The reason that buildings in Hong Kong have gaping holes in them is to allow dragons free passagefrom their mountain homes to the sea.
The bull on the Elmer's glue logo is the husband of Elsie, thecow on the Borden milk logo.
In the Godfather film,McCluskey's shooting was done by building a fake forehead on top of actor Sterling Hayden.
A gap was cut in the middle,filled with fake blood, and bunged up with prosthetic flesh.
The plug was then yankedout with a fishing line to make a hole suddenly appear. So gross. Up to 40% of tuna importedto the U.S. from Thailand is illegal or unreported,followed by up to 45% of pollock imports from China and 70% of salmon imports. Illegal fish,
According to the patent for toilet paper, the creator, Seth Wheeler, made a drawing that officially shows that toilet paper should go over, not under.
Well, that's gonnasettle a lot of debates. The phrase always abridesmaid, never a bride was popularized by Listerine in ads featuring a love lorn woman unable to find a husband due to her halitosis. The same ad coined the term halitosis .
According to an analysisdone by Swift Key, Canada uses the poop emojimore than any other country.
Hearts are number onein France, even beating the standard smiley andAustralia leads the world in alcohol and drug related emojis.
The NYPD has undercover cop cabs. Some police stations have recently created safe exchange zones, designated areas for trades arranged throughCraigslist and similar sites.
The original creator for the Barbie Doll, Jack Ryan, had previouslydesigned military grade missiles. Well, from one extremeto the next, I guess.
Former Venezuelan President,Hugo Chavez, stated that Muammar Gaddafi waswelcomed in Venezuela, but stated that Charlie Sheen was not.
In that quote, "there are limits..." There's a Detroit companycalled Extreme Kidnapping where people pay up to$1500 to get tied up and kidnapped for fun.
I don't understand what's fun about that? In 1990, a man named Jesse Sharp paddled over the Niagara Falls in a kayak.
He intended to paddle on after the fall to a restaurant downstreamwhere he had made restaurant reservations, buthe didn't wear a life jacket in case it impeded his escape. His body was never found.
Back in 1993, it was discoveredthat Heidelberg University in Germany was using humancorpses in crash tests.
In 2010, after the BP oil spill, Stephen Colbert declaredthat every time he said the word bing, the Microsoft search engine would donate $2500 to oilspill cleanup efforts.
He managed to say bing 40 times, thereby raising $100,000 for his charity, the Colbert Nation Gulf of America fund.
On the set of the movie, Apocalypse Now, the production cast designdecided to actually use real bodies instead of fake ones.
It was only discovered when a pungent odor became too strong for therest of the cast to ignore.
There's an annual conferencecalled The Boring Conference on well, boring things. In the past, people havegiven talks on barcodes, sneezing, and the soundsof vending machines. The Muppet Show receiveda letter from a man informing them that theSwedish chef doesn't actually speak Swedish.
The head writer wrote back, "Thank you for bringingthis to our attention.
"We were going to firethe chef on the spot, "but he has a wife andfamily and promised to take "Swedish lessons." Gotta love a sense of humor.
The Lego movie incorporatedactual fan-made short Lego films into its plot. You can see them on themonitors in the scene where the citizensdiscover their creativity. Platypuses don't have stomachs.
In fact, they're notthe only jad-vertebrates with that trait.
Michigan oncologist, Doctor Fareed Farah, was convicted and sentencedto 45 years in prison after it was discovered that he had bilked 553 cancer patientsfor millions of dollars by overtreating, undertreating, misdiagnosing, and even administering treatment to people that never had cancer in the first place.
Yeah, there's a specialplace in hell for that guy.
The police in west Germany located a man who had a warrant for unpaid fines. They confronted him just as a slot machine that he was at struck a jackpot and he avoided jail time bypaying the fine on the spot.
A school in Pune, Indiaencourages students to conserve water by pouringleftover drinking water from the bottles in a large tank before they go home every day.
They use this to water plants and trees or for other non-drinking purposes.
Takuya Nagaya, 23, from Japan, started to slither on the floor and claim that he had become a snake. His mother thought that hehad actually been possessed by a snake and calledfor her husband, Katsumi.
He spent the next two daysheadbutting and biting his son to quote, "drive out the snake," but caused his death in the process. Tasmania has an extra day of Easter, known as Easter Tuesday.
It is only celebrated in Tasmania. Kamla Devi, a 56 year old Indian woman, was ambushed by a leopardand actually managed to kill it with the onlything that she had on her, an iron sickle.
For the film, Gone Girl, David Fincher wanted Ben Affleck to weara Yankees cap for a scene.
Affleck, a die hard RedSox fan, adamantly refused, and this led to a four-day production halt until the two came to anagreement that he would wear a Mets cap.
D-day was originally set for June fifth, but had to be postponed for 24 hours due to bad weather.
The green ink used in Americanmoney was actually invented at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1857 by Thomas Dairy Hunt.
There's a UK based company named Gumdrop that recycles gum intobins that are made out of entirely recycled gum.
There is a territory in Costa Rica called Territorio De Zaguates, whichmeans land of the strays, which is basically ahuge no-kill dog shelter where you can hike for free with dogs. Little teeny tiny pooches.
In the 1960's and 70's,professional bowlers were international celebritieswho made twice as much money as NFL stars at the time.
It's believed that the term sandwich was named after John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, atown in the county of Kent in southeast England.
He would ask his servants to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread while he was gambling at a table so that he wouldn't have to leave the game.
President Reagan savedHarley Davidson Motorcycles by raising tariffs 45% on Japanese bikes that entered the country.
Oscar the Grouch wasoriginally orange, not green.
According to a studypublished in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, female named stormshave historically killed more people because people neither consider them as risky, nor take the same precautions as the male named storms.
Yeah, you should probably not even consider the name of the storm, just it's a tornado man, go hide! In 2008, a Jamaican beach called Coral Spring Beach was actually stolen and the thieves were never caught.
They achieved this by stealing massive amounts of sand until it basically wasn't a beach any more.
We not only have fingerprints,but also toe prints that have been used in criminal cases.
The headphone jack on your smartphone has remained relatively unchanged other than size since 1878.
During World War II, Japan launched balloons with bombs into the jet stream. The only known mainland attack in the U.S. occurred whenfive picnickers found a downed balloon and attempted to move it.
The bomb went off and killed them. The locations of many of theballoons is still unknown.
The delicious treat ofPeeps were once made by hand and took nearly30 hours to create.
Rats are a delicacy in Thailand. (gag)
At one point after it'slaunch, Kim Kardashian's emoji app was making $1,000,000 a minute
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