Did You Know

[Donnie Darko]

The Harlem Globetrotters once played before an audience of one – in 1931, before Pope Pius XI.

[Donnie Darko]

Bavarian immigrant Charles August Fey invented the first three-reel automatic payout slot machine, the Liberty Bell, in San Francisco in 1899.

[Donnie Darko]

Technology collections are becoming more popular. According to some experts, people today are choosing to collect old toasters and typewriters because technology is changing so fast.


/not me\

[Donnie Darko]

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

[Donnie Darko]

The average person can live up to eleven days without water, assuming a mean temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit.


/this is good to know\

[Donnie Darko]

John Hanson — not George Washington — was the first president of the U.S. When the Congress met in 1781, the U.S. was governed by the Articles of Confederation, which were adopted in 1777 and ratified by the states in 1781. At that meeting, Congress elected John Hanson its "President of the U.S. in Congress assembled." George Washington became the first president of the U.S. under the U.S. Constitution in 1789.

/really\

[Donnie Darko]

A nanosecond is one billionth of a second.


/Damn \

[Donnie Darko]

Despite conspicuous warning systems that include flashing lights, blaring bells, and rail-crossing drop-arm barricades, every 90 minutes in the United States, a train crashes into a passenger vehicle.


/ sad\

[Donnie Darko]

Humphrey Bogart made the following disparaging comment about James Dean, who died in a car crash at age 24: "If he'd have lived, they'd have discovered he wasn't a legend."

[Donnie Darko]

The swine flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.

\ Ha/