Check out my tumblr samdosechallenges.tumblr heres an exert: DAY TWENTY NINE: 25 RANDOM FACTS IK 1. The saying saved by the bell comes from back in the old days when the cups people used contained lead and were poisoning the people causing people to pass out for days and people mistaken them for dead and buried them alive, this was found out later when grave keepers had to move graves and found scratch marks on the inside of the wood caskets, so to prevent this they would let the died people lay out for a time (hence the wake and viewing people still do today) and if they did not revive they would bury then with a string around their wrist that was attached to a bell so if they did wake up the care taker would hear the bell and dig up the person. 2. The saying dont throw your baby out with the bath water comes from back in the old days when people would only bath once a year in april. The going bath order would be males, then male children, females, then female children, with babies going last. By the time the baby got to take a bath the water was usually black and full of dirt. 3. The first steam boat to ever leave from Mississippi was delayed due to a passenger bringing on his pet alligator. 4. The fear of long words is the longest phoia word: hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. 5. Jynx was originally black but was later edited to be purple due to its “raciness”, It was also considered raciest due to its ability to learn ‘Black Power’. 6. This new years was the first new years in 19 years to have fallen on a new moon. 7. From your longest finger to your longest finger (arm span) measures the same as your height. Also, the space from your elbow to your wrist is the same size as your foot. 8. Pepperoni Pizza, and Lumberjack are cheat codes for the original game Age of Empire, pepperoni pizza gave you 100 food and lumberjack gave you 100 wood. 9. In the original Little Mermaid movie vhs cover the castle had a penis as a tower. 10. Donald and Daffy Duck get into a fight in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Donald calls Daffy a “Doggon stupid Nigger”. 11. The average novel contains anywhere from 80,000 to 120,000 words where as a short novel that only has around 150 to 200 pages only contains around 35,000 and 50,000. 12. One mistake in Harry Potter comes from the 4th book is when Harry and Voldemort battle, and the last people Voldemort killed come out of his wand. First comes Peter’s hand, then comes the old man, the comes Harry’s dad. But it says in the first book that Voldemort killed Harry’s dad, and then moved on to his mom and him. So technically, his mom should have came out first and then his dad, since they were coming out in reverse order. 13. Another mistake in Harry Potter comes in when Hagrid is introducing himself and talking about James and Lily Potter at the beginning of Sorcerer’s Stone he said they are both head boy and girl. Then in Order of the Phoenix, Serious says that James wasn’t even a Prefect. So how could James become head boy if he’s not a prefect first? 14. There is a day once a year where people ride the subway and other trains around the world in there underwear if they chose to. 15. Most male Vulcan names begin with “S” and most females’ names with a “T” followed by an apostrophe. 16. People who can roll their tongue into a tunnel, fold their tongue, have a genetic gnome set for this ability meaning they are related in some form or fashion be it very distant or not so much. 17. Kirk never…ever…says “Beam me up Scotty.” 18. On the bridge set of the original Star Trek series there was a plaque on the helm station. It was only visible by the actors. It read: Galactic Speed Limit- 65,000,000 MPH 19. There is a bible for a church called: Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism. 20. 130 ep of the beloved Doctor Who series are considered lost and or messed up in some way. 21. Torchwood is an anagram for Doctor Who. 22. Douglas Adams writer of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, also wrote the Doctor Who episodes “The Pirate Planet”, “City of Death”, and “Shada”. 23. Deep Roy is the only Doctor Who actor to have been in both Star Wars and Star Trek. (Keenser in 2009 Star Trek, Droopy McCool in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, and Mr Sin in the Doctor Who episode The Talons of Weng Chiang.) 24.According to the comic “Fellow Travellers” and the novellas “Verdigris”, “Warlock”, “Warchild”, “The Dying Days”, “Mad Dogs” and “Englishmen”, the Doctor owns two bits of property on earth. One in Kent and one in New York City. 25. The Doctor has 4 aliases: his true name (unknown), The Doctor, John Smith, and Theta Sigma (ΘΣ), known as Thete when the Doctor was at the Time Lord Academy on Gallifrey.
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