Strange Laws Fact 63

In Russia by law the homeless must be at home after 10pm.

That's some of the greatest logic I've ever heard of.

That's Science for you... Fact 62

The scientific name for the gorilla is "Gorilla Gorilla-gorilla"

"Yeah... That's my name according to Science" 

Spectacular Scenes

"I want the Truth!" "You can't handle the Truth" It's a code itself nowadays. You don't need to be an expert in any field to understand the great depth of power this phrase reaches. 

A Few Good Men (1992) sheds light upon a cruel Colonel (portrayed by Jack Nicholson), who gave orders to two ordinary men to carry out the process of Code Red. It basically means to eliminate and kill someone. During the court meeting, Lt. Kaffee (Tom Cruise) pierces every wall of defenseless lies within the Colonel to make him admit of the fact that he did indeed give orders to carry out the murder. 

This Law based movie is a great portrayal of corruption within the army, and not to mention the phenomenal talk which Nicholson gives in response... 

It could be that costly Fact 61

In 1919 in the USA, you could be jailed for Sneezing in the Public.

"I want the..... AAAchooo!" 

Strange Laws Fact 60

In Oklahoma by law baseball teams cannot Hit the ball over the fence, initially out of ground. 

"What the hell are you doing?"
"Trying to obey the Law"  

Wasn't expecting this... Fact 59

Colgate (the toothpaste) translates to (in Spanish); Go hang yourself.

The Most Popular Movie Series Fact 58

Half the worlds population has seen at least one James Bond Film!

The Biggest Living Thing Fact 57

A giant fungus called a 'honey mushroom' has been found growing under ground just 1 meter below the Malheur National Forest in Oregon, USA. This humongous fungus is estimated to cover 8.9 square kilometers, about the size of 1665 football pitches, and is the largest living thing in the world found so far. 

You can smell bits of the fungus showing above the ground. Experts aren't quite sure how old it is, but they know it is very old and started growing at least 2400 years ago! Amazingly, this giant will have started off in the same way as a mushroom you might have in your dinner, from a single seed-like 'spore', so small it isn't visible to the naked eye. The scientists first noticed it when the trees in the forest began to die. The honey mushroom thrives by sucking water and nutrients from the tree's roots and trees are unable to survive. 

Spectacular Scenes

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol offers tense imagery and spectacular scenes including this one above, where Ethan Hunt - Tom Cruise has to climb 7 Units up to the 130th floor with a pair of "sticky Gloves" Blue is Glue and Red... Dead. The scene involves the building Burj al-Khalifa in Dubai - formerly the tallest infrastructure in the world.  

Starring Paula Patton, Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner - this action packed film will make you gasp all along. Apart from that, there is one script which I loved during this scene; The Wire's not long enough, says Brandt (Renner), Oh Shit!! replies Hunt (Cruise).  

The Best Memory Fact 56

Elephants have wonderful memories - which is useful as they can liver for over 70 years. If an elephant is separated from a friend and they don't see each other for a number of years, when they do meat again they instantly recognize each other. There is evidence to suggest that they can even remember humans and bear grudges against people that have done them in the past. 

Elephants also feel sadness. If a friend or a member of their family dies, they actually show grief. It is thought that elephants can remember trauma from their childhoods right into their adult life that can affect their behavior and even turn them into hooligans.

Cicadas can hibernate for an immaculate 17 years! Fact 55

Cicadas are insects, best known for the sounds made by male cicadas. The males make this sound by flexing their tymbals, which are drum-like organs found in their abdomens. Small muscles rapidly pull the tymbals in and out of shape — like a child's click-toy. The sound is intensified by the cicada's mostly hollow abdomen. Female cicadas also make a sound by flicking their wings, but it isn't the same as the song cicadas are known for.

After the long 2 to 17 years, cicadas emerge from the ground as nymphs. Nymphs climb the nearest available tree, and begin to shed their nymph exoskeleton. Free of their old skin, their wings will inflate with fluid and their new skin can harden. Once their new wings and body are ready, they can begin their brief adult life.

Spectacular Scenes

"I look at you, I don't see an intelligent confident man... I see a Cocky Scared Shit-less kid. But you're a Genius bro, no one denies that, no one can possibly understand the depths of you." 

Good Will Hunting is just more than Robin Williams craziness. Matt Damon, Ben Afleck and Minnie Driver present together a masterpiece directed by Gus Van Sant. One of the most interesting things about this film is that it offers fabulous advice, displays great logic and philosophy to intake and unbelievably iconic quotes (like one above).

Robin Williams and Matt Damon discuss below how inappropriate acts and decisions can vary the future ultimately - and give an unexpected surprise... surprisingly. Love this philosophical touch in the movie by Sant.

