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Musical facts

1. Liberace owned 39 pianos, 10 of which were Baldwins. One of his most famous pianos was made entirely from etched glass, including the keys and mechanisms (damned hard to play); another was covered with millions of tiny mirrors and another with rhinestones.

2. The composer Schumann invented a machine to exercise his fingers while travelling so that he speed up his movements without a piano available. The first time he used it, it broke all of his fingers simultaneously.

3. The composer and conductor Lully stabbed himself in the foot with his own baton. The wound became infected and he died.

4. Strands of Beethoven's hair contain 100 times more lead than the entire human body could ever cope with.

5. The dog found in the HMV logo and on the original His Master's Voice records was called Nipper. The original design had Nipper staring into a phonograph. The company purchasing the design sold gramophones and asked for the design to be changed.

Computing facts

1. The Apple Corporation once fired Steve Jobs.

2. The mouse was invented in 1965 by Douglas Engelbart. It was made of wood and had one button.

3. Nintendo originally made pachenko machines.

Factette for the day...
Comedian Les Dawson was an accomplished classical pianist, who began his career playing piano in a Parisian brothel.

See Random Rants for the Random Lies section.

It is physically impossible to lick your own elbow....
Oh think I'm wrong?
Why don't you go ahead and try.....

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class


There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million

Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

I found out today that the Spanish do not have a letter 'v', only a 'b'.

Can anyone confirm this? Do I need to look it up at Snopes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_orthography

hope that helps you

Heavens to Betsy! It's true!

lol, aint heard that phrase in years, in welsh Ll is easy to say but its almost imposibal to prounce in writen form

When I teach Welsh to the kids I tell them to get ready to say L. They have to keep their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths and then say H instead. That's how I was taught to do it by my lovely Welsh teacher from Llansadwrn.

manda2011 wrote:It is physically impossible to lick your own elbow....
Oh think I'm wrong?
Why don't you go ahead and try.....

One of my pupils proved last week that he could... *shudders*

ok her goes a couple to add more to come soon

An HB pencil can draw a line 35 miles long

the eiffle tower grows seven inchs in summer

the name starbucks comes from mobby dick

carlsberg spicial brew was originaly made for winston churchill

One inch of rain over one square mile is 17,378,700 gallons of water

Nepal is the only country in the world whose flag is not square or rectangular shaped.

tye state flag of Ohio is the only other official jurisdictional flag thats not square or rectangular

Other than humans, almost all mammals have a penis bone, or baculum.
Other species that are do not have this bone are horses, marsupials,
rabbits, hyenas, and a few others. Most other primates, our closest
relatives, are born with a penis bone.

People who have been blind from birth have dreams that are formed from their other senses (e.g., touch, smell, sound)

With very few exceptions (a few copper hatchets and spear heads in the
Great Lakes region), the peoples of the Americas and the Pacific
remained at the Neolithic level of technology, with no metal making
ability, up until the time of European contact.

Keith Richards perfermed in a boys choir at the queens coronation