Trivia for Squiggle # XXXI
Today's Trivia for Squiggle is a continuation of the various people tidbits in issue #XXIX.
751. Malcolm X's real name is Malcolm Little.
752. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
753. People who studies laughter are called a "gelotologists."
754. Ralph Lauren's real name is Ralph Lifshitz.
755. Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for "Ladies Love Cool James."
756. Richard Pavelle solved the Rubik's cube underwater with only needing five gulps of air.
757. Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means "apple sauce" in Japanese.
758. Saint Patrick's real name was Maewyn Succat.
759. Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial.
760. Sophia Loren's sister was once married to the son of the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini.
761. Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven.
762. The Red Baron's real name was Manfred Von Richtofen.
763. The artist Michelangelo's full name in Italian is Michaelangelo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni.
764. The famous Casanova (Giacomo Casanova) was a librarian for many years before he died.
765. The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr.
766. The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men.
767. The founder of JC Penny had the middle name of Cash.
768. The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind.
769. The parents of Albert Einstein were worried that he was mentally slow because it took him a long time to learn how to speak.
770. The political philosopher Karl Marx used to write articles for the New York Tribune in the early 1850's.
771. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark.
772. Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honour of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War.
773. Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.
774. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space. She spent three days in space and completed forty-eight orbits of Earth.
775. Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
"I don't want to be one of those things...walking around without a soul."
751. Malcolm X's real name is Malcolm Little.
752. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
753. People who studies laughter are called a "gelotologists."
754. Ralph Lauren's real name is Ralph Lifshitz.
755. Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for "Ladies Love Cool James."
756. Richard Pavelle solved the Rubik's cube underwater with only needing five gulps of air.
757. Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means "apple sauce" in Japanese.
758. Saint Patrick's real name was Maewyn Succat.
759. Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial.
760. Sophia Loren's sister was once married to the son of the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini.
761. Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven.
762. The Red Baron's real name was Manfred Von Richtofen.
763. The artist Michelangelo's full name in Italian is Michaelangelo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni.
764. The famous Casanova (Giacomo Casanova) was a librarian for many years before he died.
765. The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr.
766. The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men.
767. The founder of JC Penny had the middle name of Cash.
768. The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind.
769. The parents of Albert Einstein were worried that he was mentally slow because it took him a long time to learn how to speak.
770. The political philosopher Karl Marx used to write articles for the New York Tribune in the early 1850's.
771. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark.
772. Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honour of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War.
773. Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.
774. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space. She spent three days in space and completed forty-eight orbits of Earth.
775. Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
"I don't want to be one of those things...walking around without a soul."
posted by Scott at 11:30 AM
2 Comments:
Oooooh ... Guess what ... It's inventor trifles again!
"771. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark." - Afriad of the dark he might have been, but inventor of the light bulb, sadly not.
All Edison did was buy the patent off of Woodward and Evans and have a team of developers improve the design.
Teehee ... Otherwise wonderful.
Squiggle: Alas...once again, I have failed. Sorry, O Almighty Squiggle! Yeah, all the people facts in TFS 29 and 31 were selections from this one site I stumbled across whilst trekking the net for future issues...but for whatever reason just decided to post the stuff 'now' instead of later. I can't at this moment remember the name/address of that site I got this info from and I'm not sure I saved it to my favorites in the web browser...hmmm...but yeah, I was more amused at the 'afraid of the dark' bit that I once again glossed over the probably more important fact... =)
Cindy: I'm going to say that you should stop driving yourself crazy thinking about this quote because it's one of those that sounds like it could be from one of several movies...but it is in fact a line from Paul W.S. Anderson's "Resident Evil" movie, spoken by Michelle Rodriguez who played Rain in the flick but is probably more well known for her role in "Girlfight."
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