User:Shlomif/Comprehensive Directory of Factoids Collections
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Introduction
This aims to be a list of factoid collections about people and things and aims to be as comprehensive as possible. This list in a different format existed in the Chuck Norris facts article, but were deleted. Feel free to add more stuff here.
Batman
Bill Nye
Bob Sanders
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Schneier
Buffy Summers
Fictional protagonist of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series).
Captain Falcon
Captain Falcon from the F-Zero games.
Chuck Norris
Clarissa Darling
Fictional protagonist of Clarissa Explains It All.
Cole Hamels
Dave Green
Cambridge astrophysicist
Don Knuth
Dor Malul
Emma Watson
English actress and model, who rose to fame after having played Hermione on the Harry Potter films.
Jack Bauer
Television series 24 character.
John Resig
Creator of the jQuery library for client-side JavaScript.
Jon Finkel
Professional Magic: The Gathering player
Jon Skeet
- Jon Skeet Facts thread - on StackOverflow.
Kevin Federline
Larry Wall
Linus Torvalds
Michael G. Schwern
Perl programmer.
Michael Phelps
Olympics swimming champion.
Mr. T
National Security Agency
- Shlomi Fish’s “NSA Facts” - CC-by-sa.
Paul Erdős
Ron Paul
Saurfang
High Oveloard Saurfang, World of Warcraft character.
Summer Glau
Hollywood actress.
Taylor Swift
American singer-songwriter.
Tim Tebow
Florida Gators quarterback
Tony Iommi
Black Sabbath guitarist.
Windows Update
Xena, the Warrior Princess
XSLT (XSL Transformations)
- XSLT Facts on www.shlomifish.org - how much XSLT is Evil.
Spoof
This idea has also been spoofed in the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "CNR" (about Charles Nelson Reilly). The video for this song even briefly shows an image of Chuck Norris's head in the background.