Ed Sheeran bought a ticket to LA with no contacts. He was spotted by Jamie Foxx, who offered him the use of his recording studio and a bed in his Hollywood home for six weeks.
100 Mind-Blowing Recording Facts
A woman called the police when her ice cream didn’t have enough sprinkles. The West Midlands police in England released a recording of a woman who called 999 (the U.K. version of 911) because there were “bits on one side and none on the other,” she says in the recording. She was even more upset when the ice cream truck man did not want to give her money back.
The hottest temperature recorded on Earth was 134 F (56.67 C). The recording was taken in Death Valley, Nevada, in July 1913.
A musician named Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared 6 years after recording an album called “U.F.O.“ The 1969 album featured strange lyrics about leaving his family and being abducted by aliens. Sullivan disappeared six years later with only his abandoned car found on a desert road in New Mexico as evidence.
A U.K. woman has called 911 because of ice cream. The West Midlands police in England once released a recording of a woman who dialled 999 (the U.K. equivalent of 911) because her ice cream didn’t have enough sprinkles.
The voice of the Exorcist demon ate raw eggs, chain-smoked, and had herself tied to a chair during recordings. Mercedes McCambridge fully committed to her role as Pazuzu’s voice in the 70’s horror classic, The Exorcist. Before recording her vocals, she chugged raw eggs, chain-smoked and drank whiskey to make her voice harsher than normal. One of the most shocking funny facts: During the recordings, she had herself bound to a chair. After all of that dedication, she insisted not to have her voice credited in the film!
The movie’s success led to the establishment of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Spielberg used a portion of his proceeds from “Schindler’s List” to establish this foundation, dedicated to recording and preserving the testimonies of survivors and witnesses.
Amazon Alexa stores your conversations with the device. By now, millions of households feature an Amazon Echo device or other Amazon smart devices based on Alexa. These smart assistants provide convenience and functionality in countless ways. Not everyone realizes these devices store conversations with the device in the cloud, though. After each interaction, Amazon stores these conversations in the cloud indefinitely. An Echo device doesn’t record every conversation in the Ether. Each Echo relies on a wake word, like “Alexa”, to start recording conversations. Only the commands spoken to the device are stored by Amazon and are used purely to make the AI better. Users can and should delete these conversations in their device settings from time to time. Doing so provides added security and protection from data hackers.
The Number of Malware Attacks is Still Increasing. In a recent 2022 report by SonicWall, the number of virus and malware attacks expanded by 2% in 2022, recording 5.55 billion attacks.