5 things you didn't know...

[MissMarvelous]

Oh my aliens, you two are are really bonding here.

 

[Rozen Thorne]

I wonder, do vegan women perform oral on men? Would oddly seem hypocritical of them, right?

Must be why vegans are so miserable.

 

[Enriquespy]

I've never seen a sad vegan.

 

[Rozen Thorne]

5 Things You Didn't Know About William Shakespeare

There is documentary proof that Shakespeare was baptised on 26th April 1564, and scholars believe that, in keeping with the traditions of the time, he would have been baptised when he was three days old, meaning Shakespeare was probably born on April 23rd. However, as Shakespeare was born under the old Julian calendar, what was April 23rd during Shakespeare’s life would actually be May 3rd according to today’s Gregorian calendar.

Shakespeare married his wife Anne Hathaway when he was 18. She was 26 and three months pregnant with Shakespeare’s child when they married. Their first child Susanna was born six months after the wedding. They had three children together – a son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, and two daughters, Susanna and Judith. His only granddaughter Elizabeth – daughter of Susanna – died childless in 1670. Shakespeare therefore has no descendants.

There are more than 80 variations recorded for the spelling of Shakespeare’s name. In the few original signatures that have survived, Shakespeare spelt his name “Willm Shaksp,” “William Shakespe,” “Wm Shakspe,” “William Shakspere,” ”Willm Shakspere,” and “William Shakspeare”. There are no records of him ever having spelt it “William Shakespeare”, as we know him today.

Few people realise that apart from writing his numerous plays and sonnets, Shakespeare was also an actor who performed many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights. There is evidence that he played the ghost in Hamlet and Adam in As You Like It.

During his lifetime Shakespeare became a very wealthy man with a large property portfolio. He was a brilliant businessman – forming a joint-stock company with his actors meaning he took a share in the company’s profits, as well as earning a fee for each play he wrote.

 

[MissMarvelous]

5 things you didn't know about Halloween

• The beginnings are murky

With roots in pagan, Christian and possibly even Egyptian rituals, the exact origins of Halloween are murkier than a witch’s brew. The ancient Celtic festival Samhain, where revellers dressed in drag or wore cattle hides to scare off the roaming dead, is thought to have kick-started modern-day costume traditions.

• There’s more than one way to celebrate

On Mexico’s Day of the Dead, graveyards are flooded with people tidying relatives’ graves and bringing offerings of food, flowers and tequila. Some even stay to picnic and party.

• Most popular costumes
  1983: Princess Leia from Star Wars, Michael Jackson, David Bowie
  
  1993: Snoop Dogg, Robin Hood, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith
  
  2003: Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Neo from The Matrix franchise, Arnold Schwarzenegger
  
  2013: The Great Gatsby flappers, Rob Ford, Game of Thrones characters
  
  
• The first Jack-o-Lanterns were not even made from pumpkins. Back thousands of years ago in the Celtic lands, simple lanterns were carved out of turnips, and these lanterns were sometimes adorned with frightful and spooky faces, which were thought to scare away evil spirits that might be out and about on All Hallows Eve.
  
• Thousands of people suffer from Samhainophobia which is an irrational fear of Halloween.

 

[Rozen Thorne]

5 Random Things You May Not Have Known

Winston Churchill's Mother Was from Brooklyn.

Stop Signs Used to Be Yellow.

There was a Successful Tinder Match in Antarctica in 2014.

Queen Elizabeth Is a Trained mechanic.

A Chef's Hat Has Exactly 100 Pleats.

 

[MissMarvelous]

5 random facts:

1. The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
   
2. A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
   
3. You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from two miles away.
   
4. Subway footlongs aren't a foot long.
   
5. Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive

 

[Rozen Thorne]

5 Randomly Interesting Chess Factoids

In 1864, George Mackenzie (1837-1891), a former Captain in the Union army, was arrested for desertion from the Union army. He already fought with distinction on three battles. He was released in May, 1865, and moved to New York and started playing chess. By 1867, he was U.S. chess champion.

