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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Apr 2, 2023 12:35:05 GMT -5
We all know that frankthetriviaman has knowledge of trivia facts both mainstream and obscure - but how did he gain all the information that he has stored in his memory banks? In this thread, we shall rattle off all the nooks and crannies that he gleaned the wisdom of centuries from, including books, websites, films, and random scroll locked away in hard-to-reach islands called Ordos. Exhibit 1: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia Of course everyone knows that Wikipedia is a treasure trove of all things knowable, but leave it to Frank to go the extra step and actually read through ever single source at the bottom of the pages. We'll do our best to include some of those sources here, but at this point they number the millions and I'll be shocked if us mortals make it to the thousands in this thread. Further proof that Frank is God at any rate! Exhibit 2: The Hive and the Honey-Bee by L. L. Langstroth et al This insanely valuable and utterly massive 1000+ page book on frickin' beekeeping has had more than 40 editions released since its first publication in 1853, with editors always striving to include the most up-to-date information about the way of the bee through the years. Frank has read them all. I checked this book out from my local library once and I couldn't even get past page 2. How does he do it??
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Post by Toz76 on Apr 2, 2023 17:11:46 GMT -5
Exhibit 3: The public library
Frank acquired a library card at the age of seven and had read every book in his local library by the age of nine. By the age of eleven, he had read every book in the tri-state area, breaking into people's homes at night to read their annotated bibles and biographies of reality show people.
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Apr 2, 2023 19:51:53 GMT -5
Exhibit 4: The Simon Necronomicon During his rebellious teen years, Frank attempted to turn to the dark side by reading the Simon Necronomicon, where he gained a lot of information on evil spells that he attempted to use in real life. Unfortunately none of them worked (and a lawsuit against "Simon" is currently pending for peddling falsified information), but it did inspire a lot of the spells we've seen in 3WSR (although Toz, being far more evil than Frank, stole the spells and actually made them work in real life... send help).
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Post by frankthetriviaman on Apr 2, 2023 20:00:06 GMT -5
Exhibit 5: The Complete Guide to Understanding the Toze by Dr. Randall Masters
The ultimate, comprehensive guide to understanding the mysterious, unknown seven dimensional energy known as Toze, Frank read this book supposedly because he had been exposed to the stuff in an experiment gone wrong.
As well written as the book is, Frank has doubts about its validity because it hit him like a ton of bricks when he realized โhow can Toze be mysterious and unknown when there is a whole book about it?โ
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Post by Toz76 on Apr 2, 2023 20:22:42 GMT -5
Exhibit 10: The Importance of Base Six
From a young age, Frank has been a passionate defender of the use of base six instead of base 10. According to him, using base 6 has made his brain work 153 times faster and allows him to retain more facts than the average human. When Frank graduated high school at the age of 30, in the year 13152, he did his senior project on completely converting the tri-state area to base six.
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Post by frankthetriviaman on Apr 29, 2023 13:27:25 GMT -5
Exhibit 11: How to Write a Book that sounds Totally Convincing to Other People but is in Fact Complete and Utter Bullsh*t By Ima Liare Frank's pursuit of knowledge is in a way, also a pursuit of the truth. But to find the truth, one must make sure he has surrounded himself with people he can trust. This book is filled with psychological tricks that can make you sound convincing even though you're spewing utter nonsense. As such, Frank has used this knowledge to write a small series of books to see who can figure out that they are BS and who falls for them hook line and sinker. In an effort to protect the integrity of this plan, exhibits 6-9 have been censored, otherwise his elaborate scheme will fall apart. Then again, this could be BS, eh
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Post by Toz76 on Apr 30, 2023 16:07:18 GMT -5
Exhibit 12: Goodnight Moon
What? The books Frank was read as a child absolutely count as a source of knowledge!
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 19, 2023 21:35:36 GMT -5
Exhibit 13: Guinness Book of World Records
Frank may not be much of a beer drinker, but he sure does enjoy that one beer company's book of records. For many years he collected the editions of the book, until the time came to move on and he donated them to the local library. Now, he searches the web whenever he wants to know what holds the current record for what
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Post by Toz76 on May 19, 2023 22:55:23 GMT -5
Exhibit 14: Word on the street
Frank is friendly with all the people on his block, and always takes the time to listen to the wisdom of the local homeless men and struggling bodega owner to gain the knowledge they learned the hard way.
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Post by frankthetriviaman on May 29, 2023 20:30:41 GMT -5
Exhibit 15: Yellow River by I.P. Daily
a book on the second longest river in China, it contains many facts and lots of information about this geographical feature that the everyday person would not really consider common knowledge. A well written book, it is only unfortunate that the author chose the worst pseudonym possible for the title
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Post by Biblically Accurate Angel on Jun 21, 2023 15:54:37 GMT -5
Exhibit 16: Bronze, Blood and Bone: The Rise and Fall of the Church of the Horned One by Tiberia "Terminally Online Zero" Siebensechs
A masterpiece of literature, Bronze, Blood and Bone was completed in the year 2069, after which its author collapsed of exhaustion. Unfortunately for her, Frank had already read the entire thing back in 2022, before she had even written it. Now why didn't she just go to Frank???
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Post by frankthetriviaman on Jun 25, 2023 12:16:46 GMT -5
Exhibit 17:
The Introvertโs Guide to Understanding the World Around You by A bunch of Compassionate Extroverts
Due in part to being on the spectrum Frank has trouble making friends. At least this book helps him understand how things work otherwise heโd sound like an idiot in everyday life
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