20 Facts That Really Crushed Our Bitrate
The executives dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of 1980s nostalgia… A friggin’ GOLD MINE, is what! “Top Gun Maverick” grossed 1.45 BILLION - with a B - despite being a sequel 36 years after the original. And let’s not pretend the 1986 Top Gun was begging to be revisited; it didn’t have any of the trademark trappings of the usual sequel-bait, like complex lore or a big cliffhanger. With just a few actual airplanes, cameras, a can-do attitude, and the immortality spell passed down from Xenu himself, Tom Cruise did what most of us assumed was impossible and made us root for the American military industrial complex yet again.
With Top Gun, that leaves just three of the top 15 blockbusters from the 1980s that haven’t been dragged out of retirement for a prequel, sequel, sidequel, franchise or reboot. Who’s going to be next? Frankly, we want to see what E.T. has been up to since his race helped put Palpatine into power.
A 15,000 page mathematical proof took 40 years to complete.
A ‘White Elephant’ gift is meant to be impractical.
Someone tried to kill a king with a homemade gun that had 25 barrels.
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Canadian geese have 20 to 25 thousand feathers.
There are 5 times more bikes than cars in Copenhagen.
There are only 3 of the 15 highest grossing movies from the ‘80s left to make a franchise.
Procrastination is considered a complex psychological behavior.
Darwin spent many years in the pursuit of understanding worms.
There has been an increase of elephant aggressiveness.
A university in Saudi Arabia is the only one where men and women can mix freely.
Vlasic has a stork as a mascot because of the notion that pregnant women crave pickles.
A tennis player grunts louder than a lawnmower.
The Inuit were not the first people to inhabit Greenland.
Papua New Guinea’s flag was designed by a 15-year-old.
Firing blanks was grounds for a lawsuit during the Renaissance.
A mummy was discovered to have had prostate cancer.
Nero made himself win at the Olympic Games.
Neil Armstrong’s grandmother told him to not step on the moon if it didn’t “look good.”
A 4.5 billion year old meteorite flavors wine made in Chile.
Marilyn Monroe considered Lincoln her father.
