Obscure facts ya know!

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IMHO it would have been better manners if Kubrick had removed the smelly feces from the area so mr. martin would be relieved of having to withstand that smell. that is what I would have done.

anyways, Rudolph Wurlitzer called the special effects instrumentation [percussions and noise makers] of his theatrical Wurlitzer organs "toy counter" instruments because they resembled toy store counters of the era.

Art Carney's grandson has a continuing role on the new HBO series 'Penny Dreadful'.

His name is Reeve Carney, and he portrays Dorian Gray.

Peter The Great of Russia had his own son, Alexei tortured to death for supposed treason.

He was not disloyal, he simply did not want to become Czar.....he wanted to marry his mistress and live quietly away from court.

Marilyn Monroe was murdered by her psychiatrist with a heart-stopping injection into her heart between her ribs. her autopsy photos show she was beat up and bruised. there were at least 5 witnesses to this, two of them LAPD.

And it was known that he was obsessed with her, was a total control freak, and it was he who hired Eunice as her housekeeper....

Actually to spy on her.

And it was known that he had hit her, on more than one occasion.

there were 3 gunmen at senator Kennedy's assassination in 1968, and the girlfriend of one of them, wearing a polka dot dress, shouted "we killed him!" in front of god and everybody.

A drunk or stoned hysterical woman was brought in to a Dallas, Texas hospital E.R., yelling "They're going to kill the president!" over and over.

She was treated, sedated, or whatever, eventually released when she was finally sober and calm.

Four days later,President Kennedy was assassinated.

After the assassination, and the Oswald murder, a suspicious hospital employee managed to sneak into the records for the E.R. that night.....the young woman was a stripper/dancer who worked at Jack Ruby's bar.

only American sheeple fail to grok that JFK's assassination was a coup d'état. it is recognized as fact in the rest of the world. gangster sam giancana told Nixon not to contest the results of the '60 election [which the mob swung for kennedy] saying to him, "your time will come."

There is a mountain range called the Amarillo Mountains that crosses the Texas Panhandle curving in from Oklahoma and then somewhat northward toward the Oklahoma Panhandle.

The reason nobody has ever seen the Amarillo Mountains is that the highest peak is about half a mile below the ground level.

Noah was 600 years old, when God sent the flood.

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and he probably didn't look a day over 450.

I'm doing pretty fair, how are you?

Enjoying the fun and taking time to horse around in these threads... darn, wish I had something amazing to chip in here at the moment though! Can't think of an obscure fact currently.