Conversation Starters

Sometimes you are at a party with new people and you need something to talk about. Here ya go…

“Henry & June” was the first movie to get the NC-17 rating.
The first film released with the PG-13 rating was “Red Dawn.”
On average, an adult human has about 5 liters (1.3 gallons) of blood, which translates to roughly 8-10% of their body weight.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus turned down the role of Mia in “Pulp Fiction” due to her Seinfeld commitment.
The 2012 London Games were the first Olympics in which all participating countries sent female athletes.
The six colors – blue, yellow, black, green, red, and white – of the Olympic rings were chosen because they incorporated the colors of all national flags in existence at the time the Olympic flag was created.
Bill Buckner had more hits than Ted Williams.
Maine is the U.S. state closest to Africa.
Roger Bannister held the world record in the mile for exactly 46 days.
A Jack Russell terrier voiced the T Rex in “Jurassic Park.”
Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was “Moon.”
(What’s The Story) Morning Glory was the best-selling album in the UK in the 1990s.
There are 18 minutes of total action in an average baseball game.
“Song 2” by Blur was meant to parody American grunge music.
Babe Ruth only won four World Series in 15 seasons with the New York Yankees while Yogi Berra won 13 World Series in 18 seasons with the Yanks.
Steve Carrell insisted that the chest waxing scene from The 40-Year-Old Virgin be realistic, so it’s his real chest hair that you see being ripped out. He told director Judd Apatow that he wanted it to be real, so Apatow set up five cameras and they did the scene in one take.
S.E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders, wrote the book while she was still in high school because she wanted to read books on teenagers that did not revolve around “Mary Jane going to prom.”
A baby puffin is called a puffling, and both parents take turns incubating the egg before it hatches.
The Go-Go’s had the first No. 1 album in the U.S. by an all-female band that played their own instruments and wrote their own songs.
The term “lawn mullet” means having a neatly manicured front yard and an unmowed mess in the back.
In “St. Elmo’s Fire,” Mare Winningham, who played the virgin, Wendy Beamish, was pregnant with her third child during the filming of the movie.
U2 made their first US television appearance on “The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder” in June 1981.
Winston Churchill’s mother was born in Brooklyn.
Dolly Parton agreed to do “9 to 5” on the condition that she could write the theme song for it.
High schools and universities in New Zealand are allowed to keep up to a pound of uranium on the premises for educational purposes.
Johnny Carson’s first three wives were named, in order, Joan, Joanne, and Joanna. (His first wife went by “Jody.”)
Persians invented bagpipes.