AlexanderDitto challenged us to gather one fact from every person who visited the Moonbase over the past 5 days. Once Kathleen finished her shift this evening, she read the all aloud. And here they are!
01) “Pandas are more closely related to raccoons than Bears.” – Steve Butts
02) “All calico cats are female by genetic requirement.” – Kristen Lindsay
03) “Many corgis have specific colour patterns. People used to believe they were counts for fairies.” – Jamie Dillion
04) “John Roderick is the unofficial mascot of Xbox Kinect by the name of Captain Kinect.” – Stepto
05) “Grant Imahara has double-jointed thumbs.” – Grant Imahara
06) “Magneta is not actually a colour.” – LeeLee
07) “Cephalopods are not actually sharks.” – Ian
08) “It takes 10 floors for an elevator’s emergency breaks to kick in.” – Robert Khoo
09) “The whiptail lizard is almost all female, but they can reproduce silulating sex with other lady lizards, which will stimulate themselves into releasing a genetic clone of themselves.” – Jim Sterling
10) “Pomegranates grow wild in Afghanistan.” – Dix
11) “You cannot talk while inhaling through your nose.” – Mike Robles
12) “The pangolin’s tongue starts way down in the bottom of their ribcage.” – DoctorVancouver
13) “A group of mallard ducks is a ‘sword’ of ducks.” – Jer
14) “A pregnant goldfish is called a ‘twit’.” – Kate
15) “You can’t move your foot clockwise while you move your hand counter-clockwise.” – Kim
16) “Bison will sacrifice one of the herd to try and escape wolves.” – Bill
17) “Helium is a byproduct of nuclear decay and we are running out.” – Alex
18) “In 1983, Bill was the biggest baby born in the Huntsville Ont. hospital.” – Kate, Bill’s Mom
19) “Plants vs. Zombies was originally going to be named ‘Lawn of the Dead’ but it was changed due to licensing issues.” – Jeff Green
20) “There is a Bejeweled backstory.” – Jeff Green
21) “7-11’s head office is in Japan.” – Ian
22) “John Patrick Flatery, a.k.a. the voice of Sniper in Team Fortress 2, is married to Ellen McLean, voice of GladOS.” -Yahtzee
23) “Turtles like to eat pumpkin pie filling.” – Veronica Belmont
24) “The highest grossing family film of all time adjusted for inflation is the first muppet movie.” – MovieBob
25) “Bees will not fill in a space exactly 2 bees in size.” – Neil Gaiman
26) “At the time, the original Ninja Turtles movie was the highest grossing indy film of all time.” – Sam Logan
27) “A neutron start is so dense that if a piece the size of a sugar cube were to sit on the surface of the earth would weigh as much as all the cars in the USA combined.” – Phil Plait
28) “You cannot keep your eyes open when you sneeze.” – Ken Steacy
29) “The name Pez comes from the first, middle, and last letters in the German word for peppermint, ‘Phetterminz.’ The first candies were peppermint and came in dispensers shaped like lighters.” – Psychopez
30) “Mario was named after one of Nintendo America’s landlords.” – Peter Sagal
31) “Real buses tend to go faster than those in Sega CD’s.” – Dostrow
32) “Sea urchins do not age.” – Andre
33) “Slimer’s original name was ‘Onion Head'” – Peter Cline
34) “At one point Monte Cook could recite all of Ghost Busters from beginning to end.” – Monte Cook
35) “Liz is the coolest person Graham has ever met.” – Liz
36) “In the game Borderlands, the motion capture for the character Lilith in the opening bus ride scene was done by Mikey Neumann.” – Mikey Neumann
37) “Yaks milk is pink.” – Felicia Day
38) “Steve proposed to Kim Stockwood, of ‘Jerk’ fame.” – Steve
39) “The throaty noise pilots make is to stay on the airspace and let other pilots know that they cannot talk.” – Ash
40) “Horses can generalize.” – Notch
41) “Cows have anal muscles.” – C418
42) “Telltale has its very own Narnia.” – Seg (Ümloud)
43) “The original “Drink the Kool-Aid” came from the Georgetown massacre, but they really drank Flavor-Aid.” – Uberbeth
44) “The only sport for which the rules stipulate that you must play left handed is polo.” – Susan Arenott
45) “Hinged scissors were invented by the Romans in ~100AD.” – Tally
46) “Valve has an email set up for ‘[email protected]’ because of how Gabe Newell pronounces his address.” –
47) “Sean Becker has never and will never eat a McRib.” – Sean Becker
48) “Pringles are mandated to be referred to as ‘potato crisps’ because chip manufacturers couldn’t compete.” – J. McElroy
49) “The first time Graham heard ‘Africa’ was the rap cover by Karl Wolf.” – Graham
50) ” The ‘over 9000′ meme dialogue was originally 8000 but was changed to fit the lip syncing.” – Paul
51) “Ben Edlund, creator of ”The Tick’ wrote the Firefly episode ‘Jayne’s Town’ including writing the song, ‘The Hero of Canton.'” – Johnny
52) “As a Freemason, Beej wants to be clear that it is not a ‘Secret Society’ but a ‘Society with Secrets'” – Beej
53) “The Bayer filter is 50% green, 25% red, and 25% blue because photos would look weird otherwise.” – Cori
54) “HillaryDuff.com and YugiohTheAbridgedSeries.com both use the same ‘custom’ site coding.” – Kroze
55) “Inside the human eye, the retina, is wired backwards. The light has to pass the nerves and connecting cells to reach the photoreceptor cells that will receive the light.” – Tina Hollands.
56) “Stephen Fry smells like roses and cologne.” – Molly Lewis
57) “Molly Lewis’ nickname as a little girl was Gorbachev, which was sometimes shortened to ‘Gorby'” – Molly Lewis’ Mom
58) “McDonald’s french fries taste different in Japan.” – Ashley Allman
59) “The suggested serving for the 1/2 lb. Reese’s cup is 1/6 of it.” – Keldane
60) “It’s bad luck for sailors to clink their glasses when they toast. The sound too closely ressembles the sound of the bell that tolls when a sailor is lost at sea.” – Brent
61) “It is illegal to die in the houses of parliament.” – Jaimie
62) “Black ants can bite, but they can only bite once.” – Kara
63) “Rhinos only run in a straight line.” – Ashton
64) “Carrots used to be purple.” – Chris
65) “According to Canadian minor hockey, when a referee drops the puck at the beginning of a period he faces the timeclock, but when he drops the puck during the middle of a period, he faces the players’ benches so he can watch out for any shenanigans.” – Matt
66) “Elephants purposefully eat fermented fruit juice to get drunk.” – Jess
67) “If an acronym is not pronounceable as a word (CIA, KDI, etc.) it is actually an initialism.” – Small Ian
68) “JoCo was a Level 5 Juvenile Theif.” – Johnathan Coulton
