The Official DP Interesting Fact Thread

[Josie]

I enjoy learning things including random facts. I thought it would be fun to start a thread where you can come and tell us something interesting you never knew before or you think many people might not know. Please keep this thread free from snarky political comments. Thanks!

I'll start us off. I never knew that David Koresh's real name was Vernon Howell. He chose David for King David from the Old Testament and Koresh because it's the biblical name of a Cyrus the Great who was called a messiah. If you don't know David Koresh, he thought himself to also be a messiah descended from King David just as Jesus Christ was.

 

[Lutherf]

For this thread I decided to search the internet for something I never knew because, y'know, I need to know more useless stuff. Well, as luck would have it I found something in a LOT less time than I thought it would take.

There is a song on Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album "Surrealistic Pillow" titled "3/5 of a Mile In 10 Seconds". Not surprisingly people have done the math and that translates to 216mph. That was nice to know but the real kicker is that someone else did some more math and figured out that 216=6^3 or 6*6*6 which we all know as the mark of the beast in Revelations.

Granted, the lyrics do reference prayer at one point but it's hardly a religious song.

 

[beefheart]

Keith Moon and Mama Cass died in the same bedroom a few years apart. Harry Nilsson's apartment in London.

 

[Moonglow]

For this thread I decided to search the internet for something I never knew because, y'know, I need to know more useless stuff. Well, as luck would have it I found something in a LOT less time than I thought it would take.

There is a song on Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album "Surrealistic Pillow" titled "3/5 of a Mile In 10 Seconds". Not surprisingly people have done the math and that translates to 216mph. That was nice to know but the real kicker is that someone else did some more math and figured out that 216=6^3 or 6*6*6 which we all know as the mark of the beast in Revelations.

Granted, the lyrics do reference prayer at one point but it's hardly a religious song.

Maybe it is an anti-religious song?

 

[Lutherf]

Maybe it is an anti-religious song?

That's not the case as far as I can discern. The lyrics are more about social perceptions regarding "hippies" which, frankly, was a rather common theme of the San Francisco song writing community at that time.

 

[Moonglow]

That's not the case as far as I can discern. The lyrics are more about social perceptions regarding "hippies" which, frankly, was a rather common theme of the San Francisco song writing community at that time.

It is hard for a second or third party to know exactly what the artist is/was thinking at that moment in time when the art was created.

 

[bubbabgone]

Considering the famous pop singer/songwriting brother teams the Beach Boys (Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson) and the BeeGees (Barry, Robin, and Maurice) the oldest brothers are the only living members.

 

[bluesmoke]

I enjoy learning things including random facts. I thought it would be fun to start a thread where you can come and tell us something interesting you never knew before or you think many people might not know. Please keep this thread free from snarky political comments. Thanks!

I'll start us off. I never knew that David Koresh's real name was Vernon Howell. He chose David for King David from the Old Testament and Koresh because it's the biblical name of a Cyrus the Great who was called a messiah. If you don't know David Koresh, he thought himself to also be a messiah descended from King David just as Jesus Christ was.

David Koresh could have been apprehended during one of his trips into town. Particularly when in a convenience store where there were two armed, undercover, surveillance LEO. The reason for not apprehending was fear he was armed and collateral damage. The rest is history.

 

[Jredbaron96]

MLK Jr and Anne Frank were born in the same year.

 

[bluesmoke]

Considering the famous pop singer/songwriting brother teams the Beach Boys (Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson) and the BeeGees (Barry, Robin, and Maurice) the oldest brothers are the only living members.

And the youngest of the Bee Gees Gibb brothers, Andy, who was the first to die at 30.

 

[Slartibartfast]

I enjoy learning things including random facts. I thought it would be fun to start a thread where you can come and tell us something interesting you never knew before or you think many people might not know. Please keep this thread free from snarky political comments. Thanks!

I'll start us off. I never knew that David Koresh's real name was Vernon Howell. He chose David for King David from the Old Testament and Koresh because it's the biblical name of a Cyrus the Great who was called a messiah. If you don't know David Koresh, he thought himself to also be a messiah descended from King David just as Jesus Christ was.

The typical adult human brain has more neural connections than stars in the Milky Way.

Yet I still can't remember where I put my phone.

 

[bubbabgone]

And the youngest of the Bee Gees Gibb brothers, Andy, who was the first to die at 30.

