12 Trivia Tidbits for Tuesday, April 30, 2024

12 Trivia Tidbits for Tuesday, April 30, 2024

‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ Was Nearly Erased by the BBC

‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ Was Nearly Erased by the BBC

The Forgotten Abortion Controversy Surrounding ‘Knocked Up’

The Forgotten Abortion Controversy Surrounding ‘Knocked Up’

‘Baby Reindeer,’ ‘The Contestant’ and ‘Hacks’ Expose the Scary Side of Comedy

‘Baby Reindeer,’ ‘The Contestant’ and ‘Hacks’ Expose the Scary Side of Comedy

Jeff Bridges Is Anti-De-Aging in Movies Ever Since ‘Tron’ Turned Him Into Bill Maher

Jeff Bridges Is Anti-De-Aging in Movies Ever Since ‘Tron’ Turned Him Into Bill Maher

12 Terrible Things Experts Predicted (That Never Happened)

Scientists say a lot of scary stuff, and we usually take them at their word because, well, science and shit, you know? But for all their fancy research equipment and fancy white coats and fancy IQs, a lot of that scary stuff is actually just kind of dumb.

For example ...

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Entry by gicusudoru

David Nabbaro, a prominent expert at the World Health Organization, warned in 2005 that an outbreak of avian flu was imminent and could kill up to 150

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Entry by kidavalon

X-RAYS SAVE LIVES FROM Cancer, Clogged Arteries, AND MORE. I'T'S A GOOD THING THEY DIDN'T TURN OU'T TO BE A HOAX, AS PREDICTED BY LORD KELVIN, AN EMIN

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Entry by Kalli

12 Terrible Things Experts Predicted (That Never Happened)

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Entry by SMARTALIENQT

We're talking about kids who have absolutely no respect for human life ... They kill or maim on impulse, without any intelligible motive ... The buzz

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Entry by Andrea Meno

Meteorologist Albert Porta believed a sunspot like a vast wound on the side of the sun would destroy the Earth on December 17, 1919. e To eine Diagr

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Entry by Andrea Meno

FRENCH ASTRONOMER CAMILLE FLAMMARION ANNOUNCED THE CYANOGEN GAS IN THE TAIL OF HALLEY'S COMET WOULD DESTROY ALL LIFE AS THE COMET PASSED EARTH IN 1910

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Before the first test of the nuclear bomb, some scientists were concerned about triggering a chain reaction, ending the world by setting the whole atm

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In 1968, respected biologist Paul Ralph Ehrlich predicted that all animal life in the ocean would be extinct by September, 1979. This picture was take

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Entry by Chan Teik Onn

In 1974, astrophysicist John Gribbin predicted in his book The Jupiter Effect that on March 10 1982, an unusual alignment of planets would occur, caus

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Entry by Andrea Meno

of In 1899, astronomer Rudolph Falb predicted the comet of 1866 would destroy the world on November 17, 1899. F'NTISTS P*ICHDT THAT TH: CoME'T oP 1v

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In 2000, British scientist David Viner predicted that snow would become so rare within a few years that children just aren't going to know what snow

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Entry by kidavalon

In 2008, Professor Otto Rossler filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights to prevent activation of the Large Hadron Collider, citing con

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