Obscure facts ya know!

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Lauren Bacall portrayed a singer in the film 'Key Largo' with Humphrey Bogart.

However, her voice was not used in the film,.....her singing was dubbed by Andy Williams!
Thirty years later, his song, 'Moon River' was one of the most popular recordings in the world.

Sylkat

Point Roberts, WA is an American city that is only accessible through Canada.

There is a part of India entirely surrounded by Bangladesh, surrounded by India, in Bangladesh.

The Kaibab Squirrel lives only in an area 20 miles by 40 miles.

And has attractive tufts of fur on their ears.

Sylkat

'Bimbo' is a brand of soft drink manufactured and marketed by Coca-Cola, Inc.

20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.

68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!

America once issued a 5-cent bill!

Baby beavers are called kittens.

It is said* that half of all people who lose their TV remote later find it in the refrigerator.

* Reference: "They". That's what They say, so it must be true. After all, it did come from T.H.E.M.

Worms reportedly taste like bacon.

Turkeys can reproduce without having sex.

There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

The mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of abusing is named 'Janet Jackson'.

Richard Nixon liked ketchup on his cottage cheese.

There is actually such a thing as the "McGangBang" from McDonalds.

When listening to music your heart beat tends to alter itself so it can syncronize with the pace. (Can't spell tonight)

Some people may already know this but the pieces of carrot you usually end up seeing in your vomit, that's not actually carrot but part of your stomach lining instead! (Now I'm starting to feel quite nauseous typing this....bleh)

Anatidaephobia is the pervasive, irrational fear that, somewhere in the world, a duck is watching you.

90% of Americans live within 15 minutes of a Wal-Mart.

Every U.S. treasurer since 1949 is female.

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

Only read this in the case that:
A. You have watched all of the remade Battlestar Galactica series and know how it ends, or
B. Don't care.

Because I can't do the text black-out highlighter trick on a BBcode forum, I am going to put my obscure-fact/spoiler between a lot of paragraph returns. Scroll quickly past it if you don't want to read it.

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Every single female character of any importance on BSG dies AT LEAST once, if not multiple times (in the case of the Cylon women). The only exceptions are the child Hera, and Baltar's 2 most frequently-seen groupies.












































































































































































































*** SPOILER ALERT ***
Do not scroll up unless you've watched all of Battlestar Galactica by now (I hope you have!) or don't mind having some aspects of the ending ruined for you.

Johnny Depp doesn't watch his own movies. He doesn't like watching himself.

Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre co-wrote the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.

The sentence 'Are you as bored as I am?', can be read backwards and still makes sense.

At birth, a Dalmatian puppy is always pure white.

After Disney's 'Princess and the Frog' movie came out in 2009, over 50 children were hospitalized with salmonella from kissing frogs.

In the NFL, all four of the AFC East times (Buffalo, New York, New England, Miami) do not actually play in the metro areas their cities represent.

By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.

The original Oxford English Dictionary defined terrorism as, "government by intimidation."

Chewing celery burns more calories than are in celery.

The insulting slang "kiss my a**", dates back at least to 1705.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients used in dynamite.

Breast reduction is the most common plastic surgery performed on American men.

At least 2 people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.

A woman from Florida once called 911 because her local McDonald's had ran out of McNuggets.

-The Chinese sailed to America before both the Vikings and Columbus.
-The ratio of distance between the nucleus of an atom and its rings of electrons is the same as the ratio of distance between a star and its planets.
-If a bullet is fired from a gun in a perfect 90° angle forward, and an identical bullet is dropped from the same height without being fired at the same time, both bullets will hit the ground simultaneously.
-Kung Fu masters can strike 4 times faster than a snake
-An arrow constantly bends from the left to the right in the middle while flying, so the saying "straight as an arrow" doesn't make much sense.
-Rule of thumb actually comes from an artists way of measuring.

There is no proof of that and is at best very doubtful.

The famous Disney character, "Goofy" had a wife, but she died.

The Muppet song "Mahna Mahna" came from a soft core Italian porn film called "Sweden".

The "Chocolate cosmos", a flower native to Mexico, smells like chocolate. It is inedible and is extinct in the wild.

You can't hum while holding your nose closed.

Eight people died by drowning in 300,000 gallons of spilled beer during the London Beer Flood of 1814.

Distances between stars and their planets seem to vary wildly - there have been a number of stars found with planets that orbit their primaries more closely than Mercury orbits the Sun. (For instance, Bellerophon, the first discovered exoplanet, a gas giant orbiting 51 Pegasi.)

Electron orbits (which are less "rings" and more "shells of probable location"), however, are fixed. Therefore, this "fact" would appear on its face to be blatantly inaccurate.