facts you just made up

The zoom lens is named after its inventor, H.F. Zoom of Switzerland

text messages can contain mad cow disease

facts are the worst rated of all varieties of acts

Sterlin Harjo and Starlin Castro were born within a minute of each other.

The idea for ZZ Top's song "Stages" actually came to the band after watching a bootleg VHS tape copy of Liza Minelli's Bob Fosse-directed 1972 concert film *Liza with a Z* that they found at a flea market in Guadalajara, Mexico..

Tom Waits and Ralph Waite are actually brothers. Tom changed his name because he thought "Tom Waits for no one" sounded cool.

people who routinely talk to themselves are 98% more likely to get head injuries walking into lampposts.

^ this prompted me to look it up. never realized Tom Waits was a stage name

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The Cure first unveiled their iconic look of smeared lipstick and backcombed hair during a very dark period for the band, while touring 1982’s desolate ‘Pornography’ album. At the end of the tour bassist Simon Gallup quit the band. Robert Smith recalls: “I ate SO much honey at that time. I honestly thought I was Pooh. They finally had to take the honey pot away from me. Mary threatened to leave me over the honey. WAY way too much honey on that tour.”

food tastes better when you chew with your mouth closed

chewing with one's mouth closed can significantly improve digestion

studies have shown that up to 100% of domestic homicides can be prevented if you CLOSE YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU CHEW

Time disintegrates in a well-defined series of stages.

First, it falls to the floor in the form of calendar pages that fly off the calendar of their own accord, like autumn leaves. These collect in low spots, similarly to rain puddles and inebriates. Next, it decays into a rather opaque sludge called 'memories'. In this form it feeds a wide variety of fauna, popularly called opinions, but known to science more accurately as delusions.

Lastly, time desiccates into timedust (quaintly called "time out of mind" by the peasantry) and is blown hither and thither, according to local conditions. It may gather for a while beneath beds and in chimney corners, but eventually it makes its way into larger, more permanent deposits. It is well-known, for example, that the excessive amounts of history generated in Europe are the primary cause of the Saharan desert, whilst Chinese history has reformed itself into the Gobi.

Carpet mites evolved from dinosaurs of the genus megalosaurus. Their small size in relation to their ancestors can be attributed to dietary changes instigated by the extinction of their primary food source during the Jurassic era, that being a giant squirrel known to grow as large as fifty feet in height.

in any one flock, three randomly chosen chickens will weigh less than the next two randomly chosen chickens

Popular snack food gorp was invented and named by the band Yes: “gorp goes in, prog comes out,” a quote attributed to Chris Squire

The origin of the surname Farquhar comes from Quaker immigrants to North America. When asked why they’d left Europe, they’d genially reply “Fuck the war, that’s why”, and the name stuck

The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)