Useless Facts
True, sourced and gloriously useless facts about movies, TV, celebrities, nerd culture and internet history, plus free trivia.
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Riker Directed the Borg Movie
Star Trek: First Contact (1996) was Jonathan Frakes’ first feature film as a director.
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YouTube’s First Video Is 19 Seconds of Elephants
The first video uploaded to YouTube, “Me at the zoo,” is a 19-second clip of co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego…
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Newton, Hawking and Data Held the Same Job
Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking and Star Trek’s Data all held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge, Data only in a future…