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The rock song Stairway To Heaven didn’t make the UK pop charts until 2007 when it was available for online purchase.

Most of the Muppets are left handed.

On fanfiction.net, the category for Pong has 119 stories. And yes there are lemons about Pong.

The Great Pyramids weren’t actually built by slaves, they were all built by average people

@kleptomage
Agreed. Cool name, even cooler guy!

@kleptomage
He also sang “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”

Thurl Ravenscroft had a cool name. He was also the voice of Tony the Tiger.

Enzo Ferrari died on August 14, 1988.
This footballer named Mesut Ozil was born on October 15, 1988.

Potentially a case of reincarnation or just a rare coincidence.

Chocolate became prominent in Belgium because in ages past, it used to be part of the Spanish Empire and those lowlanders were able to use the cocoa the Spanish brought from the New World and make a thriving chocolate industry.

The small European island nation of Malta was almost annexed by the UK in the early 60’s

The animators of Toy Stoy said that Sid was relatable to them. Including how he has a weird imagination.

The classic Christmas song “Jingle Bell Rock” was written by people in their 50’s

The Chocolate Chip cookie was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield, co-owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, in 1938, who gave the recipe to Nestle in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate. It was an instant hit with guests at the inn, and became even more popular through its inclusion in care packages sent to soldiers in WWII. It was designated as the official State Cookie of Massachusetts in 1997.

The last ever execution via guillotine happened on the same year the first ever Star Wars movie came out: 1977

Michelin almost filed for bankruptcy due to Bugatti.

Bugatti asked them to create tires capable of withstanding the Veyron’s top speed but Michelin refused to do so because it’s impossible. But Volkswagen, parent company threatened to cut all ties between them which would cost huge revenue loss off of Michelin.

So, they decided to develop a special tires capable of withstanding speeds of 400 kilometres per hour in under 15 minutes which costs $40,000 each.

Black vomit is clumpy.

Megatron’s original alt-mode:

Is based on a prop from the television series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”

Since 2007, over 20 severed human feet has washed up on the shores around the Salish Sea on the Eastern border of the US and Canada, with the most recent discovery being in 2019. Usually found inside a shoe and interestingly most of them being left feet, DNA testing proves futile due to the decomposed state of the body parts.

The phenomena remains unexplained today but several thories have appeared from a serial killer, to gang activity, to illegal immigrants/human trafficking victims to victims from natural disasters from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to the 2011 Japan Earthquake/Tsunami

In the 1950’s, up to 50% of all doctors in the US were regular smokers. Nowadays, that number is below 4%

The reason why Santa Claus has his iconic red and white look is because of a Coca-Cola ad

The composer of White Christmas, Irving Berlin, was Jewish and didn’t celebate Christmas.

@Mr.Myoozik
ET had a cameo in The Phantom Menace, or rather his species did.

Harrison Ford had a cameo in the movie ET but it was cut

@Mr.Myoozik
Gran theft auto was developed in Dundee in Scotland and is also the same place where lemmings was created, And console version of minecraft was developed in scotland as well.

The inspiration for the Grand Theft Auto video game series was a glitch in the game Race N Chase where the police would ram your vehicle while you outrun them, which inspired the developers

@🧡☮Starrscout☮🧡
That I don’t know