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PAGELY HYPE
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Coca-Cola once bought all the website URLs that can be read as ahh, all the way up to 62 h’s.
Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet-related injuries in the US.
Strawberries can be red, yellow, green, or white.
Walt Disney World is the second-largest buyer of fireworks in the US.
lonely hype
moore
Four people lived in a home for six months infested with over 2,000 venomous spiders.
Madonna has brontophobia, which is the fear of thunder.
In June 2017, the Facebook community reached 2 billion active users.
Samuel L. Jackson requested a purple lightsaber in Star Wars to accept the part of Mace Windu.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.
Solo hype until hypersquad, grassgang, A.I gang and Racknerd gangs return
In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that could see through people’s clothes.
During your lifetime, you will spend around seventy-nine days brushing your teeth.
Ronald McDonald is “Donald McDonald” in Japan because it makes pronunciation easier for the Japanese.
HAN SOLO GIVEAWAY HYPE!!!!
The first usage of NERD in print was in the 1951 Dr. Seuss book If I Ran the Zoo, where the narrator says that if they ran the zoo, they would “sail to Ka-Troo” and collect “a Nerkle, a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!” According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the word was picked up by the children who were reading (or being read) the book in the 1950s, and was adopted by their older siblings to describe the “squares” in their class.
While the terms are often used interchangeably, a nerd and a geek are two different things. Geek has its origins in the carnivals of the early 1900s, where a performer called the geek would perform strange and revolting acts to entertain audiences. Today, a geek is someone who is generally social, but is also very knowledgeable about a topic. Geeks also tend to be more mainstream than nerds, who are less engaged with daily life.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn featured the first fully computer-created sequence in movie history. The effects were created by a small, subsidiary company of Lucasfilm, which would rename itself to Pixar Animation Studios just a few years later.
n 1982, the movie Tron was passed over for a nomination for special effects at the Oscars because the effects were created by a computer. According to the movie’s director, the Academy thought that using computers was cheating
Any mega fan of the Star Wars franchise will know the word “wizard” is not just a term for a guy with robes, a long beard, and magical powers. It’s also an adjective that means “awesome,” and was used by young Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace.
DJ Max
When Star Trek premiered in 1966, the final line of the introductory text of each episode was “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” This led to a debate amongst grammar nerds over whether or not the phrase should have been “to go boldly where no man has gone before” instead.
The word floccinaucinihilipilification means “the act of viewing something as being useless, without value, or unimportant.” It is the longest non-technical term in the English language and is one letter longer than antidisestablishmentarianism.
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Believe it or not, there are at least two complete novels that do not use the letter “E.” The first is a 50,000-word novel called Gadsby written in 1939 by Ernest Vincent Wright. To avoid using the letter “E,” Wright allegedly pinned down the letter on his typewriter. The second is a novel written in French by Georges Perec. Published in 1969, the French title was La Disparition, and it was eventually translated into English under the name A Void. A literal translation of the book’s title would have been The Disappearance, but that would have used “E” three times, so it had to be changed.
DJ Max
The term “robot” was coined in 1920 by the playwright Karel Capek in his play Rossum’s Universal Robots, known commonly as R.U.R.
he name Dumbledore from Harry Potter is actually an Old English word for “bumblebee.” When asked why she chose that word for his name, J.K. Rowling said it was because she pictured Dumbledore humming to himself like a bee.
Comic Sans Fact
he oft-ridiculed font Comic Sans was created by designer Vincent Connare, who based it off of the comic books he had in his office, namely Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore’s The Watchmen. His goal was to create a child-friendly font to include in the speech bubbles of Microsoft applications aimed at introducing children to computers. The font first shipped with the Windows 95 Plus pack, but later became a permanent part of the operating system.
In Dutch, Darth Vader loosely translates to Dark Father. This has led some Star Wars fans to speculate that creator George Lucas was dropping hints as to Luke Skywalker’s parentage, but according to Lucas, the name is incidental: Darth Vader was created before Luke Skywalker was even a character, and their familial relationship was only thought up later