@slimfern posted:Would certainly explain a lot
Oranges are a hybrid of tangerines and pomelos, also known as "Chinese grapefruit," and they were originally green...
Dolphins have names for one another...
Toto the dog was once a cow...
In the original 1902 stage version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy did not have a dog but a faithful cow named Imogene.
Speed dating was invented by a rabbi...
(That's Rabbi, not Rabbit) 
@slimfern posted:Oranges are a hybrid of tangerines and pomelos, also known as "Chinese grapefruit," and they were originally green...
Dolphins have names for one another...
Toto the dog was once a cow...
In the original 1902 stage version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy did not have a dog but a faithful cow named Imogene.
Speed dating was invented by a rabbi...
(That's Rabbi, not Rabbit)
@slimfern posted:
Toto the dog was once a cow...
In the original 1902 stage version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy did not have a dog but a faithful cow named Imogene.
Here's the 1910 short film version of "The Wizard of Oz" which was based on that musical rather than the book:
The storyline on IMDB reads:
Chased off by the antics of Hank the Mule, Dorothy ends up in her cornfield, where she realizes her family's Scarecrow is alive. She helps him down and he takes a tumble on the turnstyle. A cyclone soon arrives and leaves Dorothy, Scarecrow, Toto and Hank spinning around on a haystack, with Imogene the Cow flying soon after. Soon after their arrival, the Wizard of Oz issues a public decree that he is a humbug, to make sure no one ever finds out. Glinda pops up out of the background and transforms Toto into a man in a bulldog suit to serve as a better protector for Dorothy. Then they encounter the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and Eureka. Nevertheless, she is captured by Momba, the Wicked Witch of the West (suggesting Baum thought the other witches were Mombe, Mombo, and Mombu, in keeping with the council in _Queen Zixi of Ix_) and her flying lizards and soldiers. Dorothy defeats Momba, and they arrive at the Emerald City just in time for the Wizard's going away party.
Dorothy is said to have been played by Bebe Daniels though there's no existing records to prove that, Bebe Daniels made quite a number of films, the best known being "42nd Street" (1933) in which she played Dorothy Brock.
@El Loro posted:The storyline on IMDB reads:
Chased off by the antics of Hank the Mule, Dorothy ends up in her cornfield, where she realizes her family's Scarecrow is alive. She helps him down and he takes a tumble on the turnstyle. A cyclone soon arrives and leaves Dorothy, Scarecrow, Toto and Hank spinning around on a haystack, with Imogene the Cow flying soon after. Soon after their arrival, the Wizard of Oz issues a public decree that he is a humbug, to make sure no one ever finds out. Glinda pops up out of the background and transforms Toto into a man in a bulldog suit to serve as a better protector for Dorothy. Then they encounter the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and Eureka. Nevertheless, she is captured by Momba, the Wicked Witch of the West (suggesting Baum thought the other witches were Mombe, Mombo, and Mombu, in keeping with the council in _Queen Zixi of Ix_) and her flying lizards and soldiers. Dorothy defeats Momba, and they arrive at the Emerald City just in time for the Wizard's going away party.
Dorothy is said to have been played by Bebe Daniels though there's no existing records to prove that, Bebe Daniels made quite a number of films, the best known being "42nd Street" (1933) in which she played Dorothy Brock.
Was Bebe Daniels the one in Life with the Lyonâs ( radio) El ? 
@El Loro posted:Here's the 1910 short film version of "The Wizard of Oz" which was based on that musical rather than the book:
Not bad for a film of such an age, and although there are a few differences the Judy Garland film pretty much kept to the story.
The animal costumes though, hmmmm they were almost pantomime like weren't they. 
I recognised the music at 3:57 but can't recall the name of it ?
Wasps Attack When Drunk...
Worker wasps have a single job: to supply their queen with nectar. And when they've stored up all they can, they have nothing to do. So they do what many of us might: they get buzzedâon fermented fruit.
Disney Is the Second-Largest Buyer of Explosives in the World...
Deaf People with Schizophrenia "See" Voices...
Once Upon A Time, Antarctica Was as Warm as California...
@slimfern posted:Wasps Attack When Drunk...
