(noun)
VEE-
guh-
doe
vee-GO-toe (
Italian inflection)
Any interesting fact or piece of trivia that is well-known among a demographic, and which newcomers use to impress their new friends (who have already heard the fact many times before).
Alternatively, the fact may be told TO the uninitiated, in an attempt to impress or bore them.
Derives from "Viggo's Toe", an incident where Viggo Mortensen (playing Aragorn in The Two Towers) went off-script and screamed in genuine
pain, because he had actually broken his toe while kicking a deceptively
heavy helmet. This fact, while interesting, is one of the most famous "behind-the-scenes" bits of trivia across the entire Lord Of The Rings fandom.