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The American $2 bill has been has been legal tender since March 1862. Two dollar bills have been printed most every year, except for a period between August 1966 and April 1976, when they were discontinued.
Before they had their first contact with Europeans in the XVIII century, the Rapa Nui of Easter Island though they were the only people in the entire world, after being completely isolated from everyone else for almost 1,000 years.
Jesus was a zombie.
No, after re-animating he still had an independent mind and magical powers - he was more likely a good-aligned lich. (What was his phylactery?)
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For more than a year and a half the characters of "Dark Shadows" used almost every possible phrase to refer to Barnabas Collins ("He's not alive!" "He's one of the undead." "He walks at night but he ain't alive.") It wasn't until the 410th episode that the word "vampire" was actually used on the show.
The suicide rate in Greece rose by about 35% in the months immediately following the introduction of austerity measures.
Guess what? More Canucklehead facts!
Prostitution is legal in Canada. Buying the services of one is not.
I have heard this results in a lot of strangeness in strip clubs and other adult establishments.
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Hilarious sidenote- I originally typed "syrup club" instead of "strip club".
I would love to go to an establishment that mixed the two.
Glorious....
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On this date in 1959, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit. Integrated circuits are used in virtually all electronic equipment today and have revolutionized the world of electronics.
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I think there are a few in Japan....Hilarious sidenote- I originally typed "syrup club" instead of "strip club".
I would love to go to an establishment that mixed the two.
Or Canada.
One of the organs you can donate is your skin, which can be used to treat severe burns.
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In official Simpsons scripts, Professor Frink's familiar 'Nwag-hoy' and similar nonsense sounds are written as '(Frink Noise)'
Vince Offer (The Shamwow guy, real name Offer Shlomi) is an ex-Scientologist. It is rumoured he wears that microphone to hide partial paralyzation of his face. (Probably Bells Palsy, as that can be temporary.)
During the golden age of piracy on the Spanish Main, it was considered bad luck to know how to swim, as getting on a boat with that skill was said to be tempting fate.
The most successful infiltration and planting of double agents in the US secret service and the government in general was not by the Soviets, or the Chinese, or any other rival nation. It was Scientologists in Operation Snow White. They planted over 5000 agents and infiltrated or stole from 136 government agencies.
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion , while initially written to be published, became more of a series of writer's notes on Middle Earth's backstory, hence why it reads more like a history textbook.
Hollywood prop glass is made of sugar.
Glass is not a liquid, as a famous urban legend once said. Antique windows are thicker on the bottom due to the manufacturing process used at the time. Glass, however, is an anmorphous solid, due to the molecular rearrangement in its solid state not being a crystalline structure.
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Director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro tracked down Joe Pesci after seeing him in The Death Collector (1976) because they felt he was perfect for the role of Joey La Motta in Raging Bull (1980). Before they persuaded him to take the role, Pesci had been on the verge of giving up his faltering acting career.
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The liver is the only human internal organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver.
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The liver is the only human internal organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver.
I wish I'd had this excuse as a kid for why the fried liver & onions on my dinner plate never seemed to disappear.
The liver is the only human internal organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver.I wish I'd had this excuse as a kid for why the fried liver & onions on my dinner plate never seemed to disappear.
Why parents insist on feeding their children liver and onions, I will never know....
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The green hellebore is an perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae native to Central and Western Europe, including England. All parts of the plant are poisonous. Consumption of any part of the plant can lead to severe vomiting and seizures.Its purgative properties meant that it was traditionally used as a folk remedy to treat worms in children and topically to treat lice.
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Why parents insist on feeding their children liver and onions, I will never know....The liver is the only human internal organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver.I wish I'd had this excuse as a kid for why the fried liver & onions on my dinner plate never seemed to disappear.
I LOVE liver and onions. Always have!
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Tigers, though their skulls are slightly smaller than a lion's, have the largest cranial capacity of any of the big cats.
The scale by which pregnancy nausea is measured is called the PUQE-score.
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The movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture was the basis for McDonald's first movie themed Happy Meal.
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The thylacine (Bestiary 3) was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger (because of its striped lower back) or the Tasmanian wolf.
