Little Known (Mostly Useless) Trivia Information

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Many people burn more calories sleeping than they do watching television.
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Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are twenty (20) years of age or older.
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
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The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
(Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you?)
(That women are going the 'right' direction...?)
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Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning . (It's the sugar)
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Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN !
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The first owner (Philip Morris) of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did three men who appeared in Marlboro advertisements - Wayne McLaren, David McLean, and Dick Hammer.
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Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE!
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Pearls dissolve in vinegar
(A pearl is mostly calcium carbonate, which is susceptible to even a weak acid solution)
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It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...
but, not downstairs because of how cows knees bend.
(A cow produces on average 30lbs of urine and 65lbs of feces daily)
(They also can produce up to 64 quarts of milk a day)
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Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now !)
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Turtles can breathe through their butts.
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Remember William And Kate's Royal Wedding?

Well.. Not Really


29 million views and still counting!

See the original video by East 17 HERE. It was conceived by former "Pet Shop Boys" manager Tom Watkins. Released in August 1992 it ended up #1 in Sweden for 6 weeks, 2 weeks in Finland.

One Of The Best 'Star Talk' Episodes

In this 47 minute program Neil deGrasse Tyson and his guests covered many of the topics I'm fascinated with. Anyone with a inquiring mind would be hard pressed to find a better source then these scientific minds. Guests include astrophysicist Janna Levin, comedian Matt Kirshen, physicist Michio Kaku, and Bill Nye the Science Guy.




Carl Sagan- Pale Blue Dot


Is there anyone else fascinated by this stuff as I?

They're Dancing All Over the World (Music Video)

Here's a YouTube post by Mark Van. He did a great job editing a bunch of flash mob clips into this music video...



Clips used:
Amazing Westfield Stratford - Flash Mob!
Dirty Dancing - Unterm Kölner Dom - (Flashmob)
Flash Mob At - St Pancras International - NYE 2010
Flashmob Eric Koloko V2 - Villeneuve d'Asq pour les 40 ans d'Auchan et la venue de - Bruno Mars
Flashmob - We are One à la Gare Lille Flandres par Eric Koloko pour SNCF
Happy Genève Happy - We are from Geneva - Pharrell Williams
Lifemark Flash Mob The World's Oldest
Liverpool ONE Flash Mob
One Direction Sydney - Flash Mob Take 2! (Official Video)
Our Best Flash Mobs! - Bespoke Flash Mob Company, London, Manchester & UK
Pink Ribbon - Flashmob - 2017
Swing Dance Flash Mob - Happy - Tomato Arts Festival - 2014
The British Burst Into YVR! - Vancouver Airport Flash Mob
Zumba Flashmob Stuttgart (Germany) by TanzES & MoveDanceSweat

Track Used:
Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World

Emily Opilo Is Leaving The Morning Call

Most of you know by now, but today I'll say goodbye to @mcall and Allentown. It has been 7 great years, but I'm headed south for new challenges with @baltimoresun. They've got FBI raids and felon politicos too, so I should feel at home. Thanks for everything, Allentown.

— Emily Opilo (@emilyopilo) January 10, 2020

After following her twitter account for sometime I had suspicion this was coming. She followed in the steps of two other top notch reporters who left before her. The good thing for her is she is leaving for a paper which has almost double the number of readers. Her gain is our loss.

Will the last one out at TMC please turn off the lights.

Old Enough To Remember Dopey Duncan At Walps?

Here is one of his Saturday morning broadcast....

His real name was Luther Gehringer.

If you're not old enough to remember
THE MORNING CALL did a extensive write up.on May 14, 1990.

My experience with Dopey came when I was around 10 years old. He'd let me sit him with him and Paul Galgon on their Saturday morning radio show "Two On The Sunnyside" at WKAP. He'd let me work the board, pull the big ET (electrical transcription records) so they could play ads on the oversized 'Gates' turntables and occasionally chatter back and forth with him on the air. This is where my interest in broadcasting began.

I also had the good fortune to be invited by him to his body shop in Minesite, Pa. and into his home. He also took me boat fishing with him at Lake Wallenpaupack. To the quarter midget track out in Fogelsville he was involved with at the time. In short he was like a second father to me. This is why I, like many others, still miss him.

"Loo' sir, knock it off"
Another story comes from my wife's late grandmother who lived above him when he was just a pup living in Allentown. She said they had to yell a couple of times at him to shut up and quit playing "Mule Train" outside on the front stoop at night.

There May Be No Such Thing As Gravity

Yeah I know sometimes I get wrapped up in all this scientific stuff. Call me nuts-- but this has always fascinated me.

Nikola Tesla possessed one of the greatest minds without a doubt. He postulated that there was no such thing as gravity. To his way of thinking everything was a function of electromagnetic force. In as such gravity was not a actual force. Rather it's a effect created when time is being bent by these electromagnetic quantum forces within the molecular world.

In other words the galaxies, sun, planets as well as the black holes don't exert gravitational interactions upon one another. Rather each are a complex result of time itself being created via electromechanical forces. This fits perfectly well within Einstein's calculations regarding the warpage of time around celestial bodies.


Something Neil DeGrasse Tyson tends to agree with...

Neil deGrasse Tyson: What Is Gravity?

Scientists today are seeking explanations for why our universe is speeding up instead of slowing down. Every experiment so far can't find "dark matter" which they claim to be responsible. This theory is ignoring the possibility it's isn't some form of "black matter" but rather a product of time itself being created via these electrical force interactions.

A far simpler explanation may be made-- all matter (at it's subatomic level) is made up of energy. Any increase in energy results in the generation of electromagnetic forces which affect time. Through time distortions for all appearances there seems to be this non existent gravitational thing. Here's a far more complicated explanation...

Nikola Tesla's Dynamic Theory of Gravity

The point is-- if we are ever to conquer the vast distances in space we need to understand how time itself functions. Presently every spacecraft we ever used relied on slingshotting these probes via gravity around large planets in space dependant on our present understandings. Coming to accept gravity as a byproduct of the true forces at work will move us beyond. This is where we need to go.

I think what Tesla was hinting at is electromagnetic forces function in an environment not influenced by time. Rather time is influenced by such force which exists in of itself not subject to the constraints of our present understanding of time

In other words EMF exist instantaneous throughout all things everywhere wherein time has no meaning.

Repost From January 2, 2017