state a random obscure fact thread

[rightwinger]

The only X Rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar was Midnight Cowboy

It should be noted that A Clockwork Orange was also released with an X Rating

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The USA has 57 states

 

[Mertex]

Paul Revere warned the British.

 

[RandomVariable]

February was/is Career and Technical Education Month.

 

[shart_attack]

Bob Newhart starred in two tv sitcoms.

Megan Fox can't act.

 

[norwegen]

Charles Manson wrote a song he titled "Cease to Exist." The Beach Boys reworked it, changed the title to "Never Learn Not to Love," and credited its authorship to Dennis Wilson.

 

[shart_attack]

At the time of the U.S.S.R.'s collapse, the Ukraine had the third-largest nuclear-weapons stockpile in the world.

Henry Winkler was never "Chachi" on the ABC sitcom Happy Days.

 

[Indeependent]

Eating pistachios makes me fart.

 

[norwegen]

A shart is a short shark.

 

[shart_attack]

When given a choice between flight or a fight, most sharts do not attack. They run.

 

[shart_attack]

The girls all get prettier at closing time.

 

[RandomVariable]

Your eyes pick up light better from your peripheral vision than from straight ahead.

 

[Octarine]

Fingernails grow about 1/10 of an inch a month. Toenails grow at only a quarter of that speed.

 

[hjmick]

The only natural lake in Texas of any significant size is Caddo Lake .

 

[shart_attack]

No one knows how many times a day a piranha cries.

 

[MisterBeale]

When the governor of Michigan is a Republican, the citizens are called Michiganders.

When the governor of Michigan is a Democrat, the citizens are called Michiganians.

Blame Abe Lincoln.

 

[westwall]

Dr. Feynman was a world class bongo player.

 

[shart_attack]

Leopards and panthers never learn how to purr.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Many think that Florida was the closest election in a Presidential election ever. Well, in 1832, Henry Clay won Maryland by exactly 4 votes. Count them: 4 votes.

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1832&fips=24&f=1&off=0&elect=0

Maryland, 1832

Clay (Nat'l Republican): 19,160
Jackson (Democratic): 19,156
Margin: Clay +4

% margin: Clay +0.014%


Contrast: Florida, 2000:

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=2000&fips=12&f=1&off=0&elect=0&type=state

Bush (R) 2,912,790
Gore (D) 2,912,253
Nader (I) 97,488
others 40,579

Margin: Bush +537

537 /5,963,110 = +0.009%

Both margins round to +0.01%, but the Florida margin is ever so slightly smaller.

But FOUR votes?!?!?


Wow.