OT - Trivia anyone?

[TommyRude]

38 minutes ago, o0Ampy0o said:

1. Did you know ants are mathematical?

According to some studies, ants’ movements can hide mathematical patterns. For example, the random changes in the direction of the ants follow a Lévy distribution, which is also found in other natural phenomena. Ants are also very numerous, with an estimated 20 quadrillion individuals on Earth. That’s 20,000 trillion!

[stoken6]

On 3/6/2023 at 1:46 AM, Old No7 said:

A:  "Whiter Share of Pale" by Procol Harum

Prevailing local regulations compel me to repost this:

Cheers, Mike.

[KuruPrionz]

https://www.livescience.com/13514-sex-change-chicken-gertie-hen-bertie-cockerel.html

 

Chickens can change sex over time, randomly, due to their biological makeup. Hens can become "roosters" but they are still technically female and cannot fertilize eggs. Roosters cannot become hens, they remain roosters.

[Old No7]

1 hour ago, stoken6 said:

Prevailing local regulations compel me to repost this:

Cheers, Mike.

My ears!! My ears!!

 

Old No7

Now I've really gone off the deep end...

 

Old No7

 

 

[Old No7]

This version by Annie Lennox isn't half bad -- but the one above gives me the WILLIES

 

Old No7

 

 

[stoken6]

21 minutes ago, Old No7 said:

This version by Annie Lennox isn't half bad

Yeah, nice. It does bring a fresh perspective to the original.

 

Cheers, Mike. 

[o0Ampy0o]

5 hours ago, KuruPrionz said:

https://www.livescience.com/13514-sex-change-chicken-gertie-hen-bertie-cockerel.html

 

Chickens can change sex over time, randomly, due to their biological makeup. Hens can become "roosters" but they are still technically female and cannot fertilize eggs. Roosters cannot become hens, they remain roosters.

There is conflicting information on this. What I read is that it is more of a hormonal shift in role behavior and not anatomical. More common going hen to rooster but the other way does happen it is just rare. 

 

If you have ever witnessed a female dog mounting another female dog hormones explain a lot.

[KuruPrionz]

28 minutes ago, o0Ampy0o said:

There is conflicting information on this. What I read is that it is more of a hormonal shift in role behavior and not anatomical. More common going hen to rooster but the other way does happen it is just rare. 

 

If you have ever witnessed a female dog mounting another female dog hormones explain a lot.

True or false, it's still trivia. 

My uncle was a hog farmer, he had lots of pigs. When the pigs are babies, the other baby pigs will chew the tail and the ears off the runt off the litter, marking it for a lifetime of torment and misery. I've seen those chewed on runts.

[bill5]

Please, only trivia that is actually true  

 

I didn't know pigs were so nasty. Now I feel even less guilty about my ham sandwiches (OK I didn't really feel that guilty before...).

 

How about some presidential trivia? Which presidents, if any, were born and/or died on the 4th of July? (I wish the site had a "spoiler" tag you could hide answers in)

[David Emm]

1 hour ago, KuruPrionz said:

My uncle was a hog farmer, he had lots of pigs. When the pigs are babies, the other baby pigs will chew the tail and the ears off the runt off the litter, marking it for a lifetime of torment and misery. I've seen those chewed on runts.

 

Me, too. They're the ones who end up playing drums and exploding onstage with Spinal Tap.

That's trivial in the larger scheme o' things, but not to fans who end up with a drumstick embedded in their foreheads. 🔥

[nursers]

21 hours ago, TommyRude said:

According to some studies, ants’ movements can hide mathematical patterns. For example, the random changes in the direction of the ants follow a Lévy distribution, which is also found in other natural phenomena. Ants are also very numerous, with an estimated 20 quadrillion individuals on Earth. That’s 20,000 trillion!

So that means there's 2.5 million ants per person and yet they haven't risen up and killed us. Silly things....

[JohnH]

Jeff Beck played his last show on November 12, 2022 and the next day, Gary Rossington played his final show.

[o0Ampy0o]

1 hour ago, JohnH said:

Jeff Beck played his last show on November 12, 2022 and the next day, Gary Rossington played his final show.

 

The following day I didn't play my final show because I never had a first show.

[o0Ampy0o]

Two on Leonardo DaVinci:

1. In his notes he had doodles of helicopters.

2. He could draw two different geometric shapes simultaneously with each hand.

[o0Ampy0o]

Merilu Henner has a rare ability to recall every detail of her personal experience on any given day in her life.

[bill5]

1 hour ago, o0Ampy0o said:

Merilu Henner has a rare ability to recall every detail of her personal experience on any given day in her life.

