| Fri, Feb 3rd |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 |  | the_turtle: FACT: the first AFL/NFL Championship was not actually called the Super Bowl. #fridayfacts 9:56p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's fry-ee-day, fry-ee-day, and FourSquare gotta go down on dead goats on fry-ee-day... #fridayfacts 7:59p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: we want the funk. Give up the funk. #fridayfacts 7:50p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the original Susan G. Komen "ribbon" logo was salmon-colored, not pink. #fridayfacts 7:21p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: television rights for the 1948 London Olympics cost about four thousand dollars. #fridayfacts 1:56p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: no pork butt has ever been placed in geosynchronous orbit. #fridayfacts 1:54p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the most common first word uttered by radio talk show callers is "yes." #fridayfacts 11:55a |
| Fri, Jan 27th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's fried-egg, fried-egg, gotta get clowns on fried-egg... #fridayfacts 12:58p |
| Fri, Jan 20th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's fry-ee-day, fry-ee-day, and if they had PBR-flavored-cupcakes, hipsters would be in heaven on fry-ee-day... #fridayfacts 9:07p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Jarratt, Virginia is where the Commonwealth officially kills people. #fridayfacts 3:15p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Halifax, North Carolina declared independence in April, 1776. #fridayfacts 2:35p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Dunn, North Carolina is the dump-truck-body capital of the world. Guess some people need to get to the gym. #fridayfacts 12:09p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Early focus groups preferred Siri's tastier cousin, Surimi. #fridayfacts 11:10a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: bananas are radioactive. Development of the B-bomb ended in 1949 after the H-bomb proved superior. #fridayfacts 10:34a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Clarendon County, South Carolina is the place where South Carolina's largest hailstone fell. #fridayfacts 9:54a |
| Fri, Jan 6th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Fleetwood Mac's 1977 "Rumours" was the biggest-selling record in history, until deposed by Michael Jackson's "Thriller." #fridayfacts 2:57p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: there are more dogs on the island of Manhattan than there are people in New Hampshire. #fridayfacts 2:40p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's fried-egg, fried-egg, your server will go down if you feed it a fried-egg... #fridayfacts 2:29p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: It's 4:20, and productivity drops measurably. #fridayfacts 2:21p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: certain areas of New York City have five Dunkin' Donuts per square mile. #fridayfacts 2:11p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: cooking certain wild mushrooms releases rocket fuel. #fridayfacts 11:11a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: Fact: in 1975, there were more than 1,000 Howard Johnson's restaurants. In 2011, there were three. #fridayfacts 6:56a |
| Fri, Dec 30th |
Bill Malchisky Jr.
CT, New England, USA |  | BillMalchisky: @the_turtle If the calendar is accurate. and it seems so, this appears to be the last #FridayFacts for 2011 *sniff* 9:11p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Sen. Joe McCarthy's lawyer, Roy Cohn, later took over Lionel Trains and basically ran it into the ground. #fridayfacts 9:05p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Girl Scout "Samoas" cookies contain no actual Samoans. #fridayfacts 8:24p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: wabbits have six front teeth, not four. #fridayfacts 7:57p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: in Samoa, today did not exist. #fridayfacts 4:20p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's fried hay, fried hay, gotta get down on fried hay. #fridayfacts 4:19p |
| Fri, Dec 23rd |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the tallest conventional building in Vermont is only 124 feet tall. #fridayfacts 8:52p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: yesterday was Thurs-dayyyy... #fridayfacts 11:52a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: those Christmas trees in the median of Park Avenue in New York? They started in 1945 as memorials to soldiers in WWII. #fridayfacts 10:02a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the word "mashup" actually dates to 1859. You hipsters, get off my lawn. #fridayfacts 9:38a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the subject of The Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda," may in fact have been named Ethel. #fridayfacts 9:17a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Sweden has invaded fewer than 40 other nations. #fridayfacts 1:13a |
