Odd factoids

[bruce1530]

DC Comics was founded by Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. The extremely rare early issues featured young Davy’s adventures in the lead-up to the Battle of the Alamo.

 

[Drago]

Davy Crockett invented the game of croquet.

Of course, Crockett was considered a commoners name so the English elite poncified it into croquet.

 

[bruce1530]

Despite his nickname, Davy Crockett only had two ears.
His famous “Wild Front Ear” was actually a large skin tag on his nose.

The “Final Front Ear” in Star Trek was a prosthetic, manufactured by the same people that made Spock’s pointy ears.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The Alamo was essentially a fight over the right to own slaves.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There is oxygen on Mars

 

[Drago]

Mars was originally known as Science planet 3. This changed when NASA became strapped for cash under the Mussolini administration and was forced to accept funding from a British confectionary manufacturer.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Drago can only count to three. So Mercury is one, Venus is two, Earth is three, Mars is three, Jupiter is three etc etc all the way out to Neptune also three

 

[NorthernDave]

There is oxygen on Mars

It was put there by Jean Michel Jarre

 

[raleighnut]

DC Comics was founded by Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. The extremely rare early issues featured young Davy’s adventures in the lead-up to the Battle of the Alamo.

Ozzy Osbourne once got arrested for urinating on the Alamo wall.

 

[Threevok]

The Battle of the Alamo started with an argument between Davy Crocket and his Ex wife.

This is the origin of the word Alimony

 

[Drago]

Davy Crockett was a character in Miami Vice.

 

[bruce1530]

Davy Crocket was indeed the senior cop in Miami vice. He served his time as a junior detective in New York, working for Kojak.

 

[Drago]

The cop show Kojak was originally going to be sponsored by the photographic giant, Kodak. In return the lead character was to be named after the firm.
However, a sticky key on the script writers typewriter meant the letter D did not work, so the name kodak could not be used. Indeed, no word containing the letter D was spoken by any character for the entire first series.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The cop show Kojak was originally going to be sponsored by the photographic giant, Kodak. In return the lead character was to be named after the firm.
However, a sticky key on the script writers typewriter meant the letter D did not work, so the name kodak could not be used. Indeed, no word containing the letter D was spoken by any character for the entire first series.

True dat. Oh wait........

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Buckfast tonic wine is actually a contraction of Buckingham Palace Breakfast tonic wine. Apparently the Queen doesn't like grapefruit juice.