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Donkey Kong is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. It follows the adventures of Donkey Kong, a large, powerful gorilla, and other members of the Kong family of apes.
So why is a gorilla named Donkey Kong?
The ‘Kong’ is an obvious reference to King Kong.
It is said that the ‘Donkey’ came about because of a mistranslation of ‘Monkey Kong’ but this is at odds with what Miyamoto has repeatedly stated, that he used the word "donkey" to convey a sense of stubbornness. He believed “donkey” meant “stupid” in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a “Stupid Ape.”
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When George W Bush took office, aides found that the Clinton administration had removed the “W” keys from the computer keyboards, a critical problem given their boss' name is George W. Bush, and he is often referred to simply as "W," to distinguish him from his presidential dad. Some keyboards did have W keys, but they lacked a working spring beneath them or were otherwise broken. In what was clearly a prank, some W keys were located atop extremely high door frames.
When asked his reaction, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer replied, "It would have been 'Wow.' But the W was removed, so now it's just, 'Oh.'"
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Christina O is a private motor yacht that once belonged to billionaire Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis. At 99.13 metres long, she was the 59th largest yacht in the world as of 2022.
Although remodelled, the yacht retains Onassis’s bar stools upholstered in whale foreskins and whales’ teeth carved into pornographic scenes from the Odyssey.
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Speaking of whales, Moby Dick was based on a real life sperm whale called Mocha Dick.
Mocha Dick (died 1838) was a rogue albino male sperm whale that lived in the southeastern Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, usually encountered in the waters near Mocha Island, off the central coast of Chile. American explorer and author J. N. Reynolds published an account of the whale in Mocha Dick, Or The White Whale of the Pacific: A Leaf from a Manuscript Journal.
Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by Reynolds' account at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed.
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Lulach (1032 – 1058) was the stepson of Macbeth, the son of Lady Macbeth’s first marriage, who became King of Scotland after the death of Macbeth.
King only for 15 August 1057 to 17 March 1058, he was a weak king known variously as Lulach the Unfortunate, the Simple-minded, the Fool and the Idiot.
He was assassinated and usurped by Malcolm III.
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As a teenager, Puccini stole organ pipes from his town's cathedral and sold them to buy cigarettes. As church organist, he rearranged the music to avoid playing the missing notes.
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The production of foie gras (the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened) involves the force-feeding of birds with more food than they would eat in the wild, and more than they would voluntarily eat domestically. The feed, usually corn boiled with fat (to facilitate ingestion), deposits large amounts of fat in the liver, thereby producing the fatty consistency sought by some gastronomes.
Hitler and his Nazi government banned foie gras production in 1933, shortly after coming to power, historically becoming the first nation to ban production.
Hitler, a vegetarian, and his Nazis, even used their respect for the rights of animals to justify the oppression of the Jewish people.
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