#1350

Yes, I saw that. But I've also learned my lesson and improved my sources. :)
#1351

#1352~The Amazons were the race of warriors who burned off their right breasts in Greek legend. (Ouch!)

#1353~The official language of India is Hindi.

I'm starting to wonder which books I should get out and quote from ad infinitum

#1354

#1355~Freckles appear when the sun activates your melanocytes.

#1356~In 1955, millions of kids wore Davy Crockett coonskin caps.

#1357~Just trying to keep this thread interesting in our quest for that elusive 1,000,000. :)

#1358

The programming language C was derived from, and based on, a programming language called...


wait for it...

B (authored mainly by Ken Thompson at Bell Labs).

Languages derived from C include Objective C (used by Apple in Mac OS X), C++, and Java.

Prior to standardization by the American National Standards Institute, the most popular "version" of C was "K & R C" where K&R stood for Kernighan and Ritchie, two of the developers of the language at Bell Labs.

#1359

In 1951, Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. released its first sets of baseball cards (Topps was LONG considered the king of baseball cards, and in the early 80s did other sets of cards as well (including Return of the Jedi, E.T., Garbage Pail Kids), before the sports card explosion of the mid-late 80s).

There were 104 cards, 52 with red backs, and 52 with blue backs, and were part of a playable game as well as collector's objects.

Rather than gum, they were packed with a caramel candy.

(Info from Topps Baseball Cards, a 35 year history, published in 1985).

German Monty Python Trivia
 

#1360

The two German episodes are available on VHS (in PAL and NTSC formats) from Guerilla Films (see http://www.guerilla-films.com/mp/fz.htm ) and are on 2 separate DVDs, in two unrelated box sets, in North America, from A&E.

In 1998, a script book, in German, of JUST the two German episodes (from 1971 and 1972) was released. You can get a used copy from amazon.de.

MORE German Monty Python Trivia
 

#1361

In German Episode one, the announcer at the beginning was the then chief female announcer/presenter of the WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) TV network (her name is Claudia Doren).

There are several references to Albrecht Dürer (A personal favorite artist of mine). In every case, the year of his death is wrong. The program gives it as 1530. He actually died in 1528.

Thomas Woitkewitch (who produced episode #2) translated the Lumberjack Song into German (the song is sung by Michael Palin, in German, in episode one. To this day he says he could still recite it. It was released on a CD single in Europe in the early 90s, and appears in the Monty Python Song Book). It is the ONLY appearance of any previously written material in either of the two German episodes.

#1362~Sleeping Beauty slept 100 years.

#1363~The game that is the biggest money-maker for Las Vegas casinos is craps.

#1364~Rin Tin Tin was voted most popular film performer of 1926.