“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” was originally planned to start with Indie riding a motorcycle on the Great Wall of China, followed by the discovery of a “Lost World” type of hidden valley with dinosaurs. The idea was scrapped when the Chinese government refused to let them film there.
Author: Weirdo
Stephen Pruitt has made more than 2,500,000…
Stephen Pruitt has made more than 2,500,000 edits to Wikipedia articles (he’s edited a third of Wikipedia’s nearly 5.7 million pages) and has generated more than 31,000 original articles in the past 13 years. “My interests are maybe not the most ordinary,” concedes the 34-year-old, “but I have them, and I follow them.” I support this 100%.”
“Every Breath You Take” by The Police…
“Every Breath You Take” by The Police is supposed to be about someone obsessed with a lost lover, and who stalks them. Sting, who wrote it, is troubled by how many people think it is a love song.
In 1982 Xerox management watched…
In 1982 Xerox management watched a film of people struggling to use their new copier and laughed that they must have been grabbed off a loading dock. The people struggling were Ron Kaplan, a computational linguist, and Allen Newell, a founding father of artificial intelligence.
In 1971 Pink Floyd played…
In 1971 Pink Floyd played a show in London that was so loud it killed all the fish in a lake 100 yards away.
It is legal be to buried…
It is legal to be buried at sea in the USA. You basically wrap the body in a sheet with some weights, at least 3 miles from shore and throw it off the boat. The Navy even has a program to assist veterans of the armed services.
On January 22, 1943 in Spearfish…
On January 22, 1943 in Spearfish, South Dakota, the temperature rose from -4 at 7:32 a.m. to 45 degrees–a rise of 49 degrees—in just two minutes. A couple of hours later, it plunged from 54 back to -4 degrees–a change of 58 degrees in 27 minutes.
In 1808 two Frenchmen held…
In 1808 two Frenchmen held a duel in the skies by both riding their own hot air balloon and shooting at each other’s balloon.
From 1912 to 1948, painting…
From 1912 to 1948, painting was an Olympic event. In 1924, Jack Yeats, brother of the poet W. B. Yeats, took the silver: Ireland’s first-ever Olympic medal.
Pre-Infected Tissues
The company Vaev claims to be selling tissues that have already been sneezed into. For about $80 it seems that you get a box containing one infected tissue. The idea apparently is that you can infect yourself with a cold, and this will somehow strengthen your immune system, thereby protecting you from further colds or the flu. Although the company’s website is very vague on details, offering only this:
We believe that when flu season comes around, you should be able to get sick on your terms. We’re not about chemicals or prescription drugs here at Vaev. We believe using a tissue that carries a human sneeze is safer than needles or pills. This isn’t like any tissue you’ve used before, but we love using them, and you will too.