Crazy Crazy Facts. (there are a lot)
Interesting Facts from Pulp Fiction:
Vincent Vega can be seen in the background going to bathroom during the opening scene with Pumpkin and Honey Bunny.
Also in the opening scene, Jules can be barely heard talking to Vincent about quitting for life.
In the beginning scene, Honey Bunny says "Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of ya.", but in the final scene, she says it differently: "Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every one of ya motherfuckers."
The two times Jules quotes Ezekiel 25:17, he quotes it slightly differently.
Jules must have been reading one weird Bible, because the verse he quotes isn't like any version in print.
Big Kahuna Burger was also mentioned in Reservoir Dogs.
The body that was supposedly "minus a head" was shown twice, both times with the head entirely intact.
What was in the briefcase? No one knows, not even Quentin Tarantino. He says that he never decided what was in it. So, no one will ever actually know what was in it, they can only wager a reasonable guess. The gold glow from the case presumably comes from cartoons: whenever a character would dig up a pirate's treasure and open the trunk, it would almost always glow with a golden light. From this, that golden light has become a representation of something of great value. For more info, try What's in the Briefcase?
The bandage on the back of Marsellus Wallace's neck was put there because the actor, Ving Rhames, has a scar there, and the producers/director thought that it would distract from the scenes. Personally, I think a bandage is more distracting than a scar. It must be one hideous scar.
When Butch is walking up to his apartment a commercial for Jack Rabbit Slim's can be heard on the radio.
In the scene in Lance's house, just before Vince gives Mia the adrenaline shot, the games "Operation" and "Life" can be seen in be background.
The cereal Lance is eating when Vincent calls him from his cell phone is Monster Munch. It was part of the Count Chocula line of cereals, but was discontinued in the 80's.
The combination to Marsellus Wallace's briefcase is 666.
Jules calls the man on the couch in Bret's apartment "Flock of Seagulls" because his hairstyle is known as flock of seagulls.
The Buddy Holly waiter, Steve Buscemi, is the same actor who played Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs.
One of the Bullet holes in the wall in Bret's apartment, caused when the fourth man shot at Jules and Vincent, was there before he even came out of the bathroom.
Jules' wig was gerry-curl because Samuel Jackson's afro wig didn't arrive by the first day of filming like it was supposed to.
The red-head standing over Marsellus Wallace after Butch hits him with the Honda is the same woman who played Betty, the hotel manager, in Four Rooms.
The parts of Honey Bunny and Pumpkin were written specifically for Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth.
All dinosaurs walked on their toes.
In 1822, Mary Ann Mantell of Sussex, England became the first person in history to discover a dinosaur fossil while correctly identifying it as something that was a part of a large reptile; earlier discoveries were identified as giant men, dragons, and other such large, dead things. However, her husband, Dr. Gideon Mantell, took credit for the discovery and identified the teeth that she found as part of an Iguanodon. Later, he wrongfully identified a body part as a horn, which turned out to be part of the creature's thumb.
There were no marine dinosaurs and no flying dinosaurs.
Pterosaurs, which were winged cousins of dinosaurs, were the first vertebrates to take to the air.
The vertebrae of Seismosaurus suggests that it may have been 120 feet long.
Reptiles were responsible for such body part innovations as fur, feathers, claws, differentiated teeth, water impervious skin, water impervious eggs, and the penis.
Edward Drinker Cope, in his rush to beat Othniel Marsh as the collector and publisher of the most dinosaurs, reconstructed one dinosaur so that its head was placed at the end of its tail instead of its rightful place on its neck. Unsympathetic colleagues suggested that it be named "Strepsisaurus" ("twisted lizard").
Stress fractures in some dinosaur vertebrae may have been caused by the weight load of copulation.
The first dinosaur to be the subject of a tavern song was Diplodocus due to the fact
that tychoon Andrew Carnegie gave a replica of the animal to King Edward VII. The tune,
which was popular around the turn of the century, went:
"Crowned heads of Europe
All make a royal fuss
Over Uncle Andy
And his old Diplodocus."
