The Daily Fact Thread

[Rexmax2]

Nice job goomonkey for keeping this thread up. Just dropping in since I haven't been on in a while. Keep it up you are doing better than i did on my thread!

[Dr.Goomonkey]

Thank you @Rexmax2 good to see you still exist. Fairly special post you shared on this thread to, seeing as it's your 1,000'th, congrats!

[Dr.Goomonkey]

The Daily Fact

While picking the 45 members of his Army Air Force Band, Glenn Miller rejected Henry Mancini, a 19-year-old piano player. Ten years later, Mancini wrote the title theme and arranged the music for the film The Glenn Miller Story.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

The Daily Fact

"Kill Bill Vol. 1" is the first Quentin Terintino movie to use the F word less than 100 times.

'Weird Al' Yankovic graduated Lynwood High School at the age of 16 as valedictorian.

Hair is stronger than a copper wire of the same diameter.

The record for the world’s largest feet belongs to Matthew McGrory who wears US size 28 1/2 shoes. The average men’s size is 10 1/2.

[Tornado]

The largest shoe ever belonged to the tallest man, Robert Wadlow 8'11". Shoe: 37AA

[Dr.Goomonkey]

Originally Posted by Tornado

The largest shoe ever belonged to the tallest man, Robert Wadlow 8'11". Shoe: 37AA

Wowza! I think mine was for the current largest footed man, but thanks for finding that Wadlow fact too!

[Dr.Goomonkey]

The Daily Fact

Google's first ever Twitter post was, "I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010." Or in layman's terms, "I'm feeling lucky."

[Tornado]

Originally Posted by Dr.Goomonkey

Wowza! I think mine was for the current largest footed man, but thanks for finding that Wadlow fact too!

NP. Strange coincidence, I had just seen something about him on TV before reading your post. I think it was 'Under the Radar, Michigan' on PBS and they had one of his shoes in a shoe store in the town they were highlighting that week.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

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Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".

The word "bookkeeper" (along with its associate "bookkeeping") is the only unhyphenated English word with three consecutive double letters. Other such words, like "sweet-toothed", require a hyphen to be readily readable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

The Daily Fact

In Finland, saunas outnumber cars.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

The Daily Fact

Mr. Hetherington was the inventor of the top hat, and was arrested for disturbing the peace when he first wore it in public.

[Dr.Goomonkey]

The Daily Fact

The Moon is moving approximately 3.8 cm away from our planet every year.