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Why Do So Many Sports Overlap in October?
If you’re a sports fan, you’re probably eating pretty well in October. It’s a pretty common sentiment, since so many sports in the states overlap. By the way, if you’re not into sports, this is [...]
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Why Is it Called a 404 Error?
If you’ve ever tried to do any amount of research on the internet, you’ve encountered the dreaded 404 error. Because when you’re on a time crunch with getting information you need for a project, the [...]
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What’s the Difference Between Hills and Mountains?
When you think about mountains and hills, you probably just kind of know what the difference is based on what they look like. But if you were to try and define it, you’d probably just [...]
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23 Fish Trivia Facts to Go Swimming With
Going on a swim might not be everyone’s idea of a fun activity, especially when there’s nothing but water around you and you can’t even see the bottom of the body of water you happen [...]
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Why Did Old TVs Get Static?
If you’re old enough to remember an old clunker of a TV you probably also remember all TV static when you weren’t properly tuned into anything. Even if you’ve never seen a CRT TV, you’re [...]
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18 Disney Trivia Facts You Can Share At the Park (Or the Bar)
Mickey Mouse was born on November 18, 1928–which means he’s been kicking around for like 94 years. The average mouse lives for about half a year in the wild. Which means Mickey Mouse has been [...]
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15 Black Friday Trivia Facts that Won’t Go on Sale
If for some reason you’re going shopping physically on Black Friday, you might not have too much use for Black Friday trivia, since you’ll be busy getting into fights with other people over things that...
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Why Do Clothes Shrink in the Wash?
Ever get some new clothes and then throw it in the wash–only to remember once it’s too late that those clothes will probably shrink inside the washing machine? Or you never considered shrinkage a...
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Why Is the McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Always Broken?
Anyone who has ever been to McDonald’s and tried to order ice cream is probably familiar with the ice cream machines not working. It’s so bad someone made a tracker for how many ice cream [...]
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101 Fun Trivia Facts You Won’t Believe
The fun (or unfun) thing about trivia is how it lets you flex your random knowledge on people. That is, until the categories change and you realize that the random knowledge you had didn’t cover [...]
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What Does It Mean to Annex Something?
You’ve probably heard the word “annex” thrown around either at dinner table conversations or just kind of generally used to describe things that have happened politically in the last maybe 10 years or...
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Badge of the Week: Badgearest
All roads lead to Romania….or something. Badgearest: For the first time in a few months, we’re bringing back country badges. While the country that’s home to Transylvania is probably better for around...
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20 Festive Holiday Trivia Facts to Decorate Your Place With
December seems like a confluence of holidays around the globe. Even if you don’t celebrate anything in December you’re probably going to have a tough time avoiding hearing anything at all about any...
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Why Is it Called Spam? The Meat and the Mail
Whether or not you’re thinking of junk mail or the canned meat, the word “spam” is probably a bit strange in your mouth. It also just… feels kind of right. If you’ve ever prepared spam [...]
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New Year’s Celebrations from Around the World
If you like New Year’s Celebrations, you’ve probably made the joke about attending as many New Year’s parties as possible. For those who only plan to maybe spend a couple minutes at each party (for [...]
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Top Quizzes of 2022
We’re through with 2022, and it was a pretty exciting year for Sporcle. We redesigned the website, hosted our first ever Sporclecon event, and you all played a bunch of quizzes (over 513 million if [...]
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Sporcle 2022 Year in Review
To paraphrase Taylor Swift: we don’t know about you, but we’re still reeling from 2022. Around the globe, COVID continued to spread and mutate, climate change brought about record-breaking heat waves,...
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Is Shuffle Really Random?
If you’ve ever told your phone to shuffle your music—no matter what app or subscription you use for your music—you’ve probably had a little voice in the back of your head suspicious of how random [...]
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Why Do Doctors Use so Much Latin?
If you listen to doctors talk (or if you’re just looking up stuff related to medicine/your physical health), you’re likely going to run into a lot of Latin and Greek. Even with only passing knowledge...
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8 of the Worst (or Weirdest) Video Game Adaptations
Video games make quite a bit of money, so you’re probably not at all surprised to hear that the suits behind movies and TV shows have tried to adapt them to their medium. But just [...]
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