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Did you know that some palontologists now believe that the Chicxulub asteroid impact wasn't the only thing that killed the Dinosaurs.

Around 65,000,000 years ago the supercontinent Panga was in the verge of violently breaking up. Not only was it causing massive earthquakes but it was also causing massive supervolcanoes.

Now those supervolcanoes were releasing massive amounts of soot and ash high into the atmosphere which in turn was blotting out the sun causing temperature drops. It was also causing acid rain.

Now that acid rain was poisoning the ground and plants which were poisoning the herbivorous Dinosaurs which were being eaten by the carnivorous Dinosaurs poisoning them.

Then the asteroid smashed into Earth.

So they were already on their way out before the asteroid hit so that was just the final nail in the coffin for them.

After the impact there were survivors of course. But like I said the plant eating Dinosaurs were being killed by the poisonous plants and the meat eaters from eating the dead bodies of the Dinosaurs and then the final few basically starved to death when the food ran out.

CassandraCroft posted...

Did you know that some palontologists now believe that the Chicxulub asteroid impact wasn't the only thing that killed the Dinosaurs.

Around 65,000,000 years ago the supercontinent Panga was in the verge of violently breaking up. Not only was it causing massive earthquakes but it was also causing massive supervolcanoes.

Now those supervolcanoes were releasing massive amounts of soot and ash high into the atmosphere which in turn was blotting out the sun causing temperature drops. It was also causing acid rain.

Now that acid rain was poisoning the ground and plants which were poisoning the herbivorous Dinosaurs which were being eaten by the carnivorous Dinosaurs poisoning them.

Then the asteroid smashed into Earth.

So they were already on their way out before the asteroid hit so that was just the final nail in the coffin for them.

After the impact there were survivors of course. But like I said the plant eating Dinosaurs were being killed by the poisonous plants and the meat eaters from eating the dead bodies of the Dinosaurs and then the final few basically starved to death when the food ran out.

Have to imagine that we'll see similar events 100 million years from now when the next super continent forms.

CassandraCroft posted...

Did you know that some palontologists now believe that the Chicxulub asteroid impact wasn't the only thing that killed the Dinosaurs.

Around 65,000,000 years ago the supercontinent Panga was in the verge of violently breaking up. Not only was it causing massive earthquakes but it was also causing massive supervolcanoes.

Now those supervolcanoes were releasing massive amounts of soot and ash high into the atmosphere which in turn was blotting out the sun causing temperature drops. It was also causing acid rain.

Now that acid rain was poisoning the ground and plants which were poisoning the herbivorous Dinosaurs which were being eaten by the carnivorous Dinosaurs poisoning them.

Then the asteroid smashed into Earth.

So they were already on their way out before the asteroid hit so that was just the final nail in the coffin for them.

After the impact there were survivors of course. But like I said the plant eating Dinosaurs were being killed by the poisonous plants and the meat eaters from eating the dead bodies of the Dinosaurs and then the final few basically starved to death when the food ran out.

Not sure where you got this information but Pangaea broke up over 100 million years before the extinction event.

I heard once that the proliferation of pathological organisms brought on by the abundance of dino shit had a large part in the extinction. Think of that scene in Jurassic Park where they find the humongous pile of shit. Now, imagine the landscape strewn with thousands of such piles of excrement literally everywhere.

Imit8m3 posted...

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Some last eternity if you die from alcohol poisioning.

Imit8m3 posted...

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Assuming Imperial pints, that is1252.91 American ounces. That is a little over 100 cans. Thats some hardcore Andre The Giant drinking there.

I think a pint here is 16.9 ounces for water and 16 for beer.

A "Standard" drink here is 12 ounces.

MI4_REAL posted...

I think a pint here is 16.9 ounces for water and 16 for beer.

A "pint" of beer could be either 16 or 16.9 ounces. The latter for imports, usually.

The worlds most successful pirate was a woman.
She was a 19th-century Chinese pirate known as Ching Shih. She was the widow of Cheng I and easily succeeded her husbands crew of over 1,800 ships and 80,000 men.

...I was told Kim Dotcom was the world's most successful pirate.

TIL that hippos can aim their dicks backwards so their pee hits their buttholes. Let me post some reaction pictures in advance

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/8/AAPV5JAAEJO-.jpg
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YugiNoob posted...

