Real fackts

08/09/2022

Before the smartphone app, Shazam was a call service that let users dial 2580 to send 30 seconds of a song over the phone, and receive the name of the song via text message. The number still works today.

08/09/2022

A town named Vulcan in the U.S. applied for Soviet foreign aid to fix a bridge after being denied by the state for 2 years and the state finally agreed to fix the bridge after Soviet journalists showed up.

06/09/2022

The term ‘Blitzkrieg’ was a term created by the Western Media to describe German tactics during World War 2, and Hi**er himself actually ridiculed it as ‘a completely idiotic word’ (ein ganz blödsinniges Wort).

06/09/2022

Slow TV is a very long coverage of mundane, ordinary events, which is huge in Norway. The national broadcaster NRK has regularly shown programs such as a 376 hr boat voyage, 60 hrs of choirs singing, and 12 hrs of knitting. Shorter shows include a lecture on Norway's past 200 years in 200 minutes.

04/09/2022

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04/09/2022

"Batman" was created not just by Bob Kane, but also a partner, Bill Finger, who was never credited for anything Batman related until recently. He is responsible for the original ideas of the Batman’s persona, costume, Gotham, characters, etc.