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Really trivial trivia
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According to the History Channel, there are 221,184 ways you can order a Whopper from Burger King

The Abby Road album was released on September 26, 1969. Although it was released before Let it Be, their last, it was actually the last to be recorded. The Let it Be tracks were produced by Phil Spectre with previously recorded sessions

On December 21, 2401 a northern hemisphere total lunar eclipse occurs on winter solstice, 1st since 1638

March 22, 2233 Star Trek’s Captain "James Tiberius Kirk” born.

In 4389 Comet Hale-Bopp will appear again, last seen in 1997

Sealed government documents surrounding JFK’s assassination are to be released in 2017

By 2019, super computers should exceed 1 “Exaflop”, 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations a second.

The American football field which is 360 x 160 feet has an area of 8,294,400 square inches

For the1980 “The Blues Brothers,” the infamous "Bluesmobile" is a 1974 Dodge Monaco. The vehicles used in the film were used police cars purchased from the California Highway Patrol (mocked up to look like Mt. Prospect, Illinois patrol cars), and featured the "cop tires, cop suspension and cop motor - a 440 cubic-inch plant" mentioned by Elwood in the film. A total of 12 Bluesmobiles were used in the movie, including one that was built just so it could fall apart.

If you were to stack all the tortillas that Taco Bell sells in a year, you would have a stack 3,500 miles high

There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess

There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations on a “Rubik’s Cube”

On October 22, 2009 Burger King Japan introduced the Whopper 7 to support the release of Windows 7 The Windows 7 Whopper costs ¥777 ($8.50), and was 5-inches tall

The Big Mac first debuted at Delligatti's resturant in south-east suburban Uniontown, PA in 1967 at a selling price of 45 cents. It was designed to compete with the similar Big Boy sandwich. The sandwich was so popular that it was added to the menu of all U.S. McD restaurants in 1968. One of its most distinctive features is a middle slice of bread ("club" layer) used to stabilize contents and prevent spillage