Good one.

 

[Threegoofs]

Here’s one:

Very few, if any, pharmaceuticals in the last 20 years have been derived or discovered from natural substances in the wild.

Drug development works backward these days- one finds a druggable target protein and creates a compound that blocks or enhances it.

 

[Lutherf]

It is hard for a second or third party to know exactly what the artist is/was thinking at that moment in time when the art was created.

In my experience that difficulty often stems from the artist's inability to describe exactly what was going on in their mind at the time! Art, as far as I'm concerned, is one of those things you really just need to appreciate. Trying to figure it out is part of the fun but actually nailing a motivation down ruins it.

 

[bluesmoke]

For this thread I decided to search the internet for something I never knew because, y'know, I need to know more useless stuff. Well, as luck would have it I found something in a LOT less time than I thought it would take.

There is a song on Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album "Surrealistic Pillow" titled "3/5 of a Mile In 10 Seconds". Not surprisingly people have done the math and that translates to 216mph. That was nice to know but the real kicker is that someone else did some more math and figured out that 216=6^3 or 6*6*6 which we all know as the mark of the beast in Revelations.

Granted, the lyrics do reference prayer at one point but it's hardly a religious song.

Also on "Surrealistic Pillow" was "White Rabbit". On Smothers' Brothers Comedy Hour, while singing the song, Grace Slick, the lead singer, never blinked. Slightly closed her eyes, once, but never blinked.

 

[Lutherf]

Also on "Surrealistic Pillow" was "White Rabbit". On Smothers' Brothers Comedy Hour, while singing the song, Grace Slick, the lead singer, never blinked. Slightly closed her eyes, once, but never blinked.

White Rabbit was part of our drug education curriculum in grade school. They played the song, told us it was about drugs and then we went off to meditate. That was a few years before Nancy Reagan got involved :lamo

 

[Moonglow]

In my experience that difficulty often stems from the artist's inability to describe exactly what was going on in their mind at the time! Art, as far as I'm concerned, is one of those things you really just need to appreciate. Trying to figure it out is part of the fun but actually nailing a motivation down ruins it.

That never stopped my professors having the day long debate about "what is art". But I know what you mean.

 

[bluesmoke]

In my experience that difficulty often stems from the artist's inability to describe exactly what was going on in their mind at the time! Art, as far as I'm concerned, is one of those things you really just need to appreciate. Trying to figure it out is part of the fun but actually nailing a motivation down ruins it.

A number of answers I've read from Bob Dylan are "How would I know?" "Whatever you want it to mean." "What do you want it to mean?" "I have no idea where it comes from."

 

[Josie]

David Koresh could have been apprehended during one of his trips into town. Particularly when in a convenience store where there were two armed, undercover, surveillance LEO. The reason for not apprehending was fear he was armed and collateral damage. The rest is history.

I think they didn't take him when he was out and about on his own was because they wanted the show. They told the media they were raiding the compound beforehand because they wanted it to be a spectacle. And it was.

 

[Roadvirus]

Melania Trump is the second foreign-born First Lady.
The first was John Quincy Adams' wife. She was British.

 

[RAMOSS]

Hedy Lamarr invented the Frequency-hopping spread spectrum. It was used in WW2 for helping guide torpedoes. It is used in modern times wireless phones and wireless routers.

 

[Bum]

While Hawaii is the US state furthest south, Alaska is the US state that is the furthest North, West, and East due to the fact that it crosses over the East/West meridian.

 

[DiAnna]

Hedy Lamarr invented the Frequency-hopping spread spectrum. It was used in WW2 for helping guide torpedoes. It is used in modern times wireless phones and wireless routers.

I actually knew that! Amazing, right? I hadn't thought about it in decades, so thanks for the reminder. Quite a woman, Hedy Lamarr!

 

[RAMOSS]

I actually knew that! Amazing, right? I hadn't thought about it in decades, so thanks for the reminder. Quite a woman, Hedy Lamarr!

Yes, indeed. She was posthumous inducted into the Inventors hall of fame for that. And, every time you use a laptop on wireless , you use her invention.

 

[Threegoofs]

Hedy Lamarr invented the Frequency-hopping spread spectrum. It was used in WW2 for helping guide torpedoes. It is used in modern times wireless phones and wireless routers.

It’s Hedley.