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I LOVE liver and onions. Always have!Why parents insist on feeding their children liver and onions, I will never know....The liver is the only human internal organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver.I wish I'd had this excuse as a kid for why the fried liver & onions on my dinner plate never seemed to disappear.
Amby, hold him down.
I LOVE liver and onions. Always have!
Amby, hold him down.
This made my whole day!
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The seeds of the sandbox tree explode and and can reach speeds of 150 mph over a distance of about 120 feet.
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How about the railroad tree?
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I LOVE liver and onions. Always have!Why parents insist on feeding their children liver and onions, I will never know....The liver is the only human internal organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver.I wish I'd had this excuse as a kid for why the fried liver & onions on my dinner plate never seemed to disappear.
Amby, hold him down.
{steps silently from shadows wearing a cape and looking even more pale than usual} Alas Freehold, you are too late. {bares fangs} For I too now quite enjoy the taste of... braunschweiger.
Edit: Although, now that I think of it, 10% of braunschweiger is bacon, so it's possible that it isn't that liver is edible so much as even the addition of small amounts of bacon is still extremely delicious.
Burt Reynolds attended Florida State University on a football scholarship, but only played in two seasons. He was a star running back. His college football career was ended by a knee injury.
I think the alternate history thread already touched on this. If not, please contribute.
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On this date in 1938, BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
On this date in 1938, BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
God, I love robots.
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On this date in 1963, construction began on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. It was completed on October 18, 1965.
(I always thought it was older than that for some reason)
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And, in honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday:
Once, when asked if Lincoln had a hobby, his wife replied, “Cats.” He brought a few stray kittens into the White House, and once reportedly fed his cat, Tabby, at the table with a golden fork.
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Enver Gjokaj has an identical twin brother, Demir Gjokaj, who works as a real estate analyst.
Vin Diesel has a fraternal twin brother named Paul Vincent. He looks like this.
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The urban legend of Eskimos having 100 different words for snow comes about due to the structure of the Inuit language. Instead of separate descriptive words, describing words is done with prefixes and suffixes. So, while they're essentially saying dry snow, sticky snow, crunchy snow, powdery snow, and so on, they describe snow by sticking descriptive prefixes and suffixes onto the word for snow, making it seem like a singular word. (The German language works like this as well.)
One of the first calculators (The Compotometer) was developed in 1884 by Dorr Eugene Felt. His prototype was made with a macaroni box, rubber bands, staples, and meat skewers. The prototype is in display in the Smithsonian.
Robert Ripley, the man behind Ripley's Believe It Or Not, was a sports cartoonist. Stuck with writer's block one December 18, 1918, he threw together an assortment of strange sports facts and oddities. This feature, named 'Champs and Chumps,' was essentially the first Believe It Or Not article.
Robert Ripley loved to be called a liar, as he took it as a compliment that he found things simply too strange to be believed by the person calling him that.
Stephen Pastis, the cartoonist who makes Pearls Before Swine, collaborated with Bill Watterson just last year. Stephen was floored, commenting that he'd sooner expected to collaborate with Charles Schulz. "And yes, I am aware that Schulz is dead," he was quoted as saying.
The urban legend of carrots improving eyesight comes from British Propaganda during WWII. The British had developed a new radar technology that allowed them to spot German bomber pilots at night. To avoid revealing this technology, but explain why more German bombers were being shot down, they released propaganda urging all soldiers to eat their carrots to improve their vision at night.
Tanks, the mobile armoured battle platforms, were named as such during WWI to hide their real purpose. The name came about as they were shipped in large crates labeled 'tanks.' The name stuck.
God, I love robots.I took a robotics course, once. We even got to program a robotic arm.
Did you use it to CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES?!?!??!?!?!?!
No, you weren't there, oh lover of winter....;)Did you use it to CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES?!?!??!?!?!?!God, I love robots.I took a robotics course, once. We even got to program a robotic arm.
I have taken feats that give me Damage Resistance vs. Robots/10.
According to Nathan Fillion in his appearance on the Nerdist podcast, Neal McDonough was also under consideration for the part of Captain Malcolm Reynolds on Firefly (2002).
Good to know McDonough dodged that bullet.