Ted Turner’s CNN Doomsday Video, Revealed
It’s become something of a legend over the years, but Ted Turner really did record a special clip to play on his CNN news channel…at the end of the world.
Author: Uncle John
5 Fast Facts About the Seattle Seahawks
Last year’s Super Bowl champions are playing this weekend in the NFC Championship game. Here’s some Seattle Seahawks trivia to help you prepare.
5 Fast Facts About the New England Patriots
Get ready for this weekend’s AFC Championship game with some facts on one of the contenders. Here is some interesting New England Patriots trivia to prepare you.
The Changing Categories of the Academy Awards
Oscar nominations were announced today. Here’s a look at how some of the categories have evolved over time.
Movie Trivia: Three Scripts That Took Years to Get Produced
Richard Linklater famously took 12 years to make Boyhood. But that was a choice and reflected the nature of the work. In our movie trivia vault, we found these scripts that took years to make simply because it took a long time to get anyone interested.
5 Fast Facts About the Green Bay Packers
Get ready for this weekend’s NFC Championship game with some facts on one of the contenders. Here are is some interesting Packers trivia to prepare you.
5 Fast Facts About the Indianapolis Colts
Get ready for this weekend’s AFC Championship game with some facts on one of the contenders.
- The most notorious moment in franchise history occurred off the field. The team packed up and left Baltimore in the middle of the night, headed for its new home in Indianapolis. While Baltimore fans were furious, Indiana football fans were overjoyed—143,000 tickets sold within two weeks.
2015 According to “Back to the Future”
Back to the Future Part II landed in cinemas in November 1989. The film follows Doc Brown and Marty McFly as they blasted themselves into the far-off year of 2015. Now that it really is 2015, let’s look at a few of the film’s technological predictions. Hoverboards Mirroring a scene in the original Back to […]
10 Facts About the 10 Biggest Hits of 2014
Here are Billboard’s top 10 hits of the past year, and some interesting facts we found about them.
6 Weirdest Things at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show
CES 2015 just wrapped up in Las Vegas, and here are the oddest things apparently coming soon from the world of science and technology.
Politicians vs. The Fourth Estate
Here are a few American politicians that recently tangled with the press…and what happened afterward.
Interesting Trivia About the NFL Playoffs
Paint your face in your team colors and huddle up for these bits of interesting trivia.
- It’s simple to get into the NFL playoffs: win the most games, right? Not exactly. The playoffs are structured so that six teams from each conference get spots: four division winners and the two additional “wild card” teams with the best records. Somebody has to win a division, even if the division is terrible. The Carolina Panthers won the NFC South this year with a 7-8-1 record. That’s worse than the Philadelphia Eagles (10-6) and San Francisco 49ers (8-8), who missed out on wild card slots.
The Springfield Nuclear Power Planet Softball Team and the Baseball Hall of Fame
On a 1992 episode of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns hires nine then-current Major League Baseball stars to be ringers on the company softball team, only to have nearly all be unable to play for various, bizarre reasons. With Baseball Hall of Fame inductees being announced this month, here’s a look at what happened to those players in real life (all of whom voiced their animated selves).
The Elvis Movie Generator
From 1956 to 1969, Elvis Presley (who would’ve turned 80 years today) made more than 30 movies, such as Roustabout, Girls! Girls! Girls! and Harum Scarum. They were low budget and formulaic: some songs, a pretty girl, a chase scene, and a fight. With our handy generator, you can make up your very own Elvis movie.
7 Random Facts About the North Pole
Just because Christmas is over doesn’t mean Santa Claus’ native land fades into non-existence. Do you know these random facts, or frosty factoids if you will, about what really goes on at the top of the globe?
3 Weirdest “Elvis is Alive” Theories
Elvis Presley would turn 80 years old this week, had he not died in 1977. Or did he?
The Fraternity Boy Theory
In the 1970s, Presley supposedly got mixed up with a California crime syndicate called The Fraternity. After he lost $10 million to the organization in the bogus sales of real estate and private planes, Presley is said to have gone to the federal government for help, who was keen to dismantle The Fraternity. In exchange for helping bring them down, Presley was whisked into the Witness Protection Program. Two hours after Presley’s death was announced in 1977, a man named “John Burrows” boarded a plane for Buenos Aires, paying in cash. That man not only resembled Presley, but had the same name as an alias Presley often used to check into hotels.
The Doggone Song is Mine: Paul McCartney’s Most Unlikely Musical Collaborations
Over New Years, Paul McCartney and rapper Kanye West released a surprise joint effort called “Only One,” a song about West’s daughter. Surprise collaborations are kind of McCartney’s bag.
8 Ways That Elvis’s Records Broke Records
Some interesting music trivia about the astounding pop chart successes of the King of Rock n’ Roll, Elvis, who would turn 80 years old on January 8.
