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Jason Fitzpatrick

Jason is How-To Geek's trivia expert, relentlessly poring over research and publications in search of the bizarre to amaze and delight. In tandem with his long tenure as trivia columnist extraordinaire, he's written thousands of articles for How-To Geek on everything from hacking game consoles to fixing Windows annoyances and everything in between.

He's been in love with technology since his earliest memories of writing simple computer programs with his grandfather, but his tech writing career took shape back in 2007 when he joined the Lifehacker team. After cutting his teeth on tech writing at Lifehacker he left as Weekend Editor and transferred over to How-To Geek in 2010. With years of awesome fun and hardware-modding antics at How-To Geek, Jason helped launch How-To Geek's sister site Review Geek in 2017---where he currently oversees the fun, games, and product testing as Editor.

In addition to the long run as a tech writer and editor, Jason spent many years as a college instructor doing his best to teach a generation of English students that there's more to success than putting your pants on one leg at a time and writing five paragraph essays. While his days of steering students towards greatness are behind him, his lifelong desire to delight, entertain, and inform lives on with his work for How-To Geek and Review Geek.

If you're looking for him after hours, he's probably four search queries and twenty obscenities deep in a DIY project or entranced by the limitless exploration possibilities of some open-world game or another. He loves long walks on virtual beaches, playing worker placement board games with inconsequential themes, and spending time with his wife, daughter, and highly opinionated dog Cricket.

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The machine that cooks Pringles potato chips was invented by accomplished sci-fi/fantasy writer and mechanical engineer Gene Wolfe.

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Award-winning rapper Eminem is also a die-hard retro game fan; he’s one of the highest scoring Donkey Kong players in the world.

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The original LP pressing of the Monty Python studio album The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief had no track listings and featured two concentric grooves on the second side of the record so that different comedy material would play depending on where you set the stylus down.

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A “tailor’s ham” is a small and tightly stuffed pillow that resembles a ham. The tool is used when pressing curved areas of clothing such as darts, sleeves, cuffs, collars, or waistlines so that the resulting ironed fabric better follows the natural curves of the body.

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Ethiopia is the only African country that has never been colonized.

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The 5,525 mile border between the United States and Canada has the distinction of being both the longest international border between two countries and the longest non-militarized border.

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“Lanthorn” is an archaic spelling of “lantern” because animal horns that had been scraped thin and flattened were used in place of glass in early lanterns.

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The correct Latin plural of stadium is stadia, but the English pluralization, stadiums, is the one that took hold.

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A meter was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between the Earth’s equator and the North Pole.

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Despite the curved appearance of their backs, camels have straight spines. The humps are not skeletal, but are fatty deposits. By concentrating their fatty tissue in one area, the camels can withstand desert heat better than if the fat was evenly distributed all over their bodies.

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Isaac Newton was a member of the British Parliament from 1689 to 1690 (as a representative of Cambridge University), but a particularly quiet member. Reportedly, he only spoke once during the entire time Parliament was in session, to ask an usher to close a nearby window. He served a second brief term from 1701 to 1702, and was just as quiet again.

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There’s a standard for everything: ironing board cover sizes are standardized and designated by the letters A through E to designate board sizes ranging from 43″x12″ up to 53″x19″.

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Contrary to popular belief, Bliss, the default Windows XP wallpaper, was not digitally manipulated; it was a straight-from-the-camera shot of the hills of Sonoma County, California, captured by photographer Charles O’Rear.