General Trivia thread (the more obscure the better)

That is an amazing factoid.

 

IIRC, the highest since 9-11-01 is the 2016 Dallas Police ambush in which five were killed.

 

George A. Romero, of Night of the Living Dead Fame, got his professional start directing segments for what’s children’s show?

 

No idea, but I once played golf with a woman who played a zombie in the original Dawn of the Dead, when she was at Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh where it was filmed.

 

Not a question, but I just found out that most golf courses in Japan have separate greens for warm weather and cold weather.

 

Mr Rogers?

 

That is correct.

 

There are only two doubly landlocked* countries in the world. Which countries are they?


*landlocked countries that only border landlocked countries.

 

I dropped this bit of trivia on my geography students: Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein. And you have to understand the Caspian is technically a lake.

 

Correct!