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Some "I cant believe that is true!" facts...

Frozen came out the same year Mississippi officially abolished slavery.

When Harvard opened, they didnt have calculus classes because calculus hadnt been invented yet.

Oxford University celebrated its 200th graduating class by the time the Aztec Empire started in Central America.

The last execution by guillotine occured on September 10th 1977. The Atari 2600 was released the very next day.

People walked on the moon before we put wheels on a suitcase.

Betty White and the Ottoman Empire existed at the same time.

The last mammoths lived at the time the pyramids were under construction.

Nintendo was founded when Jack the Ripper was roaming the streets of London.

Women in Switzerland got right to vote in 1971. India already had a woman prime minister then.

The Qing Dynasty of China collapsed in 1912, the same year as the Titanic disaster.

The Titanic maiden voyage happened the same year MDMA was created.

William Shakespear and Pocahontas were alive at the same time.

Pablo Picasso died the same year Pink Floyds Dark Side Of the Moon was released.

The last surviving witness to the Lincoln assassination appeared on the TV game show Ive Got A Secret several weeks before his death in 1954.

Samurai, the fax machine and Abraham Lincoln all existed at the same time.

Victorian England and the Wild West happened at the same time.

Orville Wright of the Wright brothers lived long enough to see Chuck Yaeger break the sound barrier and travel on an airliner that had a wingspan equal to the distance he covered in his first flight (37m).

YugiNoob posted...

Oh, another interesting fact: Chain Chomps were originally created for the Zelda series, but ended up being put in Mario games. Imagine Link fighting a Chain Chomp lol

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1971, February. The Main Ring particle accelerator at the NAL's Meson Laboratory was fresh out of the wrapper, and physicists were keen to start running it through its paces.
This $250 million piece of equipment consisted of a 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) tube along which, they hoped, 1,014 powerful magnets would help steer and accelerate protons to energies up to 200 billion electron volts. The scientific prospects were incredibly exciting.
By late April, things were not looking quite so rosy. Six days after the final magnet was installed, two of the things were found shorted to the ground. This was no trivial matter. Most of the magnets were each around 20 feet long, with a weight of 12.5 tons. It took some time to replace the two magnets But then it happened again. And again. In total, the facility had to replace around 350 magnets.
Eventually, the team traced the problem to one of contamination. Tiny scrap metal shavings had been left in the accelerator. The accelerator tube had the diameter of a tennis ball. This posed a dilly of a pickle: How to get the shaving out? Physicist Ryuji Yamada proposed pulling a magnet through the tubes. Not a bad idea, but who would do the pulling?
British physicist Robert Sheldon hit upon a solution.
"In his part of Yorkshire, hunters used ferrets. Ferrets are weasel-like mammals who enjoy going down tunnels and flushing out rabbits. A ferret would not hesitate to run down the inside of the stainless steel tube, even if that involved a long journey into the unknown."
Furthermore, it would be a sort of green solution to a technical problem, and everybody liked the idea of that.
The Designer of the Main Ring, Wally Pelczarski, who had been tasked with designing a mechanical ferret to clean the tube, contacted the Wild Game and Fur Farm in Gaylord, Minnesota, and asked them for the smallest ferret they had. In exchange for just $35, they sent Felicia. At just 15 inches long, Felicia was a particularly small ferret, just right for the tiny tunnel that needed cleaning.
Felicia was fitted with a diaper to prevent defecation-related particle accelerator mishaps and a leather harness. Then, the researchers trained her to travel through dark tunnels while wearing the harness, which had a strong string attached to it.
She would scamper from one end of the 300-foot sections of the tunnel to the other, receiving a reward of chicken, liver, fish heads, or hamburger meat once she completed a section. An engineer at the end would tie a cleaning-fluid-soaked swab to the string, to be drawn back through the tunnel by humans at the other end to collect detritus.
Apparently, it worked pretty well, and the scientists could clear out the tunnels with a little fuzzy help. Over time, however, their needs exceeded Felicia's capabilities, and engineer Hans Kautzky developed a new solution. He attached Mylar disks to a flexible cable that was pushed through the pipes using compressed air, and Felicia retired after a dozen or so runs.
It also turned out that there were multiple reasons for the magnets' failing, and metal shavings were not the prime culprit.
"The main reason was poor quality control in making joints for the water-cooled copper conductors. The mating surfaces of a butt weld joint were sometimes not completely parallel, and the resulting joint might have a small, wedge-shaped gap. Later, improved welding with an inserted pipe was used."
Felicia remained beloved by the NAL scientists but, alas, would not live long to enjoy her retirement. She passed away in May 1972 from a ruptured abscess on her intestinal tract.

