Netflix loves to guess whether or not you’ll like a movie based on how much you like movies that you’ve already seen. This is called their “recommendation engine.” Know what the most difficult movie for them to predict your reaction to is?

Napoleon Dynamite.

Other difficult-to-predict flix: I Heart Huckabees, Lost in Translation, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Kill Bill: Volume 1, and Sideways. (I’d love to see the complete 25-most-difficult list referenced in the Times.)

A few months ago, I had the brilliant idea of doing a weekly series on Seattlest wherein I’d come up with 7 trivial facts about a local institution.

A week or so later, I realized that “weekly” was an optimistic target. It’s been more like monthly, though I’d like to get to every-other-week status.

Yesterday’s column was on seminal ’80s romance Say Anything…, the first film I remember noticing was set in Seattle. One commenter said it read like the IMDb trivia section, which is only aggravating because at least half the stuff doesn’t show up there. It’s also amusing because it’s not like there’s a huge, undiscovered trove of trivia about a movie like Say Anything…. Those articles are compilations of stuff that’s mentioned elsewhere, streamlined into vaguely bullet-pointed form. (Some “facts” themselves contain 7 subfacts. It’s a hall of mirrors.)

Beef up your conversations at Seattle parties with the other articles in the series: the Cinerama, the Lusty Lady, the Henry, and Dick’s Drive-In.

Most of Andy Warhol’s portraits of Marilyn Monroe were based off of one photograph: a publicity still for the 1953 movie Niagara, shot by Gene Korman.

The opening credits for most Woody Allen films are white type on a black background, set in Windsor — perhaps EF Windsor Elongated, perhaps EF Windsor Light Condensed.

Annie Hall introduced the typeface. Interiors moved to a different one, but Manhattan brought it back and Woody’s used the same typeface ever since.

For whatever reason, it took some casual reading about Seattle trivia king L.M. Boyd and a subscription to Mental Floss to spur the idea of a recurring trivia column on Seattlest. But it did. And the idea is spurred.

I’ve kicked off what will (hopefully) be a weekly post, “7 Astounding Yet True Facts About…” with a post on Dick’s Drive-In.

If’ you’re curious about other Seattle institutions, lemme know and I’ll slot ‘em in.