Fact or Crap Trivia (2013)

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"What's Going On" was Marvin Gaye's 1970s hit song about the feelings of a returning Vietnam War veteran. Marvin was inspired to write, sing, and produce the song and album based on letters he received from his brother who served in Vietnam.



Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Spam, the canned meat, contains less than 1 gram of fat per serving.

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The Spam label shows that Spam contains 15 grams of total fat per serving, and of the total calories of 174 per serving, 134 calories come from fat. Bon appétit!



Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The Beatles never won a Grammy.

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The Beatles have won a lot of Grammys, but it is true that they have only won one Grammy for Best Song - in 1966 for "Michelle," and one Grammy for Best Contemporary Album of the Year for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1968.



Thursday, December 12, 2013

The Carnegie Science Center's Titanic exhibit temporarily closed in June 2008 ... because it was flooded.

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"Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" opened on May 24 but closed a month later due to a broken eight-inch water pipe. A sloping floor kept the exhibit's artifacts high, and dry, and the show was soon reopened to the public. No lifeboats were needed!



Friday, December 13, 2013

There was an opera based on controversial American talk show host Jerry Springer.

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Jerry Springer: The Opera, written by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, is a 2003 musical that ran for 609 performances in London, and was also performed in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand. It's an interesting combo of low-life and high art!
 
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The Pulitzer Prize board gave Bob Dylan a special citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture" in 2008. He was also nominated for a Nobel Prize for music in the 1990s, and has earned numerous Grammys and accolades throughout his long career. "Forever Young"!



Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.

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Country Music queen Dolly Parton entered a Dolly lookalike contest at a drag club in Santa Monica and lost. "I just kind of over-exaggerated everything, walked on and off and lost," Dolly said, trying to explain her defeat.



Wednesday, December 18, 2013

As late as 1970, women were legally considered chattels in the Australian state of South Australia.

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The Aussie blokes aren't that backward, but Sheilas did have to wait yonks (1966) to be included in South Australian juries. But good on-ya, chickie babes - Julia Gillard became the first female Prime Minister of Australia in 2010!



Thursday, December 19, 2013

Grant Wood painted American Gothic with Crayola crayons.

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The original painting American Gothic was painted in oils on beaverboard by Grant Wood in 1930. Since then, hundreds of artists have copied Grant's satirical painting using a variety of media, including crayons.



Friday, December 20, 2013

Charles de Gaulle is descended from Asterix the Gaul.

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Asterix the Gaul is the first volume of the 1960s French comic strip series written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo. Asterix (Gaul is the ancient name for France) is the warrior hero of the series. Charles de Gaulle is a national hero of France; he is obviously not related to Asterix, the fictional hero.
 
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Fidel Castro has never played baseball in Cuba or anywhere else. Castro outlawed professional baseball and all professional sport in Cuba after the Revolution, but amateur sport is encouraged and supported by Castro and his brother Raúl, who now leads the country.



Tuesday, December 24, 2013

During World War II, copies of the board game Monopoly were adapted to help POWs escape Nazi camps.

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The British secret service designed a Monopoly board with secret compartments that contained a compass, small metal tools like files, and maps. These games were sent to British POWs in German war camps all over Europe, secretly turning Monopoly into Waropoly!



Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The earliest Chinese coins were shaped like small hoes and knives.

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During the 3rd and 4th centuries in China, miniature bronze knives and hoes were used as currency. These objects represented tools that the Chinese once used as barter.



Thursday, December 26, 2013

NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" to Polaris.

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In 2008, for the first time in history a song was beamed into deep space. The song was aimed at the North Star, also known as Polaris, 431 light-years from Earth. The song was written by "Limitless undying love, which / Shines around me like a million suns, / It calls me on and on across the universe."



Friday, December 27, 2013

Arthur Conan Doyle, who created Sherlock Holmes, made his living as a mycologist, meaning that he studied ostriches for a living.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a medical doctor, not a mycologist (fungi biologist), who practiced as an eye specialist for six years before becoming a full-time writer. This is interesting because Doyle gave his character Sherlock Holmes phenomenal observational skills.
 
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George Clarence Moran was nicknamed Bugs Moran after the 1930s slang word "bugs," used to describe a completely crazy or out-of-control person. A term that described the dangerous, hot-tempered gangster perfectly.



Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Nobody has ever been nominated for an Oscar for playing an alien.

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