Hey Pandas, Give Me A Random Fact

Circa 1959: 'The Tingler' was a horror flick with several firsts:

1. Depiction of LSD use. It was legal at the time.

2. Audience immersion in events.

a) Some theater seats had aircraft wing de-icers, basically military issue vibrators. They simulated shock from the film's monster.

b) Fake screamers and fainters in audience. Fake nurses and ambulance drivers in lobby.

3. Actors spoke directly to audience.

First, to tell the audience to remain seated as real woman in audience stands up, screams, and faints. Then film appears to break as shadowy figure of monster moves across projection beam. Suddenly, Vincent Price tells the audience not to panic but monster loose in that theater. He says 'Scream! Scream for your lives!' That's when those cussed vibrating devices activated and scared the dickens out of every kid in the theater. Me included. It wasn't a shock so much as violent jittering that felt like shock. Static electricity and imagination played a part, too.

4. Filmed in Black & White but had color sequence spliced in... bloody hand rising from drain. Actor and set painted in monochrome to match rest of film, add shock value to bloody hand.

5. Movie-in-a-Movie effect. Clip of old movie fight scene played at climatic point.

Director was William Castle. Creative genius. Check out his autobiography, "Step Right Up! I'm Gonna Scare The Pants Off America"

Ok, I have quite a few, but I'll just stick to a.simple one for today.

A Puffinus Puffinus is not actually a puffin, it's a Manx Shearwater, for those of you how have never bothered to Google it.

That's all folks!

Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can now email tools to astronauts.

I got spinal fusion surgery a few weeks ago and it wasn't fun, it still isn't.

My feed are cold. Random enough?

My left shoelace is untied

mules are sterile.

If you were to complete the main story of Batman Arkham Knight 100%, get all season of infamey quests done, 100% complete New Game +, you get a batsuit with a golden Bat in the middle.

My cousin defeated North Korea... in professional football! he scored a brace against them in the 2019 Asia Cup!

President Barack Obama voiced an animal documentary about National Parks around the World than he's visited. (I need more of these)

Get naked, squat on your heels, cross your arms across your knees and rest your forehead on your arms.

All your body hair now points straight down.

When we were hair covered this was how we waited out rain without becoming saturated.

Try it yourself.

Random enough?

fact #1: water is wet. Fact #2: chocolotte milk does not come from brown cows. fact #3: the earth is round.

Another animal fact! (This one is weird. Like, really weird.) A cockroaches brain is not housed inside its head. It's actually inside the body, so a cockroach can survive decapitation. It will continue doing its business until it eventually dies of starvation.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

Here are some insults from the Wings of Fire series:
1. Smoke breather
2. Squid brain
3. frog-faced blob of camel spit
4. camel-chewing, sleep-a-minute son of a toad
As you can see, VERY creative. My personal favorite is number 4. Also, someone on the internet made a crucifix of Uno reverse cards.

Here are a few from a great book by Marcus Chown.

There is a liquid that can run uphill. (liquid helium)

A cup of coffee weighs more when it is hot than when it is cold.

You age faster at the top of a building than at the bottom.

The entire human race would fit in the volume of a sugar cube

Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics.

An atom can be in many different places at once.

my cat is at my feet.

The cheeseburger was trademarked in Denver, Colorado.

The "Turritopsis dohrnii", a jellyfish species, is the only animal known to be able to live forever.

Pufferfish are toxic to humans. (Unless cooked correctly) Dolphins are immune to this toxin, but it does make them "high". Dolphins have been known to purposefully inflate pufferfish and bounce them around for fun.