useless facts

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

There were always 56 curls in Shirley Temple's hair.

Her mom put those curls in ...Surely a monumental task on a fidgity three-year-old!

Temple’s mother, Gertrude Temple, a woman who had her own desires for a career in entertainment, enrolled her daughter in dancing lessons when she was barely 3. But when her daughter shot to fame, she was right there with her. Temple’s mother styled her daughter’s hair in pin curls for each feature film. Every hairdo had exactly 56 curls, no more, no less. Temple told The Times in 1989 that her “super mother ... kept my head on straight.”

[mapuc]

In Japan, the Nakizumo festival is held every year, where Japanese parents take their child to a temple, where they leave it to a sumo wrestler.
Then two sumo wrestlers, each with their baby in their arms, compete over whose baby can cry first and foremost. The tactics are i.a. shouting naki (meaning crying) repeatedly, loud noises, cutting face or rocking the baby back and forth.
In some tournaments, the referee wears a demon mask to scare the kids.
The tradition can be traced back 400 years and will, according to superstition, give the child strength and good health, but should also scare away evil spirits

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The eyes of a donkey are positioned so that it can see all four feet at all times.

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Temple’s mother, Gertrude Temple, a woman who had her own desires for a career in entertainment, enrolled her daughter in dancing lessons when she was barely 3. But when her daughter shot to fame, she was right there with her. Temple’s mother styled her daughter’s hair in pin curls for each feature film. Every hairdo had exactly 56 curls, no more, no less. Temple told The Times in 1989 that her “super mother ... kept my head on straight.”

She was 6 years old when she started being a little star in the movies

Born: April 23, 1928, Santa Monica, CA
Hollywood's number one box-office draw as a
child actress from 1934 to 1938.

[mapuc]

In 1999, hackers uncovered a security hole in Hotmail that made it possible to log in to any Hotmail account with the password 'eh'.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

A spider has transparent blood.

[Texas Red]

In Arkansas, its illegal to pronounce "Arkansas" wrong.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by El Whacko

In Arkansas, its illegal to pronounce "Arkansas" wrong.

What about dialects ?

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

She was 6 years old when she started being a little star in the movies

Born: April 23, 1928, Santa Monica, CA
Hollywood's number one box-office draw as a
child actress from 1934 to 1938.

Beg to differ; her first film production was Baby Burlesque's parody Runt Page, made in 1931, (released in 1932) which Ms Temple acknowledged was a box office failure...she was born in 1928 ??!! < that aint no 6 yearold!

[Mr Quatro]

^ child pervert topless photo's are simply not allowed on subsim

[Aktungbby]

Indeed! So I added the 'Victoria's Secret' shot to redeem the situation...no wonder Jimmy Carter made the great lady U.S. Chief of Protocol; in addition to Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia!!: Good training starts early!

[Markus Witt]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Van Gogh only sold one painting when he was alive.

From the website of the Van Gogh museum:

We don’t know exactly how many paintings Van Gogh sold during this lifetime, but in any case, it was more than a couple. Vincent’s first commission was from his uncle Cor. He was an art dealer and wanted to help his nephew on his way, so he ordered 19 cityscapes of The Hague.

Vincent sold his first painting to the Parisian paint and art dealer Julien Tanguy, and his brother Theo successfully sold another work to a gallery in London. The Red Vineyard, which Vincent painted in 1888, was bought by Anna Boch, the sister of Vincent’s friend Eugène Boch.

Van Gogh often traded work with other artists – in his younger years, often in exchange for some food or drawing and painting supplies. In this sense, Vincent actually ‘sold’ quite a lot of work during his lifetime.

[Catfish]

I have a proposal, we split this thread in two new ones:

1. Fake News / Tales from hearsay (looking correct but nonsense or wrong)
2. Arbitrary knowlegde (at least correct)

[Markus Witt]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

A spider has transparent blood.

Not trying to be a smart@ss here, but according to Wikipedia (So it must be correct!):

Spiders, like most arthropods, have an open circulatory system, i.e., they do not have true blood, or veins which transport it. Rather, their bodies are filled with haemolymph, which is pumped through arteries by a heart into spaces called sinuses surrounding their internal organs. The haemolymph contains hemocyanin, a respiratory protein similar in function to hemoglobin. Hemocyanin contains two copper atoms, tinting the haemolymph with a faint blue colour.

Its just that a lot of these "facts" that are repeated all the time are not exactly factual.

60% of all facts are wrong 90% of the time!

[Jimbuna]

Prince Charles is an avid collector of toilet seats.