| Fri, Mar 19th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 |  | the_turtle: FACT: sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar. #fridayfacts 11:58p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the border between Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland was not finally decided until 1921. #fridayfacts 11:28p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Joan Collins' first movie role was in a forgettable 1951 film, Lady Godiva Rides Again. She was NOT the title role. #fridayfacts 11:26p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: what I said: http://www.fred.net/turtle/asskicker/asskicker.html #fridayfacts 11:08p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the World's Only Ass-Kicking Machine is in Burnt Chimney, Va. It's rated at 100 asses per minute. #fridayfacts 11:03p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: when Magic Johnson was at MSU, he used to make some truly awful local commercials for Quality Dairy stores in. Lansing. #fridayfacts 10:55p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: at one time, LeRoy, New York was home to the world's largest private airport. #fridayfacts 9:09p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: natural rubber still constitutes 42% of the worldwide market for rubber. #fridayfacts 9:08p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Charles Rolls, the marketing half of Rolls-Royce, was killed in an aeorplane in 1906. Henry Royce was the engineer. #fridayfacts 9:06p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Austro-Hungarian Empire never invaded Butte, Montana. #fridayfacts 9:00p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: George Eastman's patent attorney, George Selden, claimed to have invented the automobile in 1877. He was AFU. #fridayfacts 8:59p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Hedy Lamarr, 1940s movie actress and pinup girl, helped invent modern frquency-hopping tech in use in your phone. #fridayfacts 8:57p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the same guy who started Buick also invented a process to put the white porcelain in bathtubs. David Dunbar Buick. #fridayfacts 8:53p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: The 1980s band Frankie Goes To Hollywood was named after an article in LIFE magazine. #fridayfacts 4:44p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Fess Parker's Davy Crockett in the 1950s created a surge in demand for coonskin caps. RIP, Fess Parker. #fridayfacts 6:33a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: if you stretch a rubber band, it heats up. #fridayfacts 12:06a |
| Tue, Mar 16th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: Early FACT: in the 1960s series, Mission: IMPOSSIBLE the late Peter Graves' character's first name was James. #fridayfacts 12:07a |
| Sat, Mar 13th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: frog calls are all about sex. #fridayfacts 12:16a |
| Fri, Mar 12th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: a 1951 Swiss military exercise completely failed to overrun Memphis, Tennessee. #fridayfacts 11:44a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Warner Bros. The Jazz Singer (1927) was far from the first sound picture. #fridayfacts 6:45a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: people write letters to the editor when they have nothing better to do. #fridayfacts 6:10a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: no NCAA team has won the national title after having lost in the first round of their conference tournament. #fridayfacts 2:15a |
| Sat, Mar 6th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: @tinamcleod ...but somehow you were able to follow yesterday's #fridayfacts? 2:19a |
| Fri, Mar 5th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Johnny Cash never used Ring Of Fire to endorse Preparation H. #fridayfacts 11:06p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: @Dolanite why is 'facts' in 'quotes?' Nothing we post is demonstrably false. #fridayfacts 10:25p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: in an emergency, a flat Twinkie can be used to plug holes in boats. Not, however, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. #fridayfacts 5:42p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Elvis never sailed aboard the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. #fridayfacts 4:30p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: at 400Gs, a Twinkie would be squashed flat as a Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chip. #fridayfacts 4:12p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Elvis Presley really liked twinkies. #fridayfacts 4:07p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: some modern high-speed-spin washers can generate over 400Gs. #fridayfacts 4:01p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: a typical washing machine subjects your clothes to around 20Gs. #fridayfacts 3:53p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACTS: Kansas City, MIssouri has more fountains and boulevards than anywhere in North America. #fridayfacts 3:43p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Canadian waters (barely). It is not known