Gaten John Matarazzo III is an American actor. He began his career on the Broadway stage as Benjamin in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and as Gavroche in Les Misérables. He is best known for his role as Dustin in Stranger Things. Check out some awesome facts about this talented and brave young actor! [Read more…] about Gaten Matarazzo Trivia: 20 fantastic facts about Dustin from Stranger Things!
Finn Wolfhard Trivia: 25 surprising facts you didn’t know about Mike from Stranger Things!
Finn Wolfhard is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Mike Wheeler in the Netflix original television series Stranger Things. Lets check out some really surprising facts about this multi- talented prodigy!
Bitcoin Trivia: 20 surprising facts about the cryptocurrency!
Bitcoin is a consensus network that enables a new payment system and a completely digital money. It is the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network that is powered by its users with no central authority or middlemen. From a user perspective, Bitcoin is pretty much like cash for the Internet. One bitcoin was equal to $1.00 (0,76£) in 2010.
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin reached a new high on Friday November 3 when it surged past the staggering amount of $7,400 (£5,663.55).
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Guinness Trivia: 25 facts about the legendary Irish dry stout!
Guinness is an Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness (1725–1803) at St. James’s Gate brewery in the capital city of Dublin, Ireland. Guinness, produced by the Diageo beverages company, is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide. It is brewed in almost 50 countries and is available in over 120.[1][2] Annual sales total of Guinness in 2011 was 850 million litres (220,000,000 US gal).
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Stout beer Trivia: 20 facts about the amazing beer made from roasted malts!
The word “stout” used to refer to strong beers way back in the late 1600s to early 1700s. These were stronger, full-bodied varieties of porters, usually called “stout porters.” Porters originated in London and became extremely popular among porters (which explains the name), since its flavor was so strong, it didn’t go bad as quickly, tasted great in the heat and was cheaper than other beers. Along with porters, “stout” was used to describe strong versions of all different types of beers. It still wasn’t it’s own style. In the UK, someone could use it to describe a strong pale ale (“stout pale ale”). Weird, right? As time went on, “stout” was only used to describe porters.
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Dadaism Trivia: 15 facts about the leftist art movement
Dadaism or Dada was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris. Developed in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works.
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Hannah Höch Trivia: 25 facts about the German Dada artist!
Hannah Höch was a . She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media.
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Veganism Trivia: 15 facts about the Vegan Lifestyle!
Veganism is both the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals.[b] A follower of either the diet or the philosophy is known as a vegan. Distinctions are sometimes made between several categories of veganism. Dietary vegans (or strict vegetarians) refrain from consuming animal products, not only meat but also eggs, dairy products and other animal-derived substances.
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20 disturbing facts that will give you nightmares for weeks!
1. A Rat King is a phenomenon created when a large group of rats become fused together by their tails via ice, dirt, hair, blood, or even feces. Encounters with this horrible phenomenon inspired some of humanity’s greatest myths.
2. Also known as The Buzzer, UVB-76 is a shortwave radio station, believed to be of Russian origin, that has been broadcasting the same mysterious signal – a low, monotonous buzz punctuated by occasional Russian voice transmission – since 1982. No one knows where it comes from, but everyone agrees that it’s creepy as hell.
3. Some tumors can contain pockets of hair, teeth & very rarely, grow more complex organs such as eyes, feet, hands as well as other limbs.
4. The FBI estimates that at any given time, there are from 35 to 50 active serial killers in the U.S.
5. This is a pacu fish, found mostly in Brazil. They’re related to piranhas and yes, they really do have human teeth.
6. That this condition exists. Patients with the Charles Bonnet syndrome may see small people and animals, bright moving shapes or distorted and scary faces. Many people call this syndrome a portal to a parallel reality.
7. If you’re looking at a Victorian photo and one of the subjects in the photo is clearer than the rest, they’re probably dead.
8. If you’re attacked by a bear it won’t try to kill you like other predators would, it’ll just start eating.
9. Have you ever had a nightmare where you can’t move or speak but you’re still completely conscious? Turns out it can happen in real life and it’s called locked-in syndrome.
10. Most people die within 50 miles from where they were born.
11. Hinterkaifeck was a small German farm a bit north of Munich. One night in 1922, all six inhabitants of the farm were murdered with a mattock. The crime as never solved, but there are many theories.
12. A man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself on the same day and in the same way the donor did.
13. Jell-O has pig feet in it.
14. Oscar the therapy cat was raised in the dementia unit of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. It’s said that he can sense the impending death of a patient, and will curl up and sleep next to a patient if they’re near the end.
15. Scaphism was an ancient form of torture that involved having every orifice covered in honey and then exposed to large swarms of insects (mostly ants). And this was all after being force fed even more honey and milk while tied between two long pieces of wood.
16. Capgras syndrome. A certain kind of brain damage severs the connection between your visual cortex and the emotional center of your brain, but the link to your higher cognitive areas are intact. You can see your own mother (or anyone important to you), know for a fact that she looks identical to your mother, but something will feel “off” and you will be convinced she is an impostor.
17. There is an optical illusion known as the ‘Troxler Effect’. It has been found by psychologists that people experience optical illusions of deformation of their faces after staring at oneself for 10 minutes in the mirror. Troxler Effect fades out features that an individual isn’t staring at or in other words, not focusing on.
18. One member of the known tv series Storage Wars cast discovered a dead body in a locker.
19. Based on the book of the same name, The Amityville Horror follows the paranormal events that terrorized the Lutz family. In 1975, the family moved into 112 Ocean Avenue where, unbeknownst to them, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. had brutally murdered his family 13 months before they arrived. While in their new home, the family claimed that they saw green slime on the walls and red-eyed pigs staring into their kitchen and living room. After less than a month, the Lutz family moved out of the small town of Amityville, New York.
20. A man survived in a sunken ship for nearly three days 270 feet underwater, in pitch darkness, while listening to fish eat the corpses of his shipmates.
Samhain Trivia: 20 facts about the beautiful Celtic celebration!
Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the “darker half” of the year. Traditionally, it is celebrated from 31 October to 1 November, as the Celtic day began and ended at sunset.
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