Share a fun fact - any fun fact

[Em Es]

You must know a few interesting things (interesting at least to you) that never come up in conversation. Share one here - a fun fact, on any topic.

I'll start.

In the movie Citizen Kane (plays tomorrow on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES, by the way) actor William Alland plays the soft-voiced reporter we only see from the back as he interviews people who knew Charles Foster Kane. Fun fact: In the film's "News on the March" newsreel segment, it is none other than Alland who provides the booming narration that tells about the life of Kane.

 

[milagros317]

The worst team in Major League Baseball history was not the 1962 NY Mets, not at all.

It was the 1899 Cleveland Spiders of the National League whose record was 20-134. That is not a typo, they won twenty games and lost one hundred and thirty-four.

They went bankrupt and were gone before the 1900 season.

 

[Bugman]

After Ed Wynn turned down the Wizard role in The Wizard of Oz it was offered to W.C. Fields for $75,000 but he wanted $100,000 so Frank Morgan was brought in. Ray Bolger wanted the Scarecrow part but after Buddy Ebsen (the Tin Man) had an allergic reaction to the make-up Bolger took that part and Jack Haley became the Scarecrow. A lot of re-casting of major players for what would become one of the the most iconic films in the history of Hollywood. Read more here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/trivia

 

[locker669]

If you look at the FedEx logo the last letters E and X make an arrow.

 

[cloudgazer2k]

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

The world's longest Coca-Cola truck is in Sweden. It is 79 feet long with a four-axle trailer

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.