Useless fun fact-ish type stuff

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

During the filming of Rocky III, there was a bronze statue of Rocky at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. After the filming, Stallone donated it to the city. It’s still there.

[Blackwater 53393]

2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

During the filming of Rocky III, there was a bronze statue of Rocky at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. After the filming, Stallone donated it to the city. It’s still there.

That statue was moved the the Philadelphia Spectrum sports arena.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Oranges are sold in bright red mesh bags because the contrast of the red netting against the orange color of the fruit creates an optical illusion, known as Munker's Illusion, that leaves us perceiving the orange color as more vivid.

[DocWard]

On 1/21/2025 at 1:47 PM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

The only primates with blue eyes are black lemurs and some spider monkeys

 

Uhmmm... What about humans?

[Alpo]

Hmmm. So, American Indians are descended from gorillas, because they both have dark brown eyes.

 

But I am descended from a spider monkey?

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

25 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Hmmm. So, American Indians are descended from gorillas, because they both have dark brown eyes.

 

But I am descended from a spider monkey?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                           ......  explains quite a bit .......  🙈🙉🙊  😉

[Alpo]

46 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                           ......  explains quite a bit .......  🙈🙉🙊  😉

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

7 hours ago, Alpo said:

Hmmm. So, American Indians are descended from gorillas, because they both have dark brown eyes.

 

But I am descended from a spider monkey?

We really do not know your parentage.

[DocWard]

8 hours ago, Alpo said:

Hmmm. So, American Indians are descended from gorillas, because they both have dark brown eyes.

 

But I am descended from a spider monkey?

 

Please, oh please, tell me you're joking.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

John Wayne’s characters were killed nine times.

 

Clint Eastwood’s characters were killed seven times.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

22 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Clint Eastwood’s characters were killed seven times.

Does that include the characters in "High Plains Drifter" and "Pale Rider" that were killed before he was before the character he played in the movie?

[Sedalia Dave]

15 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

Does that include the characters in "High Plains Drifter" and "Pale Rider" that were killed before he was before the character he played in the movie?

I believe that his character in Pale Rider survived being shot 6 times as the scars formed a pattern around his heart. That's why he shot Stockbridge 7 times with the 7th shot in the center of the pattern made by the first 6. 

 

Below are the movies where his character died.

 

The Bridges of Madison County. The Death of Eastwood's Character is Unceremonious. ...

Escape From Alcatraz. Based on a True Story, It's Implied That Eastwood's Character Died. ...

Honkytonk Man. ...

High Plains Drifter. ...

Blood Work. ...

The Beguiled. ...

Gran Torino.

 

Escape from Alcatraz could go either way as there has always been rumors that Frank Morgan survived.

[Alpo]

He dies in blood work? Guess I'll have to watch it again.

 

Let me make sure I got the right movie in mind.

 

We got this bad guy. Clint's a cop. He's been trying to catch a bad guy for a while. And the bad guy's enjoying the game of "catch me if You can".

 

Then Clint has a heart attack. He needs a transplant. If he dies, the bad guy won't be able to play the game anymore. So the bad guy murders somebody that matches Clint's profile, so there will be a fresh heart for Clint.

 

That's the movie, right?

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Yes, Clint's character survives the final gun battle with the killer and appears to form a union with the sister of his heart donor and her child.

I'll have to dig up my copy of the movie and watch it again. 

[Blackwater 53393]

On 2/27/2025 at 6:12 PM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

John Wayne’s characters were killed nine times. TEN IF YOU COUNT TOM DUNIFANT IN THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALENCE!  

Three more if you count his off screen deaths in “Sea Chase”, “Hangman’s House”, and “Noah’s Ark”

Fixed it for ya’!!
 

 

On 2/27/2025 at 6:12 PM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

 

Clint Eastwood’s characters were killed seven times.

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

27 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Fixed it for ya’!!
 

Some different opinions, e.g.,

• Wayne has died on screen in 9 films, but there are 5 off-screen/disputed deaths.
• https://screenrant.com/how-many-movies-did-john-wayne-die-in-and-how-he-died-in-them/

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

octopuses don’t have tentacles; they have arms.

The most distinguishing feature about an octopus is its set of eight appendages — after all, they’re right there in the name. But don’t confuse that tangle of limbs for tentacles, because octopuses don’t have those — they have arms. For us armchair biologists, the two words seem interchangeable, but there’s an important difference. On animals such as squids, tentacles are usually longer andhave suckers only on their clubbed ends; they’re primarily used for hunting. By contrast, a cephalopod's arms have suckers that smell, taste, and feel all the way down. Squids, for example, have both eight arms and two tentacles.   Of course, an octopus’s “arms” are nothing like the two appendages dangling from your torso. For one, octopus arms are entirely soft tissue, and that absence of bone makes octopuses incredibly flexible. But the most striking difference between octopus arms and our own is that all eight arms contain more than half of an octopus’s total neurons, cells that are usually concentrated in a central brain. This has led some scientists to theorize that octopuses essentially have nine brains — a centralized one and eight mini ones located in each arm. Recent research suggests that there might be more connection between these “brains” than previously imagined, and that an octopus’s arms are, at the very least, “clever” (a very peculiar adjective to describe an arm). Whatever the IQ of an octopus’s arms, it’s clear that they’re just as strange, and incredible, as the creatures themselves

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

Ya don't buy beer 

 

  ya only rent it 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Not really clear if, in Wake Of the Red Witch, he drowned or was squoze to death by the giant octopus that wanted to have him for lunch.  

