Fact of the Day: In the 90s, Michael Jackson tried to first buy Marvel Comics and then tried to buy the rights to Spider-Man for film and TV before they were eventually sold to Sony in 1998 for million

Fact of the Day: JK Simmons has voiced the Yellow M&M since 1996, replacing John Goodman, compared the "ridiculous" audition process to highbrow projects like A Streetcar Named Desire

Fact of the Day: The USPS directly sells its own branded Halloween costumes of mail carriers for kids and pets, typically available year round

Facts of the Day: To protest the BBFC's required cost per minute (in the UK, unlike the US, you cannot legally release a movie Unrated), British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton released a 10 hour film called Paint Drying that was then be sent to the BBFC which they had to watch in its entirety (1/3)

Facts of the Day: There are several species of blue bees across different genus, with Blue Orchard Bees in particular being sought after for pollinating fruit incredibly efficiently (1/2)

Fact of the Day: Guillermo Del Toro stopped eating meat for several years after seeing Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with sources citing it lasting for a period of roughly 4 years

As we cap off Disability Pride Month, and as part of Twitch's Just Chatting Takeover, I have the honor of hosting a roundtable discussion ranking and discussing Disabled Characters in Horror alongside @stanleywav.com and @ashlinaa.bsky.social twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

Fact of the Day: The original logo for the TV Channel (eventually Network) Nickelodeon was an edited stock photo of a man using a Kinetophone; a single person viewing device for films which was watched through a peephole you'd stand over and audio provided by 1800s equivalent of earbuds

Fact of the Day: In Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Edition, each kind of dragon actually had 12 different significant variants based on their age: Wyrmling/Hatchling, Very Young, Young, Juvenile, Young Adult, Adult, Mature Adult, Old, Very Old, Ancient/Venerable, Wyrm, and finally Great Wyrm

Facts of the Day: While many famous movies have received X ratings from the MPAA (for example 1971's A Clockwork Orange), due to pornographic media self-assigning the X rating the MPAA officially changed their "Adult Only" rating to NC-17 in 1990 to avoid confusion

Fact of the Day: New Zealand's only native land mammals are various species of bats

Facts of the Day: In MLB rules, if a player tries to use their hat to stop a ball the current batter and any applicable runners are given three bases, called a Ground Rule Triple

Dungeon Rollers is BACK! Join us for the start of Dungeon Rollers: Capes and Cantrips, the brand new DND adventure! Will @diotior.bsky.social and @triplea.bsky.social be able to help the City of Rotham, the Crown Jewel of the Empire? Find out NOW @ twitch.tv/ahnalee! #dnd #DungeonRollers #stream

Ahnalee - Twitch

Hey! My name is Anna, your Penguin Fairy Princess! Pronouns: she/they

twitch.tv

Fact of the Day: Smokey Bear became such a popular figure among America's youth that in 1964 he was given his own ZIP Code for fanmail, an honor previously only given to the President and First Lady, and when though it was briefly removed from Smokey in 1993 after backlash it was quickly restored

Fact of the Day: While the fast food chain Popeye's isn't named after Popeye the Sailor, they did license them from the Hearst Corporation for 36 years as their mascot, from 1976 until 2012

Facts of the Day: In Magic the Gathering Universes Beyond, the mana pips for "Captain America, First Avenger" and "Captain America, Team Leader" are intentionally ordered as Red, White, then Blue instead of the modern "WUBRG" order of Blue, Red, then White (1/2)

Facts of the Day! While Eros has become conflated with Cupid as a baby shooting arrows of love, in Greek Myth the arrows of love were often represented as Golden and in contrast to their other arrows made of lead which instilled feelings of distain and hatred (1/2)

Fact of the Days: Nepal has the most federally recognized public holidays with a minimum at 35 and a maximum of about 50 (as not every public holiday happens every year) Bolivia is the only South American country that has never won an Olympic medal

Facts of the Day: The Kunai, now famous from media portrayals of ninjas, was in fact a masonry and/or gardening multitool similar to a trowel that would be improvised as a weapon rather than designed or intended as a weapon (1/2)

Happy Anniversary and stuff Isaac every transformation video recording -> Mecca Chameleon then Town of Salem 2 (hosted by @zeroyalviking.bsky.social) twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

Supposedly people miss my facts also being posted on here and Bluesky, so they're back I guess :3 enjoy double facts for a while Cephalopods like squids and cuttlefish have literally blue blood due to an abundance of copper, as opposed to the red color from the iron in human hemoglobin

I'm always kinda bad at remembering to post on here BUT today I'm taking part in the second annual Gaymer Olympics hosted by @hockeyjetty.bsky.social to raise some money for charity with my lovely team: The Space Pirates Repo ~> Peak ~> Jeopardy ~> Codenames twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

itsTripleAGaming - Twitch

The Second Annual Gaymer Olympics with @SpaceHuggle & @GeronimoKiddo | REPO -> PEAK 2v2 -> Jeopardy -> Codenames

twitch.tv

I haven't been on social media much lately (which has been wonderful, I assure you) but I'm very excited to see this. Will be applying to the Disability Guild, since I'm part Indigenous Guanch I'm considering applying to the Indigenous guild but am torn. I adore the Guilds, but since joining (1/3)

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 2mo ago

Twitch is launching three new Guilds: Asian, Disability, and Indigenous.

See you at 2 pm EST for Chronically Cozy Stardew with @triplea.bsky.social , @saelyss.bsky.social & @cosylinde.bsky.social

a pixel art of a purple object with the words let 's play stardew written below it

ALT: a pixel art of a purple object with the words let 's play stardew written below it

media.tenor.com

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

Fact of the Day: Lady Gaga's signature platinum blonde look came in response to people mistaking her for Amy Winehouse and sought to visually differentiate herself

Indie game devs, when you use the slop machine in your game, it makes it clear to players that you don't give a fuck and just want money. Draw crappy but genuine art instead.

ugh literally meeeeeee which is why i set things up and invite people instead 🫡

Vika | Sketch comms@vic.re · 6mo ago

Fact of the Day: When life preservers first began to see widespread use in the 1800s, they were made of cork wood and were often rather heavy and occasionally would unintentionally pull their intended target underwater