| Sat, Aug 28th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 |  | the_turtle: FACT: I can no longer legitimately post #fridayfacts in Eastern Daylight Time. 12:03a |
| Fri, Aug 27th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Johnny Unitas never rode the short bus, in Baltimore or anywhere else. You wanna challenge me on that, punk? #fridayfacts 11:43p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Anderson, IN is a center for manufacturing short buses. If your rode the short bus in school, it was probably made there. #fridayfacts 11:42p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: in 2008, Anderson University rucked out the Midwest D3 rugby championship by default. Johnny Unitas never played rugby. #fridayfacts 11:39p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Indianapolis Colts do their summer workouts at Anderson University, affiliated with the Church of God. #fridayfacts 11:36p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: there's no evidence that Johnny Unitas ever took even 1 snap in Indianapolis, Indiana, yet the Colts claim his records. #fridayfacts 11:23p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Baltimore Colts were the first NFL team to have cheerleaders. #fridayfacts 11:18p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: this massive, eardrum-shattering sound was emitted 127 years ago today. #fridayfacts 11:07p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: when Krakatoa exploded in 1883, it emitted the loudest noise ever heard by humans on this planet. #fridayfacts 11:04p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: there was no volcano party when Krakatoa exploded in 1883. #fridayfacts 11:01p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: In Camille in 1969, there also was no sole survivor, only 8 of 23 at the Richelieu died. #fridayfacts 10:55p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: no, there was NOT a hurricane party at the Richelieu Apartments during Hurricane Camille in 1969 #fridayfacts 10:54p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: .@CinthiaFaceTime FACT: William Count Basie was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, 106 years ago last week (8/21/1904). #fridayfacts 9:46p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: canned Jack Coke contains neither Jack Daniels nor Coca-Cola. It's basically flavored Zima. #fridayfacts 2:38p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: RT @ApocalypseHow: The British are actually called limeys because they are delicious when squeezed over corn chips. #fridayfacts 2:18p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: on this day in 1965, the Beatles met Elvis, for some reason. #fridayfacts 10:12a |
| Fri, Aug 20th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the most-stolen Interstate highway signs are for I-69. #fridayfacts 11:46p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the first patent for the electric light bulb was NOT awarded to Thomas Edison, nor the second. #fridayfacts 11:09p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London and Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama are pretty much the same song. #fridayfacts 10:30p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the JB in JB scotch stands for Justerini and Brooks. Frank Sinatra liked it a lot. #fridayfacts 10:12p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: some sources attribute Boomer Esiason's nickname to an unfortunate episode of childhood flatulence. #fridayfacts 6:19p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the kid who played Joey in Airplane! later played on Beck's Grammy-winning album, Odelay. No gladiators, though. #fridayfacts 2:18p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: The I speak jive lady in Airplane! was Barbara Billingsley, better known as Mrs. Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver. #fridayfacts 5:43a |
| Thu, Aug 19th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: Is it time for #fridayfacts yet? 7:52p |
| Fri, Aug 13th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: a single Top Fuel dragster produces more horsepower than the first five rows of a NASCAR race field. #fridayfacts 11:52p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: OKGo's recent videos were mostly shot in a single shot, including a shot that lasted over 18 hours. #fridayfacts 11:19p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Jerry Jones can play football; Warren Beatty, not so much. Neither can play soprano saxophone. #fridayfacts 11:05p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: in 1978's Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty's character buys the Dallas Cowboys for $67M. In 1989, Jerry Jones paid $70M. #fridayfacts 10:53p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: in Reds, Warren Beatty plays his character a lot like his character in 1978's Heaven Can Wait. #fridayfacts 10:43p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: The only American buried at the Kremlin Wall is journalist John Reed, Warren Beatty played him in the 1981 film Reds. #fridayfacts 10:38p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the now-defunct People Express introduced the first checked-bag fee in the United States. It was $3. It was 1981. #fridayfacts 10:35p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: The now-defunct New York Air used to call its (quite good) inflight snack The Flying Nosh). Sally Field not included. #fridayfacts 10:34p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Two Capital Airlines aircraft crashed within eight miles of my house, one in 1940 and one in 1947. #fridayfacts 10:33p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: National Airlines ran the first domestic jet service in the US, 12/10/1958, Miami to New York. 707 they leased frm PanAm.