“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Not much else needs to be said about today’s post.
Another selection of fabulous facts.
Enjoy.
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At one point in the 1990s,
50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL.
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A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice
to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
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Google’s founders were willing to sell to Excite
for under $1 million in 1999
—but Excite turned them down.
(Huge big dumb move, where is Excite today!)
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Officials in Portland, Ore., drained 8 million gallons of water
from a reservoir in 2011 because a buzzed 21-year-old peed in it.
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When three-letter airport codes became standard,
airports that had been using two letters simply added an X.
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A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Cap’n Crunch
because Crunch Berries contained “no berries of any kind.”
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Actor Wilford Brimley who has appeared in such films as
The China Syndrome, Cocoon, The Thing and The Firm,
was once Howard Hughes’s bodyguard.
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According to Amazon, the most highlighted Kindle books are
the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
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During WWI, German measles were called “liberty measles”
and dachshunds became “liberty hounds.”
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In Spain, Mr. Clean is known as Don Limpio.
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After leaving office, President Lyndon B Johnson
went all hippy and let his hair grow out.
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There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne
he sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.
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If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go,
you won’t use the letter “A” until you reach 1,000.
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In Gaddafi’s compound, Libyan rebels found a photo album
filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice.
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Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men is used by researchers
to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness.
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Only one McDonald’s in the world has turquoise arches.
Sedona, AZ thought yellow clashed with the natural red rock.
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Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.
Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer.
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The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student
for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B–.
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work
when the first A-bomb hit,
made it home to Nagasaki for the second,
and lived to be 93.
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Barry Manilow did not write his hit “I Write the Songs.”
It was actually written by the former Beach Boy Bruce Johnston.
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