April 2025

“Avatar” is Sanskrit for incarnation” Hindu scriptures use the word to describe human incarnations of God.

Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks’ younger brother, was his body double in many of the run scenes of Forrest Gump.

Brad Pitt and John Travolta turned down starring roles in Apollo 13.

Indiana Jones was called Indiana Smith right up until the first day of filming on Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indy’s whip is ten feet long.

C-Span is short for Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network. C-Span does not receive Nielsen ratings.

The true inventor of the telephone was a Staten Island resident, Italian Antonio Meucci, in 1856, twenty years before Alexander Graham Bell got his patent. Meucci never filed a patent for his invention, but Bell did so in 1876. Bell’s company –AT&T–would employ one million people by 1974.

Borrowed by Daheap from The Indespensable Book of Useless Information; Don Vorhees