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Fact of the Day: The only Walk of Fame star you can't walk on is Muhammad Ali's, whose star adorns the outside wall of the Dolby Theatre after the star was awarded to him in 2002 because he did want the name Muhammad to be stepped on

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Noticed this had some glaring typos so I fixed them All three of the United States' founding documents (the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution) were written and ratified in the same state - Pennsylvania

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Fact of the Day: All three of the United States' founding documents (the Articles of Conversation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution) were written and rarified in the same state - Pennsylvania

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LIVE NOW with some Roguelike Malarkey and maybe Minecraft if we have time at the end before I have to go for D&D <3 twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

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Fact of the Day: The "Chemical X" that was used to make the Powerpuff Girls was originally "A Can of Whoop Ass" when the creator Craig McCracken made the concept while in college in 1992

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Fact of the Day: Ironically, at the time, Ivan the Terrible was called "Terrible" because in the parlance of the time it meant formidable and mighty; given the atrocities he became famous for historically the moniker has remained accurate even as language has changed

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I'm live NOW with more Tiny Rogues, trying to complete our 1000% spreadsheet for Santa before the patch takes him away o7 dunno what we'll do after? twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

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Fact of the Day: Despite some sources incorrectly siting the answer as Sherlock Holmes or Count Dracula, the most frequently occurring fictional character in film is in fact the Devil (with 849 appearances as of March 2012) followed closely by Santa Clause with 819

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Fact of the Day: The trope of explosive red barrels in videogames can be first traced back to Capcom's 1986 Japanese arcade game "The Speed Rumbler" in which they can be used by the guns on your car to explode multiple enemies at a time, a common videogame mechanic even now almost 40 years later

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Fact of the Day: The Pentagon, inside its over 6.6 million square foot floor space as the second largest office building in the world, has some interesting things inside; between its five courts its houses a fully functioning Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, McDonald's, KFC, Taco Bell and other fast food

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Fact of the Day: While most caterpillars are herbivores, a few species hunt live prey; this includes Hawaii's Hyposmocoma molluscivora which create traps with silk similarly to a spider web to trap and slowly consume snails by crawling into the shells and eating their way out

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Fact of the Day: In 2003, Madonna signed a contract with Callaway Arts & Entertainment, and since then has released seven picture books and twelve chapter books in the years since

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With it again being Christmas time in Tiny Rogues, it's time for my Not So Tiny Return to Tiny Rogues Live now! twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

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Fact of the Day: Nick Castle, the actor who played "The Shape" in the iconic 1978 film Halloween, adopted a cat in 2019 from a pound and named it "Michael MEOWers" in homage to the character

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Shockingly, the company that stopped using their old moto of "Don't be evil" is now in fact doubling down on being evil

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Fact of the Day: In 2007, French engineer Pascal Cotte found evidence using special a series of high zoom and quality photographs that the Mona Lisa previously had both eyelashes and eyebrows that are posited to have been accidentally cleaned away

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Fact of the Day: From 1912's Stockholm Olympic Games until 1948's London games the Olympics featured the "The Pentathlon of the Muses" as part of the vision of the modern Olympiad's founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1/2)

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Intentionally waited a few days in case we dropped below it but thanks for 200 followers here on BlueSky! :D <3

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Fact of the Day: The world's second largest reef (after the Great Barrier Reef) is the Mesoamerican Reef System (also known as the Great Mayan Reef) which clocks in just shy of 1,000km in length and stretches along the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras

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Fact of the Day: Jørn Utzon, designer of the Sydney Opera House, stated his intentions with the building's iconic design after it began construction in 1959 that it was not inspired by a yacht's sails as many believed but instead slices of an orange which could come together to form a full sphere

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Fact of the Day: Chris Evan's character in Scott Pilgrim Versus the World responding to a self admitted "big fan" by saying "Why wouldn't you be" was the real response the movie's director Edgar Wright got meeting his idol, Pelle Almqvist of The Hives

