Fun Trivia

[mona_lisa_73]

The phrase "throwing out all the stops," conotatively defined as "going all out," actually derives from the organ. Pulling out different knobs (or "stops") change the sound that comes out of the pipes.

The movie Pirates of the Caribbean is based off a ride at Walt Disney World. You sit in a boat and ride a river thingy and look at the different

Comments

[tabular_rasa]

I knew the Pirates one (I went on it last Christmas-- they're redesigning it to look like the movies, with several animatronic Johnny Depps! Woot! Lol . . .), the Gregorian calendar one, and the Oz one. In fact, we explained that to Alexandre when we watched The Wizard of Oz; he was like "What is Oz? What does it mean?"

The "average" human being has one ball and one breast.

One in four seagulls becomes gay in order to compensate for there being more male seagulls. (I wonder if something similar may have to occur with Chinese males, as the effects of the one-child-rule becomes clear-- and in similar statistical form-- as they all reach dating/marrying age.)

They invented a chair for the Pope to ride around in during part of the initiation with no bottom to it, so that it could be checked the Pope would not be female. (I don't think they still use it.)

The most common bird in the world is the chicken, and they outnumber people approximately 4 to 1.

Page 100 is on the left side of nearly every published book.

[mona_lisa_73]

I saw the Pope. O.o