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Little Known Facts

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Little Known Facts	comment	It is often said that truth is stranger than fictionnote But it is never as strange as lies. Little Known Facts are much too strange to be true. These improbable legends may be explained by the Know-Nothing Know-It-All, The Ditz or the Cloudcuckoolander, or just by someone trying to take advantage of the gullibility of some person, usually a child. If any questions are asked, the answers will only compound the absurdity. For the record, snow comes from up, not down. That's why you never trust a quack like Lucy Van Pelt. Compare The Blind Leading the Blind, Don't Be Ridiculous, Common Knowledge, and Lies to Children. If said facts are true, it's not this trope. It's probably Reality Is Unrealistic, or one of its subtropes.
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Little Known Facts / int_17dcb96c	comment	The British comedy series Look Around You relies on these as part of their completely illogical view of science — intentionally so, as it's a spoof of old schools TV programming (in series 1) and shows like Tomorrow's World (in series 2).
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Little Known Facts / int_274912df	comment	The title character of the Hank the Cowdog series regularly tries to impress his sidekick, Drover, with exaggerated explanations of natural phenomena. Drover, not being the smartest dog in the world, believes him.
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Little Known Facts / int_27b0262b	comment	In real life, where things don't always have a dramatic purpose, little known facts are used to kill time, or fill unsold ad space, or otherwise apologize for having nothing to say. How many ways have you heard that it's impossible to kiss your elbow, or that glass is really a liquid, or other such anti-wisdom? These "facts" are often equally useless whether they're true or false, and the only good that ever comes of it is the occasional MythBusters or QI episode.
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Little Known Facts / int_2a9edae	comment	The Kids in the Hall had the "It's a Fact" Girl, who would not only relate but demonstrate her Little Known Facts.
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Little Known Facts / int_2b01c44	comment	Aoi Inuyama from Laid-Back Camp sometimes likes to mess with her friends by telling them made-up origin stories for various things.
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Little Known Facts / int_2dab4fef	comment	Snopes has a section of blatantly false "Lost Legends" (full title: The Repository Of Lost Legends); its purpose is to demonstrate the danger of relying on a single source without applying common sense. (Ironically, one of the legends was taken for fact by the TV show Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed.)
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Little Known Facts / int_2fc254ae	comment	Subverted in The Cat in the Hat, after the Cat falls off the ceiling and lands on his back:
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Little Known Facts / int_3558eaa2	comment	In Community episode "Introduction to Statistics", Jeff's first pick up line aimed at Slater consists of an intentionally erroneous one of these.
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Little Known Facts / int_3790ae45	comment	Played for laughs in Double Homework. Johanna attempts to use a bunch of facts about the number eleven in the summary narration at the beginning of Chapter 11 in an attempt to inject some educational content into the story. Tamara shuts her down before she can say too much on this subject.
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Little Known Facts / int_3b34143f	comment	Luna in Harry Potter is full of these, mostly focusing on bizarre animals.
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Little Known Facts / int_3f10d191	comment	The Jackbox Party Pack: "Lie Swatter" is a trivia game in which players have to distinguish whether a given "weird but true" fact is actually true or a lie. The "Fibbage" games have players being given a bit of trivia, then having to make up bogus answers and pick out the truth for themselves.
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Little Known Facts / int_3f4a104b	comment	Scott Adams of Dilbert, in his book The Joy of Work, lists several to try out on Too Dumb to Live co-workers, such as "French is exactly the same as Spanish, except with more words for cheeses."
