12 Bits of Trivia That Saw You From Across the Bar and Really Dug Your Vibe

El Apóstol was a 70-minute political satire made by two Italian immigrants in Argentina, about the Argentinian president going to Mount Olympus to schmooze with the gods. It was destroyed in a fire in 1937, which probably explains why you’ve never seen it.

They wanted to use her song “Friends,” but the rights were too expensive. They went with a cover of a song by soft rock legend Andrew Gold instead, which has proven to be a multigenerational earworm.

Besides inventing one of the most successful cookie brands of all time, Wally Amos discovered Simon & Garfunkel, represented The Temptations and Marvin Gaye, and made appearances on The Jeffersons, Taxi and The Office.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pro baseball and football players had to supplement their seasonal income with other temporary gigs. If they had the talent, they’d go full vaudeville. If all they had was name recognition, they’d do something weirder, like wrestle alligators. 

In a 1985 Tampax commercial, while putting on a veritable Halloween costume of an 1980s exercise outfit, Cox asks, “Does your life change once a month because of your period?”

Because they knew you were going to sit on your phone hundreds of times, they stuffed an ass robot in some jeans to run durability tests on their products.

In 2015, a dude popped off some shots at an armadillo with his .38 revolver, and one of them apparently ricocheted off its armor and hit him in the jaw. He had to be airlifted to a hospital to get the whole mess taken care of. Meanwhile, they never found the armadillo, so it’s presumably lying in wait, planning its revenge.

In 2008, Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan filed suit against Nolan, saying, “There is only one Batman in the world. The American producers used the name of our city without informing us." The area was suffering a high suicide rate among women, and tons of unsolved murders, all of which the mayor blamed on the international attention attracted by The Dark Knight.

Gaddafi published his political philosophy in what he called the Green Book in 1975. Two years later, he tweaked the national flag to subtly evoke his Green Book, by making it just one big green block.

Examples include “good blood bad blood,” fingerspelling the word “collaboration” and simultaneously fingerspelling “cat” and “dog” in separate hands.

If you want to grow a beard, you have to first ask permission from your commanding officer. If they give the go-ahead, you have two weeks to prove that you can grow a “full beard” — meaning the beard and mustache connect (and don’t look stupid as hell).

According to a University of Cambridge study of over 300 million facts and events, almost nothing of note happened on April 11, 1954: “A general election was held in Belgium, a Turkish academic was born and an Oldham Athletic footballer called Jack Shufflebotham died.”