Fact or Crap Trivia

The Boston Red Sox finally won a World Seriesin 2016.

Lightning never strikes the same place twice.

In 2007, Reese's produced a special peanut butter and banana cream cup in honor of Elvis.

Wolves can communicate by using infrared rays.

Stephen King reconstructed his book Jurassic Park after tossing his only draft into a campfire.

Everybody in Tahiti gets free internet from Microsoft because Bill Gates lost a bet.

No world capitals start with the letter Z.

Nobody has ever been nominated for an Oscar for playing an alien

Hell, Michigan froze over on January 24, 2004 when the dam spillway iced over.

Sylvester Stallone was a world champion wrestler before he starred in Rocky.

Acorns come from Oak trees.

The bear in The Jungle Book is named Mowgli.

The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.

One of Saturn's moons looks like the Death Star from Star Wars

Dolly Parton founded a theme park called Dollywood.

The favorite food of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is pizza.

Nobody has ever won an Oscar for working on a James Bond movie.

The name of Batman’s butler is Albert.

Thomas Paine was elected to the French parliament in 1792, despite not speaking French.

Bermuda shorts were named for Frank Bermuda, not the island

William Shakespeare willed his second best bed to his wife.

Gone with the Wind takes place in Savannah, Georgia.

In 2008, Snoop Dogg started work on a bluegrass album.

Winston Churchill wrote a series of books on fly fishing.

The very first video on YouTube depicted a kitten playing the piano.

The Model T Ford was only produced in black.

Nike is the Greek goddess of victory.

Before appearing in The Transporter, Jason Statham was on the British Olympic diving team

In the Toy Story films, Bullseye is a horse.

Oliver Twist begins with the phrase: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

No country has won the World Cups of both cricket and soccer.

The leaning tower of Pisa is in Greece

The Purdue University Bug Bowl includes cockroach racing.

In Finnish, Nokia is also the name of a kind of furry weasel.

The Dramatic Prairie Dog has been the mascot of the Harvard Drama Club since 1890.

The platypus and echidna are the only mammals that can regenerate lost limbs.

The smallest country to win soccer's Wold Cup is Barbados.

Reds catcher Johnny Bench once caught a baseball dropped from a helicopter over Yankees Stadium

The National Geographic Society had a #1 record with whale songs recorded to disco beats.

Port wine is named for Porto, Portugal.

Eddie Van Halen wrote a concerto in E minor.

Kentucky's Bottomless Cave is technically bottomless since we've never found the bottom.

Oral-B Hummingbird tooth flosser was discontinued because it could be turned into a lockpick.

Cows sleep standing up.

There was an opera based on the controversial American talk show host Jerry Springer.

All the smaller planets in our solar system could fit inside the largest planet

Mickey Mouse’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

Harrison Ford had a cameo in the movie ET but it was cut.

The hotel chain Best Western once had a string of hotels called Best Eastern.

Fred Lorz won the 1904 Olympic marathon because he drove 11 miles of it.

Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prizes after he read his own obituary.

There really is an endangered animal called the Tasmanian Devil.

The Jedi were named for Japanese zen masters.

The English horn is neither English nor a real horn.

February never begins and ends on the same day of the week.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow was nearly cut from The Wizard of Oz.

The water bed couldn't be patented because Robert Heinlein described one in his sci-fi books.

Mario of Super Mario Bros. was once a carpenter.

Tom Hanks did NOT win the Best Actor Oscar for Forrest Gump.

Brazil is the only country in the Americas whose official language is Portuguese.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey

The first food grown and eaten in space was potatoes.

All the kings in a standard deck of cards have a mustache.

Nemo is a puffer fish.

In the comics, Superman died once but got better and returned to fighting crime.

The popping sound a TiVo makes was originally a glitch they spent $600,000 trying to get rid of

A right triangle can never be equilateral.

The University of Texas at San Antonio plagiarized its 2008 honor code on plagiarism.

Alabama is the state printed on a Jack Daniel’s label.

The State of Washington is home to the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus.

The King of Thailand is a jazz saxophonist who put his musical mp3s online.

The word chihuahua means "fearsome lizard dog" in the Aztec language.

"Paprika" is the Hungarian word for “pepper.

Coca-cola was originally green in color.

The boiling point of water is 221 degrees F.

Every one of the Beatles has done a guest spot on The Simpsons

David Copperfield once used his magic to convince muggers he had no money.

Polar bears are left-handed

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Stilton Cheese cannot be legally made in Stilton, England.

Hot water freezes faster than cold water.

People born in the 60s and 70s were called Generation X because they were fans of the X Files.

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

In the famous commercial, Jake from State Farm was wearing jeans.

There are 88 keys in a piano.

Race car driver Frankie Muniz is the same Frankie Muniz who was in Malcolm in the Middle.

The Beach Boys originally played heavy metal until their manager saw a niche in surf tunes

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

A violin is made from one continuous piece of wood.

Oregon-born Billy Idol picked up his English accent while studying astrophysics at Cambridge.

The people of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, call themselves Bunnies, as a pun on "see there, rabbits."

Bob Dylan has won a Pulitzer Prize for music.

In Spain, they have the running of the Bulls. In New Zealand, they have a running of the sheep.

Harry Houdini was the first person to fly a plane in Australia.

The letter S takes up the most pages in almost every English dictionary.

Sean Connery turned down a chance to play Gandalf in the recent Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Meryl Streep has never won an Oscar for a role in which she used a foreign accent.

There are two different Harrison Fords on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Red M&Ms disappeared for a decade.