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famous things that everyone knows but you never heard of!

  • 01-08-2012 01:13AM
    #1
    teednab-el
    Site Banned Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭


    Ok I only recently found out that the Hilton hotels worldwide were named after Paris Hilton.

    What are yours?


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  • #2
    Zab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭Zab


    I don't know. I've never heard of them.


  • #3
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    I wouldnt know because I havent heard of anything.


  • #4
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Boom. Give me thanks.


  • #5
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,204 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    teednab-el wrote: »
    Ok I only recently found out that the Hilton hotels worldwide were named after Paris Hilton.

    What are yours?

    Ummmm...about that......

    Ask yourself this - which came first?


  • #6
    CodyJarrett
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 307 ✭✭CodyJarrett


    Homer, is that you?


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  • #7
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    That Ken Barlow is 80 :eek:


  • #8
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    That i'll bate you, adin in it.


  • #9
    ft9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,408 ✭✭✭ft9


    How do I know sure if I haven't heard of it yet?

    Am I too late?


  • #10
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    How can one be expected to list famous things one knows nothing about?

    Would 'Things everyone else is into that you're not' have been a better title?


  • #11
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    How the fook am I going to list things I have never heard of?

    I think this thread might break the Inter...


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  • #12
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    May I direct the OP to r/todayilearned

    I'm sure they will be pleased.


  • #13
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    teednab-el wrote: »
    Ok I only recently found out that the Hilton hotels worldwide were named after Paris Hilton.

    You think a chain of Hotels nearly a 100 years old are called after a 25 year old slapper??


  • #14
    The Sky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭The Sky


    Where do babies come from?


  • #15
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,847 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    I recently learned that sudocrem is spelt just like that.


  • #16
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    teednab-el wrote: »
    Ok I only recently found out that the Hilton hotels worldwide were named after Paris Hilton.

    What are yours?

    Paris Hilton is the Great Granddaughter of the man who founded Hilton Hotels, Conrad Hilton. They were not named after Paris, they were named after her family's surname.


  • #17
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    teednab-el wrote: »
    Ok I only recently found out that the Hilton hotels worldwide were named after Paris Hilton.

    What are yours?

    lol. They weren't exactly named after her? Her Great Grandfather started the hotel chain, his name was Conrad Hilton.


  • #18
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,673 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    I recently learned theres something more stupid than that new Italian law...and it started this thread :)


  • #19
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Andy Carroll wrote: »
    teednab-el wrote: »
    Ok I only recently found out that the Hilton hotels worldwide were named after Paris Hilton.

    What are yours?

    lol. They weren't exactly named after her? Her Great Grandfather started the hotel chain, his name was Conrad Hilton.

    Cranky old fcuker he was too. A whore for the pipe.


  • #20
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Did you know that Paris, the capital of France, was named after Paris Hilton?
    keith16 wrote: »
    Cranky old fcuker he was too. A whore for the pipe.

    So that's where Paris got her penchant for smoking poles.


  • #21
    mufcboy1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,970 ✭✭✭mufcboy1999


    Possibly the worst porno Iv ever seen, it was my 1st porno too as young lad-een. Abbey Titmuss and Jordan were also on the same DVD as the Paris one. Good times :D


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  • #22
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    teednab-el wrote: »
    Ok I only recently found out that the Hilton hotels worldwide were named after Paris Hilton.

    Is this a joke?


  • #23
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    I recently found out that the gauge of the Luas tracks are different on the Green and Red lines.

    How quaint!


  • #24
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Well played the OP.


  • #25
    HoggyRS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭HoggyRS


    Reminds me of this (40 seconds in!)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbWi0FeX7A


  • #26
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    About 5 years ago I was on the phone to my cousin.

    And I seen an ad on tele about some concert, I said there is some little firebrand of a singer on with some voice, she seems very good.

    Anyway the artist was pink.

    Loads really I don't read the tabs or watch MTV or listen to music radio.

    But I know everything about films so only when the genre cross do i get up with popular music culture.

    There is some new band called the Beatles of which I can see going places. Perhaps they will win a brit award.


  • #27
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Ummmm...about that......

    Ask yourself this - which came first?

    I have it on good authority that Paris Hilton always comes first.


  • #28
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,923 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I didn't know Stephen Fry was gay until recently. It just never occurred to me.


  • #29
    teednab-el
    Site Banned Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭teednab-el


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    Paris Hilton is the Great Granddaughter of the man who founded Hilton Hotels, Conrad Hilton. They were not named after Paris, they were named after her family's surname.

    Ok what I meant was the family name of which good aul Paris Hilton came from. :D


  • #30
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I didn't know Stephen Fry was gay until recently. It just never occurred to me.

    Graham Norton is gay too, just in case you were on the fence there.


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  • #31
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    A tracker mortgage.


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