Template:didyouknow

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A soon-to-be randomized template for the soon-to-be Main Page. This should have 60-80 facts, ideally. Currently at 51.

• Homestar Runner gained a half-open mouth animation frame, despite Matt Chapman saying it wasn't necessary at 12 frames per second.
• Strong Bad and Strong Mad, and their original role as tag team wrestlers, came from the 1986 Nintendo video game Tag Team Wrestling, in which one of the teams is called "The Strong Bads".
• Strong Bad has more appearances than Senor Cardgage, Homsar, The Poopsmith, Pom Pom, and The King of Town combined.
• At his fastest, Strong Bad types, on average, approximately 240 words per minute (in a segment in death metal).
• Matt Chapman has said that Strong Sad is the most difficult main character to voice due to how delicate he sounds, leading to Mike substituting for Strong Sad's one word in cheat talk.
• Strong Sad was originally going to sound like Michael Stipe, but this idea was quickly rejected.
• Strong Sad claims to have "minored in holding on wide shots for too long" in film school.
• Strong Sad only has three ribs.
• Pom Pom's "voice" is a re-used sample of Mike Chapman blowing bubbles into a glass of milk, making his the only voice that is never recorded fresh for every toon.
• Pom Pom is the only main character never to have said anything understandable as an English word.
• Pom Pom is the only main character whose parents (General and Fraulein Pom Pom) have been seen in the body of work.
• The Old Characters Page said that the King of Town was Marzipan's father. However, this idea has since been abandoned.
• Marzipan is named after marzipan, a confectionery consisting primarily of ground almonds and sugar.
• Marzipan is apparently allergic to pecans.
• Marzipan has a cousin named Debra whom Strong Bad said he considered hot.
• Marzipan has a sister, according to Homestar Runner.
• Marzipan has apparently had questionable surgery to have her nose removed.
• Marzipan's latest stepfather as of A Death-Defying Decemberween is named Seth, and works in a philosophy department.
• Coach Z's accent came from a depressing Midwestern voice that Matt Chapman and some friends would do in college.
• Coach Z is named after Craig Zobel (as revealed in the Wonkavision interview).
• On Coach Z's emblem, the darker blue shine streak under the gold Z makes a backwards Z formation.
• According to the Old Characters Page, Coach Z wasn't much of a coach at the time, and he just added the title because it sounded "cooler than just Z".
• Bubs is based on a person the Brothers Chaps knew growing up who worked at a concession stand locally and spoke with the same gravelly voice.
• Matt Chapman has admitted that Bubs's voice was heavily borrowed from the voice of Redd Foxx (of Sanford and Son fame).
• Mike Chapman once noted that it is difficult to animate Bubs's elbows, leading to his lack of elbows in later toons.
• The King of Town wears a pickelhaube in Ever and More, similar to his Old-Timey counterpart.
• The King of Town is shown to possess either powers of teleportation or skills as a ninja, as he can appear and disappear in a puff of smoke.
• The Poopsmith, in his voiced appearances, is voiced by John Linnell of They Might Be Giants.
• Homsar is the only main character with no Old-Timey or Dangeresque counterpart.
• Homsar's coloring is similar to that of the unused character Homeschool Winner.
• Strong Bad's username on Tabletop Simulator, which he has used to virtually play Trogdor!! The Board Game, is cardgagefan73.
• Senor Cardgage's weird shrub was originally going to be named Strongberg.
• The blurred-out writing on Olympic Man's shirt says "hiphop man" in Teen Girl Squad Issue 13.
• Strong Sad's comment about vinegar toast was based on Matt Chapman feeding it to his brother when they were kids.
• One of the two Homestar Runners who appear in Senorial Day is wearing a mustache.
• Typing anything with the word "cheat" in it in Peasant's Quest will result in the response "Meh."
• Strong Bad makes an unintentional haiku in the intro to japanese cartoon.
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2 is the longest cartoon on homestarrunner.com, at 31:09.
• The Trogdor song was added to dragon at the last minute by the Brothers Chaps, after Matt started spontaneously singing it while making breakfast.
• The Brothers Chaps didn't come up with the reveal in Pumpkin Carve-nival that Homestar Runner was Strong Bad in disguise until the toon was almost finished.
• Homsar never actually said his iconic line, "I was raised by a cup of coffee," until an Easter egg in Haunted Photo Booth.
• Abdi LaRue was an early fan of Homestar Runner to whom the Brothers Chaps reached out to send the first Strong Bad Email.
• Fluffy Puffs are a real marshmallow brand in Israel.
• Strong Mad's height varies from 6 ft to 8 ft 3 depending on the source.
• The little girl who appears in The Next April Fools Thing is based on a design for a character named "Folly", seen in Why Come Only One Girl?.
• The Visor Robot was given its name by this wiki. The name was adopted by the Brothers Chaps and used officially in Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2.
• Homestar Runner was going to have two cousins named Preshy and Rafferty in an unfinished cartoon seen in Why Come Only One Girl?.
• Behind the characters' silhouettes in each Halloween teaser is a different hidden message mocking those who try to reveal the costumes with a Flash decompiler.
• Typing the Konami Code on the hint screen of TROGDOR! starts the player off with 30 lives.
• Naked Ned from Peasant's Quest lurks in the artwork of one of the forest tiles in Trogdor!! The Board Game.