Fun facts

Fun Fact) President Carter was a peanut farmer in his native Georgia home before running for president.
 
From a new book I was reading:

There are more Game Boys in the world than there are people in Mexico.
 
The PlayStation was originally planned as a Nintendo console, with Sony to design some of the inside components.

mind = blown
 
Fun Fact) Gmail's domain name was originally used by Garfield.com, as a free email service.

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Fun Fact) Marble Bar, Western Australia currently holds the world record for most consecutive days over 37 °C (100 °F), the heat wave lasting 160 days from 31 October, 1923 to 7 April, 1924.
 
The average temperature of the entire universe is about 2.7 Kelvin.

That's only 2.7 over absolute zero, the point at which matter has no thermal energy at all.

I guess it's pretty cold out there.
 
Some US Prez facts.

Richard Nixon used the Wilson Desk because he thought it was used by Woodrow Wilson. It was actually used by Henry Wilson, second vice president under Ulysses Grant.

The S in Harry S Truman doesn't stand for anything.

George HW Bush once got sick and threw up at an official party...all over the Japanese Foreign Minister To The United States.

And you know those dumb laws you keep hearing about? They're just laws that haven't been removed from law books. Here's some that actually ARE laws even now.

They say outhouses are illegal in California. The current law says they're illegal if they invoke prostitution.

Here's something you can actually get fined for nowadays. It's illegal in Louisiana to curse at a firefighter.

And you probably want those dumb ones, yeah? Here. All of these were laws back in the day, and just haven't been taken out of the law books.

It's illegal to whistle underwater in Vermont. (And you do it...how?)
Suicide in Louisiana is punishable by death. (LOOOOOOLWUT!?)
It's illegal for a single woman to parachute on Sundays in Florida. (WHEEEE!)
It's illegal to name your kid Adolf Hitler in Idaho. (...And this had to be a law...why? USE COMMON SENSE YOU MOTHERF-)
It's legal in Charleston, SC, for the fire department to ASPLODE your house. (What?)
No selling eyeballs in Rhode Island. (Eye really don't know what to say.)
In Alaska, you can't wake up a bear to take its picture. (SAY HONEY!)
You aren't allowed to sleep on a refridgerator outdoors in Pennsylvania. (At least you won't be hungry...)
 
Boozooka said:
Suicide in Louisiana is punishable by death. (LOOOOOOLWUT!?)
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Well, it wouldn't be the first stupid thing LA has done. Look up something called House bill 195...

I am so going into LA govmt. The state and the country needs me.

Thats right. Vote Colton Brown 2028
 
I've been banned for more time than any other user of this forum who isn't still banned. Atleast, I'm pretty sure I have!
 
Uniju said:
I've been banned for more time than any other user of this forum who isn't still banned. Atleast, I'm pretty sure I have!
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I could be wrong, but for some reason I thought I had been banned longer.
 
I don't know, but I've been getting banned since before you even joined so.
 
Last I checked, it was forbidden to name a child Lucifer in Christchurch, New Zealand.

EDIT: I just looked it up, and apparently it's banned in the whole country, not just Christchurch.
 
I've never heard that ever. But it wouldn't surprise me if the Kiwis did something like that.
 
Fun Fact) President Reagan achieved fame as a Hollywood actor during the 1950's.

Fun Fact) Because of Reagan's acting career, he is the only president to wear a nazi uniform.
 
Uniju said:
I've been banned for more time than any other user of this forum who isn't still banned. Atleast, I'm pretty sure I have!
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Why were you banned, anyway?
 
Which time? The most recent and longest was for teasing SolarBlaze.
 
Fun Fact) George Bush Senior received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his accomplishments as a Naval aviator in WWII.
 
Random fact) Today is Alan Rickman's birthday. I only know that because my friend is a big fan of him for some reason.
 
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