[Media fact 1] In 2015 a man called into C-SPAN and began talking about West Philadelphia, and got all the way through the first two stanzas of the "Fresh Prince" theme song before being cut off
[Media fact 2] The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 was intended to help the USPS be more competitive. The provision for funding in advance health benefits for retirees was added because the Bush White House threatened to veto the bill without it.
[Media fact 3] Sir Patrick Stewart used to regularly fabricate fake news in the newspaper he worked for because he was spending his time practicing theatre with a theatre company during times that conflicted with his work schedule as a journalist.
[Media fact 4] When Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, he bragged about people trusting his site with personal information. He called the users "dumb f*cks" for trusting him.
[Media fact 5] The bird on the Twitter logo is named Larry the Bird, named after Larry Bird of the NBA's Boston Celtics fame
[Media fact 6] In 2005, Facebook hired graffiti artist David Choe to paint murals in their new office space; Choe accepted Facebook shares instead of a small cash payment of several thousand dollars, and when Facebook went public in 2012, his payment for the murals ballooned into a 200 million dollar payoff.
[Media fact 7] The CIA website has a Kids' Zone where kids can play spy based games including an aerial analysis game.
[Media fact 8] A Chinese newspaper was convinced and cited ‘The Onion’ which named the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the Sexiest Man Alive for 2012 without realizing it was a joke.
[Media fact 9] Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich was so obsessive that he regularly sent cards to himself to test how well the postal service was working.
[Media fact 10] Google offered to buy Friendster in 2003 for $30 million. The offer was rejected and is considered to be one of the worst Silicon Valley blunders of all time.
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