Who was the Narrator for "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"?

Bits of Trivia You Probably Will Never Need

Faye Fairley
On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.

The word "hangnail" comes from Middle English: ang- (painful) + nail. Nothing to do with hanging.

Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque.

Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed Marilyn Monroe's first modeling agency.

John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path.

source:

http://www.kellys.com/know.html

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I was born a long time ago into a large family which got larger. I have been a lot of places, and done a lot of things. Currently, I am a work at home seamstress working for a large show choir costume prov...  View profile

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  • Linda M. McCloud9/2/2010

    Definitely interesting

  • Peggy Montgomery9/1/2010

    Wow, who knew? I would never have guessed John Larroquette.

  • Sue Gibson8/31/2010

    Some very interesting tidbits. I didn't know John L. narrated The TCM.

  • James Fenelius8/31/2010

    Well done Faye!

  • Mike Powers8/31/2010

    Good one, Faye! Thanks!

  • Charlotte Kuchinsky8/31/2010

    Interesting as always.

  • Nancy V Canfield8/31/2010

    A po box for a birthplace? Tight quarters...

  • Melissa Matters8/31/2010

    Interesting. I didn't know babies didn't have knee caps either.

  • JerseyNana8/31/2010

    No knee caps! New info to me, I'm getting so smart today!!

  • Nicole Ramage8/31/2010

    I didn't know that babies didn't have knee caps

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