if any Twinkies or Pringle's were on board. #fridayfacts 2:47p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank, Pringle's still had an apostrophe and were still called potato chips. #fridayfacts 1:46p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: at the SS Edmund Fitzgerald's launch, Mrs. Ed Fitzgerald had to whack the champagne bottle three times before it broke. #fridayfacts 1:34p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the SS Edmund Fitzgerald itself was largely inedible. #fridayfacts 1:15p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: 11.9 billion Pringles would contain about 140 billion kCal of food energy. #fridayfacts 1:12p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the SS Edmund Fitzgerald could have carried 11.9 billion Pringles. #fridayfacts 12:23p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Twinkies cannot legally be called potato chips, and less than 50% of a Twinkie is actual potato. #fridayfacts 12:12p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Pringle's cannot legally be called potato chips, and less than 50% of a Pringle is actual potato. #fridayfacts 12:08p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: SS Edmund Fitzgerald was named for an insurance executive, the president of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance. #fridayfacts 11:42a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Michigan has more freshwater shoreline than any other political entity in the world. #fridayfacts 11:28a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: longst TV show title: Your Kaiser Dealer Presents Kaiser-Frazer Adventures In Mystery Starring Betty Furness In Byline#fridayfacts 11:10a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the US state with more lighthouses than any other is... Michigan. #fridayfacts 10:50a |
| Thu, Mar 4th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: It's almost Friday. I have a bunch of stuff saved up for #fridayfacts 5:12p |
| Fri, Feb 26th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: some Prius drivers are, in fact, already morons. #fridayfacts 5:53p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: in Houston, you can have all your proctology needs cared for by Dr. Don Butts. #fridayfacts 2:59p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: in Fairfield, California, you can visit the Wang Urology Clinic. #fridayfacts 2:56p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: in San Francisco, there's a dentist named Dr. Les Plack. #fridayfacts 2:45p |
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Ray Bilyk
ÜT: 42.189699,-83.184405 |  | TheLionKing: RT:Snapple Real Fact #907-Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors #fridayfacts (thks @the_turtle) 2:40p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: there are more 7-Elevens in the US than there are factories that make plastic flamingoes. #fridayfacts 2:10p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: when it opened in 1940, the Pennsylvania Turnpike originally had no speed limit. #fridayfacts 1:31p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: @TheLionKing hey, use the #fridayfacts hashtag! 1:21p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Grape-Nuts cereal contains no actual fossil remains. #fridayfacts 1:13p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Grape-Nuts cereal contains neither grapes nor nuts. #fridayfacts 10:02a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: in an emergency, Grape-Nuts cereal can provide extra traction for your car. #fridayfacts 7:39a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: in 1996, someone grew a carrot almost 17 feet long. #fridayfacts 7:25a |
| Wed, Feb 24th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: @kmcgivney scrapple is a fine material for asteroid shielding. It was used on Gemini 2. #fridayfacts 5:42p |
| Fri, Feb 19th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: After crossing the bridge you can slowly enjoy the delicious rice noodle, and finally do not forget to drink 2 soup. #fridayfacts #wtf 11:42p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Soup, and eat a long time staple food-packing can be avoided, the staple food was bubble rotten situation. #fridayfacts #wtf 11:40p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Eddie Izzard once produced a situation comedy called Cows in which all the actors were in cow suits. #fridayfacts 11:35p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: when watching curling, remember: those stones weigh more than your stones. #fridayfacts 10:28p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: fewer than 100 people in the world have ever been eaten by a hamster. #fridayfacts 10:26p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: at one time, LeRoy, New York was the center of American's production of patent medicines and rat poison. And Jell-O. #fridayfacts 10:13p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: today is ice dancer Anna Cappellini's 23rd birthday. #fridayfacts 9:50p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: on I Love Lucy, Lucy's maiden name was McGillicuddy. #fridayfacts 4:25p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Blondie