The horned dinosaur Torosaurus had the longest skull of any land-living animal--it was 9 feet long.
The largest dinosaur egg discovered so far belonged to the Hypselosaurus. With a liquid capacity of alnost 6 pints, the egg measures 1 foot long by 10 inches wide.
The bones of the Pterosaur were hollow, even thinner for their size that most modern bird bones.
Most published species of dinosaurs have been published within the last 20 years.
Former basketball great Will Perdue of the Chicago Bulls wears a size 22EEEEEEE shoe.
One baseball statistician has noted that at one point in August 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first professional team to field nine players who were either black or Latino. Coincidentally, this was the same year that they won the World Series.
In 1904, May Sutton Brandy became the first American woman to win the ladies singles championship at Wimbledon.
The first professional football team to sport an insignia on their helmets was the Los Angeles Rams in 1950, who hand painted yellow horns on their blue, leather helmets.
A copy of Basketball Digest costs $7.50 in Antigua.
Lou Boudreau of the Cleveland Indians once blew a game when he blew his nose, forgetting that the "steal" sign was putting a towel to his face.
In 1897, the Washington Senators became the first baseball team ever to introduce "Ladies' Day."
In 1917, Lucy Slowe became the first black woman tennis champion in the United States after winning the women's singles title at a tournament in Baltimore.
Referees of the American Football League wore uniforms of red and white stripes.
Florence Griffith-Joyner, once an employee relations worker for Anheuser-Busch, ran 10.49 in the second heat of the 100-meter dash at the 1988 Olympics, breaking the pre-existing record of 10.76.
Karim Abdul Jabar collects rugs.
According to a study at Florida State University, people spend more money on refreshments at tractor pulls than they do at football games.
Duluth used to have an NFL team. They were called the Eskimos.
If you did the Peppermint Twist after scoring a touchdown in professional football, depending on the referee, your team could be hit with a 15 yard penalty.
Soldier's Field is the oldest field in the NFL.
A scrum is rugby's equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all those playing the position of forward on both teams.
The first Japanese baseball team to play in the U.S. was in 1905.
The Brooklyn Dodgers (who later became the Los Angeles Dodgers) did not get their name because of their sporting ability. The term "dodger" was a shortened form of "trolley dodgers," which was first used to describe Brooklynites for their ability to avoid being hit by trolley cars.
In the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Joan Benoit won the first Olympic marathon for women.
According to Time magazine, Super Bowl Sunday is the second largest avocado eating day of the year in the United States. The first largest day is Cinco De Mayo.
There's no firm evidence that golf started in Scotland.
Gertrude Ederle became America's first women superstar swimmer on Aug. 6, 1926, when she successfully crossed the English Channel. The first woman and only the sixth person to swim the Channel, she also set a new time record: 14 hours 31 minutes.
Former Boston Celtics player Tony Lavelli used to play his accordion at half time.
In her time, Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson, born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1911, was second perhaps to only Jim Thorpe as an all-around athlete. In 1930, an era when men's basketball teams averaged 25 points per game, she averaged 42 points per game and led Employers Casualty to the 1930 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) women's championship.
Al "Grandpa Munster" Lewis used to be a college basketball recruiter.
The first woman jockey was Alicia Meynell of England. Her first race, which lasted four miles, was against Captain William Flint on Aug. 25, 1804. The outcome of the race is unknown.
All umpires wear black underwear.
The first women's bicycling marathon took place on January 6-11, 1896 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Frankie Nelson won the race after travelling 418 miles.
According to one source, late baseball great Billy Martin had 21 fights.
During the player introductions before the 7th game of the 1992 National League playoffs, Jose "Chico" Lind of the Pittsburgh Pirates said something that sounded like "the chicken runs at midnight."
Patricia McCormick became America's first woman bullfighter when she entered the arena in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico on Jan. 20, 1957.
According to one baseball statistician, players with brown eyes are better hitters than those with blue eyes. Darker eyes make it easier for them to spot the baseball (a white object) despite glare from the sun.