#fridayfacts 10:32p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: The first in-flight television was introduced by Capital Airlines... in 1948, a time when most houses didn't have one. #fridayfacts 9:49p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: .@A_Crutch in 1991, there were more places in the US where you could buy Novell NetWare than places you could buy a Slurpee. #fridayfacts 9:42p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Natalie Wood didn't sing any of Maria's songs in 1961's West Side Story. Marni Nixon did. #fridayfacts 9:30p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Warren Beatty was originally slated to play Tony in the 1961 film version of West Side Story. #fridayfacts 8:49p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Though set in Kansas Yale, 1961's Splendor In The Grass was actually shot in Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx. #fridayfacts 8:10p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: The hottest part of your laptop or netbook isn't the hard drive or CPU, it's probably where the WiFi chip is. #fridayfacts 6:44p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Butterfingers contain no fingers, and do not actually list butter as an ingredient. #fridayfacts 4:57p |
| Fri, Aug 6th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the average daily payout in casinos in St. Louis is only about 92%. Less if you're drunk. #fridayfacts 9:47p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: over 60% of car alarms that go off in New York City are completely ignored, or result in vandalism. #fridayfacts 9:44p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT (unverified) RT @A_Crutch: Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made 4 right handed people! #fridayfacts 9:31p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: it is not, in fact, mathematically possible to suck worse than the 2010 Orioles and still be considered major league. #fridayfacts 9:28p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Jell-O is actually certified kosher. So is Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray celery-flavored soda. #fridayfacts 9:17p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix once recorded a bootleg called F*ck Her In The Ass. (not available on iTunes). #fridayfacts 6:15p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was built over the roadbed and grading of an uncompleted cross-state railroad.#fridayfacts 9:05a |
| Tue, Aug 3rd |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: @divine_pk are you kidding? Twitter has probably killed more people than Pop Rocks #fridayfacts 8:46a |
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| Sat, Jul 31st |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: it is no longer Friday in the lower 48 United States. #fridayfacts 3:01a |
| Fri, Jul 30th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: AstroTurf(tm) is made completely without cream. #fridayfacts 6:15p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Hoover Dam was built with almost no cream. #fridayfacts 5:33p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: a 1963 Dodge has basically no cream in it. #fridayfacts 3:39p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Genesee Gream Ale has no cream in it. #fridayfacts 2:59p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Cream of Wheat has pretty much no cream in it. #fridayfacts 1:00p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: cream cheese has pretty much no cream in it. #fridayfacts 12:53p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: orchids are actually edible. Guys, you can really impress your prom dates with this one. #fridayfacts 12:02a |
| Fri, Jul 23rd |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: for many years, yes, you could buy a Model T Ford in colors OTHER THAN black.#fridayfacts 11:41p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: at one point, Henry Ford tried to establisn a 'workers utopina' in Brazil valled Fordlandia.#fridayfacts 11:40p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: He used to give her rides in the daytime, now she give him rides all night... #fridayfacts 7:11p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: You know my baby run off wid'da bus driver... and you know you that don' seem right.... #fridayfacts 7:10p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: in NASCAR, Toyota runs a V-8 with a carburetor, even though they have NEVER sold a stock car with a V-8 and a carburetor. #fridayfacts 5:02p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the late Kurt Vonnegut wasn't much of an artist. He used an asterisk as his interpretation of an a$$hole. #fridayfacts 3:46p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT RT @GuyKawasaki: Dude Facts: 46% of men would “dump a girlfriend if she became fat” http://idek.net/2rjS #fridayfacts #retweet #lazy 3:39p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: pineapple isn't native to Hawaii, and it's nowhere near being the world's largest producer thereof. #fridayfacts 11:39a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: though she is ten years older than the Etch-A-Sketch, Arianna Huffington is not believed to be filled with aluminum dust.#fridayfacts 7:21a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: The Etch-A-Sketch is now fifty years old. I still can't draw a diagonal line with one. #fridayfacts 6:16a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: for some reason, the state sport of Maryland is jousting. #fridayfacts 1:19a |
| Sat, Jul 17th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: in Hagerstown, Maryland, there's an orthodontist named Dr. Toothman. #fridayfacts 2:44a |
| Fri, Jul 16th |
Bill Malchisky Jr.
