Trivia for Squiggle #XXIX
Today's issue of Trivia for Squiggle contains various tidbits about people.
701. At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour.
702. A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.
703. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
704. Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna.
705. Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
706. After the death of the genius, Albert Einstein, his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
707. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
708. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
709. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
710. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was "Moon." Buzz was the second man to step onto the Moon in 1969.
711. Beethoven used to take hay baths to remedy the swelling he used to get in his legs.
712. Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary.
713. Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids.
714. During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings (The Red Vineyard).
715. Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.
716. Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
717. Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940's.
718. Houdini's real name was Ehrich Weiss.
719. In 1876, Maria Spelterina was the first woman to ever cross Niagara Falls on a high wire.
720. In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made of nothing but chocolate.
721. Italian philosopher and scientist Galileo Galilei's middle finger can be found on display at Italy's Museo di Storia del Scienza.
722. James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the United States.
723. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
724. Little Miss Muffet was a girl from the 16th century whose name was really Patience.
725. Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while host of Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom.
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead, Harry. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right... and what is easy."
701. At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour.
702. A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.
703. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
704. Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna.
705. Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
706. After the death of the genius, Albert Einstein, his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
707. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
708. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
709. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
710. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was "Moon." Buzz was the second man to step onto the Moon in 1969.
711. Beethoven used to take hay baths to remedy the swelling he used to get in his legs.
712. Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary.
713. Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids.
714. During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings (The Red Vineyard).
715. Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.
716. Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
717. Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940's.
718. Houdini's real name was Ehrich Weiss.
719. In 1876, Maria Spelterina was the first woman to ever cross Niagara Falls on a high wire.
720. In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made of nothing but chocolate.
721. Italian philosopher and scientist Galileo Galilei's middle finger can be found on display at Italy's Museo di Storia del Scienza.
722. James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the United States.
723. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
724. Little Miss Muffet was a girl from the 16th century whose name was really Patience.
725. Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while host of Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom.
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead, Harry. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right... and what is easy."
posted by Scott at 9:28 AM
3 Comments:
LIES!
"708. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf."
Although I have no quarms as to whether Mr Bell ever phoned his wife or mother, he was not the inventor of the telephone.
It is a common misconception, whilst true that Bell gained the patent for it, Antonio Meucci should be given credit for coming up with the idea some 25 years before Bell.
Credit should also be given to Charles Bourseul & Johann Philipp Reis, for their work.
Well, Squiggle, we don't care about some Italian guy with his Italian toys. We're American! If we say Bell invented the telephone, then Bell invented the damn telephone!
Except, of course, that the United States House of Representatives credited Meucci with the invention of the telephone in June of 2002, thus negating the credit to Bell. What's more, both men immigrated into the States. Bell was born in Scotland and later moved to Canada. He didn't even become a citizen of the United States until 6 years after the patent for his telephone was approved. So... yeah. Meucci was more American when he invented the telephone than Bell was, having moved to the States in 1850, and inventing the telephone in 1854.
But we're still American and we're still right! So there, Squig!
On a side note, I remember Chris Rock as quoting the general feeling of white Christian America after 9/11 being "'I'm American! Fuck these foreigners!' and then I started to listen, 'cause it's only a matter of time before black people and Jews are next!"
The brilliant and Almighty Squiggle spots yet another inaccuracy in an issue of Trivia for Squiggle! Maybe I should start checking these things before I post? Hmmm...
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