apocryphacts

trivia so good you'll wish it were true
Jul 03
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Following a series of deaths in the ’70s, the Pennsylvania legislature established a cap on “all-you-can-eat” of 15 pounds of food, drink and inadvertently consumed napkins.
Jul 02
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In 2007, a shortage of prints of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth resulted in some theaters being sent copies of Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest.
Jul 01
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A childhood full of Gator Golf left Mark Derris, 26, completely unprepared for the birth of his first child. The moment was much greater than even a game of golf with a gator.
Jun 30
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In a given day, over 13,000 Americans have their hackles raised, cockles warmed, or feel some other sensation in a strange-sounding body part.
Jun 29
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The metal memoir Eats Shits, and Grieves charts the rapid rise and fall of early 90s goregrind group Coprophagous Sarcophagus.
Jun 28
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Perez Hilton has refused any further coverage of Thomas Pynchon, claiming the noted author is “just an attention whore.” However, blog TMZ still has plans to go ahead with its photo spread of Inherent Vice’s lavish release party.
Jun 27
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Occultist Aleister Crowley’s claims of contact with an magickal intelligence named LAM has sometimes been portrayed as an early extraterrestrial encounter. In reality, Crowley made contact with Tracy Morgan, circa 2004, who was simply under the impression he was being interviewed for a local news broadcast.
Jun 26
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During their first week on the set, new Muppeteers may not remove their puppets under any circumstances, day or night. Failure to comply with this rule could catastrophically impact the imprinting process.
Jun 25
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General Secretary Gorbachev, a fanatical film buff, was determined to slip movie references into his negotiations in “the American fashion”. His choice of “communism was just a red herring” from the 1985 film Clue (which, in 1988, had only recently been screened in Moscow) led to a string of baffled Pravda editorials.
Jun 24
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Benedict Arnold, in a final act of deathbed defiance, unleashed the treasonous malapropism “all intensive purposes” upon the fledgling American nation. Though Arnold expired, bloated and debt-ridden, in England, the east wind Eurus carried his words across the Atlantic to rest in the bosoms of the students of New York’s Trinity School.