Ex-dictator Idi Amin was heavy weight boxing champ of Uganda for nine years.
Fishing licenses in Colorado would be rounded off to the nearest dollar except the state adds on an extra 25 cents to help fund search and rescue missions.
On March 16, 1876, Nell Saunders defeated Rose Harland in the first U.S. women's boxing match.
In 1903, driving his famous "999" built by Henry Ford, Berner Eli ("Barney") Oldfield became the first man to achieve 60 miles per hour, a speed many doctors of the day claimed would cause deafness.
The L.A. Lakers are really popular in the Bahamas.
Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates claimed to have been on LSD when he pitched his no-hitter against the San Diego Padres in 1970. The only known documentation of that fact in a pop song is by L.A. musician Darius, who included it in "There is No Cure."
Bo Jackson has killed pigs several times.
Roman Gabriel once played the bit part of a cannibal on Gilligan's Island.
The only place in the world where they make Dr. Pepper according to the original formula is in Dublin, Texas.
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person is killed annually painting stripes on the state's highways and roads.
The caves of Sonora, Texas are the third best in the United States.
In 1964, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson gave out poinsettas as Christmas presents. In 1967, Lyndon gave Lady Bird a yellow wool dress and matching jacket for Christmas.
According to Texas law, in some places, running a bakery is considered to be an "agricultural business."
In the mid 1980s, the employee cafeteria at Motorolla in Austin had to stop serving food that contained poppy seeds because people showed false positives for opium when they were drug tested. Since then, the company reintroduced poppy seeds, and added Valium and several anti-depressants to a list of things not to bother testing for.
Early Spanish missionaries in Texas hoped to encourage the spread of European values by offering flannel underwear to Native Americans.
People who moved to Lockhart, Texas in the 1950s are still considered by natives of the town to be newcomers.
Despite the fact that his middle name is "Farmer," Charles F. Trompler lost in his attempt to be selected as the Republican candidate for state agriculture commissioner in the 1986 Texas primary.
In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
The Guadalupe River Bass is the state fish of Texas.
In 1964, Austin writer John Morthland became the first person in America to interview the Rolling Stones. John, who was a high school junior in San Bernadino, California interviewed the band when they arrived for the maiden U.S. tour for his school's paper.
According to one geographer, digging straight down from Austin will not get you to China but to Iraq.
Stephen F. Austin and Santa Ana belonged to the same free masonry lodge in Mexico City.
There are stalactites and stalagmites in the breezeway at the University of Texas Law School.
For $150 you can become a licensed dead animal hauler in Texas.
According to one music critic, the person who modeled for the Indian Head Penny is a direct ancestor of Kim Longacre, who sang for the Austin band, The Reivers.
In Waco, Texas, out of the five magazines with the top market share, Modern Maturity (the publication of the American Association of Retired Persons), is number one. The remaining four are men's magazines.
In Texas it's legal for a chicken to have sex with you, but it's illegal to reciprocate.
Will Rogers' father and uncle were boyhood friends of Sam Houston. Their half sister, Will Rogers' aunt, was also Sam Houston's Indian wife.
A nursing home in Texas must comply with the rules and regulation of 15 agencies.
In Texas, you could have been jailed for giving out or discussing information on birth control 50 years ago.
The world's largest oatmeal cake was baked and built in Bertram, Texas during Labor Day weekend 1991. The 33-layer cake stood more than 3 feet tall, weighed 333 pounds, and served 3,333 people.
Dallas' corner of Elm and Houston streets has a sordid history. The building completed there in November 1898 was struck by lightning and burned to the ground in May 1901. By the fall of 1901 it was rebuilt. In that same building 62 years later, Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy from the sixth floor.
There are jackrabbits living at Austin's Robert Mueller Airport.
One of the lenses at the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory has a nick in it because a worker there got mad at something and shot at it.
The Wendish community of Giddings, Texas used to verbally inform all domestic animals of a death in the family.
In Odessa, Texas, the star of David and the peace symbol are forbidden by the city's dress code because they are considered to be Satanic symbols.
