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FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#1: Nov 1st 2012 at 6:26:54 PM

Pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Say something interesting for all tropers to see, be it a fun fact, a funny story, or something insightful. Whatever it is, make it interesting.

For example: Fun fact, Hitler's nephew enlisted in the US Navy during World War II

Landorkus OH YES!! from The Core Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Robosexual
OH YES!!
#2: Nov 1st 2012 at 6:32:28 PM

Fun Fact: Stallions usually have 40-42 teeth while mares only have 36-38.

(Agender. They/Them pronouns.)
FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#3: Nov 1st 2012 at 6:40:19 PM

Another fun fact, Horus, the Egyptian god was born from Osiris' penis.

SlendidSuit Freelance Worrywart from Probably a Pub Since: Oct, 2011
Freelance Worrywart
#4: Nov 2nd 2012 at 7:28:49 AM

The world's first newspaper was called the Acta Diurna, or daily acts. It was produced by Julius Caesar as a way of recording the goings-on of the senate to make them appear less mysterious. It was sent out to all quarters of the Empire to keep it connected, and during the Golden Age also became the first tabloid, as it descended into gossip, murder stories and reports about orgies.

Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
Olivetree ETERNAL from The Grave Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
ETERNAL
#5: Nov 2nd 2012 at 11:52:32 AM

Emperor Hadrian is known as one of the Good Emperors. Despite;

  • Stabbing a slave in the eye with a pen in a rage fit. (he later apologised and offered something in compensation, the slave just wanted his eye back)

  • Killing off the entirety of the senate at least twice.

And finally he had quite the ego apparently.

"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."
FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#6: Nov 3rd 2012 at 6:11:20 AM

Pac-Man was originally going to be called Puck-Man, but then the game designers realized what teenagers could accomplish if they vandalized the "P" and changed it to an "F."

Kossmeister Burn It Down In The End from Gainesville, FL Since: Feb, 2012
Burn It Down In The End
#7: Nov 3rd 2012 at 7:27:22 AM

Elephants are the only known living species other than humans to have a death ritual. When a member of their herd dies, its relatives will throw leaves and dirt all over the body. Also, if an elephant comes across the body of an unfamiliar elephant, it wil enter a state of morning,

Every time a fairy says that it doesn't believe in humans, a human child dies.
sturmthedark World Arcana. from England Since: Aug, 2011
World Arcana.
#8: Nov 3rd 2012 at 3:42:10 PM

IIRC "Taliban" literally translates to "Student warriors" (as in students of the Qu'ran). Of course, how they study and interpret the Qu'ran is far from normal in the Islamic world.

edited 3rd Nov '12 3:43:14 PM by sturmthedark

"If someone asks you 'What is life?' it is like them asking 'What is a carrot?'; a carrot is a carrot, we know nothing more."
Savato Since: Jan, 2012
#9: Nov 3rd 2012 at 4:10:36 PM

As the Japanese godess Izanami died, her urine, vomit and blood created two gods each.

AnEditor Since: Sep, 2011
#10: Nov 3rd 2012 at 4:21:38 PM

"Something interesting."

... Okay, okay.

Buttermilk contains no butter and is comparatively low in fat.

Dental phobia, or odontophobia, is the fear of going to the dentist and/or receiving dental care.

In 1938, Time Magazine chose Hitler as Man of the Year.

edited 4th Nov '12 11:37:13 AM by AnEditor

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#11: Nov 4th 2012 at 8:37:51 AM

[up] Good ones.

Funny story. A college student was taking an exam in a class with two hundred people in it. The professor said that time was up and for the students to stop working. However, the student kept working. Enraged, the professor strode over to the student's desk and angrily told him that because of his insubordination, he would receive a zero on the exam. The student stood up and asked haughtily "Do you know who I AM?" The professor looked at him and said no. The student grinned. "Good." he said as he slipped his exam in the middle of the pile of test papers.

Olivetree ETERNAL from The Grave Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
ETERNAL
#12: Nov 4th 2012 at 8:47:10 AM

In the mid to late 16th Century. Lutherans in Hapsburg lands (Can't remember if Austria or HRE) had a riot over spilt milk.