ÜT: 44.852481,-93.494419 |  | BillMalchisky: @the_turtle #ZZTopp FTW #fridayfacts 9:35p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Jesus just left Chicago, and he's bound for New Orleans. #fridayfacts 9:25p |
| Sat, Jul 10th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's after 1am in the Eastern US timezone. We are no longer obligated to supply #fridayfacts 1:06a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: zipper used to be a trademark of the Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. It's not anymore. #fridayfacts 1:05a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: in 1938, Ford Motor Company commissioned a car that was made of more than 70% soybean products. #fridayfacts 12:55a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Henry Ford started a model community in Brazil called Fordlandia. It was a failure. #fridayfacts 12:52a |
| Fri, Jul 9th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: under then-current law, Selden's patent for the automobile would have expired in 1912 anyway. #fridayfacts 10:40p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: in 1911, Henry Ford got sick of George Selden's patent, took his ass to court, and won. #fridayfacts 10:37p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: @rhadaway girl, use the #fridayfacts tag! It's not like I own it... 10:32p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: George B. Selden was also George Kodak Eastman's patent attorney. #fridayfacts 10:16p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: at one time, a Rochester, NY patent attorney named George B. Selden had a patent on the automobile. #fridayfacts 10:12p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: for quite a few years, yes, you COULD get a Ford Model T in a color that was not black. #fridayfacts 9:37p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: last night's LeBron James ego-extravaganza on ESPN was yesterday's most-watched show, cable OR broadcast. #fridayfacts 6:56p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: It's OK, I promise I will put up some #fridayfacts today, but we are sad here today. We lost one of Samantha's kits. Hhhhh... 1:28p |
| Thu, Jul 8th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: Oh, man: a former #fridayfacts subject is on Turner Classic right now; it's GIDGET! The 1959 classic... Sandra Dee in her ponytail prime! 8:33p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: Oh, man: a former #fridayfacts subject is on Turner Classic right now; it's GIDGET! The 1959 classic... Sandra Dee in her ponytail prime! 8:33p |
| Fri, Jul 2nd |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: sometimes, when we completely lack either imagination or short-term memory, we here at #fridayfacts sometimes recycle facts. 11:35p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Britney Spears is an anagram for Presbyterians. #fridayfacts 11:34p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the oldest town in Tennessee is Jonesborough. #fridayfacts 4:11p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: California gold-rush mining sedimentation is likely responsible for a rash of small quakes leading up to the 1906 quake. #fridayfacts 1:15p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT; the entire states of Kentucky and West Virginia were also part of Virginia at one time. #fridayfacts 1:07p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Virginia once encompassed most of the territory all the way to Illinois, as well as (briefly) Bermuda. #fridayfacts 1:00p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: even those of us who write #fridayfacts need to sleep sometime. 1:40a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: on I Love Lucy, Lucy's maiden name was McGillicuddy. #fridayfacts 1:36a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Blondie Bumstead's maiden name was Boopadoop. #fridayfacts 1:32a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: neither Britney Spears nor Fred Rogers ever played Skye Masterson in an amateur production of Guys And Dolls. #fridayfacts 1:29a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Britney Spears is an anagram for Presbyterians. #fridayfacts 1:28a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Fred Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister. #fridayfacts 1:27a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Johnny Costa was Fred Rogers' brother-in-law. He did all the show's music until 1996. Few of his records survive. #fridayfacts 1:27a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: Johnny Costa's piano intro to Fred Rogers' Won't You Be My Neighbor directly echoes Sue Me from Guys And Dolls. #fridayfacts 1:25a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.332292,-77.696309 | | the_turtle: FACT: the original 1975 production of Chicago opened at the 46th Street Theatre. So did its 1996 revival. #fridayfacts 1:20a |
