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Welcome to The Love Trope: Bonus Voyage! This is Sharon Manovich’s never-to-be-published lifestyle blog. Here, “The Love Trope” host Sharon will share her latest thoughts, advice, and recommendations for living your best life when you’re intergalactically hijacked and doomed to finish your days on a decaying planet.

Random (Earth) History Facts That I Can’t Forget That Serve No Purpose Because I’ve Been Abducted by Aliens and Will Never Return to Earth

Curated by Sharon Manovich

You know how some people have random facts that live, as the kids say, “rent-free” in their heads? When you’re any sort of resident on Earth, sometimes these factoids lingering in your cold noodle come in handy. Maybe for a random social media post that could go viral. Perhaps for a Tinder date dying to hear everything you know. (Just kidding—it’s the Uber driver you chat with after the Tinder date.)

But when you get abducted from Earth by aliens, miraculously escape, and are now unwillingly stuck on an abandoned …