On this day...

16th of May 1929 The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles,California. 

AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks hosted the show. Tickets cost five dollars, 270 people attended the event and the presentation ceremony lasted fifteen minutes. Awards were created by Louis B. Mayer, founder of Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation (at present merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). It is the only Academy Awards ceremony not to be broadcast either on radio or television.

The first ever winner of the first Oscar was Emmil Jannings, for the two films in fact, The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Over time, the most consistent actors over the Oscars have been the following, winning the Award on more than one occasion (Daniel Day Lewis is the only one to have won it 3 times in the same category of a Leading Role). 

    

Daniel Day Lewis

 

Marlon Brando

  

Gary Cooper

   

Tom Hanks

 

Dustin Hoffman

  

Fredric March

   

Jack Nicholson

  

Sean Penn

 

Spencer Tracy

Spectacular Scenes

Iconic, catchy, short and snappy, this scene is and will be one of the most remembered ones ever! Leanardo DiCaprio's sweet humbleness towards a smart and cheeky 'campaigner' Matthew McConaughey.

The film allowed Mathew to win an Academy Award for the Best Actor, whilst Leo was nominated. Whoever the hell deserves the Oscar, the scene/film and acting of the two professionals were staggering and Mind blowing. The Wolf of Wall Street was one of 2013's highest earning films. 

8 Flying machines inspired by birds Fact 54

BAE Hawk - a jet made famous by the Red Arrow team. 

F-15 Eagle - a fighter plane that can out-climb a Saturn V rocket. 

Fw 200 Condor - a German aircraft used in World War 2.

Harrier Jump Jet - a military jet that takes off vertically.

Millennium Falcon - Han solos spaceship in Star Wars

SH-60 Seahawk - a US Navy search-and-rescue helicopter.

V-22 Osprey - aircraft with rotor blades that can fly like a plane, or take off like a helicopter. 

The Vulture - a futuristic robot spy plane under development. 

What is that red spot on Jupiter's surface? Fact 53

Jupiter's most distinctive feature is a giant red spot that can be seen on its surface. At its widest point, the diameter of the spot measures three times that of Earth. The spot is in fact a giant gas hurricane that has been raging for up to 350 years! The winds reach incredible speeds, up to 360 Km/h. In 1990, a satellite called the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit around Earth. Since then Hubble has sent pictures to Earth of two more red dots on the surface of Jupiter. 

Critiques - Target No. 2

This list is just atrocious! The rankings to the inclusion of some, everything and anything you see in this list is wrong - from my point of view of course! It's so bad that I don't know where to begin from, whether it be Manny Pacquiáo or Bruce Lee. I seriously don't have any permanent grudge against Watchmojo, but when they are wrong, it's by quite a margin, let's just see where they went wrong.

Inclusion of Manny Pacquiáo

Manny is a good boxer, not a fighter. I think pretty much every professional in the world knows that when you are fighting, there are no rules, and when there are no rules, being dirty or clean doesn't matter, what does matter is that you get out of the fight alive. As far as I'm concerned, I don't know which idiot gave Watchmojo the idea to first of all put him on the list, and secondly ahead of Roy Jones, Jr. and Fedor Emelianenko!!! 

Manny taking a final blow from Marquez before his "quick nap"

Pacman clearly isn't the fighter to fight them, and will be murdered. Moreover, I have no idea how he got a place on the list, and Floyd Mayweather Jr. went unnoticed? Okay Manny fans you might say he's a better fighter, but hang on, has he been the victim of any defeat? Has he been humiliated like Pacman before? Has he been ever dominated? NO! And I think he will not be in the future, I personally believe it's a solidified fact who's the better Fighter between them two, and through this regard, I believe if Manny is mentioned on the list, then Floyd Mayweather Jr. be mentioned too! Either way, both of the Boxer's presence in the list means a load of crap. But since Pacman is mentioned, you're wrong not to mention Floyd... 

Roy Jones Jr. deserved a better position
Every Boxing fan in the world would acknowledge to stand against the "hideous crime" of putting Manny Pacquio (a Lightweight Boxer) ahead of a former Lightweight Champion and a Heavyweight one too! Wow, I'd like Manny to do that, that's only if he can do it... I believe he can't, and he will not. Obvious and as clear as water, RJR dominates Pacquio in ever aspect of Boxing. Taller, Muscular, Stronger - can take more punches than Pacman - Faster, Heavier (in the sense of more force applied in the jabs) and has indeed that third gear which allows him to excel against his opponents in the later rounds. As mentioned, we will discuss a key point later on which makes the list completely futile upon the strategy it went. RJR is a cracking Boxer, but would he win a fight against the likes of a Kickboxing Champion Fedor Emilianenko? With all due respect to his fans, he would not, and it's not about Talent, no, it's about the fact that Boxing include rules, and Kickboxing doesn't have that many rules compared to Boxing. Therefore in Fighting, Fedor would come out on top, but that's just confusing right? The Video should have not joined some Boxers, or Kickboxers altogether in one go, it should have been the top ten Boxers, or Kickboxers or whatever the hell, not Fighters, as that include "a no rule strategy". And that builds up controversy over a better fighter. But whatever the case is, RJR is a better Boxer than Manny, and Watchmojo doesn't realize that unjustly...

