Useless fact of the day!

[LadyJessica]

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

[Rowan MacD]

The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

[Rowan MacD]

The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839

[Rowan MacD]

In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February 14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.

[Valiss]

This is the 1st year since 1949 that "Michael" is not in the top 3 US baby names.

[Valiss]

After Rat-Packer Sammy Davis Jr died in 1990, his Widow soon discovered that he was nearly broke and owed back taxes. She then had his body exhumed to strip him of the $70,000 worth of jewelry he had been buried with.

[Rowan MacD]

More than 400,000 U.S. houses still lack indoor plumbing.

[Valiss]

Due to a strange law in America where importing toys resembling humans are taxed higher than those that do not; Marvel successfully argued in court that because their X- men action figures are mutants, they should be exempt from the tax.

[Valiss]

After the mother was killed in Finding Nemo, the clownfish father would have changed sex to actually become Nemo's mom.

[Valiss]

The movie Twister was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for "intense depiction of very bad weather".

[Rowan MacD]

During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

[Rowan MacD]

Of the 17k+ words that Shakespeare wrote, over 1700 are recorded there for the first time....

[Valiss]

Taco Bell has tried to enter the Mexican market twice, failing both times, even after branding their food "American" food.

[Rowan MacD]

Taco Bell has tried to enter the Mexican market twice, failing both times, even after branding their food "American" food.

LMAO. 
 
 

[Lady Kett]

As of about nowish, I've been married to my trusty Sidekick for about 789,040,800 seconds (or, 9,132 days and 10 hours....or...25 years and some change!)

Now I need go calculate where 1B comes in....