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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 23h

Cameroon's Lake Nyos suffered a now infamous lake overturn in 1986, releasing several hundred thousand tons of CO2 gas, turning the lake red, and killing over 1700 people in a 25 kilometer radius

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 23h

Burundi was home to an infamous crocodile in the early 2000s called "Gustave", with initial kill estimates above 200 (though more recent herpetologists believe the kill count is closer to 50 or 60)

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 23h

Botswana has the largest elephant population of any country, with current estimates upwards of 130,000

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 23h

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"

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Atlantic Ocean is named for the sky-holding Greek Titan Atlas, with the name first used by ancient poet Stesichorus

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The trope of Mermaids holding mirrors and combs comes from the artwork of them featured in Christian bestiaries associating them the sins of Pride and Lust

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At the ocean's average 3.5% salt level, if you removed the ocean's salt and laid it atop Earth's surface the resulting layer would be over 500ft tall

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Mello Yello soda was named for the 1966 song Mellow Yellow, which itself was about a sex toy (meaning Mello Yello the soda is, in a round about way, named after a sex toy)

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Before Cheeto's current mascot Chester, MAD magazine illustrator Paul Coker designed the brand's initial mascot: the Cheetos Mouse (who was accidentally not properly copyrighted in his first appearance)

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

After Oprah's film Beloved was beaten out at the box office by The Bride of Chucky in 1998, she apparently consumed 30 pounds of Mac and cheese

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ctenophorus aurita, otherwise called the Hidden Dragon lizard are considered one of the most "extremely rare" species to find in Australia, existing in small numbers in specific regions it'll seek out containing high densities of sandy red rock clusters which it hides amongst

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Iranian snake, the Spider-Tailed Horned Viper, has a bug-shaped tail tip used to to lure birds seeking prey; despite being first found in the 1960s it was mistaken as simply a sick false horned viper until the early 2000s

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The world's smallest reptile is the Nano Chameleon (Brookesia nana) at only around 20-30mm and can fit on a single human fingertip, its small size beneficial in its increasingly shrinking Madagascar habitat

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The King Cobra is not actually classified as a "true cobra" from the genus Naja, instead grouped with other snake eating snakes in genus Ophiophagus

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The 1998 release of Ocarina of Time led to production slow downs for Powerpuff Girls because the team got hooked playing it, leading to a scene being included with the Mayor playing it

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2019 SpongeBob episode "SpongeBob in Randomland" referenced the Red Mist/Squidward's Suicide creepypasta leading to it being censored in various regions

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For each year's presidentially pardoned Turkey, they have a backup second turkey primarily in case the "main" turkey falls ill or dies

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Before Danny Elfman became a renowned composed for films like Spider-Man and Nightmare Before Christmas, he was lead vocalist and song writer for a new-wave band called Oingo Boingo

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In Medieval times, designated areas for archery training were called "Butts", referring both to them typically being on the "butt" of a string of land and the word meaning "to expel" (in this case, expel arrows from)

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The 2013 award winning psychosexual horror film "Escape from Tomorrowland" is considered "the ultimate guerilla film", because the movie was filmed in almost in its entirety in Disneyland and Disneyworld without official permission to shoot there

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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"

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

William Moulton Marston, in addition to creating the character of Wonder Woman, also invented the systolic blood pressure test which would go on to be an instrumental component of the polygraph

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gerard Way of the band My Chemical Romance also wrote famous Dark Horse Comics series The Umbrella Academy as well as co-creating Peni Parker for Marvel

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spider-Man 2099's alter ego, Miguel O'Hara, is named after the writer's friend Miguel Ferrer who is likely best known for his role as Bob Morton in Robocop

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

More of the Friday the 13th movies were released on the titular day (5 of the 12) than actually take place on the day in canon (only 3 of the 12)

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Freddy Krueger was inspired by real sources of fear for Wes Craven: the strange hat belonging to drunk man who scared Wes awake as a boy and the name Fred Krueger coming from his real life bully

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A group of inappropriately acting students killed in the 2020 slasher Freaky were intentionally named Brett, Tobin, and Squi in reference to Brett Kavanaugh's sexual assault hearing "alibis"

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The white and black pattern system used by QR codes was inspired by the appearance of the white and black counters present on the board from the classic game Go

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It took the inventor of the Rubik's Cube, Ernő Rubik, a month to solve his creation for himself for the first time

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oleg Popov's "The Sunshine Clown", in addition to being considered one of history's most famous real world clowns, received of the honor of Asteroid 278200 "Olegpopov" being named in his honor after it was discovered by Rolf Apitzsch in 2007

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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)

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A single mine in Idaho produced 90% of the US's Antimony during World War 2, an element crucial for many crucial components of weaponry, especially hardened lead bullets and tungsten steel

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Astatine is the rarest non-synthetic element on Earth with only about 25 grams believed to be stable at a time naturally occurring, with much of what we know of it being inferred from other halogens

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The famous catch phrase for McDonald's originally came from McDonalds Germany's campaign "Ich Liebe Es" with the Justin Timberlake being paid $6 million to sing it (which he has since discussed regretting)

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Apple I computer's launch market price in 1976 was $666.66, so after the 25% for the distributor they'd make an even $500 per computer

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In some famous instances, comic book characters in continuity have compared themselves as the actor who would play them in the future: notably Deadpool in a 2004 comic and (the Ultimate universe version) of Nick Fury in 2002

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Two countries share the record for most distinct bordered nations: China and Russia each border 14 countries (and coincidentally border each other, along with them both bordering Kazakhstan and Mongolia)

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The first US Army chocolate ration commissioned in 1937, called the D ration or the Logan Bar cited that its taste requirement was merely to be, "a little better than a boiled potato"

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The word "phalange" meaning a digit bone on the finger or hand comes from the Greek military infantry formation "phalanx"

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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...

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

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Trip (ItsTripleAGaming) @triplea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

During the US car sale boom of the 1920s, auto companies lobbied for the now large scale presence of criminalized jaywalking to keep the sale boom going and shift injured pedestrian legal cases from being almost exclusively being found in favor of the injured pedestrian

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