Facts You Probably don’t Need

  • Election Day is not the first Tuesday in November. By law it is actually the first Tuesday following the first Monday of November. Therefore, November 1 can never be Election Day.

 

  • You can see the Marine Parkway Bridge from the Long Beach boardwalk.

 

  • The time machine in “Back to the Future” was originally a refrigerator but was changed since they were concerned kids would start to lock themselves inside after seeing the movie.

 

  • Archimedes developed an anti-ship weapon called the Claw of Archimedes. It lifted a ship by the prow then dropped it, often causing the vessel to capsize or at least severely damaging it.

 

  • While shooting the movie “Troy,” Brad Pitt, playing Achilles, injured his left Achilles tendon, which delayed the movie’s final scenes for several months.

 

  • Bluetooth was named after Harald Bluetooth – King of Denmark 1,000 years ago. The Bluetooth logo is made from the Nordic runes of his initials.

 

  • Mature swine are called hogs and young swine are called pigs, but often hog, pig, and swine are used synonymously. A female hog is called a sow, and a male hog is called a boar.

 

Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.

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