Like all good news outlets, Radar's online appendage has a handy news ticker. But, because Radar is irreverent (!), the ticker doesn't display news so much as random facts that might interest you. Below is a sampling of these informative blurbs plus Gawker's own scientific carbon-dating analysis:

· Parker Posey was Sherry Stringfield's roommate in college
Date of relevance: 1996
· Moby was rejected by his sixth-grade choir
Date of relevance: 1999
· Real name of the Professor on "Gilligan's Island:" Roy Hinkley
Date of relevance: 1964
· Only one Ernest movie went straight to video: "Slam Dunk Ernest"
Date of relevance: 1995
· "Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives." - Marilyn Monroe
Date of relevance: 1955
· Rickets is caused by deficiency of Vitamin D
Date of relevance: Now! Take your One-a-Day!

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