Jason Voorhees, from Friday the 13th, appears in Super Mario Bros!
The famed killer can be seen for a little bit in 'Super Mario Land 2'! If you visit the Halloween themed world, you can see a little Jason Voorhees waddling towards Mario! He even has a cute little knife coming out of his mask body! See for yourself! Do you know of any other interesting videogame cameos? Let us know in the comments!
On Facebook, users average a separation of only 3.74 people!
Updating the theory thought by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by the “6 degrees from Kevin Bacon theory,” that there is a separation of 6 degrees between any two people in the world, Facebook data scientist Lars Backstrom discovered the separation is almost half as small!
After scanning through Facebook's 721 million users and excluding celebrity/miscellaneous fan pages, Backstrom was able to come up with 3.74 people. 99.6% of all random user pairs were connected by 5 people while 92% were connected by 4 people. To read more on the math of separation, click the source below!
Chameleons do NOT change colors to blend with their surroundings!
That chameleons change colors to disguise themselves is a common misconception. Scientists believe that the real reason for color changing is to communicate with other chameleons and express their mood, like a reptilian mood ring! If the color happens to match the background, it's completely coincidental.
The also speculate that another changing colors could be advantageous is that it lets them adjust to various temperatures and light situations. For example, if the chameleon is cold, it will change to a darker color to absorb more light!
The song 'Pumped Up Kicks' is about school shootings!
The song has drawn much criticism, because many think the song's message is that violence is OK. However, "Foster the People" the band that performs the song said the song's purpose is to start a conversation between parents and kids on gun violence! The song was written and recorded in five hours while leader Mark Foster was working as a commercial jingle writer. Many people also believe the song to be about the Westroads Mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska because the lyrics name the shooter as Robert which is also the name of the Westroads Mall shooter. However, these allegations were "just a coincidence," according to the band. For more info on the song, click the source
Starbucks recalled an ad because it reminded people of the September 11th, 2001 attacks
Some people believe that they would not have made the connection to 9/11 if the slogan on the poster did not use the word ‘collapse’.