Fedor Emelianenko deserved a better position

Are you trying to say that Manny is a better fighter than this man, because if you are, it's evident you don't know anything about it, and blatantly presented before us is an example of Watchmojo. Like what the hell do they know about Martial Arts? 

His Martial Arts record comprises of 34 wins out of a total number of 39 fights. A smashing career. Even though he didn't enter the UFC emission (some say based upon the rumors of him taking on much tougher competition). But I don't believe that, he's powerful, athletic and certainly dangerous. Georges St-Pierre doesn't have that ability to withstand the immense power of this man. Fedor's Arm reach, height, weight and strength is greater than Georges' - I seriously think Fedor deserved a very high rank over here indeed. George is an excellent attacker, but if you are talking of superiority over tackling a bigger stronger fighter, there's no guy who intimidates me more than him... 

GreatER BOXERS than Manny Pacquiáo

This man had it all, he was a complete package, Watchmojo deserves some of the harshest punishments ever to not put my favorite Boxer Rocky Marciano on the list.  Arguably the greatest to have ever lived, weighing at 177 pounds (or around that corner), he murdered every opponent in his career, never let anyone cross the finish before him. Undefeated, strong and "Tenacious" as described by Mike Tyson's Trainer Cus D'Amato, his legacy will never be forgotten, and that awkward style which he adapted when he wanted to box, here's a fabulous documentary on his staggering yet somewhat sad story of concluding part of life. A perfect 49 from 49 with an amazing 43 KO! Apart from demolishing the Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, When asked if he could have defeated Ali in a real fight, Marciano replied: "I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't." When asked about his opinion of the result, Ali jokingly dismissed the results as racist, saying "That computer must have been made in Mississippi." Relating to the racial belief of Whites holding the upper most hand of superiority and respect over Blacks. As you know, Ali is......Ali. 


He looks scary, because he is... Don't mistake the Big George Foreman, otherwise that right power blowing jab will "hurt ya". 76 wins from 81 fights, and not to mention the 68 one-punch misery. The likes of Manny don't even deserved to be compared and mentioned alongside George Foreman. Utterly seething and ridiculous that George didn't make the list, rather never even got nominated. Going along the stupendous logic of Watchmojo where the greats are hidden away and the modern greats (which aren't great as the older ones), are classified as the world's best.......not at Boxing, no! At General Fighting! Sugar Ray Leonard was mentioned as a nomination for world's best fighter. Anyone in the world can say after watching the highlights of both men's career that George Foreman will KO SRL anytime! Lunacy beyond Lunacy, you can't get any illogical, ruthless and idiotic than that!

Jack Johnson, profoundly the first hero of the sport of Boxing. He was the one who brought more attention to the sport during its rapid popularity. This Heavyweight's impressive career of 73 wins from 104 matches inspired many young stars to merge through the golden age of the sports history in America. 

Nicknamed the Galveston Giant Double J Knocked out his opponents altogether 40 times. Standing tall at 6ft 2 with an arm reach of 94cm, he's got a greater chance of beating Manny Pacquiáo after observing these statistics. Alright forget Pacman, he's a greater Boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard even (who apparently Watchmojo think is one of the top 3 fighters in the history of Martial Arts). It's a simple thing to understand that Heavyweights are more likely to beat Lightweights! Please people, just type up Jack Johnson on You-Tube, and you'll see how ruthless and demolishing a Boxer this guy was.

Juan Manuel Márquez is a boxer who can be argued upon the discussion of being a greater Boxer than Pacman. Honestly people, here is my opinion, JMM is a better Boxer than Manny, I believe this because every fight they've fought, I really can only see rounds after rounds of dominance from Marquez. Ladies and Gentlemen this all visible through the highlights of their 4 meetings, so far... As for the latest one.... Manny did indeed enjoy the bedtime story. They first met each other in MGM Grand Arena, Las Vegas, on May 8, 2004. It was a draw, 115-110 (Marquez), 110-115 (Pacquiao) and lastly 113-113. Many Pundits regarded Marquez to be the more dominant athlete in the fight. The highlights;



Second Fight; 

Third fight;