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Chuck Lorre is responsible for a lot of the best and worst sitcoms on television, and also a lot of the best and worst vanity cards, all of which he archives on his website in case you didn't have time to read them.

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Actual Nobel prize winners hand out the Ig Nobel prizes each year. One person, Andre Geim, has one of each -- one for studying the inherent magnetic properties of frogs and the other for studying the inherent magnetic properties of graphene. Which was which is left as an exercise for the reader.

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K is more common than J, X, Q and Z and less common than the common letters, so it's worth 5.

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Florence Nightingale basically invented modern nursing and also, somewhat unexpectedly, infographics.

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Pura Vida is like the Costa Rican version of Hakuna Matata.

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Rubies are basically just red sapphires with good branding.

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At Google, Marissa Mayer was in charge of Search and then Maps. At Yahoo! she was mostly in charge of making the employees RTO.

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Famed conwoman Anna 'Delvey' Sorokin had her electronic monitoring bracelet bedazzled to appear on DWTS this season. She was apparently better than a lot of the other dancers but unlike some other voters, DWTS fans weren't willing to vote for a con artist and she was sent home.

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Romeo and Juliet is probably one of the most adapted and performed works in the history of the world. It's worth noting that it was already an adaptation -- Shakespeare borrowed liberally from earlier works in creating it.

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(Like or comment if you know it but please don't give the answer away. I'll post it Monday.)

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Jacquilynne
@jacquilynne.bsky.social
Mostly trivia. Occasionally PWHL.
33 followers23 following572 posts