A wise man or possibly an evil ghost once said that all work and no play makes *blank* a dull boy. Well apparently Henry “Henny” Youngman decided to ignore the absolute shit out of that seemingly sound advice and worked pretty much until the day he died at age 91.
El Santo, the wrestler who never took off his mask
El Santo was a lucha libre wrestler famed throughout Mexico for his steadfast refusal to ever remove his mask in public. In a career spanning nearly 50 fucking years, El Santo removed his mask only once, after he retired before near-immediately dying of a heart attack.
The baseball player who needed to talk to the ball
Superstitions abound in the world of sport and it’s not uncommon for even the most skilled sportsmen and women to credit at least a fraction of their success not to the decade they spent dunking on their peers, but a lucky rabbit’s foot or some shit. In the world of baseball arguably the most superstitious player of all was a guy named Schoolboy Rowe.
This is Why Punch-Out!! Had Two Screens
The Punch-Out!! series of video games that mostly revolve around punching the shit out of increasingly tough stereotypical and marginally racist boxers in a quest to be crowned punch champion of the world. When the game first launched in arcades in 1983, it was seen as something of a novelty due to the fact the machine made use of two screens simultaneously. Oddly, the only reason the machines were even built like that in the first place is because Nintendo had too many televisions lying around.
Tiger Sharks Will Eat F*****G Anything
It’s often said that sharks have an unfair reputation as giant murder-fish, when in reality they very rarely attack humans, mostly being content to bob around occasionally slapping us with their tails. While sharks almost never eat humans, apparently they will eat fucking everything else though, as tiger sharks are only too happy to prove.
