Fascinating Facts and Trivia

NASA has a radio station, and all they play is alternative rock.

In 1524, a statue of the Virgin Mary was charged as being a witch and was sent to a trial by water, when the statue floated, they denounced it as a witch and burned it.

On April Fools Day 1976, the BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease the gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they had felt the effects.

(14-01-2019 12:51 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  Woah...thread becoming highbrow and profound.

Posting quotes from comic books isn't highbrow or profound.

(14-01-2019 13:32 )schvall Wrote:  

(14-01-2019 12:51 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  Woah...thread becoming highbrow and profound.

Posting quotes from comic books isn't highbrow or profound.

How do you know the quotes are from a ‘comic book’? I find this claim to be most curious..

Almost as curious as the fact that you and the other poster, who before now having never made a single contribution to this thread, suddenly appear and make very similar sounding pedantic criticisms with ‘comic’ references...

(14-01-2019 13:37 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  How do you know the quotes are from a ‘comic book’? Just curious..

"Watchmen" is highly regarded in the comics industry, even being described as the best comic ever published. It's been a critical and commercial success and the film adaptation has performed better than some of the Batman films and other films based on DC comics. The goatman quotes happen to be well known Watchmen lines, even if you aren't familiar with them.

(14-01-2019 13:37 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  pedantic criticisms

So pointing out that something is fiction and not fact is pedantic?

My facts come from two sources, my memory of things I've learnt over the years and where possible I will quote the source like the early QI stuff which was sourced from the quotes made in the Daily Mail.
I don't restrict people quoting stuff from books, magazines or comics, it comes under the auspices of fascinating and trivia so it can be included. Pop groups have frequently borrowed from various places like Duran Duran(from Barbarella's Durand Durand) and The Teardrop Explodes from a comic so I doubt anyone is really going to worry that a quote has been lifted from a comic book. Everything fascinating and trivial is welcome here as our new contributors.

The computer game Starcraft is so famous in South Korea that top gamers receive huge salaries and prizes to play the game at various competitions.

The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet of space.