Yeah that is wild. I saw her in an interview and they tested her..."OK....May 21st 1973."  "Oh yeah...it rained a lot that day. I was just getting over a cold so I just had soup for dinner. On the local news they were talking about this horrible traffic accident, worst in our area in 20 yrs. Johnny Carson had Burt Reynolds and this comedian called Joe Schlabotnik as his guests" (etc etc) 

 

But really she could be unable to remember her own name and I'd still give a month's pay for one night.   

[Tom Williams]

2 hours ago, o0Ampy0o said:

Merilu Henner has a rare ability to recall every detail of her personal experience on any given day in her life.

Eidetic memory would make learning lines trivial.  Hmm.  That would be nice for song lyrics as well. 

[o0Ampy0o]

Edgar Cayce was able to sleep resting his head on a book and when he woke up he had comprehension of it as though he had read it.

[o0Ampy0o]

Two books that are not what people expect when reading after viewing Hollywood's interpretation: Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Phillip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

[o0Ampy0o]

I watched The Johnny Carson Show every night. One night Joan Rivers was guest host. Charley Callas was a guest and did a skit on drums with intermixed goofy Callas noises and facial expressions. He was a capable drummer and the bit was funny and perfectly executed.

 

The first night upon Johnny's return Ed Shaughnessy the regular drummer in The Tonight Show Band did a similar routine including the signature goofy noises and facial expression of Charley Callas. Johnny was shown enjoying it and he acted like he was unaware that Callas had done the same bit while he was off. This stood out and I always wondered what the reasons were for how things transpired.

 

Years after Johnny had died when Charley Callas died I read about a riff between he and Carson. Callus was a guest with Johnny. During the interview Callas and Johnny were seated in typical fashion. At one point as a gag Callas shoved Johnny in his seat. Johnny almost fell out of his chair and was taken aback by the gesture. Apparently Johnny felt violated and that Callas had overstepped boundaries. Johnny never had him on the show when he was host again and the Ed Shaughnessy bit was intended as a F**k Y#u! to Callas.

 

I looked for a video of the Callas and Shaughnessy bits. I researched coinciding dates when Rivers hosted and Callas was a guest. I was able to pin the date down but there is no official record of the night Rivers had Callas as a guest and he did the drum bit. No one has uploaded anything online of either that I could find. NBC's official statement on the riff between them is that it didn't exist. I have always remembered the bits and Johnny's behavior. 

[bill5]

On 3/7/2023 at 8:06 PM, bill5 said:

 

How about some presidential trivia? Which presidents, if any, were born and/or died on the 4th of July? (I wish the site had a "spoiler" tag you could hide answers in)

Answers below in white font to avoid spoilers...highlight with your mouse to read:

 

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, long-time rivals, not only both died on the 4th of July, but in the same year (same exact day). Calvin Coolidge is the only president born on the 4th of July.

[Old Music Guy]

On 3/5/2023 at 9:03 PM, stillearning said:

On 3/5/2023 at 9:56 PM, o0Ampy0o said:

“What’s the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

African or European swallow?

[bill5]

The fastest-growing plant is bamboo, which can grow up to 3' a day.

 

Something that doesn't surprise me actually because I had it in my backyard in my previous house and omg this stuff is so invasive. Even kudzu looks at this stuff and goes..."damn." 

[Synthaholic]

Here's a trivia I made up years ago:

 

Name the movie that features three actors who have each played a Bond villain.

[Husker]

Barry Manilow had a short career as a jingle writer.  He actually wrote the "Like A Good Neighbor - State Farm Is There" jingle...

[Husker]

14 hours ago, Synthaholic said:

Here's a trivia I made up years ago:

 

Name the movie that features three actors who have each played a Bond villain.

Ronin.

 

(Bond fanatic here).

[bill5]

4 hours ago, Husker said:

Barry Manilow had a short career as a jingle writer.  He actually wrote the "Like A Good Neighbor - State Farm Is There" jingle...

And the "You deserve a break today" McDonald's jingle among others...I recall he when he performed he would sometimes to a medley of the better-known ones just to joke around.

[Synthaholic]

9 hours ago, Husker said:

Ronin.

 

(Bond fanatic here).

 

Michael Lonsdale - Moonraker

Sean Bean - GoldenEye

Jonathan Pryce - Tomorrow Never Dies

 

I am also a Bond fanatic, and the best Bond was Timothy Dalton. Too bad the two movies didn't live up to his potential.

[Shamanzarek]

The Venus Flytrap plant is native to a small area that overlaps two American states. Few people seem to know that it is even native to North America and I found out because I now live in one of those states.

[bill5]

Huh. I wouldn't have guessed that either.