Fun Friday Fact - hope you respond weekly to give us all a smile

[Heather Shay]

Oh I forgot one to make you laugh or at least smile

 

 

• Samuel L. Jackson was a cheerleader in college.

 

[miz miranda]

All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job in case their pants split.

[Heather Shay]

thank you LOLOLOLOL

[Ivy]

Well, this is good to know.

[Jani]

Good point.  I seem to recall that occurring!

[miz miranda]

I need a smile today. Here's mine for today

 

 

 

The inventor of the Pringles can is now buried in one.

 

 

[Delcina B]

5 hours ago, miz miranda said:

I need a smile today. Here's mine for today

 

The inventor of the Pringles can is now buried in one.

 

That's one Pringles can I won't try to pop!

[Heather Shay]

@miz miranda thank you for the lol - I forgot to list one so thank you for that as well - so here goes

 

 

 

Cows moo with regional accents.

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"In small populations such as herds you would encounter identifiable dialectical variations which are most affected by the immediate peer group," explains one UK professor in an article for BBC News. In other words: You can take the cow out of Jersey…

 

Lobsters communicate with their bladders.

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Lobsters have bladders on either side of their heads, so they communicate by urinating at each other. If they want another lobster to know that they're happy or sad or angry or interested in a relationship, they say it with pee!

 

 

 

 

[MelanieTamara]

"If they want another lobster to know that they're happy or sad or angry or interested in a relationship, they say it with pee! "

 

Wow, gives a whole new meaning to being "pissed off!"

[Ivy]

12 hours ago, MelanieTamara said:

Wow, gives a whole new meaning to being "pissed off!"

LOL

You beat me to it!

 

[Heather Shay]

One of the earliest known vacuum cleaners was so large that it had to be hauled from house to house via a horse-drawn carriage. Its giant hoses were popped through the windows of customers, and a gas-powered motor generated the suction that pulled the dirt and debris into a glass container where onlookers could gawk at the volume of filth coming from their neighbors' homes.

[Ivy]

Maybe I'll stick to sweeping.

[Heather Shay]

@Jandi LOL

[ClarkDiesInside]

A certain amount of blood can replace an egg in baking, I think.

[Ivy]

So that's how they make that Red Velvet Cake.

 

[Heather Shay]

Red Velvet is one of my favorites......

[MelanieTamara]

Sales People for the Horse Drawn Carriage Vacuum Cleaner Company's motto is, "There's a sucker born every day!"

[LusciousTheLock]

Funny, you mention old Vacuum cleaners... I collect them as a hobby. These are all Hoover Junior cleaners. left to right- 1987, 1972, 1957, 1948 and 1938. All working

[Ivy]

1 hour ago, LusciousTheLock said:

 I collect them as a hobby

Cool.   I'd heard that people did this, but wasn't sure if it was for real.

I have a really vague memory from the 50's, when I was very little, of riding on my mother's Hoover whilst she was vacuming the rug.  It had a headlight.  She had that thing forever.

[LusciousTheLock]

Sounds like a Hoover Senior model, although I believe you had different names over there . Here those headlight models were advertised as Dirtsearcher. That 1987 model on the left of my photo is fitted with a Dirtsearcher lamp to a standard Hoover Junior.

 

Its kinda sad, but when covid happened and we went into lockdown, people kept giving them to me as I like to tinker and get them working. They areally arent useful at all as these have beater bars for carpets and I dont have any carpet in my house, but I like them and cant explain why?

[LusciousTheLock]

Possibly a 612 model... looks like a comfy seat for a small child

[Robin]

I too collect vacuum cleaners as a hobby.  Here are some of my Hoover Junior machines, dating from 1935 to the 1980s. 

 

Robin.

[LusciousTheLock]

Brilliant! Glad I'm not alone lol   

[Ivy]

That looks just like it to me, possibly a different color though.  

[Heather Shay]

The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts, from Willows, Wisconsin. Her birthday is March 9, 1959, when she was first displayed at the New York Toy Fair. 

 

The longest place name in the word, at 85 letters, is “Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu,” New Zealand. Locals just call it Taumata Hill. (