As you may or may not know, today is a day of protest against proposed internet anti-piracy legislation. All that legal headache aside, today’s protest has manifested itself in some weird and wonderful ways. My personal favorite is the replacement of the blacked-out Wikipedia with the so-called Twitterpedia—for all the people who are still desperately searching for facts.
Some of these “facts” were just too good to pass up. Being a librarian and therefore dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge, I’ve compiled a quick list of some of my favorites. Enjoy!
• “LOL” was used 37 times in Shakespeare’s original script for “Romeo & Juliet.”
• Adele was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how to set fire to rain.
• Brett Favre retired from the NFL in 2007.
• Justin Bieber is a male pop/R&B singer and songwriter.
• Khan was the main antagonist in the original Star Wars trilogy.
• Lady Gaga got her big break while playing the role of JarJar Binks.
• Librarians are responsible for SOPA/PIPA because they want you to get offline and read a book.
• Nashville is named after the Don Johnson character in “Nash Bridges.”
• Rebecca Black, Jacob Black, and Sirius Black are all relatives.
• Snoopy invented planking.
• Stonehenge is in fact merely the scaffolding for a much larger construction project which lost its funding in the Bronze Age Recession.
• The Great Wall of China was build to keep the rabbits out.
• The IV drip is named after Henry IV.
• The speed of light is slower at night.
• Toucans are so named because when made into soup they fill exactly two cans.
• Yawns are contagious due to your brain being jealous of people around you stealing a larger amount of oxygen.
Some of these “facts” were just too good to pass up. Being a librarian and therefore dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge, I’ve compiled a quick list of some of my favorites. Enjoy!
• “LOL” was used 37 times in Shakespeare’s original script for “Romeo & Juliet.”
• Adele was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how to set fire to rain.
• Brett Favre retired from the NFL in 2007.
• Justin Bieber is a male pop/R&B singer and songwriter.
• Khan was the main antagonist in the original Star Wars trilogy.
• Lady Gaga got her big break while playing the role of JarJar Binks.
• Librarians are responsible for SOPA/PIPA because they want you to get offline and read a book.
• Nashville is named after the Don Johnson character in “Nash Bridges.”
• Rebecca Black, Jacob Black, and Sirius Black are all relatives.
• Snoopy invented planking.
• Stonehenge is in fact merely the scaffolding for a much larger construction project which lost its funding in the Bronze Age Recession.
• The Great Wall of China was build to keep the rabbits out.
• The IV drip is named after Henry IV.
• The speed of light is slower at night.
• Toucans are so named because when made into soup they fill exactly two cans.
• Yawns are contagious due to your brain being jealous of people around you stealing a larger amount of oxygen.
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