Friday, January 28, 2011

More Fun Facts!


Jeepers creepers! I can't believes me peepers! This new "Internet" is amazing! Why, all of this useful information is enough to swell your cranium to the size of a large, malformed pumpkin! Just like that creepy mutant that was confined to a wheelchair in the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes"! Did you know that Maximilian de Robespierre, a principal figure in the French Revolution, nicknamed his penis the "The Bananaconda" ? Or that Viking Explorer Leif Erickson first landed on the moon in the year 1000 A.D. ? As an amateur historian, it is my duty to collect and share these interesting historical tidbits with my fellow "knowledge enthusiasts". So here, for your enjoyment and intellectual amazement, I now present an all new collection of fun historical facts to thrill your knowledge-hungry minds!

1.) Artist Claude Monet, the founder of French impressionist painting, achieved some of the most vibrant colors in his work by incorporating a mixture of bloody human feces and vomit in his oil paint!


2.) Despite his death from syphilis in 1870, German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche went on to write no less than 16 books from 1872-1888, including "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and "On the Genealogy of Morality"!


3.) American President, John F. Kennedy preferred to sleep in a spiderweb-shaped hammock wearing a month-eaten chimpanzee costume he'd purchased at a flea market in 1952.


4.) Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the phonograph, also founded the music industry's first hip hop record label, CrazeeAssKillah Records, in 1890!


5.) Film Legend Charlie Chaplin died of shoe poisoning in 1977 after cooking and eating one of his own shoes in an attempt to fight off starvation during a snow storm.


6.) Rock and Roll recording artist, Ted Nugent culled the lyrics for his 1977 song, "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" from a little known poem written by author Edgar Allan Poe in 1847!


7.) Taco Bell franchise founder, "Taco Titan", Charles Bell was a self-confessed cannibal.


8.) Reclusive, "The Catcher in the Rye" author, J.D. Salinger played a storm trooper in the 1977 box office hit, Star Wars!


Well there you have it! More fun facts to make your head spin! I'll be on the look out for more fun and interesting facts to share in the near future! So until the near future comes, keep learning knowledge!

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