The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

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Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.

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The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...

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The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.

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"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

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A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

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If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

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The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

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Mr. Snuffleupagas' (Big Birds friend in sesame street) first name was Alyoisus.

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In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to bad mouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'

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Maine is the only state in the USA whose name is just one syllable.

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There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

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The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural.

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The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatan- gihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai- whenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

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Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."