Pop Culture Madness

I've poked myself more times with so-called "safety pins" than any other kind of sharp object combined.

The area code for the International Space Station phone is a Houston area code, 281.

Atari didn't allow designers to receive credit on their games, and so Warren Robinett placed a secret object in the game which allowed the players to see a hidden screen displaying "Created by Warren Robinett", one of the earliest Easter eggs to be created in a video game.

Hug someone today, because that person may be me and I need it.

Ants have successfully colonized all continents except, ironically, Antarctica.

Records are called Albums because they used to only be able to hold one song. To get the whole set of songs you would get an "album" of all the records and could leaf through it like a photo album. The name stuck even after all the songs could fit on one LP.

There should be two car horns, one angry and one polite.

All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

The average distance between avenues in Manhattan, NYC is 750 feet.

A man claimed "Idaho" was a Native American word meaning "the sun comes from the mountains" or "gem of the mountains", but he actually made the name up.

Mark Twain was the first author to submit a typed manuscript to a publisher, but he was mistaken when he said in his autobiography that it was "Tom Sawyer" (1874). It was actually "Life on the Mississippi" (1882).

I can't believe a James Bond movie didn't come out in 2007.

If you enjoy arguing about lunches at 6 AM I can't recommend parenting highly enough.

The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling.

If all of the roads in the US were lined together, it would be longer than the circumference of the Sun. (4,273,876 vs 2,713,406 miles).

The cheapest Michelin Star rated restaurant in the world is a street food stand in Singapore owned by Chan Hon Meng, a single meal costs you just $1.50.

Pancakes are one of mankind's oldest prepared foods, and virtually every culture has their own version of them.

If there were water on the moon, humans could run on it because of the reduced gravity.

I don't have a junk drawer, but I do have my crowded office space.

In 1872, Presidential Candidate Horace Greeley died before the Electoral College officially balloted, resulting in his receiving electoral votes after his death.