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TIL that Weird Al's Phantom Menace parody 'The Saga Begins' was recorded a month before the film released in May 1999. Yankovic was denied an early screening by Lucasfilm, but managed to almost ...
The Pew Research Center notes that 51% of American adults believe that the public K-12 education system is going in the wrong direction, while a minority (16%) think that it’s right on track.
Dumb Woman's Lane: A lane in East Sussex with a humorous name. Spike Milligan used to live there, and Paul McCartney wrote a poem about it. Ebenezer Place, Wick: The world's shortest street. Eichener See: A lake in southern Germany that only occasionally contains water. Eurobridges Spijkenisse: The generic bridges of the euro banknotes brought ...
Image credits: Weird, Fantastic and Odd Things #7. The Akhal-Teke is probably the most beautiful horse breed in existence. Apart from their breathtaking metallic sheen (lending them their nickname ...
Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles – Weird article titles! Wikipedia:Department of Fun; Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars – Occasionally, Wikipedians get into edit wars over the most petty things; Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...
That's why we've gathered another collection of the most interesting and weird fun facts from the TIL community on Reddit. So, sink your curious teeth into these little nuggets of information that ...
A favourite line from a movie or catchy lyric, a potent phrase used in argument, juicy facts of interest to fans, a punch-line or zinger; these are all very interesting, but usually all that can be informatively written about topic "X" is: "X is a _____ found in _____." Just about everything listed on Wikipedia:Millionth topic pool.