Odd factoids

[classic33]

In Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, a pair of shoe and a potato were used as asteroids while filming the asteroid scenes in which they were pursued.

According to rumors, George Lucas asked for so many redoes that one of the SFX team members threw a shoe in. The potato asteroid is the third one and the shoe is the fourth as Solo gets them over an asteroid to get rid of their pursuers.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

By aged 50 most adult lung still have about 30% of lung capacity containing waste gases after breathing everything out that they can reducing their useable capacity.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

In 1916 there was a proposal in the US that all acts of war should be put to a referendum with the added clause that all who voted "Yes" would be automatically enlisted in the US Army.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The SOE was called the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Churchill.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Sixteen percent of millionaires inherited their fortunes. Forty-seven percent of millionaires are business owners. Twenty-three percent of the world's millionaires got that way through paid work

 

[classic33]

Sixteen percent of millionaires inherited their fortunes. Forty-seven percent of millionaires are business owners. Twenty-three percent of the world's millionaires got that way through paid work

How many married into money?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The average male can wrap their right arm right around their head and touch their right ear.

 

[classic33]

The average male can wrap their right arm right around their head and touch their right ear.

And how many joints in each three foot arm?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The Beatles album Abbey Road was going to be called Everest, but none of the Beatles wanted to fly to the Himalayas for a photo shoot so they took a photo outside the studio and called it Abbey Road instead

 

[Markymark]

Sixteen percent of millionaires inherited their fortunes. Forty-seven percent of millionaires are business owners. Twenty-three percent of the world's millionaires got that way through paid work

What’s a millionaire?

Not as straight forward to answer as you may think.

 

[classic33]

What’s a millionaire?

Not as straight forward to answer as you may think.

American or elsewhere?

 

[Markymark]

American or elsewhere?

Indeed. Local currency adds one layer of confusion. Which assets/liabilities included is another.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What’s a millionaire?

Not as straight forward to answer as you may think.

Those chaps who come and manicure my gardens I believe

 

[classic33]

In any given year, no month ever begins or ends on the same day of the week as May does.

 

[classic33]

On the 17th May 1877, Edwin T. Holmes installs the 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm.