Mildly interesting, completely useless facts

[Loki]

Butch doesn't pay his debts. This I learn from Facebook.

[Carbomb]

Carbomb, you were on The Chase? I missed that. There a link anywhere? Or do you know the series and episode number?

 

Yeah, you can check it on Youtube - series 5, episode 55. Second contestant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The world's oldest continuously-running university is the University of Bologna.

[Chris B]

Will Eisner (one of the most innovative and influential figures in comics history), Bob Kane (creator of Batman), Bill Finger (creator of The Joker) and Stan Lee (co-creator of Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man and lots of others) all went to the same high school between 1933 and 1939. There aren't many people more influential in the comics industry than those four.

[Keith Houchen]

Butch doesn't pay his debts. This I learn from Facebook.

Clocked that too!

[Astro Hollywood]

It's like a Welsh remake of Pusher.

[Bellenda Carlisle]

Will Eisner (one of the most innovative and influential figures in comics history), Bob Kane (creator of Batman), Bill Finger (creator of The Joker) and Stan Lee (co-creator of Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man and lots of others) all went to the same high school between 1933 and 1939. There aren't many people more influential in the comics industry than those four.

 

Wow! I did not know that one - Amazing

[Surf Digby]

Bishop was torn apart by the alien queen at the end of Aliens - I know he didn't 'die' from it, but it ultimately led to him being deactivated - does that not count?

I wouldnt count it, no. Bishop survived the alien attack. He was then further damaged by the ship crashing at the start of Alien 3. Ripley turned him off as a bit of a mercy killing, he even said in that conversation that he could be repaired, but he didnt want to be if he couldnt be a top line model, and asked Ripley to deactivate him. So no, I wouldnt consider that to have been the Alien killing him.

He survived, but was further smashed beyond functionality in the EEV impact, which was caused by a facehugger. Thus his "death" was caused by an alien.

[bAzTNM#1]

English football teams gets

[JohnnyChimpo]

Bishop was torn apart by the alien queen at the end of Aliens - I know he didn't 'die' from it, but it ultimately led to him being deactivated - does that not count?

I wouldnt count it, no. Bishop survived the alien attack. He was then further damaged by the ship crashing at the start of Alien 3. Ripley turned him off as a bit of a mercy killing, he even said in that conversation that he could be repaired, but he didnt want to be if he couldnt be a top line model, and asked Ripley to deactivate him. So no, I wouldnt consider that to have been the Alien killing him.

He survived, but was further smashed beyond functionality in the EEV impact, which was caused by a facehugger. Thus his "death" was caused by an alien.

 

But he wasn't smashed beyond functionality; his final words to Ripley in Alien 3 are; "I can be reworked, but I'll never be top of the line again. I'd rather be nothing." He could have survived. Ripley killed him as a favour to an old friend.

[Fatty Facesitter]

Some clarification on the below would be lovely:

 

Kiveton Park and Kiveton Bridge railway stations are the two closest mainline stations anywhere in Europe, at a distance of a mere 0.7 miles.

 

In Sheringham there are two railway stations a mere 100 yards from each other. One belongs to Network Rail on the Eastern side of the road, while the Westernmost and oldest station belongs to the preserved North Norfolk Railway.

 

Are both of the above records of any kind?

[Dean Ayass]

On a similar note, the USA was very nearly named the United States of Columbia after Christopher Columbus, but the went with United States of America after Amerigo Vespucci.

This is widely disputed, due to the fact that lands have never been named after people's first names, but their surnames. Even your fact points to this, i.e. it wasn't nearly called the United States of Christopher. Ditto Tasmania, Cook Islands etc). It's believed that it was named after a wealthy English merchant called Richard Ameryk (or Amerike) and the spelling took a diversion over time, as often happens.

[Surf Digby]

Bishop was torn apart by the alien queen at the end of Aliens - I know he didn't 'die' from it, but it ultimately led to him being deactivated - does that not count?

I wouldnt count it, no. Bishop survived the alien attack. He was then further damaged by the ship crashing at the start of Alien 3. Ripley turned him off as a bit of a mercy killing, he even said in that conversation that he could be repaired, but he didnt want to be if he couldnt be a top line model, and asked Ripley to deactivate him. So no, I wouldnt consider that to have been the Alien killing him.

He survived, but was further smashed beyond functionality in the EEV impact, which was caused by a facehugger. Thus his "death" was caused by an alien.

But he wasn't smashed beyond functionality; his final words to Ripley in Alien 3 are; "I can be reworked, but I'll never be top of the line again. I'd rather be nothing." He could have survived. Ripley killed him as a favour to an old friend.

He wasn't functioning when the convicts pulled his remains from the EEV, and continued not to function until Ripley did some makeshift repairs on him, and even then only ressurected him to a very limited level. Between the crash and being hooked up to the black box, he was effectively dead, as a result of the aliens.To suggest that he was not dead, but merely powered down after the EEV crash, then he's still not dead now, as all Ripley did was disconnect him from the battery.

[rockbus]

When the Crystal Palace was first built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition it had exactly 1851 panes of glass, one for each year. When it was moved to Sydenham in 1854 it was significantly extended, so it wasn't the exact rebuild most people believe.

[Mandingo's Donger]

There are 6 US states named after British kings or queens, 1 named after a Duke who went on to become king, 1 named after a French king and 1 named after a fictional queen.At least i think there are unless i've always been wrong.

[JohnnyChimpo]

He wasn't functioning when the convicts pulled his remains from the EEV, and continued not to function until Ripley did some makeshift repairs on him, and even then only ressurected him to a very limited level.

Between the crash and being hooked up to the black box, he was effectively dead, as a result of the aliens.

I just think your making a bit of a jump there. By your logic, was Hicks killed by the aliens too? He died in the crash, which was caused by the aliens, so he must have been, yeah? Was Ripley? She committed suicide at the end of Alien3, but only did so cause there was an Alien Queen inside her, so the alien indirectly killed her too. Gorman and Vasquez died in the explosion in the air vent, but did so cause the aliens were closing in on them. You can link practically every death to some alien involvement if you wish. The little bit of trivia that was originally posted was that Bill Paxton was the only person killed by an Alien, a Terminator and a Predator, I'm pretty sure that its meant in a "was killed directly by" and not some round about way.

 

To suggest that he was not dead, but merely powered down after the EEV crash, then he's still not dead now, as all Ripley did was disconnect him from the battery.

I hear what your saying, and if that was to be the case, then it only further suggest that Bishop wasnt killed by an alien, cause he aint really dead. Anyway, this is probably just going to go round and round in circles now. As far as I'm concerned, Bishop's lines in the movie are; "I can be reworked, but I'll never be top of the line again. I'd rather be nothing." To me this means that Ripley assisted his suicide basically. He may have been ripped in half and extremely badly damaged, but he wasnt beyond repair. He simply chose not to be repaired.

 

But I reckon we're just gonna have to agree to disagree.