What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Fake Messiah]

I was recently reading an old interview with an SF writer, Algis Budrys, where he tells an interesting story that captures how German people acted when they saw Hitler:

My father was transferred into the Lithuanian diplomatic corps after about 1927, and he and my mother were stationed in East Prussia. We always lived in a hostile environment. The only two people that I could talk to intensely day after day were my mother and father; everyone else around me was a German.

Adolf Hitler drove by our house a couple of times, and people went insane. Hordes of German housewives and househusbands, people that I knew, who were all living in the same apartment complex together, were tearing themselves psychically to pieces all over the sidewalk, just watching the man go by. They weren’t simply shouting or clapping their hands or going ‘hooray,’ they were going through an animal frenzy to the point where some of them were having what I guess were epileptic seizures. Others were defecating in our bushes, couldn’t control their bowels. I remember a guy hopping across our lawn with his pants around his knees, tugging desperately at his underpants, trying to get to a bush; and men and women rolling on the ground, writhing, clutching at each other. A hell of a thing to see.

[Fake Messiah]

As of December 2025, only three individuals specifically named in Billy Joel's original "We Didn't Start the Fire" are still alive:

​Chubby Checker
​Bob Dylan
​Bernie Goetz

​Actress Brigitte Bardot was the most recent individual from the song to pass away. While not named individually, members of the Beatles (Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr) and the Beach Boys (Brian Wilson and Mike Love) who were active during the events referenced also remain alive.

[Rev. Rye]

The big reason pigeons get such a bad rap is because of a meningitis outbreak in New York in the 1960s that really needed a scapegoat.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Not all black mold is ‘black mold’.

Boru

[Mister Agenda]

Some molds pose a deadly threat to adventurers.

[Paraselene]

Some snipers chew gum. (Had to look it up because of something said on "Stranger Things")

[Deesse23]

Some snipers chew gum. (Had to look it up because of something said on "Stranger Things")

Simo Häyhä certainly didnt. He kicked ass and chew bubble gum, but unfortunately he was all out of bubblegum

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Some snipers chew gum. (Had to look it up because of something said on "Stranger Things")

Simo Häyhä certainly didnt. He kicked ass and chew bubble gum, but unfortunately he was all out of bubblegum

Ukraine could use some like him. Unfortunately, the supply of Simunas is limited.

It’s said that after the war, he developed a passion for hunting. I bet he was good at it.

Boru

[Paraselene]

The US version didn't make it this obvious like the UK version, which is why I had to look it up. In fact, in the US version it kept showing the contestants going upstairs at the end of the night.

The contestants on The Traitors have never actually slept in the castle overnight. The castle, known as Ardross Castle, is used for filming locations like the round table, dining room, and mission areas, but it is not a hotel and does not offer individual overnight accommodations.

Instead, for all seasons of both the US and UK versions, contestants are driven to a nearby hotel, the Courtyard by Marriott at Inverness Airport, at the end of each day's filming.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

During the filming of The Hustler, Paul Newman, feeling rather jumped up about his nascent pool-playing skills, challenged Jackie Gleason to a game of 8-ball with a $50 bet (equivalent to more than $500 in 1960). Newman broke, then Gleason ran the table.

True to his word, Newman paid his debt the following day. With 5000 pennies.

Boru