20 Trivia Tidbits For Trivia Elitists

Bananas are just berries that grow on a giant herb.

I enjoy this list of odd facts quite a lot. It's probably my favorite list on this site. And yet, I find myself unsatisfied. I have always been an admirer of odd facts and this list is full of them. Some are genuinely strange. Some are quite amusing. But there is something else that bothers me about them, something that I can't quite put my finger on. And so, I decided to write an introduction to the list to try and figure it out. I did this for three reasons. First, to see if there is any commonality amongst the facts on the list that might give me some idea as to what it is that is bothering me. Second, to see if I could find any commonalities at all. And third, to enjoy this list of odd facts even more. 

But let us begin at the beginning. The first fact on the list is the following.

A coma patient woke up for a few hours, and then fell back into their coma.

NY TImes

Actor Frank Farnum was in over 1,000 films.

LA Times

Mickey Rourke had an undefeated boxing record.

OTB Sports

Simon Cowell

NME

A teenager literally sold an organ for an iPhone.

BBC

Ryan Gosling was inspired by the movie ‘First Blood’ to throw knives at his fellow classmates.

Young Hollywood

Sudan still crucifies people.

UN News

Iceland was almost called “Butterland.”

Telegraph

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