PRETTY GEEKY AND USELESS FACTS

THE LONGEST WORD USED BY SHAKESPEARE

IN ANY OF HIS WORKS IS “HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS,”

FOUND IN LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST

AT ONE POINT, WOLVERINE’S ORIGIN STORY WAS

THAT HE WAS AN ACTUAL WOLVERINE THAT

WAS GENETICALLY MUTATED AND EVOLVED

BY A VILLAIN NAMED HIGH EVOLUTIONARY. THANK

GOD THEY QUICKLY REJECTED THAT CHEESY

IDEA AND CAME UP WITH THE STORY WE’VE

KNOWN ALL THESE YEARS

MICHAEL JACKSON WANTED TO PLAY SPIDER-MAN

IN A MOVIE, SO HE TRIED TO BUY MARVEL COMICS

IN THE NINETIES. UNFORTUNATELY FOR HIS FANS,

MARVEL KINDLY REJECTED HIS OFFER

STASI, THE EAST GERMAN SECRET POLICE, MANAGED

TO DUPLICATE THE SCENT OF A FEMALE DOG IN

HEAT AND APPLY IT TO THE SHOES OF PEOPLE THEY

HAD UNDER SURVEILLANCE. IF THEY NEEDED TO

TRACK THEM DOWN, THEY JUST HAD TO LET

SOME MALE DOGS FOLLOW THE SCENT

THE WORLD’S LARGEST COMIC-BOOK COLLECTION

BELONGS TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. IT

CURRENTLY HOLDS OVER 100,000 INDIVIDUAL ISSUES

ANDREW JOHNSON, THE SEVENTEENTH PRESIDENT

OF THE UNITED STATES, WAS THE ONLY PRESIDENT

TO SEW HIS OWN CLOTHES

IN THE ORIGINAL STAR TREK TV SERIES CAPTAIN

KIRK’S MIDDLE NAME WAS TIBERIUS. OBVIOUSLY,

THE SCRIPTWRITER WAS A FAN OF ROMAN HISTORY

THE FIRST TELEPHONES DID NOT HAVE BELLS

AND WERE CONNECTED ALL THE TIME. IN ORDER

TO ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF SOMEONE ON

THE OTHER END OF THE LINE, ONE WOULD

HAVE TO YELL, “AHOY!” INTO THE RECEIVER