Former Governor Ann Richards received a vote for "Best Rap Artist" in The Austin Chronicle's 1991 Austin Music Poll.
Austinites might miss the glory that was the Treaty Oak, but Texas has 64 national champion trees, meaning they are the largest specimens of their species in the country. They include cedar elm, persimmon, eastern red cedar, and yaupon holly.
Boston, Texas is completely surrounded by New Boston, Texas.
There's a Texas law that forbids people from carrying around a fence cutter or a pair of pliers that could cut a fence.
In 1937, when the idea of parking meters was first raised in Austin, The Austin American designated one of its staff members "Parking Meter Editor" to tally a poll of its readers.
Fort Creek, Texas was hotter than hell in 1855.
Former Governor Ann Richards' Harley Davidson motorcycle probably will never go faster than 55 miles per hour because it has a governor on it (governor, n.: an automatic attachment to a machine for automatic control or limitation of speed.)
Lubbock is the largest city in the United States that it dry.
There's a ghost on the fifth floor of Austin's Driskill Hotel.
They have a petrified buffalo hairball at the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame in Waco.
In Texas, it is illegal to curse in front of or indecently expose a corpse.
"The Eyes of Texas" was originally written for a minstrel show as a satire on Dr. Lambdin Prather, then University of Texas at Austin president.
In Texas, if a burglary occurred in conjunction with a rape, some prosecutors charge rapists with the burglary because it carries the same sentence as aggravated sexual assault (5 to 99 years) and is an easier crime to prove. By the way, regular sexual assault only carries a sentence of 2 to 20 years.
Four fire ant species are found in Texas, three of which are native to the state. The tropical Solenopsis geminata Fabricus and southern Solenopsis xyloni McCook are the most common.
Former Governor Ann Richards' motorcycle has the Texas license plate X47095. It also has Dunlop Elite tires on it.
According to one report, more popcorn is sold in Dallas, Texas than anywhere in the U.S. (The average American eats 42 quarts of popcorn a year.)
The first film made in Texas to have won an Academy Award was Wings in 1927. The film starred Clara Bow and was directed by William Wellman.
According to one inside source, the majority of men who attend meetings at the Austin Men's Center have beards.
Debra Peters (of Austin band Debra Peters and the Love Saints) started on the accordion at age 4 after being convinced by a guy who was selling lessons door-to-door. After two weeks of persistent requests, her mom finally agreed to buy her one.
Forty percent of the farm-grown catfish in the United States is consumed by Texans.
The milk for Blue Bell Ice Cream comes from Corsicana, not Brenham.
Until recently, Bastrop's "home coming" celebrations had nothing to do with high school football; they were held to honor returning World War II veterans.
To be elected in the state of Texas, one must believe in a supreme being.
To combat the deadly killer bee, the Harris County Fire Department has 11 trucks equipped with soapy water sprayers that do nothing but respond to killer bee calls. Currently, the Austin Fire Department will only deal with emergency situations involving killer bee attacks in progress.
Lubbock doesn't have any storm drains.
The written test for University of Texas at Austin campus police in the 1960s asked applicants the shape of their excrement to test their ability to be observant.
Side oats grama is the official state grass of Texas.
In Texas, pharmacists can't be registered members of the Communist Party.
Carl Finch, of Denton's nuclear polka band Brave Combo, led the accordion parade scene in David Byrne's movie True Stories, and says that Byrne is a charter member of the Dallas chapter of the Texas Accordionists Association.
You can buy chicken fried steak at one Chinese restaurant in Fort Stockton, Texas.
According to one of Austin's finest, Montgomery Wards, in general, is a magnet for eating establishments.
The smallest Catholic church in the world still in operation claims to be in Warrenton, Texas. Measuring 12 feet by 15 feet, the church seats 15 and is only open once a year.
The name of Buda, Texas comes from the Spanish word "viuda" or widow because the town's first mayor died in office, and from that point on, anyone who wanted to conduct business in town had to deal with his widow.