Everyone likes pointless trivia so today I am going to share with you some little known facts to enrich your trivia database. Next time you don't have anything interesting to say or your friends are being boring you can spruce up the convo with one of these little known tidbits.
Steven Spielberg is a vid game champ
and once scored over a million points on the classic arcade "Missile Command" while on the set of E.T.! He seems like a great choice to direct the video game epic, "Ready Player One".
Local Rock makes it big.
As a child, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson lived for a bit in Vancouver. His father, Rocky Johnson, was a professional wrestler and competed for a time with Pacific Northwest Wrestling.
Willie Nelson had a radio show in Vancouver.
Willie lived for a few years in Vancouver, where he ran a radio show. It wasn't long before he was on the road again. Thanks for stopping by, Willie!
Banana Candy DOES taste like bananas.
Just not the bananas we eat today. They are flavored after the Gros Michael banana, which went into decline because of the Panama disease. That is sad because bananas are pretty "meh but banana candy is where it's AT!
Unicorns aren't real!?
Well don't tell Scotland that. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland!
El Colacho
Is a festival in the Spanish town of Castrillo de Murcia where people dress up as the devil and jump over babies. Yup!
Here are the DEETS on catnip.
Catnip is 10X more repellent than DEET for repelling mosquitos. As a bonus it attracts cats! Yay!
Sharks are nicer than dogs.
Well maybe not nicer but a whole lot less bloodthirsty. More people were killed by dogs in 2002 than were killed by sharks in the previous 100 years!
Salvador Dali was generously thrifty
having gotten out of paying for drinks and meals by drawing on the checks, making them priceless and un-cashable works of art!
Hawaii is the only state to have a royal palace.
It is also the only state with a union jack on its flag!
Women often go into labor during storms
I couldnt find a pic o a storm baby so I used a baby Storm
because of the drop in barometric pressure, hence the term, "storm babies". When it rains it pours! Lol.
Do you hate the national debt?
Well, if you are a stupid person, you can donate towards it. Yes, the gov't accepts donations towards the national debt and people actually donate!!