In April 1862, chess player Armand Edward Blackmar (1826-1888), of the Blackmar Gambit and Blackmar-Diemer fame, was arrested, fined, and jailed by Union General Ben Butler (1818-1893) and imprisoned by Union soldiers in New Orleans for publishing “seditious” (Confederate) music, such as the Bonnie Blue Flag (Band of Brothers) and the Dixie War Song.

In 1622, Gioacchino Greco (1600-1634) was robbed of all his money (5,000 crowns) that he won in Paris from playing chess while on his way to London.

The Police raided a Chess Tournament in Cleveland in 1973, arrested the Tournament director and confiscated the Chess sets on charges of allowing gambling (cash prizes to winners) and possession of gambling devices (the Chess sets).

The number of possible unique chess games is much greater than the number of electrons in the universe. The number of electrons is estimated to be about 10^79, while the number of unique chess games is 10^120.

 

[MissMarvelous]

5 more random facts:

1. One in three divorce filings include the word "Facebook."
   
2. Instead of saying "cheese" before taking a picture, Victorians said "prunes"
   
3. The Netherlands is so safe, it imports criminals to fill jails.
   
4. One journal published a fake paper about Star Trek
   
5. We may have already had alien contact: In 1977, a volunteer for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence received a 72-second-long signal from a distant star system, 120 light years from Earth. It was loud and sent from a place that had yet to be visited by mankind, so the guy who received it wrote, "Wow!"next to the original printout of the signal. It continues to be known as the "Wow! Signal."

 

[Rozen Thorne]

5 Interesting and Fun Facts About Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Amsterdam is a city which is built on poles. A lot of poles. One of the most interesting facts about Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is that it is built on eleven million poles. The city is a placed a meter or so below sea-level. The train station of Amsterdam Centraal alone needs 9000 poles to be supported whereas a normal house needs only 10. These wooden poles of 15-20 meters are placed in a sandy layer which is around 11 meters deep.

If you pass away in Amsterdam but don’t have any family, friends or acquaintances, then a poet will write a poem and recite it on your funeral.

The Red-Light District is well known for its red lights, however, there are also blue lights. When the lights are blue you know that there is a transgender woman in the room.

The floating flower market exists since 1862 and has grown into one of the most famous flower markets of The Netherlands. The stalls are all located on boats which is a remnant from the time that the flowers were delivered by boat.

The main shopping street of Amsterdam, the Kalverstraat, exists for more than 600 years. Until 1629 there was a market to sell cows, calves and oxes which refers to the name. Kalveren means calves, so it’s literally the calves street.

 

[MissMarvelous]

5 things you didn't know about mini-me

1. Used to bite, at the age of 3. Hard. Really hard and some relatives avoided me for a while year. No kidding.
2. I used to stole my friend's doll shoes or clothes.
3. Was very curious and used to "open" some dolls just to see what was inside.
4. I ALMOST run away from home.
5. Used to be tomboy-ish

 

[Rozen Thorne]

5 Facts About Christmas

1. December 25 was originally a pagan celebration. Nobody knows when Jesus of Nazareth was born and nobody celebrated his birthday for hundreds of years. December 25 was co-opted from pagan rites connected with the winter solstice.

2. The nativity story resulted in several wars. In the first few centuries of the Christian era, controversy over whether or not Jesus was divine at birth created political and social unrest that frequently burst out into full-scale warfare.

3. Mistletoe kissing originated with fertility rites. The hanging sprig is a very ancient symbol of virility and therefore anybody standing beneath it is signaling that he or she is sexually available.

4. Christmas is only recently a "family" holiday. Christmas was originally celebrated as an adult form of "trick or treat," but with the "treat" consisting of booze and the threatened "trick" consisting of bodily harm or destruction of property.

5. Christmas as a "day off" is a recent innovation. As late as 1850, December 25 was not a legal holiday in New England, so stores were open, business were open, and children were expected to attend school.

