Calendar Facts
Calendar Facts
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[Shown below is a branching flow chart of sorts that begins at the phrase "Did you know that", then flows through various paths to build up a sentence. (Note that the "→" arrow symbol is used below to indicate a new branch with no intermediate text from a previous branch.)]
Did you know that: the ( Fall | Spring ) Equinox the ( Winter | Summer ) ( Solstice | Olympics ) the ( Earliest | Latest ) ( Sunrise | Sunset ) Daylight ( Saving | Savings ) Time Leap ( Day | Year ) Easter the ( Harvest | Super | Blood ) Moon Toyota Truck Month Shark Week → happens ( earlier | later | at the wrong time ) every year drifts out of sync with the Sun Moon Zodiac ( Gregorian | Mayan | Lunar | iPhone ) Calendar atomic clock in Colorado might ( not happen | happen twice ) this year because of time zone legislation in ( Indiana | Arizona | Russia ) a decree by the pope in the 1500s ( precession | libration | nutation | libation | eccentricity | obliquity ) of the Moon Sun Earth's axis equator prime meridian ( International Date | Mason-Dixon ) Line magnetic field reversal an arbitrary decision by ( Benjamin Franklin | Isaac Newton | FDR ) ? Apparently it causes a predictable increase in car accidents. that's why we have leap seconds. scientists are really worried. it was even more extreme during the Bronze Age. Ice Age. Cretaceous. 1990s. there's a proposal to fix it, but it will never happen. actually makes things worse. is stalled in congress. might be unconstitutional. it's getting worse and no one knows why.

This is the second comic using Facts in the title.
Randall presents what appears to be a generator of 156,000 facts [20 x 13 x (8 + 6 x 7) x 12], about calendars, most of which are false or have little meaning [ citation needed ] . The facts are seeded by a mishmash of common tidbits about the time of year.
The formula for each generated fact goes as follows: "Did you know that [a recurring event] [occurs in an unusual manner] because of [phenomena or political decisions] ? Apparently [wild card statement] ."
This is the fifth time that Randall has referred to the phenomenon of a supermoon , which he typically makes fun of, most prominently in 1394: Superm*n .
The title text continues the chart with supposed real-life consequences of the trivia in the comic.
There are multiple online generators of Calendar 'facts' using this formula here and here .
All 156 000 possible combinations can be found here , lovingly assembled by hand (or rather, by a python script) for your entertainment. A random fact generator (including title text), written in Python, can be found here .
-Calendar Facts-
[Shown below is a branching flow chart of sorts that begins at the phrase "Did you know that", then flows through various paths to build up a sentence. (Note that the "→" arrow symbol is used below to indicate a new branch with no intermediate text from a previous branch.)]
Did you know that: the ( Fall | Spring ) Equinox the ( Winter | Summer ) ( Solstice | Olympics ) the ( Earliest | Latest ) ( Sunrise | Sunset ) Daylight ( Saving | Savings ) Time Leap ( Day | Year ) Easter the ( Harvest | Super | Blood ) Moon Toyota Truck Month Shark Week → happens ( earlier | later | at the wrong time ) every year drifts out of sync with the Sun Moon Zodiac ( Gregorian | Mayan | Lunar | iPhone ) Calendar atomic clock in Colorado might ( not happen | happen twice ) this year because of time zone legislation in ( Indiana | Arizona | Russia ) a decree by the pope in the 1500s ( precession | libration | nutation | libation | eccentricity | obliquity ) of the Moon Sun Earth's axis equator prime meridian ( International Date | Mason-Dixon ) Line magnetic field reversal an arbitrary decision by ( Benjamin Franklin | Isaac Newton | FDR ) ? Apparently it causes a predictable increase in car accidents. that's why we have leap seconds. scientists are really worried. it was even more extreme during the Bronze Age. Ice Age. Cretaceous. 1990s. there's a proposal to fix it, but it will never happen. actually makes things worse. is stalled in congress. might be unconstitutional. it's getting worse and no one knows why.