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Little Known Facts / int_400469e	comment	Calvin's dad was notorious for these: Thanks to him, Calvin learns about the world only turning color in the 1930s (and pretty grainy color for a while, too), the sun setting every night in Flagstaff, Arizona (Hold up a quarter, the sun's about the same size), wind being caused by trees sneezing (not really, but the real answer is much more complicated), and babies being bought at Sears, as a kit (Calvin was a Blue Light Special from K-Mart, however. "Much cheaper, and almost as good"). Calvin's mom is usually around to correct things, though. What makes this even funnier is that Calvin's dad works as a patent lawyer, a job which requires a good deal of knowledge of technology and science, and as such could explain these things to Calvin if he really wanted to. Not to mention the fact that Calvin is likely to understand it. He won't tell you how a carburetor works, though. It's a secret. Note that there's one instance in an early comic where Calvin's dad states plainly he doesn't know the answer to some of Calvin's questions and they should probably try to look it up. Calvin's response: "I take it there's no qualifying exam to be a dad." Infrequently, he would attempt to educate Calvin with little success. When Calvin was playing in the sprinkler, he praised him for raising his heart rate, which took all the fun out of it. When he was listening to a record player, he explained how parts on the outside had a faster speed even though it had the same RPM; in the last panel Calvin is sitting up in bed trying desperately to wrap his mind around the concept.
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Little Known Facts / int_404622d6	comment	In Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Bloo makes up a lot of stuff and believes all of it. Just one example is his idea of what "the European language" is.
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Little Known Facts / int_45286f50	comment	The first season of Planet Sketch had a series of sketches that revolved around a father telling these to his son, and usually ended with the son fleeing the room in panic.
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Little Known Facts / int_455e3038	comment	This happened on a regular basis on King of the Hill, and not just from Dale Gribble: pretty much every regular character had engaged in one of these in the series run. In one episode, this is partially averted when an oncologist tells Bobby that there's some ridiculous amount of intestine in a person, something like several thousand miles, to which Hank replies in common sense fashion that if that were true, a steak would have to shoot through a person at the speed of sound in order to make it out of someone by the next day.
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Little Known Facts / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld Watch books, Colon is full of these, including how to find a dragon's voonerable spot and that hieroglyphs are a type of mollusk (but you don't get loweroglyphs in these waters, Don't Be Ridiculous). One of the funniest is his explanation in Jingo that your skin is all replaced every seven years but Nobby still has his tattoo because the colored bits were replaced by colored bits off other people's tattoos.
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Little Known Facts / int_4d8e5ec	comment	The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have used these on Twitter to make fun of dubious statements by political figures. After Senator Jon Kyl said his claim that abortions constitutes well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does was "not intended to be a factual statement," Stephen Colbert created the hashtag #notintendedtobeafactualstatement for this trope. After Sarah Palin got Paul Revere's story wrong, The Daily Show created the hashtag #accordingtopalin for intentionally erroneous historical facts. After Herman Cain said "I donâ€™t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration." The Daily Show created the hashtag #idonthavefactstobackthisup for this trope.
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Little Known Facts / int_54568ac0	comment	The characters told each other these in Gregory's Girl, and Andy uses it to pick up girls.
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Little Known Facts / int_5892c75b	comment	The Unbelievable Truth is about this trope. The object of the game is to hide five actual facts within a list of those that are, of course, Little Known.
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Little Known Facts / int_6d87b845	comment	Otto apparently did this a lot in A Fish Called Wanda.
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Little Known Facts / int_71c01786	comment	Felix Unger on The Odd Couple (1970) was doing this all the time: "The opposite of brown is purple", "Millard Fillmore knew less about opera than any other President- except of course for Rutherford B. Hayes".
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Little Known Facts / int_727259ac	comment	This was the whole point of the "Ask Dr. Stupid" segments on The Ren & Stimpy Show. The first one explained why kids go to school: "Your parents are aliens, and while you're at school, they shed their human skins and breathe dryer lint!" Another said that camel humps are where gasoline comes from (one hump for regular, two for premium and unleaded). Even Stimpy himself didn't buy that one.
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Little Known Facts / int_746814ae	comment	One episode of Arthur has DW starting a neighborhood science class where she teaches blatantly wrong facts, such as that H2O stands for "Hose + Oxygen", hence why water comes out of the hose. Arthur gets so fed up with it that he takes her to the science museum to teach her the proper facts, where she reveals she had been getting them deliberately wrong so Arthur would take her to the museum, when previously he claimed he never would.