TIL that hippos can aim their dicks backwards so their pee hits their buttholes.

https://i.imgur.com/53Rqg3E.jpg

YugiNoob posted...

TIL that hippos can aim their dicks backwards so their pee hits their buttholes.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/5/AADkClAAEJPP.jpg

YugiNoob posted...

TIL that hippos can aim their dicks backwards so their pee hits their buttholes.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/8/AAZgIXAAEJQE.jpg

YugiNoob posted...

TIL that hippos can aim their dicks backwards so their pee hits their buttholes. Let me post some reaction pictures in advance

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/8/AAPV5JAAEJO-.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/9/AAPV5JAAEJO_.jpg

I'm guessing it's like a natural bidet? Cause I've seen a video of them slinging shit everywhere while shitting

Sufferedphoneix posted...

I'm guessing it's like a natural bidet? Cause I've seen a video of them slinging shit everywhere while shitting

Yeah that's what it looked like

When the male hippo is trying to find a female to mate with, he poops and pee at the same time, and use his tail to fling it towards the female.

The hippo's scientific name (Hippopotamus amphibius) comes from the Greek word for "water or river horse" :3

I learned recently that most bullets are left in the body. More than likely if you get shot they wont extract it. Then after many years the body will work the foreign object outwards.

A double whammy: Sea cucumbers breathe by taking water in through their anus. Pearlfish are slender, eel-like fish that often live inside invertebrates such as sea cucumbers, and will wait for them to take a breath then swim up in there :o

HudGard posted...

I learned recently that most bullets are left in the body. More than likely if you get shot they wont extract it. Then after many years the body will work the foreign object outwards.

Probably dose too much damage taking it out vs just leaving it in I guess.

We had a cat once that had been shot by a pellet rifle and you could feel the pellet under her skin

Blackbeard the Pirate. His real name was Edward Teach.

YugiNoob posted...

TIL that hippos can aim their dicks backwards so their pee hits their buttholes. Let me post some reaction pictures in advance

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/8/AAPV5JAAEJO-.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/9/AAPV5JAAEJO_.jpg

I mean humans can do that too. I could just lay on my back push my dick down and pee on my ass.

Dishwashers were invented by a woman who was upset the help kept damaging her dishes while washing them.

Forest_Temple posted...

I mean humans can do that too. I could just lay on my back push my dick down and pee on my ass.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/9/AAB1wnAAEJgf.jpg

Bishop9800 posted...

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Well everyone is praising the hippos. Praise me too.

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Some PlayStation 1 games were printed until 2019.

Hey 2 cardinal facts.

There are rare yellow cardinals.

Cardinals let ants cover them and some other birds including wild turkey and Baltimore oriole do so.

https://worldbirds.com/cardinal-bird-facts/

YellowSUV posted...

Some PlayStation 1 games were printed until 2019.

That's crazy.

a kangaroo's scrotum is over the penis.

The oldest recorded dog who's ever lived is over 30 years old, and still alive.

Bobi, at the age of 30 years and 268 days, has been crowned the worlds oldest living dog and the oldest dog to ever live by Guinness World Records (GWR).

I was watching a clip of The Simpsons on YouTube and learned from one of the comments that there was a half cent coin that was minted from 1793 to 1857. They're slightly smaller than a quarter

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/8/5/AAPV5JAAEJ0R.jpg

John Milton was blind and poor when he wrote Paradise Lost (1658-63), published 1667.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton#Paradise_Lost

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Milton Dictating to His Daughter, Henry Fuseli (1794)

"Milton's magnum opus, the blank-verse epic poem Paradise Lost, was composed by the blind and impoverished Milton from 1658 to 1664 (first edition), with small but significant revisions published in 1674 (second edition). As a blind poet, Milton dictated his verse to a series of aides in his employ. It has been argued that the poem reflects his personal despair at the failure of the Revolution yet affirms an ultimate optimism in human potential. Some literary critics have argued that Milton encoded many references to his unyielding support for the "Good Old Cause""

YugiNoob posted...

