JUST FOR FUN

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
-Bertrand Russell


Perfectly Useless Information


Uma Thurman's father was the first American to be ordained a Buddhist monk.

Stephen King's father went out for a pack of cigarettes and never returned.

Julianna Margulies's father wrote the "Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz" jingle for Alka-Seltzer.

Laura Dern was bullied in school a lot because her father-Bruce Dern-was "the only person to kill John Wayne in the movies."

Rachel Weisz's father invented the artificial respirator.

Stockard Channing received a substantial inheritance at the age of 15 after her shipping magnate father died.

Ben Affleck's father Tim-a reformed alcoholic-became Robert Downey Jr's drug counselor.

Robert Redford, Sting and Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) all had fathers who were milkmen.

The fathers of Roger Moore, Burt Reynolds, Queen Latifah, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Eddie Murphy were all policemen.

From That Book of Perfectly Useless Information
by Mitchell Symons