Cool Stuff Eleven: Did you know?
Oh man, I’m starting to fail at my goal to post daily here. I’m only a couple hours late, though. I’ll forgive myself.
It’s no secret to people who know me that I love useless trivia, and today I want to talk about a few sites related to fun facts, random questions, urban legends and so on.
The first of which is Snopes. Snopes is a collection of alleged urban legends and old wives’ tales — and information about whether or not there’s any truth to them. You can check out the top 25 legends currently circulating most widely, check out a random page, or look up those nagging questions about whether that story your friend told you about the suicide in Wizard of Oz is true, or if there really was cocaine in Coca-Cola.
Next is the website for the column The Straight Dope, which has been “fighting ignorance since 1973″ by answering people’s questions on everything from “Who or what is the Flying Dutchman?” to “Could I survive on nothing by potatoes and milk?” to “How does a touch lamp work?”
Finally, I have a twitter account worth following: qikipedia. It’s the official Twitter of the excellent British TV show “QI” where interesting facts are tweeted.