15 Interesting Verities For The Trivia Connoisseur
A man is walking down a street. He notices something that seems wrong.
The man turns to face his reflection in a store window. His reflection looks back at him, smiling and confident.
"Hey," says the man, "is it just me or are there two reflections?" The man steps up close to the glass and looks again into his own face. He's right—there is now a second image reflected in the mirror. The first one smiles back with a look of smug certainty, the other one has an uncertain expression.
The man looks around and sees a woman passing by on the street. He walks up to her and asks if he can borrow her mirror for a minute. She takes the mirror and returns with it, holding the reflective glass out toward him.
Suddenly, in the mirror, fifteen reflections stare back at the man. As he recoils with a gasp, the reflections start taking turns to tell him a strange fact. The first reflection tells him ...
The robot hotel in Japan is headed by a raptor.
Mary, Queen of Scots is the reason the surname Stuart exists today.
A Googolplex is "one, followed by writing zeros until you get tired.”
NASA
German shepherds were renamed after WWI.
Event Horizon
George Lucas
Do you have a license for that kebab?
Sharks chill out to AC/DC.
A spy turned himself into the CIA hoping to get a job, but was jailed instead.
Primus’ bassist was “too good” to join Metallica.
‘Apple’ was started by the Beatles in the ‘60s.
Staring at bonfires helped early humans’ brains grow.
Google takes care of their deceased employee’s families.
