Random "Facts" Game

[italicizewafer]

Fact: Love does not transcend dimensions no matter what Christopher Nolan thinks

 

[Snowy]

Fact: Ash and Red both learned about the strength of Human-Pokemon relations in a battle with Mewtwo. For Red, This resulted in Charizard Mega evolving... and for Ash, this resulted in Pikachu reviving him and Mewtwo standing down.

 

[italicizewafer]

Fact: A saw this episode
Fact 2: ORIGINS DID THAT SO WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS...

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[DracoMan]

There is no historical evidence that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said the "sleeping giant" line from the end of Tora! Tora! Tora!, but it did accurately sum up his feelings about a war with America. Additionally, he was killed before the war's end (so he never got to say "I told you so" to his bosses).

 

[italicizewafer]

Fact: KSP 0.7.3 had no atmosphere. Instead, the Universe was suspended in a fishbowl filled with molasses.

 

[SobriquetP]

-US President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

-The most common name in the world is Muhammad.

-Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old

-Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

 

[ReturnofMCH]

when telephones were first invented, the president's phone number was "1"

 

[jackatlasred]

Beethoven was deaf thru the later part of his music career

 

[italicizewafer]

Space does not exist.

 

[Snowy]

Fact: Contrary to popular belief, it is not possible to travel through time with a phone box, a sports car, or a starship.

 

[italicizewafer]

Hell no


BTTF was accurate
We have hoverboards now

 

[Snowy]

Fact, while hoverboards like those shown in Back to the Future do not exist... an inventor in the US has had some limited success making a hoverboard.

In October 2014, inventor Greg Henderson demonstrated a prototype hoverboard working on a magnetic levitation principle. Similar to maglev trains, the hoverboard requires a surface of non-ferromagnetic metal such as copper or aluminum to function, carrying up to 300 pounds while hovering one inch above the surface. Four engines were used to power the magnetic levitation, with the option of applying thrust and spin to the board under user control. The prototype was promoted in a campaign on Kickstarter the day of the news coverage, with a price of $10,000 for the first ten boards. The New York Times said that although the board worked, Greg Henderson had no personal interest in skateboarding and that the Kickstarter was "basically a publicity stunt," designed to call attention to Hendo's magnetic levitation technology which Henderson was more interested in using for other applications, such as an emergency maglev mechanism capable of raising buildings from their foundations to protect them from earthquakes. Henderson was quoted as saying, "That’s why we picked the hoverboard: to capture that attention. If one in 10 people realize there is another use for this stuff, that would be a great success."

Hoverboard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fun fact: Science fiction television show Star Trek has also had some success in influencing technological development. Star Trek was using the name PAD 20 years before the iPad's release.

 

[Maniacal Engineer]

Fact: if you are reading this, you are banned from BMGf. The Mods have forbidden reading!

 

[Wispy Willow]

This statement is a lie.

I have used this 'joke' before.

 

[ReturnofMCH]

fun fact: there was going to be a spin-off TV series of the movie blazing saddles.
fun fact: the main character's name was bart in said film.

 

[Maniacal Engineer]

Fact: Most people don't realize that Captain Kirk's middle initial wasn't initially a T.
At one point, canonically, he was referred to as James R. Kirk.

 

[DracoMan]

Fact: Most people don't realize that Captain Kirk's middle initial wasn't initially a T.
At one point, canonically, he was referred to as James R. Kirk.

This was then turned into an in-joke b/w Kirk and Gary Mitchell involving racquetball.

 

[Maniacal Engineer]

DracoMan is incorrect. The reason Captain Kirk's middle initial is R in the episode Where No Man Has Gone Before is explained in the book Q-Squared, where it is revealed that that episode took place in an alternate time line.

Huzzah!

 

[Snowy]

Fun Fact. Actor Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver, Jack O'Neill Stargate) was made an honourary General in the United States Air Force thanks to his work on Stargate.

 

[DracoMan]

Actually, both Maniacal Engineer's explanation and mine are correct, depending on the source. (Mine could be valid in a different alternate timeline from the one he's referring to.) Aren't non-canon novels fun?