Fun Facts - Buffalo

Fun Facts¹ provides Buffalo LocalWiki with a lists of strange, odd, interesting, or otherwise "FUN" facts about the Buffalo area. Here is a place to link in odd pages that just don't fit in any other category, or point to pages with a "Fun Fact" in context.Also see (or contribute to) the Oddities, Strange News, Interesting Pages, Interesting Pages List, and Weird Local Pronunciations. Some material here may be duplicative because other pages may be alphabetical or otherwise "Organized".

BUFFALO WINGS

2008 Winner

Anchor Bar - inventors of the Buffalo Wing in 1964
National Buffalo Wings Festival - 2008
- 2008 Winner, Sonja Thomas - (41 and 101lbs from Alexandria, VA) consumed 165 Chicken Wings in 12 minutes (4.23 lbs).
- 78,000 people attended, downing over 27 tons (YES TONS) of wings.
- Buffalo Wings Festival Origins - came from the Bill Murray in the movie Osmosis Jones, about "... a compulsive eater with a goal of attending the Super Bowl of junk food, the National Buffalo Wing Festival. — Ironically, there wasn't one."
CluckBucket Wing Facts

I DID NOT KNOW THAT

Buffalo is host to the longest-running foot race in America - the annual YMCA Turkey Trot started in 1896 - go join in this year !!!
Shuffle Off to Buffalo - our page has lots of ALMOST useful info on the term !!!
Buffalo's Ralph Wilson Stadium was (outdoor) home to The Ice Bowl, which set a new record for NHL Tickets at 71,272.
Wikipedia declares Buffalo has largest Dyngus Day Celebration. "The world's largest organized Dyngus Day celebration is found in Buffalo ..."
Movies Filmed in Buffalo - 202 as of Dec 2008, but most of the films were made between 1896 and 1904
Buffalo On YouTube - by Hammer Productions - see related videos for more Buffalo video
TripCart.com Fun Facts Buffalo - "claims to fame:
- windshield wiper was invented in Buffalo." - not quite true, but see Trico Products for more history.

THAT IS ODD

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Buffalo Speedway is neither a speedway nor in Buffalo, but a street in Houston!

REALLY WEIRD STUFF

12 hours in Buffalo on TwelveHoursInACity.com
Pimp My Ride, Buffalo NY - a satirical look at what a middle-aged Buffalo couple might go for in a "pimped-out ride" - got to watch this one (:>)
Surfing the Great Lakes - yes, really !!

SHALL WE LAUGH OR CRY

Some satirical commentators take on Buffalo is not nearly as funny when you live here (:>{

Buffalo Six - Courtroom Sketches from Buffalo artist, Ralph Sirianni
Buffalo Nine -
Buffalo Gals - Yes, you're reading this right! The popular song Buffalo Gals was originally written for the Christy Minstrels way back in the 1800's. It's about the, um, ladies who worked in Buffalo's infamous Canal District.
New York's Young People Fleeing the State (Buffalo ... Forum on City-Data.com