Bumstead's maiden name was Boopadoop. #fridayfacts 3:38p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Slaghoople. #fridayfacts 3:16p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: George Carlin got fired for saying shit in a town where the big game is called crap. #fridayfacts 2:36p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the last three words on The Doors' 1969 Touch Me are stronger than dirt. #fridayfacts 12:47p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: curling first appeared at the Olympics in 1924. #fridayfacts 12:26p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: some WWI aircraft were lubricated with castor oil, giving their pilots diahrrea on some flights. #fridayfacts 12:10p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: in 1944, a British tail gunner had to bail out of a bomber over Germany without a chute, fell 18,000 feet and lived. #fridayfacts 6:22a |
| Fri, Feb 12th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: @marybethraven is taller than Bob Costas. #fridayfacts 10:41p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Oliver North once attended SUNY Brockport, but didn't graduate. #fridayfacts 3:48p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the guy who founded Buick also came up with a way to make white porcelain bathtubs. He died broke in 1929. #fridayfacts 3:15p |
Gregg Eldred
Cleveland, Ohio |  | geldred: FACT: The last Olympic gold medals that were made entirely out of gold were awarded in 1912 #fridayfacts 2:29p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Wendy's founder Dave Thomas' daughter's name was not in fact Wendy. #fridayfacts 2:18p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Earl Of Sandwich restaurant in Downtown Disney (Orlando) was, in fact, founded by the 11th Earl of Sandwich. #fridayfacts 10:36a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Boer War killed more people than any single episode of Golden Girls. #fridayfacts 1:08a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: your great-great-grandmother probably did more cocaine than you. #fridayfacts 1:01a |
| Fri, Feb 5th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: @lauriepercival can touch her tongue to the tip of her nose. #fridayfacts 1:51p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: During snowstorms, a popular Maryland snack is French toast wrapped in toilet paper. #fridayfacts 11:41a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the first city in the US with cable television was Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania in 1948. #fridayfacts 6:28a |
| Fri, Jan 29th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: not a single one of the trees in Grizzly Adams was used to make any of Barry Bonds' baseball bats. #fridayfacts 11:09p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT; not one of the trees featured in Grizzzly Adams was ever used to make a bat for Roger Maris. #fridayfacts 9:32p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: not a single one of the penguins in March Of The Penguins (2005) went on to a career in banking. #fridayfacts 10:12a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: not a single one of the kids who did the voices in A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) went on to a career in TV or film. #fridayfacts 9:52a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Samuel Goldwyn's real last name was Gelbfisz (goldfish). #fridayfacts 7:05a |
| Fri, Dec 18th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the last surviving US World War I veteran lives about ten miles from here. His farm is about to get snowed on. #fridayfacts 10:47p |
| Fri, Dec 11th |
Gregg Eldred
Cleveland, Ohio | | geldred: FACT: There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. #fridayfacts 4:22p |
| Fri, Oct 23rd |
Andrew Pollack
ÜT: 43.684048,-70.319269 |  | FirefighterGeek: @the_turtle Why won't #fridayfacts take questions from the audience? 7:11a |
| Fri, Sep 18th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: less than half of the surface area of Switzerland is covered in kudzu. #fridayfacts 11:24p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: the stringless green bean was developed by Calvin Keeney in LeRoy, New York. Your teeth thank him. #fridayfacts 11:23p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: RT @DavidMTaylor: Only 28/1000 Oklahoma HS kids can pass Citizenship Test http://bit.ly/omDdd #fridayfacts 11:21p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: @LooseleafLLC hey, no usurping #fridayfacts, yo! 10:09p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: more than 53% of the objects in an average house are inedible. #fridayfacts 10:04p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: in an emergency, a heated pair of tin snips can be used as an eyelash curler. #fridayfacts 9:30p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: she also drove one of the last Studebakers ever made. A Lark. #fridayfacts 8:02p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.340732,-77.689865 | | the_turtle: FACT: Frances Bavier, who played Aunt Bee on "The Andy Griffith Show," didn't much like Andy Griffith. #fridayfacts 8:01p |
