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Fact-o-rama - 05/02/07
Back like cooked crack, y'all. Today's infonugget, with joint credit to Mr. D. Fawcett: The Canadian one-dollar coin has a picture of the common loon on one side, and is consequently referred to as a loonie. And the Canadian equivalent of Poundstretcher? "Loonie Shops". Those crazy Canucks.
Also
since Theo claims to only read Fact-o-rama when Guntrip's at the helm, I'd like to take this opportunity to publicly call him a big momo, just to see if he responds. 5616!
It was a full moon on Sat night
and we all behaved like LUNA-TICS.
oh rose
I liked it
I did an etymoLOL.
Coming at ya like Cleopatra
My fact for today is:
On this day in 1966, a BOAC Boeing crashed into the side of Mount Fuji.
124 people died.
Bit of a grisly one, that.
I never claimed it was going to be a barrel of laughs.
I know
I think it's good that Fact-o-rama has a serious side.
Nobody has yet spotted the deliberate mistake
which is that today is of course oh five slash oh THREE slash oh seven, not oh two.
the oldest person who ever lived
was born today in 1871
Happy 126th birthday Maria do Carmo Geronimo
whoops
she died ten years ago - bad maths
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA FUNNY
liek duh
noah was three hundred odd when he copped it.
Today is
Evil Jared Hasselhoff's Birthday. Good for him.
Never mind that
It's the fiftieth anniversary of the incarnation of Mark E. Smith in human form. Happy birthday Mark! You old bugger.
Birthday wishes are also due to
Dean Stockwell
Olusegun Obasanjo
Eddy Grant
Elaine Paige
Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller
MC Solaar
John Frusciante
Matt Lucas
Eva Mendes
and although he's dead, a special mention to the first president of Zimbabwe: Canaan Banana.
Speaking of funny names
today in 1973, the Symbionese Liberation Army leader Donald DeFreeze escaped from jail. Amazingly, that does appear to be his real name.
What
amazed me more was that apparently the man in charge of said jail was a Kenny Jailoperator
With a name like that
he never really had a choice.
nice Juelz reference.
^5
Someone got it.
it's because i too am human crack in the flesh.
Haha
Apparently his new album's called "I Can't Feel My Face".
really?
hahahaha
idiot savants are my favourite kind of genius.
That's one of the better fact-o-ramas
I usually only like Guntrip's
:(
He had a part role in this one, which explains your approval.
More references to Poundstretcher
that always brings the crowds in.
I'll give you a related fact, then
There's a Poundstretcher on Kilburn High Road, but if you go further down there's a 99p shop and then a 98p shop. So bizarrely, the Poundstretcher marks the pricey end of town.
you're being very unoriginal today
5/10
I promised that the loonie fact would be today's
but normal service will be resumed tomorrow. Even though Yo Soy won't like it.
D'you want some 5th of March facts? On This Day In History: Five Americans were killed by British troops in Boston, including a slave called Crispus Attucks, furthering the anti-British feeling which would eventually lead to the American Revolution (1770); Samuel Colt made the first revolver (1836); Italy began using airships for military purposes, the first country to do so (1912); Elvis appeared on telly for the first time (1955); and 35 pilgrims were crushed to death in Mecca during the Hajj (2001).
Better?
P.S. Your mum.
See, I like that
I'd probably shop in the 99p one. You don't want to look too posh.
A healthy balance.