 

[MissMarvelous]

5 random facts:

1. “There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the entire earth.”
3. “In the Hudson Bay area gravity is actually lower than in other parts of the world.”
4. “Birds are actually dinosaurs’ closest living relatives, not reptiles!”
7. “There’s a phenomenon that occurs in some reptile and bird species called parthenogenesis, where the animals can self-fertilize to become pregnant.”
9. “A frog cannot vomit. To regurgitate material, it first spews out its stomach, then uses its legs to push material out. It then swallows its stomach back inside.”

 

[Rozen Thorne]

5 Things About Transgender Star Bailey Jay

* She became famous on 4chan where she began posting pictures of herself and was dubbed Line Trap.

*Beginning in 2010, she adopted her current Bailey Jay nickname and launched her own official website.

*Bailey Jay hosts a regular podcast show called The Bailey Jay Show with her husband and photographer Matthew Terhune as well as co-hosting several trans-related shows such as Sugar and Spice.

*In 2012, She tried to pursue a singing career by releasing her first single titled "You're Getting Lucky Tonight"

*Since the summer 2014, she has become a regular host of Vice's The Jim Norton Show.

 

[MissMarvelous]

5 Things About Transgender Star Bailey Jay

Isn't she the one who started selling her bath water?

 

[Rozen Thorne]

Isn't she the one who started selling her bath water?

That would be Belle Delphine.

 

[MissMarvelous]

That would be Belle Delphine.

Oh,I thought it was this lady over here... They look similar.

 

[Rozen Thorne]

Sssssorta... I guess.

 

[MissMarvelous]

Yeah, definitely not twins but if you are not too picky, they're the same.

 

[Rozen Thorne]

Well, one has a weenus and one has a begina...other than that...

 

[MissMarvelous]

1. When you exercise, the burned fat metabolizes to become carbon dioxide, water, and energy. Meaning: you exhale the fat that you lose.
2. Berries are simple fruits stemming from one flower. This means that pineapples, bananas, watermelon, pumpkins and avocados are berries.
3. In South Dakota, you can get a driver’s permit at age 14 with parental consent. Once you turn 16, you can get your license.i
4. Birds are the closest living relatives of crocodilians, as well as the descendants of extinct dinosaurs with feathers. This makes them the only surviving dinosaurs.
5. The world’s first motel is in San Luis Obispo. Built in 1925. When opened, it cost $1.25 for a two-room bungalow with a kitchen and a private adjoining garage.

 

[Zorro]

• When a male penguin falls in love with female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
• New Zealand will deny people residency visa’s if they too high of a BMI and there are cases where people have been rejected because of their weight.
• Whenever a pregnant women suffers from organ damage like heart attack, the fetus sends stem cells to the organ helping it to repair.
• It is illegal to climb trees in Oshawa, a town in Ontario, Canada.
• Brown eyes are blue underneath, and you can actually get a surgery to turn brown eyes blue.

 

[Sallen]

Thanks for the useful information.

 

[Rozen Thorne]

5 facts you didn’t know about death

1. Decomposing human flesh smells (sickly) sweet
2. No, your nails and hair won’t keep growing
3. Telomere length predicts lifespan
4. The fear of death declines with age
5. Thinking about death makes us prejudiced

 

[MissMarvelous]

Top 5 flamboyant facts about ELTON JOHN:

1. Elton never actually needed glasses when he started wearing them on-stage. However, they have since become an iconic part of his ensemble.
   
2. Egerton, a known singer, performed versions of Elton’s hits, and is actually the main narrator of the star’s autobiography audiobook.
   
3. The 2019 movie Rocketman was stuck in development hell for many years. John and his husband David Furnish spent considerable time trying to put together a deal to bring his biopic to the big screen
   
4. You can book Elton John to perform at a wedding. However, it’ll likely cost you in excess of £1,000,000.
   
5. Elton has a charity set up to help research treatment for HIV and AIDS. Any money he makes from these extravagant wedding receptions go towards his charity