Worker wasps have a single job: to supply their queen with nectar. And when they've stored up all they can, they have nothing to do. So they do what many of us might: they get buzzedâon fermented fruit.
Disney Is the Second-Largest Buyer of Explosives in the World...
Deaf People with Schizophrenia "See" Voices...
Once Upon A Time, Antarctica Was as Warm as California...
Wow 
Some interesting facts there Slim .
@slimfern - drunken wasps! Makes me like them now!
Not surprised about Disney, those firework displays every night at all the parks must cost a fortune!
@Former Member posted:@slimfern - drunken wasps! Makes me like them now!
Not surprised about Disney, those firework displays every night at all the parks must cost a fortune!
@Baz posted:
My eldest boy was a qualified pyrotechnic for a while, setting up displays for large organisations, he told me some of them cost many thousands of pounds. 
Thereâs a law allowing a random citizen to kill a Scott entering the city of York if the said person is holding an arrow above his head...
Around thirty places in the world are named Birmingham; furthermore, there are places on the Moon that hold this name...
One in eight people in the United States has been employed by MacDonalds...
Horses and cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream when lying down...
There are more Lego mini-figurines in existence than actual people on Earth...
@slimfern posted:Thereâs a law allowing a random citizen to kill a Scott entering the city of York if the said person is holding an arrow above his head...
Around thirty places in the world are named Birmingham; furthermore, there are places on the Moon that hold this name...
One in eight people in the United States has been employed by MacDonalds...
Horses and cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream when lying down...
There are more Lego mini-figurines in existence than actual people on Earth...
Some interesting facts there Slim .
70% of all known serial killer murders come from America...
Dorangel Vargas is known as the people eater or âEl Coomegenteâ. Heâs a serial killer in Venezuela and heâs also known as the Andesâ Hannibal Lecter. Vargas ate and killed at least 10 people in his lifetime. But he had a specific preference when it comes to eating the meat of a person. He did not eat the flesh of a woman â he only eats men. According to him, a guyâs meat tasted so much better than that of a woman.
Also, he avoided eating fat people because according to him, they contained too much cholesterol and could be harmful to him. Well, these serial killer facts show that even murderers have their own definition of class...
Hitler's sister was called Paula . . . . Paula Hitler!!
@slimfern posted:70% of all known serial killer murders come from America...
Dorangel Vargas is known as the people eater or âEl Coomegenteâ. Heâs a serial killer in Venezuela and heâs also known as the Andesâ Hannibal Lecter. Vargas ate and killed at least 10 people in his lifetime. But he had a specific preference when it comes to eating the meat of a person. He did not eat the flesh of a woman â he only eats men. According to him, a guyâs meat tasted so much better than that of a woman.
Also, he avoided eating fat people because according to him, they contained too much cholesterol and could be harmful to him. Well, these serial killer facts show that even murderers have their own definition of class...
To avoid crying while cutting onions, try holding a piece of bread in your mouth...
On a dark night, the human eye can detect the light of a candle from more than a mile away...
There's a Starbucks cup in every scene in the movie 'Fight Club'...
A group of Flamingos is called a Flamboyance...
@slimfern posted:It took of the creator of the Rubikâs Cube one month to solve the cube after he created it...
The current record held for the fastest solve of the Rubik's Cube is currently 3.47 seconds...
A robot, however, has solved the Rubik's Cube this year in an incredible 0.38 seconds!!
I never could get the hang of it
In the 19th century, voting was actually kind of dangerous. Crooks known as "coopers" would grab people off the streets, beat them up, and get them drunk or high on opium. The victims were then forced to vote at multiple polling places, but in order to disguise these drugged-up voters, the coopers would dress their victims in shabby disguises...
@slimfern posted:In the 19th century, voting was actually kind of dangerous. Crooks known as "coopers" would grab people off the streets, beat them up, and get them drunk or high on opium. The victims were then forced to vote at multiple polling places, but in order to disguise these drugged-up voters, the coopers would dress their victims in shabby disguises...
Donât put ideas in todays politicians minds Slim .
In Washington, when two trains come to a crossing, neither can go till the other has passed...
In Montana it is illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck without a chaperone...
In Vermont, woman must gain written permission from their husband to wear false teeth...
In Utah it is illegal to not drink milk...