I was watching a clip of The Simpsons on YouTube and learned from one of the comments that there was a half cent coin that was minted from 1793 to 1857. They're slightly smaller than a quarter

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/8/5/AAPV5JAAEJ0R.jpg

I have one of those. Same year as the one in this pic.

https://i.imgur.com/S0xR2IJ.jpg

The KKK was taken down with help from Superman.
A 16 episode series titled The Adventures of Superman was aired on the radio during the 1940s. This series incorporated the findings that activist Stetson Kennedy had been able to get while undercover in the KKK.

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indica posted...

The KKK was taken down with help from Superman.
A 16 episode series titled The Adventures of Superman was aired on the radio during the 1940s. This series incorporated the findings that activist Stetson Kennedy had been able to get while undercover in the KKK.

I think this site archives the show. https://www.supermanhomepage.com/radio/radio.php?topic=radio-reviews/070146-fierycross

I think they turned it into a comic some years ago.

One might think the funny College of Architecture and Planning sign is Photoshopped, but it's actually real.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/3/AAPV5JAAEKNj.jpg

The story behind it is that back in 1982 the college building was expanded, changing one of the entryways into a loading dock. When the contractors asked the dean if he wanted to have the letters respaced, he said No, just stick it on the wall because it will look funny.

Thunderbirds is a popular marionette TV series from the 60s.
The first episode was originally 25 minutes, but after seeing it the producers decided that it needed to be 50 minutes.
They could only produce 3 minutes at a good day, so they built multiple sets to be able to produce more sequences faster.
This turned it into the most expensive TV series at its time.
After its first season of 26 episodes, they decided to produce a full feature movie at the same time as the second season.
It was a success in over 50 countries, but they couldnt find any American publisher.
They felt that they couldnt continue without American support, so season 2 was cancelled after 6 episodes and a movie. A second movie was made some years later.
Reruns were always popular, and one in the early 90s was extra popular, with talk about a liveaction movie.
ITC Entertainment decided to ride that popular wave and bought the rights for an American adaption that they gave to Fox Kids in 94.
Fox kids cut it down to 20 minutes per episode, killing character development, because they thought kids couldnt concentrate longer.
All deaths, injuries and smoking got censored. Some stories got totally rewritten.
They used 4 voice actors that didnt change anything between characters. One character had two different voices in the same episode. It felt rushed.
14 episodes were made, only 7 aired... once!
Some episodes got a VHS release... with a different voice work. Same actors reading the same script more professionally.
ITC didnt give up after the failure, and decided to copy what kids looked at at the time... Power Rangers!
Turbocharged Thunderbirds had two cool liveaction teenagers in a space station discover Thunder Planet, where they communicated with and helped the Thunderbirds team fight the evil CGI villain.
It was... bad. At least they aired all 13 episodes. Strangely it got a rerun in Japan in the late 2000.

Tag. This has been a great read. I want more.

Milk wagons are the reason why we have roadway lines.
These lines were devised by a man who saw dots of milk spilling out from a moving milk wagon. These lines are considered to be the most important traffic safety device.

There is an American breed of horse called the Tennessee Walking horse. Its prize gait is considered to be a fault in other breeds. OK, all I know about horses is hold on to the saddle so I could so easily be wrong but are the majority of horse people wrong?

Overstriding
If you watch a TWH performing a flat walk, it will look like he is hitting his front feet with his back. This is the desired gait! While in most breeds it would be considered a fault, the TWH should slide his back feet directly behind his front feet in the same track in what they call overstride. You can see it below in the slow motion clip.
https://ihearthorses.com/6-fun-facts-about-the-tennessee-walking-horse/

A man was once saved by a sea lion.
During a suicide attempt, a man by the name of Kevin Hines survived jumping off the Golden Gate bridge. However, during his jump, he had broken his back thus causing him to drown. A nearby sea lion witnessed this and swam beneath the man to keep him afloat until coast guards arrived.

Poster girl for SNK's fanservice department, Mai Shiranui, apparently had her boobs modeled after Fumie Hosokawa, and her ass modeled after Ai Iijima, both famous idols at the time. Please note that the game she debuted in (Fatal Fury 2) came out in 1992, so the "inspirations" for her were smaller back then. I don't know what happened; her booba and ass just grew over time I guess :3

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There is more debt in the world than money.

KawiKa posted...

There is more debt in the world than money.

That doesn't make any fucking sense!!!