 

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

The narrowest distance between mainland Russia and mainland Alaska is approximately 55 miles. However, in the body of water between Alaska and Russia, known as the Bering Strait, there lie two small islands known as Big Diomede and Little Diomede. Interestingly enough, Big Diomede is owned by Russia while Little Diomede is owned by the US. The stretch of water between these two islands is only about 2.5 miles wide and actually freezes over during the winter so you could technically walk from the US to Russia on this seasonal sea ice. 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Cats can see ultraviolet.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed by Christopher Latham Sholes. Here is Remington model No 2.  No. 1 had no shift key and was upper case only.

 

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Male seahorses and sea dragons get pregnant and bear young—a unique adaptation in the animal kingdom. After completing an elaborate courtship dance that may go on for hours or days, the female seahorse transfers her mature eggs into the male’s brood pouch, where they are fertilized. At the end of a gestation period, usually lasting from two to four weeks, the pregnant male’s abdominal area begins to undulate rhythmically, and strong muscular contractions eject from a few dozen to as many as 1,000 fully formed baby seahorses into the surrounding water. After that, the offspring must fend for themselves. Large litters are necessary because only about 0.5 percent will survive to adulthood.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Hot Coffee, Mississippi

 

Hot Coffee is a locale in Covington County, Mississippi, celebrated in local Mississippi lore. It is sometimes assigned the same zip code as nearby Collins. The community was established at the crossroads of two popular travel routes: the north–south Jackson's Military Road, and the east–west Natchez to Fort St. Stephens Wagon Road. An inn was built, and in 1870, L.J. Davis built a store and hung a coffee pot over his door, advertising "the best hot coffee around". 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 1/14/2025 at 7:43 PM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

 ...... heart beat and brain function ......  🙃

About four dozen guns and a chihuahua min-pin mix puppy.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

While Picasso is known by that simple mononym, his full name was….. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.

[Eyesa Horg]

31 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

While Picasso is known by that simple mononym, his full name was….. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.

I think I've talked to him at customer service!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

In early 1995, Mars ran a promotion in which consumers were invited to vote on which of blue, pink, or purple would replace the tan M&M's. Blue was the winner with 54% of the votes. It replaced tan in late 1995. Consumers could vote by calling 1-800-FUN-COLOR.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

License plates, also known as vehicle registration plates, are required for every car in the United States these days, but when automobiles first started to appear on the road, there was no such thing. Although New York was the first state to require automobiles to have license plates in 1901, these plates were made by individual owners (with the owner's initials) rather than being issued by state agencies as they are in modern times. The very first license plates were typically handcrafted on leather or metal (iron) and were meant to denote ownership via the initials.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

On 3/21/2025 at 6:29 AM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

License plates, also known as vehicle registration plates, are required for every car in the United States these days, but when automobiles first started to appear on the road, there was no such thing. Although New York was the first state to require automobiles to have license plates in 1901, these plates were made by individual owners (with the owner's initials) rather than being issued by state agencies as they are in modern times. The very first license plates were typically handcrafted on leather or metal (iron) and were meant to denote ownership via the initials.

 

 

  ..................... so the first plates were "vanity" plates ..........  ? ........  😇

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

In the Mediterranean, Diamond rings were first mentioned in writings about 100 AD. Diamonds, imported from India, were uncut and unpolished because nobody knew how to do that yet.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

A chameleon can go from zero to 60 mph in one-hundredth of a second, something that the world’s fastest cars could never dream of achieving

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

In the Mediterranean, Diamond rings were first mentioned in writings about 100 AD. Diamonds, imported from India, were uncut and unpolished because nobody knew how to do that yet.

If they weren't cut, and they weren't polished - then they just looked like rocks. Why in the world would they put a rock in a ring?

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 2/17/2025 at 12:42 PM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                           ......  explains quite a bit .......  🙈🙉🙊  😉

YEAAAAH, duz! 

 

On 3/19/2025 at 4:32 AM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

While Picasso is known by that simple mononym, his full name was….. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.

Be careful.  You could damage yourself trying to say that too fast...or bite your tongoe or lip.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

59 minutes ago, Alpo said:

If they weren't cut, and they weren't polished - then they just looked like rocks. Why in the world would they put a rock in a ring?

Well it’s not granite or sandstone or limestone