Fun FaCts

Did you know the Mississippi state legislature removed fractions and decimal points from the mathematics curriculum of public secondary schools. Television's Mister Ed was a horse. Mobile homes are so named because they can be moved from place to place. The design of the California state flag was the result of a mistake. The Kentucky Fried Chicken chain changed its name to KFC in order to eliminate the word "fried" from its title. The nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" originated as a coded message used for recruiting pirates. The derisive title of one of George Bernard Shaw's plays was changed after it wreaked havoc on theater attendance. When the Titanic hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic, the silent version of the film The Poseidon Adventure was being screened aboard ship. The town of Tarzana, CA was named after the famous ape man. Weird right?

John Barrymore once pulled a risque screen test prank on John Carradine. Hogart Humphrey was the model for the gerber babe. Humphrey Bogart was born on Christmas Day. Clara Bow serviced the entire USC fottball team during orgies. Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. Charles Chaplin's remains were stolen and held for ransom. Iron Eyes Cody was an Indian. Kevin Costner was caught in bed with his wife of Orioles infielder Cal Ripken, Jr. in August 1997, forcing the Orioles to cancel a game so that the distraught Ripken's consecutive game streak would not be in jeopardy. Finally Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite.

311's name masks sinister ties to white supremacy, because K is the eleventh letter of hte alphabet, and three times K equals KKK. Bono announces every time he claps a child in Africa dies, someone from the audience tells him to stop doing that. David Bowie's wife once caught him in bed with Mick Jagger. Mariah Carey said she'd love to be skinny like "starving children". When asked for a reaction to the death of King Hussein of Jordan, Carey mourned the loss of the greatest basketball player of all time. Mariah Carey possesses a severn-octiave coval range. R and B singer Ciara was once a man. A caviar advised Eric Clapton to take "a few moths to practice" before playing his guitar in church. After the beleaguered lead guitarist of a band responds to heckling by asking if anyone in the audience thinks he can do better, Clapton steps onto the stage and shows him up.

The Beatles hid "Paul is dead" clues in their albums and songs. The Beatles created the infamous butcher cover as a protest against Capitol Records "butchery" of their music. The little Lucky in the Sky with Diamonds was chosen because it initial letter form the acrostic l-s-d. ELO's debut album was mistakenly retitled No Answer when released in America. Ordered by a judge to hand over all the profits from his next album to his ex wife as part of a divorce settlement, singer Marvin Gaye deliberately recorded a wretched album designed to sell poorly, which he sardonically entitled, Here, My Dear.

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