is hot and tropical and has inhabitants and sandy tropical beaches in the south atlantic! Believe it or not! [Editor's note: You've got to wonder about some of the stuff Ripley came up with..] The Taj Mahal is built entirely out of white marble. During construction, it cost 2 million dollars for the marble. Marshall (pop:6,891) almost became the state capital of Michigan, but lost to Lansing (pop:128,100) by only one vote in 1848. The town of Marshall was so certain that it would become the capital of Michigan that its residents actually built the governers mansion in advance and lost. Another beer origin tale: Beer's orgin actually comes from ancient Egypt. It was made with grains native to their region and intended for the Pharoah but tasted a lot different from modern American beer. Shawn Michaels is the wrestler with the most titles in the WWF, with a total of 3 WWF world titles, 3 intercontinental titles, 3 tag team titles and 1 european title. Bret Hart is 2nd with a total of 9. Michigan has 36,350 miles of rivers. That'ss enough to reach from chile to china and back (going west) 4 and 1/2 times! In the Forteenth century, King Edward II reigned in England and was deposed, to be succeeded by his son, Edward III. The King was imprisoned in Berkeley Castle and instructions were that no one should harm him. When the decision was made to murder him, no mark was to be left on the body. A deer horn was inserted into his rectum and a red hot poker was placed inside that. His ghostly screams are said to be still heard in the castle. The mother of all mothers? The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765 a russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. San Bernadino county, California is the largest county in the US (excluding alaska) with a land area of 20,341 sq mi. In the 1860's the average salary was less than $10 a week. President Ulysses S. Grant's last word before he died was 'water'. Lake Superior in North America is the largest freshwater lake in the world The Guiness Book of World Records is the best selling copywrited book of all time. The Bible is the best selling of all time, but it is not copywrited. Did you know that Mars was named after the Greek god of war because the planet is red and thus represents blood? Dr. Mudd attended to John Wilkes Booth in a warehouse after Booth's assassination of President Lincoln. Even thought historians later found Mudd innocent of involvemnet in the Assassination plot, 'your name is mud' remained part of American colloquiallism. Calvin Hill, a retired runningback for the Dallas cowboys is also the father of another star athlete. Can you name that athlete? Answer: Grant Hill of the Detroit Pistons The average lifespan of an eyelash is 150 days. The McDonalds in Hailey, Idaho has no arch. It is illegal to have franchise advertisements visible from the road there. The song 'strawberry fields forever' is actually two versions of the song mixed together by George Martin. One was a half-tone higher and slightly faster. When it was slowed down it somehow fit together with the other version perfectly. The Beatles liked both versions and couldn't decide on one and asked Martin if he could put them together somehow. When he tried it - it worked! During a woman's menstrual cycle, her middle finger is supposed to be much more sensitive. It is ancient legend that Cleopatra of the Nile had 2 day orgasms. The first TV couple to actually share a bed (no more twin beds) was Herman and Lillian Munster on the show The Munsters. Producers figured that the couple was so strange, nobody would really mind if they shared a bed. This made it possible for other normal TV couples to share a bed. Pocahantas is one of the only animated Disney movies so far that does NOT have talking animals; a talking tree, yes, but no talking animals. The character Jasmine from the movie Aladin was inspired by the animator's sister. He drew Jasmine by using a picture of his sister. The letters THX 1138 can be seen on a cave wall in the movie 'Star Wars'. It's the part when C3PO and R2-D2 are captured by the Jawas. The letters are engraved into the wall. THX 1138 was the name of a previous film George Lucas directed in 1971. Rabbits can be litterbox trained like a cat. In the movie Beetleguise, Ortho and Delia are walking up the steps of the house. Before they walk up the steps, Ortho pops the top off a spray paint can and hands it to Delia. But, when they cut to them walking up the steps, the cap is back on and he actually pops it off again. The longest total solar eclipse lasted 7 minutes and 7 seconds (Southeast Asia -- June 20, 1955). The shortest total solar eclipse lasted only 1 second (North Altantic Ocean -- Oct. 3, 1986). Primates only need 7 seconds for copulation. For every 100 smokers, 53 TRY to quit, but only 13 are successful
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