Random Facts thread

Did you know...

...that in 1982, Billy Joel's 52ND STREET was the first commercial album to be released on CD?

I did not know that.

I admit I did do a google search and did not know these facts before I posted, but this sounds like a fun topic RR.



Did you know:

1. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

2. President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.


TIS

Paul McCartney's real first name is James.
Paul of Peter Paul and MAry's real first name is Noel.

A couple more things I am learning.

1. It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

2. The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

3. "Stressed" is "desserts" spelled backwards.


TIS

James Brown is the most sampled artist in history.

In all of the 267k square miles of Texas, there is only one natural lake - Caddo Lake in east Texas.

The most-shoplifted book in America: The Bible.

I thought that was Jimmy Castor. I may be wrong.

Evian ( as in the water) is naive spelled backwards. Those wacky French!

Rolling Stone magazine say its Brown, so I'm using that as my source.

Random fact: the Cubs will win the next WS.

No, that's a random fantasy.

The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

Waving a red flag at a bull doesn't make him mad--it makes a cow mad. The bull gets mad because he doesn't like being mistaken for a cow.

Black Sabbath's original name was Earth.
Ozzie's real name is John Michael.
Tony Iommi is missing several fingertips.
Sabbath covered Blue Suede Shoes.
Faeries Wear Boots was about skin heads.
Paranoid was written as a filler for the Paranoid album.

Robert Plant was not the first choice for Zeppelin and was almost canned at the beginning.
Plant wrote the lyrics for All My Love for his son who died.
Black Dog was the working name of the song due to a black dog that wandered into the studio....the name stuck.
Zeppelin performed a 45 min version of Dazed and Confused during live shows, also the song was a version of the Yardbirds I'm Confused.
Jimmy Page was a session guitarist before joining the Yardbirds and can be heard on many albums from the 60's including Donovan and The Who. He also released two singles, one where he sang, prior to Zep.

Originally, God intended Christ live to a very ripe old age on earth, die of natural causes.

???

Welcome to Hell.

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

And thank God for that. Every time the circus was in town, we'd have massive earthquakes (at least in California)

What a site? An elephant jumping?


TIS

Many already know this:

1. Stand exactly two of your foot lengths from the wall.
2. Place a chair between you and the wall.
3. Lean over and rest your forehead against the wall.
4. You must now pick up the chair and try to straighten up without touching the chair to the wall. "

Women can do it; men can't.

I never heard of it, but I just did it. Piece a cake.

Women rule!!!!!!

TIS

I remember seeing that on an episode of "All In The Family" if I'm not mistaken.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.