tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46126600878162205642011-11-27T17:51:36.077-06:00A collection of interesting facts to keep up your sleeve.Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745762327006398982noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4612660087816220564.post-90355145623917961142008-05-13T08:33:00.008-05:002008-05-13T09:23:23.790-05:00

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the registration of the Velcro trademark. Yes, fifty years of joy for the shoe-laced challenged. mental_floss has a look at the humble beginings of the material. Here are some pop-culture tidbits about Velcro that might make you the nerdiest person you know.Inventor George de Mestral first created Velcro using cotton. This, of course, did not have much

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It's official, Jimmy Fallon is set to officially replace Conan O’Brien as host of Late Night in 2009. As I understand it, there are a few people out there who actually like Jimmy Fallon, I don't happen to be one of them. After SNL, Fallon has stunk up the big screen with the films Fever Pitch and Taxi, and oh yeah, those stupid Pepsi commercials. Like a select few notable SNL alumni, Fallon spent

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Even though you can't find it at your local Blockbuster, the 1984 3-D short film Captain EO, created for Disney theme parks, is the among the most expensive films ever created. Clocking in at 17 minutes long and costing between $17 and $30 million, averaging over a million dollars per minute of film. This was, minute for minute, the most expensive motion picture of all time.The film was designed

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We've all heard that "You learn something new everyday" but I find that the thing I learn is usually pretty lame, depressing, or generally not useful in my day to day life. I write for a trivia game and occasionally for the blog for mental_floss magazine, so my brain is overflowing with factoids that I love to share. My goal here is to create a list of facts that you want to share with other

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