Bet You Didn't Know...!

Welcome to the second edition of “Bet You Didn’t Know…”! This month, we feature strange movie trivia, crazy words, ghost ships, government secrets (Shh!), video games, the truth behind Old Jersey, and more!

1. After the movie release of Jurassic Park, the worldwide price of amber increased ten times.
2. The phrase "heads will roll" is from the execution of Bloody Mary, whose wig came off when she was executed and her head rolled into the crowd.
3. Some gerbils are born pregnant.
4. Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
5. The areas with the most sweat glands on your body are your feet.
6. "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsiliconvolcanoconiosis", at 46 letters, is the longest word in the English Dictionary. According to http://www.dictionary.com, it is "a disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust.
7. Francium has a half-life of 3 minutes.
8. In the movie The Shining, there is a scene when Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson) throws an axe against a bathroom door where his wife is inside screaming. If you look closely, he only breaks one door panel, but after Wendy escapes, the movie shows two.
9. The theme song from Nightmare on Elm Street “One, two Freddy’s coming for you,” is a spoof off the ghost ship “Blood Skull” of Florida. Its captain is Jhonathan (yes, “Jhonathan”) Jones. It is said that he haunts those who travel by river at night. Some people say he plays “Dead Men Tell No Tales.” Shortly afterwards a man yells, “You've trespassed in pirate waters, mates. Now ye must suffer my rage!” Finally, total darkness as a pirate ship with a bleeding skull sails toward you, all the while a boy sings "One you're going to be gone, two Jhonny's coming for you, three he's gotten me, four you'd best let him gain more..."
10. The mining level music from Donkey Kong Country for the SNES is based off of the Christmas song “Silver Bells.”
11. 675 people have swum across the English Channel, with 948 total successful crossings.
12. "Antidisestablishmentarianism" pertains to people opposed to proposals to remove the Church of England as the country's main church.
13. The reason Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in November of 1605 is because the English government would not allow him to practice his religion: Roman Catholicism. Many allusions to this can be found in the movie V for Vendetta, one of the most notable being the phrase “Remember, remember, the fifth of November.” In fact, there are a myriad of illusions to the number 5 and the letter “V” in “V for Vendetta.” Some more include:

- "V for Vendetta" has 5 syllables.
- V's personal motto consists of the Latin phrase “Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici” (By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe), which in turn consists of five words that begin with the letter V.
- Evey's name is composed of "E" (the fifth letter of the alphabet), "V" (5 in Roman numerals, and the fifth letter from the end of the alphabet), and "Y" (25th letter of the alphabet, or 5 squared).
- 5" converted to binary numerals is "101", so "Room 5" is "Room 101". This is an allusion to the infamous torture chamber in George Orwell's 1984.

14. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the hardest tongue twister in the world is “the sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.” Following closely is “unique New York.”
15. Leonardo DiCaprio got his first on-screen kiss by a man.
16. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
17. 35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
18. When you sneeze, your heart stops.
19. Between 1937 and 1945, Heinz produced a special type of alphabet soup for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
20. Rats and horses cannot vomit.
21. In every episode of the television series Seinfeld, Superman appears somewhere.
22. The government has no knowledge of aliens. This is precisely the reason Title 14, Section 1211 of the Federal Code of Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, makes it illegal for US citizens to have contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. Right…

23. Cat urine glows in black light.
24. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
25. There is an “Old Jersey”!

By:Santa's Mage172
Edited by:Fullmetal Shinobi
Coded by:Mr penguin12
14:15 30/12/2006