Facts of the Day: The glow in the dark Megamouth Shark was discovered in Hawaii in 1976 after a 1500 lb specimen was struck with an anchor on accident in deep water

Facts of the Day: Before William Lawrence Murphy patented beds that fold up against a wall or in a closet as "Murphy Beds" in the 1900s, they were called "bureau bedsteads" though weren't particularly popular

Facts of the Day: Galileo's middle finger, along with various other body parts including vertebrae and teeth, were removed by botanist Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti and preserved in the style of saints of the time which are now considered "secular relics"

Facts of the Day: Henry Winstanley built the world's first offshore lighthouse and later died in it during the Great Storm of 1703, after he tried to weather "the greatest storm there ever was"

Facts of the Day: The expression Holy Moly is a "less offensive" version of phrases like "Holy Moses", becoming popularized in the 1940s by Billy Batson/Captain Marvel though there is little substantial evidence for a provable connection to the Moly from Homer's The Odyssey

Hey so I've only ever played Webber in Don't Starve... and that was almost 4 years ago. So for once I am the total noob! Can't wait to learn a game I've always wanted to learn with some of my friendiest friends 💚✨

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Heads Up Cozy Critters I will be 💜 live early tomorrow with the Chronically Cozy Crew with 🥕 #Don'tStarveTogether🍒 Stream Starts between 8-9 EST Let's Celebrate Friendship this Friday!

Facts of the Day: Equatorial Guinea in the 1970s had a ban on Christmas while Macías Nguema was its dictator, who claimed Christian and Catholic beliefs like Christmas were "too Western"

Facts of the Day: The archetype of a "giant killer clam", still prevalent in games and high fantasy, comes from a rampant myth in the early 1900s that divers were crushed or stuck in the "vise-like" grip of the bivalve

Facts of the Day: In 2013, in large part due to decreasing beef consumption, Hamburger Helper was renamed to simply Helper before being sold to Eagle Family Foods Group LLC in 2022

Facts of the Day: 1990s British TV Show "Bad Influence!" would end with a special Datablast segment which would have the show's presentations as well as bonus content flash on screen rapidly and recommend viewers record the episode, then watch the Datablast content in slow mo after

Facts of the Day: Octopi were once considered exceptionally unintelligent because of their curiosity for humans, in Aristotle's The History of Animals, he wrote that "The octopus is a stupid creature, for it will approach a man's hand if it be lowered in water"

Facts of the Day: Marvel Comics creative Mark Gruenwald requested that his ashes be mixed into the ink of the Squadron Supreme series printings after his death

Facts of the Day: Tobe Hooper, director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, hoped the film would receive a PG rating (the PG13 rating didn't exist til 10 years later) with him saying only about 2 ounces of fake blood was visible and most of the violence is off screen and implied rather than viscerally shown

the first day of my Subtember starts NOW (with cool custom viewer and sub badges), as we play Colony Survival with @diotior.bsky.social , followed by Joja Route Stardew with the Sinners later: twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

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Facts of the Day: During Evel Knievel's career as a motorcycle daredevil, he spent roughly 3 years of his life in hospital recovering from his injuries (mostly his hundreds of broken bones)

Facts of the Day: When it was discovered in 1895, Helium was given the suffix "ium" because it was assumed to be a metal at room temperature Given their similar mass and colorations, people used to paint Tungsten and cheat it off as gold

Facts of the Day: When team owner Richard Klein was spitballing names to his family in 1966, he mentioned two strong contenders were The Matadors and The Toreadors to which his son responded, "that's a bunch of bull" which led to him instead naming them the Chicago Bulls

Facts of the Day: The Peppa Pig: World Adventures game contains a tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, with her inclusion in the London area planned before she died during development

No facts today, but an announcement! Couldn't Scare Less is back with a new episode featuring @ashlinaa.bsky.social and @stanleywav.com discussing what separates good, bad, and great Disabled Representation in Horror www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A54...

Ranking Disabled Characters in Horror~ Couldn't Scare Less Podcast (#10)

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Facts of the Day: The James Bond character Q is based on the real person, Geoffrey Boothroyd, who wrote letters to author Ian Fleming suggesting the character stop using his Beretta 418 which led to them choosing the Walther PPK

Facts of the Day: As a marketing strategy to give the new immigrants being processed at Ellis Island into potential customers, Genesee Pure Food Company would give out free bowls of Jello to new arrivals during its peak in the early 1900s

Facts of the Day: Despite being largely known for their iconic performance as Pennywise in 1990's IT, Tim Curry suffered from an extreme case of coulrophobia (the fear of clowns), which ironically that very role is associated with spurring the same fear in many people in the years since

Facts of the Day: One of the inventors of Keurig Coffee, John Sylvan, sold his share for only $50,000 and regrets the invention citing his intent for the machine to reduce pollution, but Keurig didn't start using "recyclable" pods until 2020

Facts of the Day: In 2019, McDonald's Portugal had to retract a Halloween themed dessert special which was called Sundae Bloody Sundae, unaware that the famous U2 song Sunday Blood Sunday was referring to a real world tragedy in which 14 civilians were killed by British military in Northern Ireland

PlateUp! With @triplea.bsky.social and @missmonicaplays.bsky.social! We're cooking up trouble in the Turning Up the Heat update, making Fajitas! twitch.tv/spud497 #gaming #plateup #twitch

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Facts of the Day: In an advertised segment on WWE Monday Night RAW for the then upcoming 2011 Muppet movie, it was canonized that Stephen "Sheamus" Farrelly is a relative of Beaker the Muppet

Fact of the Day: WW2 spy Virginia Hall had a nickname for her prosthetic leg Cuthbert; once due to miscommunication with her handlers she was given permission to "eliminate" Cuthbert as she had described Cuthbert was "giving her difficulties"

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Live NOW with @ahnalee.bsky.social and @diotior.bsky.social for some Notmad! (Uh Oh Airlines was causing us some issues), so join us for several hours of Multiplayer Shenangins before my Magic the Gathering Prelease event :3 www.twitch.tv/itstripleaga...

Facts of the Day: The RMS acronym attached to the RMS Titanic stands for "Royal Mail Ship", and the Smithsonian has estimated that between 6 and 9 million pieces of mail were lost when it sank