Totally useless facts ...

[Contratrombone64]

It has been said that a woman in Florida, in 1977, drank so much water that she died of water intoxication.

Wasn't Ester Williams was it?

 

[Corno Dolce]

I haven't a clue.......


It has been said that in many countries urine was once used as a cleaning detergent....

 

[Contratrombone64]

Sweet Corn ... that was supposed to be a joke. Surely you've heard of Esther Williams?? And picked up my subtlety??

 

[marval]

Here is Esther Williams, champion swimmer and film star.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESklBg0xMt8

And a wanabe .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRf3_WQzAgQ&feature=related

 

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha CT64,

Regretfully, I have once again failed to pick up on your subtle humour - my bad! :shake::banghead::bawl:

Cheerio,

CD :crazy::crazy::crazy:

 

[marval]

George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory.

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that Karmuela Searle was killed on the film set for a sequence of *Tarzan* - he was mauled by an Elephant.

Karmuela? I wonder if its not *Kamuela*(Samuel in Hawaiian)....

 

[marval]

In 1907, on New Year's Eve, the original ball that was lowered in Times Square was made of wood and iron and had 100 light bulbs on it.

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that Pope John Paul II wrote a play which got a premiere in a London Theatre.

 

[marval]

A butterfly has to have a body temperature greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly.

 

[Corno Dolce]

It has been said that Gen. Custer, against Army regulations, often wore a blue velvet uniform.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Here is Esther Williams, champion swimmer and film star.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESklBg0xMt8

LOL @ Dame Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

In the 19th century, craftsmen who made hats were known to be excitable and irrational, as well as to tremble with palsy and mix up their words. Such behavior gave rise to the familiar expression "mad as a hatter". The disorder, called hatter's shakes, was caused by chronic mercury poisoning from the solution used to treat the felt. Attacking the central nervous system, the toxin led to behavioral symptoms.

 

[marval]

The name of Oscar the Grouch's pet worm on Sesame Street is Slimey.


Now we all wanted to know that, didn't we?

 

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha CT64,

Mercury poisoning? It has been said that China's first Emperor Qinshi Huang Di was looking for an elixir that would give him immortality. His apothecary staff thought they had the answer - a bromide made with Mercury. His death wasn't immediate with the Mercury but his mood swings were successively becoming more erratic.

Cheerio,

CD

 

[Contratrombone64]

Thank you for the update Ko Ko

 

[Contratrombone64]

Carnegie Hall in New York City opened in 1891 with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor

 

[Corno Dolce]

CT64,

I shall use G&S when posting to you...:grin::grin::grin:

 

[Contratrombone64]

What we call the sky is merely the limit of our vision into the atmosphere. The sky, like the horizon, is always as far away as one can see

 

[marval]

A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.