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Fact of the Day: Horses physically cannot breath through their mouths due to the placement of their soft plates so it can protect their lungs from accidental choking

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Fact of the Day: In 300 BC, Roman censor Appius Claudius Caecus removed the letter Z from the Latin alphabet with two different explanations given; the mainly believed reason at the time was him claiming saying it made one "resemble a grinning skull" (1/2)

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LIVE NOW with the Minecraftness over on the purple place with @diotior.bsky.social <3 twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

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Fact of the Day: While "Fahrrad" is the word used in modern German for the word "bicycle", the original colloquialism for bikes when they first came into popularity was "Drahtesel" which literally meant "wire donkey"

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Fact of the Day: Despite its name as the "Isle of Dogs", the Isle of Dogs is in fact a peninsula in the River Thames and the reason as to which it is called an island differ from source to source

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Fact of the Day: As media has surprisingly accurately portrayed, some pirates did in fact have exotic pets like parrots and monkeys because such exotic pets were plundered goods or the pirates would be paid to transport them and would grow attached and keep them

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Fact of the Day: In Metal Gear Solid 2, which released in 2001, there is a bucket of ice you can shoot and knock over that if you wait long enough you can watch the ice cubes slowly melt in real time

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Fact of the Day: While it's common to mix up venomous (toxic if bitten by it) and poisonous (toxic if you bite it), a select few snake species are both poisonous and venomous such as the Rhabdophis keelback and the Wild Western Hognose

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Fact of the Day: The oldest nation's flag currently in use is the flag of Denmark, called the Dannenbrog or Danish Cloth, which has been in use continually since 1625 though its origin and creation traces all the way back to 1219

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Please share this to as many as you can! If you see ICE please report them here: juntosseguros.com This will allow others to see areas to avoid!

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Fact of the Day: The word Moose comes from the indigenous Algonquin word "Moosewa" which can mean various things roughly equating to "twig eater" or "stripper of bark" because they struggle to bend down and eat grass despite being herbivores

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Fact of the Day: Adam Savage of the Mythbusters got his start in Hollywood by voicing Heathcliff in his father's (Whitney Lee Savage) segments on Sesame Street called "He, She, and It" from 1978-1980

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Fact of the Day: While Charles Darwin is primarily known for his study of finches, while aboard the Beagle he also discovered a species of dark grey fox in Chile that was watching the boat in 1834 though it wasn't verified as a distinct species of its own until genetic analysis in 1990

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The hiatus is over, I have returned twitch.tv/itstripleagaming

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Fact of the Day: Winning a Nobel Peace Prize awards the recipient, in addition to the 24 karat gold medal, 11,000,000 kr (Swedish Krona) or just under $1 million USD

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Fact of the Day: The country of Greenland doesn't have a national railway or road system despite its 2.16 million square mile size; as such boats are the primary mode of transportation for locals

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At long last, I have working Internet again. Which means I'll be be doing a test stream on Sunday and returning to daily YouTube uploads on Sunday the 26th. It'll take some time to get back into the swing of showcasing at least 3 games a week and kicking ass in Roguelikes (1/2)

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Fact of the Day: Exactly two countries in the world are Double Landlocked Countries, meaning they are landlocked countries surrounded entirely by landlocked countries: Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein

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Fact of the Day: Specific species of moth like the Clicking Tiger Moth (Bertholdia trigona) use a unique noise they can make to jam the echolocation of their primary predator - bats

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Mom: "Who do you think was the worst president in history?" Me: "Oh absolutely Andrew Johnson" Mom: "Oh I don't even remember him being President* Me: "...He was a president from the 1800s"

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Fact of the Day: Iconic American folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel originally went by the names Tom and Jerry from 1956 until 1958, after the cartoon cat and mouse duo which debuted in 1940

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Fact of the Day: The first FIFA World Cup took play in Uruguay in 1930 from July 13th-30th with Uruguay's team reigning victorious and notably Brazil being the only country to compete in every world cup since the inaugural

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