What’s a “fun fact” that no one asked for?
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hockeynoticehockey
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
NoRecognition2527
“Louie Louie” was a #2 hit in 1963 for The Kingsmen. The vocals were so garbled and slurred, rumors spread that the lyrics were dirty. The FBI investigated the song on suspicion of violating obscenity laws. After two years, they decided the lyrics were “unintelligible at any speed.”
Somehow, they missed the drummer yelling “Fuck!” at 0:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKt75jUuKJY
Ok-Masterpiece7377
The reason UK Pubs had stupid names, was so the illiterate patrons could find them with the artwork.
66Troup
El Paso, Texas is closer to San Diego, California than it is to Houston, Texas.
jmara9
Kurt Cobain wrote ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, according to his own words, trying to rip off the Pixies and their sound.
Black Francis, singer and songwriter of the Pixies, said he wrote ‘Dig for Fire’ as an attempt of writing a Talking Heads song.
The song ‘The Overload’ by Talking Heads was written trying to make a Joy Division song without any of the members of the band ever hearing a song by Joy Division, only reading about them in the press.
Dysan27
There are Ancient Egyptian Archaeologists that study Ancient Egyptian Archaeologists that studied Ancient Egypt.
As in the Egyptian Empire lasted for so long that there are records from the time to Ramses II of archaeologist studying monuments that where already 1000’s of years old.
ScottOld
Nintendo was founded in 1889