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* ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'' is full of this, especially in the "Were You Aware Of It?" segments. Among other things, there's a fifty-first state inhabited by thunderbirds, and hobos tried to conquer the United States during the Great Depression.
** Continued in ''[[More Information Than You Require]]''. Thomas Jefferson got the idea for the Declaration of American Independence from mole-men, air conditioners were invented to make Brooklyn more violent, and [[Jonathan Coulton]] was created in a lab to be the ultimate destroyer of cats. There's a reason the series is called ''[[Complete World Knowledge]]''.
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* Scott Adams of ''[[Dilbert]]'', in his book ''The Joy of Work'', lists several to try out on [[Too Dumb to Live]] co-workers, such as "French is exactly the same as Spanish, except with more words for cheeses."
* [[The Remarkable Millard Fillmore]] claims that Fillmore saved Andrew Jackson from assassination, wrestled with the emperor of Japan, and invented the t-shirt. If you check Amazon you'll see it has a three-star rating, due to complaints that it is "deceptively advertised" as an accurate biography. The cover illustration of Millard Fillmore riding a unicorn is apparently not enough of a clue.
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* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All|Cliff Clavin]] from ''[[Cheers]]'' was chock full of these. It's a [[Self-Demonstrating Article|little known fact that "it's a little known fact" was practically his catchphrase.]]
* Doug from the redecorating reality show ''Trading Spaces'' series did this at least once when they started doing "family" versions of the series involving families with young children. When dealing with fabrics, he asked, with a completely straight face, if the kids had ever seen "a wild nylon".
* ''[[The Kids in The Hall]]'' had the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150127025050/http://www.kithfan.org/work/transcripts/two/facts.html "It's A Fact" Girl], who would not only relate but demonstrate her Little Known Facts.
* [[Saturday Night Live|DeepThoughts]] with [[Jack Handey]] bounced back and forth between this and simple inane musings.
** "If you met two guys on the street named Flippy and Hambone, which one would you think would like dolphins more? You'd guess Flippy, right? Well, you're wrong. It's Hambone."
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