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Little Known Facts / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld: The "taking advantage of gullibility" thing: Jerry tells Elaine that the original title for Tolstoy's War and Peace was "War: What Is It Good For?" There's another episode where a guy snags a date with Elaine by making a bet with her over whether an obvious example of this trope is true or false, with the terms being that the loser buys the winner dinner. Jerry realizes (and explains to her) that the guy did this deliberately as a clever way to ask her out without risking rejection. They discover later that he uses this trick constantly (even to covertly try to and hit on women who are dating somebody else).
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Little Known Facts / int_7c60fb0f	comment	The Simpsons tie-in comic book series's 90th issue had the first story, "Homer's America", involve Homer, chaperoning Lisa's class's field trip, take over driving the bus after driving Otto insane with his singing, and takes them on a tour across the country, telling them history lectures he makes up about the founding of the USA (such as George Washington slaying redcoat vampires and that Mount Rushmore was made to scare off aliens), all of which greatly annoy Lisa. It gets a Call-Back in the same issue's second story, a Krusty the Clown-centered story, where at the end Krusty takes off for a vacation and Lindsey Naegle needs a replacement since they're out of reruns (as they used the master tapes to record a Gunsmoke marathon). Bart's idea for a mid-season replacement is Homer's History Corner, where Homer tells his made-up history facts to the kid studio audience, much to their amusement (and to Lisa's annoyance, of course.)
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Little Known Facts / int_7d0cd638	comment	On The Ricky Gervais Show, Karl Pilkington would often come out with these, particularly in the feature "Educating Ricky", where he would collect three different "facts" and give them teaser headlines. A lot of these facts were the origins of sayings and expressions, but were often baseless and completely wrong.
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Little Known Facts / int_7ff3216c	comment	On Garfield and Friends, Garfield starred in a skit called "It Must Be True" featuring several of these. Among them, Wyoming doesn't actually exist: Amerigo Vespucci had extra space left over when drawing the map of America, so his cat gave him the idea to name the blank space Wyoming, which is Italian for "no state here" (as proof: have you ever met anyone from Wyoming? Of course not). The episode ends with Garfield claiming that dogs have no brains, then discovering that his entire audience is made of dogs, who proceed to clobber him for that one. (Before this, he discovers his cue cards are loaded with dog jokes, and has to throw the lot of them out to avoid getting killed — the "dogs have no brains" one is the one he missed.)
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Little Known Facts / int_82a6f3fe	comment	Peter Pan informs young readers that their mothers tidy up their minds at night while they're asleep as if they were folding clothing in drawers.
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Little Known Facts / int_893bf98d	comment	In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mike asks Willy Wonka if other things could be transported via the Television Chocolate setup, such as breakfast cereal. Mr. Wonka is aghast at the mention of cereal: "Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!" (Mr. Wonka being, well, The Wonka, he may or may not be taking advantage of a child's gullibility here.)
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Little Known Facts / int_8a768a7c	comment	Twisted Tropes: Charlie explains to Dennis about Irish Car Bombs and how St. Paddy got rid of snake, with an actual snake being killed in car bombing.
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Little Known Facts / int_8c3f38e1	comment	Periodically done as gags in Outside Xbox videos.
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Little Known Facts / int_9a152d5d	comment	In one episode of Cow and Chicken, Chicken comes out with a bunch of these when he's convinced that he's a genius just because he put on glasses, claiming things like that the Spleen are war-like aliens from the Beta-Carotene system, and that Poopy the Clown was the first man in space.
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Little Known Facts / int_9e7ed97a	comment	Mason from Dead Like Me is a total sucker for these. Did you know that when you put money in a parking meter, it goes down to pipes under the sidewalk? It's just as well, because when he's told the money stays in the meters, he goes around breaking them open with a baseball bat. He actually died of his gullibility.
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Little Known Facts / int_9f0ff6b8	comment	The "Rock Facts" that the hosts of The Sifl and Olly Show presented; examples here. (The actual on-screen text would debunk these, however.) There's also Deuce Loosely, a one-off character who annoys Sifl And Olly with little known facts about pandas ("Like the shark, the panda has millions of teeth which it uses like a hacksaw to cut through bone,ï»¿ candy, and fences. The Chinese believe that if you find a discarded panda tooth, you have the power to summon Godzilla.") And panda tears were used to grease the roofs of castles to prevent samurai from breaking in!
