21 interesting facts that people just can’t help blurting out at every opportunity – and we can’t blame them
12.
One acre, is how much one ox could plow in a day.
— malachiconstant.bsky.social (@malachiconstant.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Schwarzenegger read and passed on the script for "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" cause he knew it was a bomb in waiting, but he pretended to be super into it cause he knew that would make Stallone go into turbo mode trying to snag the part before Arnie could say yes. It worked.
— Chris Calogero (@realchriscal.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Jim Steinman originally wrote "Total Eclipse of the Heart" for a planned musical adaptation of a vampire movie that was never produced; years after it achieved mainstream success as a pop rock song by Bonnie Tyler, he put it in a different musical adaptation of a different vampire movie.
— ️⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] (@alexandraerin.com) August 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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If you travel south from Detroit, Michigan, the first foreign country you reach is Canada. (Similarly, the southernmost point in Canada is farther south than Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Seattle.)
— Maxim Dorky, the Delaware Disparager (@maxim-dorky.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The last two guillotined prisoners in France could feasibly have heard Oxygene IV by Jean Michel Jarre on the radio while awaiting execution
— Alan Burns (@alanburns.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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William Shatner saved the Paramount lot from a fire during the filming of Star Trek: III The Search For Spock. He saw smoke in the distance and thought it was a BBQ and when he realized it was a fire he called it in and stopped it from spreading.
— Jacob Davison (@jacobdavison.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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THERE IS A SPECIES OF ANT CALLED A LEAFCUTTER ANT THAT CUTS OFF PIECES OF LEAVES AND BRINGS THEM BACK TO THE COLONY BUT THEY CANT DIGEST LEAVES SO THEY FEED THEM TO A SPECIALIZED FUNGUS WHICH MAKES THE NUTRIENTS BIOAVAILABLE THEN EAT THE FUNGUS. ALSO THEY TEND AND CLEAN THE FUNGUS. IT'S FARMING!!!!!
— red (@prettypinkpansy.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Sigmund Freud lived long enough and was in the right place to have possibly seen Bruce Forsyth on TV.
— Tilt Araiza (@tiltaraiza.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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When Sweden play Denmark in international sport, the English language on screen TV score graphic is abbreviated to SWE-DEN. The unused letters are DEN-MARK.
— @Julianshea.bsky.social (@julianshea.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Gil Scott-Heron was the voice of "you know when you've been Tango'd"
— The Shipbuilders (@theshipbuilders.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This fact required context, which @schweisercomics supplied.
That at least four academy award winners are known for certain to have been cannibals
— Chris Schweizer (@schweizercomics.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
OK since folks are asking:
It's James Agee, Katherine Hepburn, John Huston, and Humphrey Bogart.— Chris Schweizer (@schweizercomics.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
During the filming of African Queen, police came to the set and arrested one of the crew hunters who was hire to provide meat for the cast and crew on location.
The bustle of the filmmakers had made game scarce, and he had resorted to killing locals, butchering them, and presenting it as pig meat— Chris Schweizer (@schweizercomics.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Is it fair to call someone a cannibal if they engaged in cannibalism inadvertently and for only a brief period? Maybe not. But even so, it's a horrifying little bit of movie trivia.
— Chris Schweizer (@schweizercomics.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Someone asked people to share ‘mind blowing history perspective facts’ – 15 fascinating nuggets
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