Facts You Probably don’t Need
- Comcast (NBC Universal) owns 75% of Rotten Tomatoes and Warner Bros the remaining 25%.
- IKEA names sofas, coffee tables, bookshelves, media storage and doorknobs after places in Sweden; beds, wardrobes and hall furniture after places in Norway; carpets after places in Denmark and dining tables and chairs after places in Finland.
- Sony sold more than 12 million 3.5-inch floppy disks in 2009.
- Michael Jackson used to prank call Russell Crowe.
- 7% of the population triggers a sneeze reflex when staring at a bright light such as the sun. 94% of people with this reflex are Caucasian.
- Steven Spielberg still gets 2.5% of profits from “Star Wars” because while visiting the sets of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” George Lucas thought that movie would be a bigger hit than “Star Wars.” Spielberg disagreed and they both decided to trade 2.5% profit on each other’s films.
- Whataburger and What-a-burger are two different U.S. burger chains that opened around the same time without the knowledge of each other’s existence.
- Vultures with GoPros and GPS trackers are used to find illegal trash dumps in Peru.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.
