Tuesday, September 28, 2010

28th September 2010

Two costume makers LOST THEIR FINGERPRINTS working on The Lord of the Rings.

To clarify, chainmail is a type of armor made from small metal rings linked together in a mesh. For LOTR, two people had to construct hundreds of chainmail costumes out of PVC pipe.

When all was said and done, a total of 12.5 million links had been fashioned out of 7 miles of PVC pipe! As a result of all this tedious labor, the two workers ended up rubbing the fingerprints off of their thumbs and forefingers!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

21st of September 2010

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.