TL;DR Scientists put a diaper on a ferret and let it run in a particle accelerator.

indica posted...

Mexican prisons do not punish you for non-violent attempts to escape.
This is because it is part of human nature to want freedom, and therefore is not seen as a crime. However, factors such as property damage and violence will cause prison guards to practice the necessary punishments.

Pretty much the same in Sweden.

Some facts about Scooby Doo On Zombie Island *may contain spoilers*
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The only reason this movie was made in the first place was because the Scooby Doo property tested well in a survey with mothers.
Some screen writers wanted real monsters, because they were tired of all the fake ones, while others thought it ruined the Scooby Doo formula. The Director compromised by using both fake and real monsters.
This was supposed to be a one-off direct-to-video movie, so it had no studio interference. It sold extremely well and had great reviews, which resulted in another 36 direct-to-video movies over 24 years. It was also the darkest one, with onscreen deaths! The sequels got toned down.
The movie is based on an unfinished SWAT Kats episode.
Frank Welker, Freds voice since the beginning in 1969, was the only old voice.
Hearher North, the second and then current Daphne voice, did a day of recording before being replaced by Mary Kay Bergman.
Don Messick, Scoobys original voice, had retired in 1996 and died in 1997, and was replaced by Scott Innes.
Casey Kasem, Shaggys original voice, was supposed to return. But he had recently gone vegan and demanded that Shaggy should stop eating meat and dairy. Billy West got the role instead. Casey would later return as Shaggy.
B.J. Ward had voiced Velma earlier in that Johnny Bravo episode.
It was the first Scooby Doo production that alludes to a romantic relationship between Fred and Daphne.
It is the only movie not executive produced by Hanna and Barbera prior to their deaths.
They promoted hard that this is the first time that they have met a real monster, but they had med real supernatural monsters at least 5 times before.
Fred is seen eating more than he ever did in the almost 30 years history of the series.
The name of the pirate ship is Maelstrom, a reference to the ship in Pirates of Dark Water.
There is a chance that this movie inspired The Blair Witch Project.

The best estimates currently available suggest that around 208,874 tonnes of gold has been mined throughout history, of which around two-thirds has been mined since 1950.

bigtiggie23 posted...

The last joke Robin Williams did doing standup was an impression of Popeye in a porn movie.

The European version of his Popeye movie was almost 15 minutes shorter.
In the NA version, his search for his father was a big part of the plot.
In the European version, all that is cut and he just appears at the end.

There are a few Judas as well, but I think it was only one Onan.

...so is the Book of Joshua really the Book of Jesus?

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In the 18th Century, physicians saw drowning victims and attempted to de-deadify them by blowing tobacco smoke up their rectums with a pipe. Despite having no medical benefit whatsoever, the practice was popular, and enema kits lined the Thames like lifebelts, ready to be used as one final humiliation for somebody who was crap at swimming.

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Ireland tried to stop us.

No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.

Batman eating a hot dog.

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They should have recycled that gay episode they cancelled before season 2.

Mmmm, 52 slices of American cheese.

You should have seen the fandom when they still produced the TV series, he was bigger than the Beatles.

ToasterStrudeI posted...

Still canon

I need a source on that.

ToasterStrudeI posted...

There was an episode in the animated series that LITERALLY showed him being an alien >_>

The Bean in the animated series is too different to be the same one.
He is more competent, less buffoonish and he talks more in complete sentences.

I dont think he is an ET, just that he is a pretty alien human.

Fucking Pinkertons.