| Thu, Dec 22nd |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Alabama was the first state in the nation to recognize Christmas as an official holiday. #fridayfacts 10:44p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's fry-ee-day, fry-ee-day, and you'll see blown lights because it's one of the longest fry-ee-day nights of the year. #fridayfacts 10:42p |
| Fri, Dec 16th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it is no longer fry-ee-day. At least in the Eastern Time Zone. #fridayfacts 10:00p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: 640K should be enough for anybody. #fridayfacts 9:40p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the automatic golf-club-head-washer was invented in LeRoy, New York. Just google "14482," lazy bastards. #fridayfacts 9:01p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: at one time, the world's largest private airport was in LeRoy, New York. #fridayfacts 9:00p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's fry-ee-day, fry-ee-day, and Rebecca Black is not related to former Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black on fry-ee-day... #fridayfacts 5:52p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: only about a fifth of the collection of the Library of Congress is books. The rest is cold cuts and Grateful Dead tapes. #fridayfacts 4:06p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Park's closed. Moose should have told you. #fridayfacts 12:11p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Cartoonist Edward Gorey was a stepson of the woman who played guitar at Rick's in "Casablanca." Yeah, the teary-eyed one. #fridayfacts 11:42a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Apple I could not type lowercase characters. #fridayfacts 11:26a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: there are more dogs in San Francisco than there are human children. They poop about as much. #fridayfacts 11:03a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Hitler wasn't actually a German citizen until 1932. #fridayfacts 10:51a |
| Fri, Dec 9th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it is now Saturday. #fridayfacts 10:01p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's fry-ee-day, fry-ee-day, and Cove Fort, Utah recently banned gettin' down on fry-ee-day... #fridayfacts 8:47p |
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The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: at one time there were eighteen different Crayola boxes and five different sizes of crayons. Now, just two. #fridayfacts 2:50p |
| Fri, Dec 2nd |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Washington Redskins have never defeated the Swiss Army in any artillery battle in Greenland. #fridayfacts 9:57p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: The Washington Redskins never defeated the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers. #fridayfacts 9:08p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Washington Redskins have never defeated the Dallas Mavericks in any playoff series that went six or more games. #fridayfacts 3:46p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: @Kinniska @BJMendelson the best Dr. Brown's soda is Cel-Ray, the only known celery-flavored soda. #fridayfacts 3:40p |
| Thu, Dec 1st |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Washington Redskins have never defeated the Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup finals. #fridayfacts 11:29p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the United States tried to invade Canada once, and... FAILED! #fridayfacts 11:09p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: if you have to keep pulling up the top of your dress, you probably should not have chosen a strapless. Or, don't dance. #fridayfacts 10:58p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's fry-ee-day, fry-ee-day, Donovan McNabb lookin' for a job on fry-ee-day... #fridayfacts 10:42p |
| Fri, Nov 18th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: there are no actual moose organs in chocolate mousse. #fridayfacts 9:44p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: no astronomer has ever figured out what Eddie Vedder meant by "all five horizons." #fridayfacts 9:29p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: while Thomas Crapper was involved with the modern flush toilet, it's a total coincidence that they call it a crapper. #fridayfacts 9:26p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: North East, Pennsylvania (which is in far northwest Pennsylvania) is so named because it used to be in northeast Ohio. #fridayfacts 5:09p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: tomorrow is National Toilet Day. I feel flush in anticipation. #fridayfacts 3:55p |
Jim Casale
Bellerose, NY |  | jimcasale: RT @the_turtle: FACT: it's fry-ee-day, fry-ee-day, gotta get ****ed on fry-ee-day... #fridayfacts +1 5:55a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's fry-ee-day, fry-ee-day, gotta get ****ed on fry-ee-day... #fridayfacts 5:30a |
| Fri, Nov 11th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: electrofishing #fridayfacts 4:01p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: 4.4 #fridayfacts 3:28p |
