Yep, it's time for another weekend installment of Did You Know. You guys are going to know EVERYTHING eventually!
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.)
It takes about 63 feet of wire to make a Slinky.
Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)
The letters "YKK" on zippers stand for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the largest zipper manufacturer in the world.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland. Is that right, Kirsi?
The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
Posted by Buzz at November 29, 2003 07:35 AMDebra Winger was E.T.? Get out!
Posted by: Erica at November 29, 2003 07:45 AMWhile you're talking of Winston Churchill, his parrot is still alive; he's 104 years old!!
Posted by: Anji at November 29, 2003 08:20 AMYes, that's true! Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland. Where do you get all this information? =)
Posted by: Kirsi at November 29, 2003 10:39 AMNorth America? South America? ...almost all the continents. Unless you're only referring to America?
Posted by: Tanya at November 29, 2003 10:47 AMyou have made my morning, how long i have wondered about wtf the ykk on my flippin zipper stood for alas closure. bless you buzzstuff.
Posted by: missie at November 29, 2003 11:25 AMa veritable fount of information, you are !!
Posted by: keith at November 29, 2003 11:33 AMMy dear Buzz, I would like to add a tiny bit of trivia. ET's voice was a combination of Debra Winger and Pat Welsh. (and occasionally Steve Spielberg) While Pat Welsh was not credited initially, she is now thought of, and credited as, the voice of ET.
Posted by: JenBen at November 29, 2003 12:25 PMoh my gosh... when i was young, like 4 or so, I always thought my Zip code was YKK.
Posted by: todd at November 29, 2003 12:36 PMDebra Winger? That blows my mind.
Posted by: chris at November 29, 2003 04:39 PMoh my, is that for real still on the market, or is that old time, my daughter just got one as a gift, and it was plastic, didn't work worth a flip and I promised her I'd look for the REAL thing.
plastic, what were they thinking, if FELL down the stairs, and she was gleeful, cus she thought it worked, ha ha ha... no dear, it's not supposed to just be launched down the stairs.
Posted by: shortt at December 1, 2003 10:22 AM
-d: How do you feel about being Governor of Indiana?
[Buzz it]
Global Warming, my ass!
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