(That's me stuffed then)
@slimfern posted:In Washington, when two trains come to a crossing, neither can go till the other has passed...
If neither can go till the other has passed, they are both in for a long wait!
The TOP TEN people who have lived the longest are .... all women!
ÂĢ20 note ceases to be legal tender on 30th Sept
There was once a third common condiment used on every table of rich people along with salt and pepper, but nobody wrote it down so we donât know what is was. They speculate it was mustard seed but nobody knows for sure!
@Former Member posted:There was once a third common condiment used on every table of rich people along with salt and pepper, but nobody wrote it down so we donât know what is was. They speculate it was mustard seed but nobody knows for sure!
Everyone forgot?
@Saint posted:Everyone forgot?
Apparently itâs referred to in old diaries, recipe books but not named!
@Former Member posted:There was once a third common condiment used on every table of rich people along with salt and pepper, but nobody wrote it down so we donât know what is was. They speculate it was mustard seed but nobody knows for sure!
Roman soldiers were paid partly in salt and their salarium gave way to todayâs word for âsalary.â The word âsaladâ also originated from âsalt,â and began with the early Romans salting their leafy greens and vegetables...
@slimfern posted:You can tell the temperature by counting a cricketâs chirps...
The coldest temperature ever officially recorded was -89.2°C...
A 2003 heatwave turned grapes to raisins before they were picked from the vine...
Worms wriggle up from underground when a flood is coming...
Wow , thatâs cold
People who suffer from boanthropy believe they are a cow and will try to live their life as a cow...
Ghost crabs literally growl using teeth in their stomachs...
In the time it took for you to read this sentence, around 50,000 cells in your body died and were replaced by new ones...
Google web browser was originally named Backrub!
@slimfern posted:Did you know that when someone annoys you, it takes forty-two muscles to frown, But it only takes four muscles to extend your arm out and smack'em in the head.
I like it. Economy in all things!
Thereâs a world record for the holder of the most world records: Ashrita Furman, whoâs set more than 600 records and currently holds more than 200. His records have ranged from fastest mile on a pogo stick, longest time to hula hoop underwater and greatest distance travelled on a bicycle balancing a milk bottle on the head...
@slimfern posted:Thereâs a world record for the holder of the most world records: Ashrita Furman, whoâs set more than 600 records and currently holds more than 200. His records have ranged from fastest mile on a pogo stick, longest time to hula hoop underwater and greatest distance travelled on a bicycle balancing a milk bottle on the head...
@slimfern posted:Thereâs a world record for the holder of the most world records: Ashrita Furman, whoâs set more than 600 records and currently holds more than 200. His records have ranged from fastest mile on a pogo stick, longest time to hula hoop underwater and greatest distance travelled on a bicycle balancing a milk bottle on the head...
Wonder if one of those records is for the most spectacular waste of time!
Announced by the National Grid today that the UK has had the first new-style electricity pylons wired up. It's the first new style design since 1927:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-60754357
Although the electricity cables are not insulated, birds touching them don't get electrocuted as they are not touching the ground.
No mention though in the article about trolls
@El Loro posted:Announced by the National Grid today that the UK has had the first new-style electricity pylons wired up. It's the first new style design since 1927:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-60754357
Although the electricity cables are not insulated, birds touching them don't get electrocuted as they are not touching the ground.No mention though in the article about trolls
@El Loro posted:Announced by the National Grid today that the UK has had the first new-style electricity pylons wired up. It's the first new style design since 1927:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-60754357
Although the electricity cables are not insulated, birds touching them don't get electrocuted as they are not touching the ground.No mention though in the article about trolls
When you click your fingers the noise is only made by your biggest finger slapping your palm - not your fingers snapping together
A quarter of all your bones are found in your feet
Most of your brain is made of fat - wonder if that's where the phrase 'fat head' comes from? Or was that me just being bullies? LOL
A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is...
Your tonsils can grow back if there was tissue left behind during the removal process...
There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs...
Jellyfish are considered biologically immortal. They donât age and will never die unless they are killed...
There is an island called âJust Enough Roomâ, where thereâs just enough room for a tree and a house...
@Moonie posted:There are 140,000 species of mushrooms. 78 of those actually glow in the dark
Hello hope you are doing better. That is very cool!
