apocryphacts

In 1996, a corrupt installation of Mac OS System 7 left Wes Anderson’s Power Macintosh 9500 with only the Futura Bold and Cairo fonts. No one has dared tell him.

Costa Rica’s Selvatura Park possesses the largest Zhuangzi garden in Central America, hosting over 1,600 slumbering Taoists. Upon entering the netted enclosure, visitors are encouraged to let the wizened scholars perch gently on their shoulders.

Game pieces do not actually talk, though they may emit soothing tones at random intervals. Do not fall for the sonorous suggestions of these plasticine sirens, for it will surely spell your doom.

Listen to this, Tin Man,” begins Oz in the unexpurgated climax of The Wizard of Oz. “You’re alone in the desert, walking along the sand. You spy a tortoise, upturned, lying on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun. It can’t turn over, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that, Tin Man?

If you believe that you can truly “set and forget” the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie: the fire marshal would like a word with you.

Salon Selectives labels its assorted hair products with numbers for shampoos, letters for conditioners, world currency symbols for gels/mousses/pomades, and Cirth runes for hair sprays. To aid customers, each purchase of a hair-care product offers a four-dimensional grid for different hair types (Dry, unruly hair, occasionally made of snakes: 7/M/£/

) and a helpful transgenic skunk. The skunk cannot speak, though it is capable of many human emotions, including wistfulness.

E pluribus unum, or “Out of many, one” was incorrectly translated as “BA-A-ARNEY! My Pebbles!” in some early editions of the World Book encyclopedia.

Michael Collins was not the first man to not walk on the moon, but it sure felt that way to him.

The White House Cabaret Players’ 2007 production of Rent was marked with disaster from the outset when Karl Rove, playing Mark, left his signature scarf on Air Force One. Alberto Gonzales’s interpretation of the character of Angel was also received poorly.

The blowhole of the bottlenose dolphin can produce extraordinary amounts of air pressure. The Yakuza has been known to exploit this in its business dealings, employing a dedicated イルカの銃 (loosely, “dolphin cannon”) during tough negotiations.