Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The late SFX technician,screenwriter and director Dan O'Bannon faked a UFO encounter with his father before he got into the film industry.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity was removed from being on sale and replaced with a “Bullshit” box, on sale for $6. This box contained “literal feces, from an actual bull,” as the description stated on their site. This was to protest to the Black Friday shopping craziness where shoppers will literally buy anything on sale. This special Black Friday edition of Cards Against Humanity sold over 30,000 copies, where all buyers actually received a box of bull poo.

The first computer for business use was developed and pioneered by a British tea shop called Lyons in the 1950’s. The LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) contained 6,000 valves and was built by Cambridge mathematician John Simmons to add up the receipts of iced buns!

The Post Office had its own computer called ERNIE used to be used for the premium bonds. This acronym stood for Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment.

Another of the first business machines was called ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital and able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming.

In 1989, the U.S. military blared AC/DC music at General Noriega's compound in Panama for 2 continuous days. The dictator surrendered.

Led Zeppelin got their name from a fellow musician, who said their band would go down like a "lead balloon."

The piano Freddie Mercury plays in Bohemian Rhapsody is the same exact piano Paul McCartney plays in Hey Jude.

I am sure Carl will confirm this but a microwave oven in Welsh is called a popety ping!

A jumbo airplane is longer and taller than the Wright brothers first flight.