Useless fact of the day!

[Valiss]

Cable did not have commercials until around 1980.

[Archer]

A "unique" medieval coin from the reign of William the Conqueror has been discovered in a field near Gloucester.

The Portable Antiquities Scheme said that until the coin was discovered, there were no known examples of William I coins minted in Gloucester between 1077-1080.

"The discovery of this coin therefore proves that the mint was in operation throughout the whole reign of William I," it said.

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[Valiss]

Pine Ridge, Nebraska, has only 14 residents yet contains 4 liquor stores which sold a total 4.9 million cans of beer in 2010.

[MrHyde]

The alarm clock was not invented by the Marquis de Sade, as some suspect, but rather by a man named Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire, in 1787. Perversity, though, characterized his invention from the beginning. The alarm on his clock could ring only at 4 am. Rumor has it that Hutchins was murdered by his wife at 4:05 am on a very dark and deeply cold New England morning.

[Valiss]

In 2008, test subjects could not tell the difference between audio played through Monster Cables and audio played through coat hangers.

[Archer]

Leaders of governments are like diapers and thus, should be changed frequently. 

[Valiss]

While accepting his honorary Oscar in 1972, Charlie Chaplin received a 12 minute standing ovation when introduced to the crowd.

[Captain Teague]

Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplain lookalike contest in San Francisco. He failed to even make the finals.

Secondly... in a different contest at a different date in Cleveland a rising young actor/comedian named Bob Hope took first place.

[Valiss]

Noodles, guitarist in The Offspring, was the school janitor and welcomed into the band because he was old enough to buy alcohol.

[Valiss]

The same master swordsman who performed Darth Vader's lightsaber duels in the in the original Star Wars movies also did sword choreography for Highlander, The Princess Bride, The Three Musketeers, Zorro, and the LotR movies.

[Valiss]

The Italian version of "You can't have your cake and eat it too" is "You want your bottle full of wine and your wife drunk".

[Rowan MacD]

 Gene Roddenberry was inspired to introduce the character of Chekov in his Star Trek TV series in response to the popularity of Davy Jones, complete with hairstyle and appearance mimicking that of Jones.


~RIP Davy Jones~ 1945-2012

[Merlin the Elder]

One of the Monkees best-loved tunes was penned by ex-Kingston Trio member John Stewart, sung by Davy Jones...

Fellow member Michael Nesmith created a television program which later developed into a larger project known as MTV.

[Lady Nicolette]

Other fun Monkees trivia:

Davy Jones had a successful career on the British stage before he became known as a Monkee and also, due to his diminutive height, had been a horse racing jockey.

Michael Nesmith's mother invented "White Out..."  and he wrote the Stone Poneys' hit "Different Drum."  Linda Ronstadt was the lead singer of that band.

Stephen Stills tried out to be one of the Monkees, turned down because of conflicting contract info.

Their 1968 movie, "Head," which was written and produced by Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson, directed by Bob Rafelson.  Other players (often cameos) were played by Victor Mature Jack Nicholson, Teri Garr, Carol Doda, Annette Funicello, Frank Zappa, Sonny Liston, Timothy Carey and Ray Nitschke. Also appearing on screen in brief non-speaking parts are Dennis Hopper and Toni Basil.

[Rowan MacD]

  During the heyday of The Monkees , another performer came onto the scene with the same name as Davy's so to stop any confusion this artist who was born David Jones changed his name to
.....David Bowie.