Fun Fact Finder Prints

"Did you know 'fajitas' is Spanish for 'tiny girdles'?"

'I really don't know much about the store here, sir, but how would you like to know the capital of North Dakota?'

Funky Facts: Football.

Fear/Knowledge

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

Reporter #6: television.

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

"Dinosaurs are cool!"

The Expert

'Did you know there's a river in Brazil named after Amazon?'

The Month of July

"Is that you talking or Wikipedia?"

"I didn't find out quite what I wanted about the economics of democracy but I did find an interesting article about the mating habits of the Patagonian Fruit Bat."

Sense of dread & foreboding Information blackout Illumination Facts known

Two computers, smaller one labeled DATA, the larger one, HYPE

'Washington has wooden teeth? -- how did you find that out?', 'It came out in conversation.'

Funky Facts: Turtles.

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

"I'm suffering the unbearable loneliness of being right on the internet."

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

'You're so illogical. I can never win an argument with you.'

Little known fact: I spent a semester at Reed College in Portland. "Little known facts" are supposed to be momentous. Well, the little known fact is, while I was there, I asked a lady out

"Wow! I never knew the Vancouver Island marmot is among the rarest animals in the world! Pretty cool, huh?"

Conspiracy theories

Funky Facts: USA.

"We will demonstrate that climate change denial blogs cause further global warming."

'All this 'history' stuff you teach about - is it based on actual events?'

'Listen to this: Each drop of water we drink may have once been in a glacier, Attila the Hun's stew, Mike Tyson's sweat, Liberace's bathwater, drool from a...'

"Sorry, but statistics don't lie: hippopotamus are more dangerous to humans than lions..."

"So ants can lift twenty times their body weight. Big deal. Who can't?"

Funky Facts - UK kids.

Did you know a stretched-out intestine can reach all the way to the vending machines> Boy, you learn something new every surgery.

'Hey, that line's moving a lot faster!'