Trivial Facts!

[Lei_Glee]

* The original name of the main character of the Star Wars saga is Luke Starkiller. George Lucas changed his name to Luke Skywalker on ther first day of filming. Thank God! 

* George Lucas based the character of Han Solo on his friend, director Francis Ford Coppola.

* The word "Jedi" is derived from the Japanese words "Jidai Geki" which translate as "period adventure drama." A period adventure drama is a Japanese TV soap opera program set in the samurai days.

[chiqmom]

1. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
2. The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".

[Lei_Glee]

* Sir Thomas Crapper, attributed to inventing the flush toilet, was a nephew of Queen Elizabeth.

[kikayako]

SCUBA means Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

[seescandy]

Hi guyz....your post are so informative. keep on posting! 

[Lei_Glee]

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

[ayionick]

Boogieston,
Korek! Christ was actually born on September 11 hehe! Dec 25 is a pagan ritual.
I love this thread!

naalala ko yung 9-11 bombing. mas lalong nakakalungkot when i learned that September 11 is the real birth date of Jesus Christ.

[Bubblin]

naalala ko yung 9-11 bombing. mas lalong nakakalungkot when i learned that September 11 is the real birth date of Jesus Christ.

ah really?september 11? what I know is sometime in March..

Bone is 4 times stronger than steel.

A group of crows is called murder.

Chow-Chow is the only breed of dog born with 44 teeth. normally dogs have 42 teeth.

you can talk to a lobster using a comb.run you fingers through the comb's teeth.a slow rasp means "it's safe to feed".a rapid rasp means "take cover.there's a shark about!"

baby elephants whose parents were killed in front of their eyes suffer from nightmares.they wake up in the middle of night crying and when they grow up,these elephants sometimes attack humans,seeking "revenge"

dogs howl several minutes before an earthquake strikes.

when a cat rubs your leg,he is leaving his scent on you to show that you are part of HIS family.

when you walk on bare feet you leave 4 billionths of a gramme of sweat in each footprint.to a dog this stinks like an old pair of socks that haven't been washed in a month.

[origins]

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is commonly believed to be the only English sentence devised to include all the letters of the alphabet. However, typesetters and designers have alternatively employed "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs".

[bheso90]

A lot of Dalmatian dog breeds are deaf or becomes deaf,a genetic disability ...and they are slow to mature coinciding their age,so you usually get a 4 year old 80 pounds dog with a playful attitude of a 6 mo.old puppy

[Leanne123]

Did you know that
Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

[loveavenue]

Jose Rizal's first love is Lenor Rivera, since he was 13 years old.

[prille]

Did you know that
Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

nag check talaga ako sa shirts ko and shirts ng brother ko.. true nga! =)

[Bubblin]

Britney Spears' single "Baby One More Time" was initially offered to hiphop group TLC,but they turned it down due to the song's "violent" chorus line (hit me baby one more time)

[iam_ria]

Elephants are terrified with mice. [-Myth Busters last week.]

[Bubblin]

In the 18th century it was even considered fashionable to wear fake eyebrows made from mouse skin! As mice were caught they were skinned and cleaned and shaped into eyebrows which the well-to-do and fashion plates of the times glued over their real brows.

False eyelashes were invented for Hollywood producer D.W. Griffith who wanted to enhance Seena Owen's eyes for a 1916 film. The eyelashes were made out of real human hair.

Long before that era women were applying color to their faces by many different means. In Cleopatra's time berries and other natural ingredients were used to enhance the face. Nowadays different ingredients are used in the making of colors for the face. Today's average woman uses 6 pounds of lipstick in a year but few of them know that one ingredient frequently used in manufacturing lipsticks is fish scales.

The oldest son of Charles XIII, Prince Philip of Calabria, loved gloves so much that he sometimes wore 16 pairs at a time. And, at the end of the 15th century, Charles VIII of France tried to find more comfortable shoes for his feet, one of which had 6 toes. He had shoes designed with a square toe, which came to popularity immediately after he began wearing them. The first pair of Doc Martens were made from old tires. Little was it known how popular these would become.

Marie Antoinette was modest about her body so she wore gowns which buttoned all the way up to the top of the neck. She was so modest, in fact, that she wore these gowns even while bathing!

Elizabeth I loved hats so much that she made it mandatory for all females over the age of 7 to wear a hat on Sundays and holidays. Anyone who refused to do so was stiffly fined.

(from associated content.com)

[Bubblin]

How some company names came to be:

Apple Computers

It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O’clock.

CISCO

It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

Compaq

This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel

The name was derived from the founder’s name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

Google

The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’

Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Hewlett Packard

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes)

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘The Lotus Position’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft

Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.

Motorola

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sony

It originated from the Latin word ’sonus’ meaning sound, and ’sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN

Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Yahoo!

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos

(from ioframe.com)

[Anne101]

All the planets in the solar system rotate counterclockwise, except Venus.

[lilies of the field]

Jesus does not have a human father because the sin of mankind is passed on to children through the fathers, not mothers. In Jesus' case, God took the human father out of the equation; He was conceived by the Holy Spirit. Hence, Jesus is born sin-free. (Learned this from Bible school)

[jenwei]

We, as humans, forget 90% of our dreams

If you plug your nose you can't hum (keep your mouth close too)

Cold showers stimulate your sex drive