| Sat, Nov 5th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: By the way, you are correct, there were very few #fridayfacts yesterday. Hey, I was busy. 9:33p |
| Fri, Nov 4th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it is no longer Friday in the Eastern Time Zone. #fridayfacts 10:04p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Welsh rabbit is made from the carcasses of the well-known "Velveeta Rabbit," like in that book when you were a kid. #fridayfacts 9:30p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Welsh rabbit contains no actual Welshmen. #fridayfacts 8:16p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: there are 17 nonprinting characters in the word "vortex." #fridayfacts 7:12p |
| Fri, Oct 28th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: David Freese's 21 RBIs is a new major-league postseason record. #fridayfacts 9:46p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: David Freese's 21 RBIs is a new major-league postseason record. #fridayfacts 9:46p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: Near Donnora, PA. 63 years ago right now, it was the scene of killer air pollution that killed Cards great Stan Musial's dad. #fridayfacts 6:50p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: Near Donnora, PA. 63 years ago right now, it was the scene of killer air pollution that killed Cards great Stan Musial's dad. #fridayfacts 6:50p |
| Fri, Oct 21st |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Virginia Destroyers are the 2011 champions of the United Football League #fridayfacts 9:03p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: the Virginia Destroyers are the 2011 champions of the United Football League #fridayfacts 9:03p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: in the 1979 revival of Peter Pan starring Sandy Duncan, Tinkerbell was a FRICKIN' LASER, man... #fridayfacts 5:02p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: in the 1979 revival of Peter Pan starring Sandy Duncan, Tinkerbell was a FRICKIN' LASER, man... #fridayfacts 5:02p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: "Shots" is not actually the dumbest dance song ever recorded. #fridayfacts 4:43p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: "Shots" is not actually the dumbest dance song ever recorded. #fridayfacts 4:43p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it is illegal to show an official picture of the map of Michigan without including the Upper Peninsula. #fridayfacts 4:30p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it is illegal to show an official picture of the map of Michigan without including the Upper Peninsula. #fridayfacts 4:30p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: he's just a poor boy, from a poor family. Bismillah will not let you go. #fridayfacts 3:35p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: he's just a poor boy, from a poor family. Bismillah will not let you go. #fridayfacts 3:35p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's schnordphlegg, schnordphlegg, gotta get down on schnordphlegg... #fridayfacts 6:16a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: it's schnordphlegg, schnordphlegg, gotta get down on schnordphlegg... #fridayfacts 6:16a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Qaddafi never appeared on "American Bandstand." Unconfirmed reports placed him on "Soul Train," however. #fridayfacts 5:33a |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Qaddafi never appeared on "American Bandstand." Unconfirmed reports placed him on "Soul Train," however. #fridayfacts 5:33a |
| Fri, Oct 14th |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: in movie portrayals of The Three Musketeers, you never actually see them with muskets. Just blade weapons. #fridayfacts 6:58p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: in movie portrayals of The Three Musketeers, you never actually see them with muskets. Just blade weapons. #fridayfacts 6:58p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: US Route 78 is now I-22. US 22 is now I-78. #fridayfacts 4:50p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: US Route 78 is now I-22. US 22 is now I-78. #fridayfacts 4:50p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Teletype Corporation pretty much vanished around 1992. #fridayfacts 3:52p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: Teletype Corporation pretty much vanished around 1992. #fridayfacts 3:52p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: even when The CBS Evening News actually had Teletypes, they used that recording of the Teletype Model 33. #fridayfacts 3:31p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: even when The CBS Evening News actually had Teletypes, they used that recording of the Teletype Model 33. #fridayfacts 3:31p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: news radio stations KYW and WINS still use that sample of a Teletype Model 33. WBBM no longer uses it. #fridayfacts 3:16p |
The Turtle
ÜT: 39.202626,-77.361699 | | the_turtle: FACT: news radio stations KYW and WINS still use that sample of a Teletype Model 33. WBBM no longer uses it. #fridayfacts 3:16p |