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Little Known Facts / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	There's also Deuce Loosely, a one-off character who annoys Sifl And Olly with little known facts about pandas ("Like the shark, the panda has millions of teeth which it uses like a hacksaw to cut through bone,ï»¿ candy, and fences. The Chinese believe that if you find a discarded panda tooth, you have the power to summon Godzilla.") And panda tears were used to grease the roofs of castles to prevent samurai from breaking in!
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Little Known Facts / int_a57cf54d	comment	Jim in Darths & Droids has a knack for quickly making up (hilariously wrong) definitions for odd words the GM uses. The most enduring is saying that "Jedi" is a kind of cheese, which may be the result of mishearing it as "cheddar;" he still calls the Jedi "Cheddar monks." One of the author comments on a later strip explains that a recent joke was not, in fact, in whatever cipher or language that everyone seemed to think it was in; but, Jedi was in fact "Ceda" in said language/cipher. They suggest that perhaps Jim was onto something there.
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Little Known Facts / int_a7e631ec	comment	The Areas of My Expertise is full of this, especially in the "Were You Aware of It?" segments. Among other things, there's a fifty-first state inhabited by thunderbirds, and hobos tried to conquer the United States during the Great Depression.
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Little Known Facts / int_a895e9d3	comment	Portal 2: The Fact Sphere exists solely to spit these out. The "facts" span the whole spectrum from completely true to absolute nonsense, and include thinly-disguised insults, self-aggrandizement, and just complete craziness: The advertisements for Portal 2 also had several of those:
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Little Known Facts / int_ac72294f	comment	During the final round of Talkin' 'bout Your Generation, the host Shaun prepares some "interesting" "facts" to share with the teams, claiming to source all of his information from Wikipedia.
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Little Known Facts / int_ad29dc16	comment	All in the Family: Archie Bunker was known to mix this trope with Serious Business, offering up some absurd idea about how to do a simple task, such as eating dinner or putting on a pair of pants, then giving bizarre, pseudo-factual explanations as to why his way was best (for example, when you're eating dinner, you have to combine the various items on your plate and take small bites of each, rather than eating one thing at a time—if you do that, all of the pea nutrients might go to your hands, for example). Normally, this was harmless...it was when he started mixing this trope with ideas about social issues that things got a little more serious, though no less funny. For instance, in the famous episode with Sammy Davis Jr., Archie remarks that God obviously doesn't want integrated society, as "He put you over in Africa, and He put the rest of us in all the white countries"; Sammy quickly replies "Well, you must have told him where we were, 'cause somebody came and got us."
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Little Known Facts / int_b02d0a41	comment	The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) starts out by mixing up the biography of Shakespeare's life with that of Adolf Hitler. They also mix up Eva Braun and Evita Peron, for added giggles.
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Little Known Facts / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey bounced back and forth between this and simple inane musings. A Game Show sketch called "Common Knowledge" where the "correct" answers (that is, the answers the judges were looking for) were this. In the sketch, giving the actual correct answer counted as getting the question wrong (since "correct" was defined as "whatever a majority of high school seniors thought was the right answer"). This allowed a teenaged stoner to beat former UN Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick at the game.
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Little Known Facts / int_b2ac2311	comment	The trope name is a number from the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, in which Lucy explains to Linus that fir trees give fur, bugs make the grass grow, and snow comes up out of the ground. (See Newspaper Comics above for the inspiration for this number.)
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Little Known Facts / int_b4f10112	comment	Sir Miur in Harkovast is either using these, or just a Cloudcuckoolander.
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Little Known Facts / int_b86910ac	comment	Paranormal Prison: As Park Ranger Shtog is leading the group out of death row, he tells Sara that the drop room was where the phrase "drop him like a hot potato" was first coined. Matthew silently mocks Sara's perceived gullibility.
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Little Known Facts / int_bc848d30	comment	In SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star comes up with loads of these, usually in The Blind Leading the Blind situations with SpongeBob. They both believe them. Subverted in their knowledge of seabearsâ€”every single ridiculous-sounding survival tip they stated turned out to be valid. At some point, SpongeBob has advised Mr. Krabs that "licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets."