"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."
PhysicalStamina ain't nothin' but a party y'all (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
ain't nothin' but a party y'all
#13: Nov 4th 2012 at 10:34:28 AM

Before forming Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel De Homem-Christo were in a rock band called Darlin'.

...that's all I got. :/

Do not spare the feelings of those who would not spare yours.
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#14: Nov 4th 2012 at 12:19:05 PM

Fun fact: Before witnessing the horrors of World War II as well as the Holocaust, the United States (likely also most of Europe as well) fully embraced a form of eugenics. While the United States did not round up people for slaughter en masse, they DID involuntarily sterilize groups deemed to be dangerous to the superior groups (white, middle class, Protestant, Anglo-Saxon, and genetically or behaviorally able people). It was further cemented into the public consciousness with thinkers such as Herbert Spencer and Thomas Malthus. We use it even today with ideas that some people are more fit to reproduce than others (like how "stupid" people shouldn't reproduce). Read more here and here.

War is God.
Landorkus OH YES!! from The Core Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Robosexual
OH YES!!
#15: Nov 4th 2012 at 12:20:40 PM

A lesbian couple can reproduce with the help of science.

(Agender. They/Them pronouns.)
VmKid Since: Sep, 2009
#16: Nov 4th 2012 at 4:51:03 PM

There is a highway in Hawaii called Kamehameha Highway. Both the highway and the attack share a namesake, King Kamehameha.

edited 4th Nov '12 4:52:06 PM by VmKid

MobileLeprechaun (: from Grayrock, TX Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
(:
#17: Nov 5th 2012 at 10:28:52 AM

The word "avocado" is not a Spanish word, but is actually from Mexico's indigenous Nahuatl language. The Spanish word for avocado is aguacate.

make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019
SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#18: Nov 5th 2012 at 10:51:20 AM

The narrator in Johnny Cash's song "I've Been Everywhere" is traveling to Winnemucca, Nevada.

That same song also is, originally, from Australia.

edited 5th Nov '12 10:54:50 AM by SeanMurrayI

FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#19: Nov 6th 2012 at 7:46:34 PM

Tolkien's publishing company was about to release The Hobbit in Germany when the Nazi party asked Tolkien if he was Aryan. Tolkien, in a Crowning Moment Of Awesome, told the Nazis that he, regrettably, did not have any Jewish ancestry and told them exactly where they could shove it.

edited 8th Nov '12 12:24:47 PM by FantasyLiver

FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#20: Nov 8th 2012 at 12:26:10 PM

Badgers are extremely fierce animals and grizzly bears won't bother them too much, as badgers have been known to fight them off!

Jusamies Digital Analogy from Here Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Digital Analogy
#21: Nov 8th 2012 at 1:38:40 PM

According to XKCD, a typical acre of Florida land produces an average revenue of three cents per year in falling cocaine bales.

In porto perse vitulus est.
TwentyTwoSevenths i seee youuuu from somewhere Since: Jan, 2012
i seee youuuu
#22: Nov 8th 2012 at 5:21:36 PM

Trivia is the goddess of crossroads. Trivia trivia.

edited 8th Nov '12 5:21:58 PM by TwentyTwoSevenths

YOU'LL PAY FOR THE WHOLE SEAT, BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDGE!!!
SlendidSuit Freelance Worrywart from Probably a Pub Since: Oct, 2011
Freelance Worrywart
#23: Nov 9th 2012 at 2:04:09 AM

One of the very first legal systems was created by Hammurabi, the 6th king of Babylon. Whilst this system had a very strong "eye for an eye" mentality, it was also the first legal system to include the assumption of innocence.

Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
FantasyLiver Since: Oct, 2012
#24: Nov 13th 2012 at 8:55:30 PM

Dainel Boone fought in the Revolution.

Kossmeister Burn It Down In The End from Gainesville, FL Since: Feb, 2012
Burn It Down In The End
#25: Nov 13th 2012 at 9:13:41 PM

The earliest known analogue was the Antikythera mechanism, found in 1901 by sponge divers and eventually dated to the early 1st century BC. Other machines of its complexity were not developed until the 14th century.

Every time a fairy says that it doesn't believe in humans, a human child dies.

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