Category Archives: Music

Jun 28 2016
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Entertainment, Music

Fact #1133: The reason the Top 40 is specifically forty singles is because standard jukebox machines used to hold 40 songs.

Source: http://top40.about.com/od/popmusic101/a/top40.htm

 

Jun 16 2016
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Entertainment, Music, Places

Fact #1125: Metallica performed in Antarctica just to break a record and be the first musical act to perform on all 7 continents.

Source: http://www.gigwise.com/news/94018/Metallica-added-to-Guinness-World-Records-after-Antarctica-show

Apr 29 2016
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Music

Fact #1090: Before the smartphone app, Shazam was a call service that let users dial 2580 to send 30 seconds of a song over the phone, and receive the name of the song via text message. The number still works today.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_(service)#Early_days_of_the_service

Jan 13 2016
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Music, Natural World

Fact #1015: The Weather Channel released its own Smooth Jazz CD in 2007.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_on_the_8s#Music

Dec 29 2015
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Health, Music

Fact #1005: ‘Annie’, from the Michael Jackson song ‘Smooth Criminal’, is based on the name of the mannequin commonly used in CPR training.

Trainees are taught to say “Annie, are you OK?” to the dummy in order to check that the patient is conscious and responsive.

Source: http://www.feelnumb.com/2015/01/08/what-does-annie-are-you-ok-from-michael-jacksons-smooth-criminal-mean/

Dec 08 2015
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Entertainment, Music

Fact #992: The Simpsons episode guest starring Rob Halford, ‘Steal This Episode,’ mistakenly referred to Judas Priest as death metal. After fans complained, a following episode had Bart chalking “Judas Priest is not death metal” in the introduction.

Source: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/judas-priests-rob-halford-says-appearing-on-the-simpsons-was-the-biggest-thrill-of-his-life/

Oct 07 2015
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Music, People

Fact #949: The song played during Final Jeopardy! is called “Think!” and has earned Merv Griffin $70 million in royalties.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!#Theme_music

Oct 02 2015
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Music

Fact #946: The auditory illusion called Deutsch’s Tritone Paradox involves a specific set of tones being played. Some people hear the pitch going up, while others hear it going down.

Try it!

Source: http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/psychology/play.php?i=6206

Sep 14 2015
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Entertainment, Music, People

Fact #932: 80% of N.W.A.’s Straight outta Compton sales were in the suburbs.

Source: http://www.daveyd.com/nwalatimespt1.html

Apr 28 2015
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Music

Fact #846: There is a genre of music called Black MIDI, named so due to its appearance as a thick, dense, black nest of potentially millions of notes when transcribed to sheet music.

Example of Black MIDI music:

Source: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/

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