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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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During a launch, the solid rocket boosters on the Space Shuttle consumed 11,000 pounds of fuel per second.

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On the U.S. tone and grade designation scale, the number assigned to pencils (No. 2, No. 3, etc.) refer to the hardness of the graphite “lead” in the pencil; the lower the number, the softer the lead.

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According to Pixar, there were a whopping 1,484,437 little toy monkeys spilled out of the Barrel o’ Monkeys in the opening sequence of Toy Story 3.

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The evidence for the efficacy of cranberry juice or extract as a treatment for urinary tract infections (UTIs) is mixed. A large 2012 review of existing studies concluded that there was no evidence of the benefits, and further studies and meta-analysis has found very inconsistent results both in studies and their methodologies.

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The topmost vertebra in the human spine (C1) is called the “atlas” vertebra—a reference to how the skull rests upon it just like the world rests upon the shoulders of Atlas in Greek mythology.

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Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states that “Any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with the word no.”

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A polar bear’s fur is so efficient at retaining body heat that the bears are practically invisible when viewed with infrared cameras and night-vision goggles.

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The esophagi of Giant Squids pass through a hole in their donut-shaped brains before reaching their stomachs.

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In the movie Toy Story, the toolbox used to trap Woody beneath a milk crate is labeled Binford Tools—a nod to the fictional tool company featured in the show Home Improvement, a show headlined by the voice of Buzz Lightyear, Tim Allen.

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The national flag of Chile and the state flag of Texas are so similar they are frequently confused; both feature a single white star and large blocks of red, white, and blue with the only difference being the size of the blue background behind the white star.

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The voice actors behind Mickey and Minnie Mouse throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and most of the 2000s were real-life husband and wife: Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor.

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Thanks to serious conservation efforts and sustainable harvesting programs starting in the 1950s, the United States has enjoyed increasing tree growth ever since.

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Not only did astronomer William Herschel discover Uranus, two of its moons, and two of Saturn’s moons, he was also a talented musician who composed 24 symphonies, many concertos, and even some church music.