Young Writers Society

If you know a piece of weird info and want to share it with the world, post it here.

I'll start:
Elijah Wood's movie debut was in Back to the Future II as a little kid in the 80s cafe.

Oh boy *cracks knuckles*

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots. Ironic, eh?

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was
allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. We thinkg up good rules. Although there isn't much not wider than your thumb that can honestly hurt someone a lot.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."


Okay, I took half of these off the internet. But I WAS kinda bored.

I know many weaird facts. And here are some of it:

*The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
*Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
*On average, people fear spiders more than they fear death.
* It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
*Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane
*The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
*There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

In the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone at the end when Harry leaves the hospital wing and Ron and Hermione are standing at the top of the stairs, if you turn up your TV volume high enough you can hear Ron say to Hermione, "I have an erection."

I don't believe that

Anyways
-Ducks can't walk backwards.

I'm serious! Everyone I've told that to went home and watched their copy and said they heard it!

Superman, who fights for "truth, justice, and the American way" was created by . . . .
Drum roll, please.


A Canadian. Metropolis is NOT New York, it's Toronto.

Haha lol. The superman thing is funny...but the one I can barely believe (although I do, I've heard it before) is the "rule of thumb." That is complete b******t. And it seriously pisses me off that anyone would make up a ludicrous law like that.

I'm serious! Everyone I've told that to went home and watched their copy and said they heard it!

Only because they were listening for that specifically.

It's the same as when people listen to metal songs backwards and thing they'r singing about Satan, but really it's just random sounds that could sound like anything if someone told you it did.

Yeah, on someones record, if you listen to it backwards it says "do it" and i think someone kid when out and tried to shoot himself because of it, i can't remember the band though...

Tolkien was very good friends with C S Lewis and Tolkien had a dislike for Shakespeare because he made elves "little people"

It takes a lot more than a subliminal message to do something like that. Besides, just because someone chooses a particular song to play while commiting suicide doesn't mean that song made him do it.

I was once watching a documentary on the subject of music influencing violence. It talked about one song that people thought promoted self-mutilation when it was really about surgery.