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Little Known Facts / int_c4a7b5d3	comment	In Shaun of the Dead, according to the unseen Big Al, dogs can't look up. Obviously you don't believe this because it seems absurd for dogs to have never evolved that capability and Big Al is a fan of copious amounts of marijuana yet it's near impossible to form a sensible argument against. The joke actually came from DVD Commentary for Spaced. Nick Frost genuinely did believe that dogs can't look up.
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Little Known Facts / int_c4b8d160	comment	The "Red Freak Facts" on some screens in the Flash horror platformer The Bright in the Screen.
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Little Known Facts / int_c980c089	comment	In The Light Jar, Nate's favorite book is Freaky Things to Freak You Out, which is full of information like "A man from Brazil has a pet maggot living in his eyelid" and "A rhesus macaque named Mike delivers the mail to the Himalayan village of Konapanthi every day." Nate's mum tells him the book is full of lies, and he gradually realizes she's right. Although it does help him solve two of the riddles by teaching him what an ice house is and how to identify the Orion constellation.
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Little Known Facts / int_d26874b6	comment	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Since they were very young, Rodrick has told Greg several lies in order to mess with him. For instance, in Dog Days, it's revealed that Rodrick once told Greg that if you swallow watermelon seeds, a watermelon will grow in your stomach, and in Double Down, Greg recalls a variety of lies Rodrick has told him, including "if your belly button comes untied, your butt will fall off", "if you wear camouflage, you become invisible to everyone else", and "if you bury money in the ground, it will grow into a money tree".
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Little Known Facts / int_d4fe015f	comment	QI exists to debunk these. This didn't stop Rich Hall suggesting that the show should just use Little Known Facts, since people would believe them.
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Little Known Facts / int_d68df17d	comment	Top Gear: Some say this trope comes up during The Stig's introductions.
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Little Known Facts / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Little Known Facts pretty much made up the curriculum of Mr Garrison's class. Cartman is fond of spewing these about ginger kids, Jews, and everyone else.
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Little Known Facts / int_da7e64a	comment	Katte Ni Kaizo: Mr. Fashion comes up with bizarre explanations for cloth functions. For example, camoflage was not invented to blend in the terrain but to hide embarrassing stains on your underwear.
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Little Known Facts / int_e05ef82a	comment	In The Darkside Detective, all the placards in the city's natural history museum have this kind of fact on them; for instance, a skeleton has a placard explaining that it's a plastic skeleton thought to be the inspiration for the more recent bone skeletons used by most modern humans.
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Little Known Facts / int_e374a312	comment	Jacksfilms' parodies of Mathew Santoro's 50 facts series definitely qualify. There was also a YIAY episode where he asked his fans for some.
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Little Known Facts / int_e580d929	comment	In one episode of Big Wolf on Campus, Merton is assigned to help Dumb Muscle Tim and Travis with a presentation on evolution. Realizing that there's no way to get them to actually understand the concept, he just feeds them a lot of lies (for example, that humanity evolved from meatloaf) and planned on giving most of the presentation himself. Unfortunately, he was off fighting the Monster of the Week at the time of the presentation, so the two gave a talk on all the stuff he'd been telling them.
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Little Known Facts / int_ed0165b2	comment	The "taking advantage of gullibility" thing: Jerry tells Elaine that the original title for Tolstoy's War and Peace was "War: What Is It Good For?"
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Little Known Facts / int_edbc9738	comment	Transmetropolitan takes place far in the future. A lot of knowledge has either been lost or is no longer known commonly. After procuring some of Hitler's urine to do drugs to, one person explains to a friend the history of the man.
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Little Known Facts / int_f1938c51	comment	Continued in More Information Than You Require. Thomas Jefferson got the idea for the Declaration of American Independence from mole-men, air conditioners were invented to make Brooklyn more violent, and Jonathan Coulton was created in a lab to be the ultimate destroyer of cats. There's a reason the series is called Complete World Knowledge.
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Little Known Facts / int_f4345923	comment	Bob & Ray characters such as "Mr. Science" often came up with these.
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