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Optimus Prime and Mario once had the same voice actor.

indica posted...

Bangladesh has more people than Russia:

Russia may span 9 time zones and cover more surface area than Pluto as the world's largest country, but tiny Bangladesh (slightly bigger than the size of New York state) has a population of over 161 million people as of 2018. Russia has around 144 million, as of 2018.

I just read this one. That's a trip. I once dated a girl from Bangladesh.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Optimus Prime and Mario once had the same voice actor.

Mr. Krabs and the drunk cop that makes Connor's story in Detroit: Become Human fun both have the same VA.

So does Fallout 4 Strong and Goku.

The creator of the song Take Me Out to the Ballgame never saw a baseball game when he created the song in 1908. He would see his first MLB game in 1940.

Have you ever swallowed pop rocks candy and washed it down with soda? That is a procedure in hospital ERs to clear blockage from your esophagus.

The first ever camera was called a daguerreotype.

Faceball 2000 on the GameBoy supports up to 16 players at once.
Sadly Nintendo stopped the developers from releasing the adaptor that allowed you to hook up more than 4 GameBoys at once.

MI4_REAL posted...

The first ever camera was called a daguerreotype.

They were pretty cool too:
"Each daguerreotype is a remarkably detailed, one-of-a-kind photographic image on a highly polished, silver-plated sheet of copper, sensitized with iodine vapors, exposed in a large box camera, developed in mercury fumes, and stabilized (or fixed) with salt water or hypo (sodium thiosulfate)."

QWERTY keyboards were used to deliberately slow down typers. This could be disputed.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/9/2/AAA_aCAADfb4.png
The QWERTY creator created another layout.

Sort of sad that they probably scarred that monkey for life by making it think it killed a child...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaIH5tLmC8U

Alt Gr?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/0/AAPV5JAADfi4.jpg

YugiNoob posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/0/AAPV5JAADfi4.jpg

Does that say Penis?

No, porn. MxR has to censor every little thing because YouTube hates them more than No_U hated telling the truth lol

YugiNoob posted...

No, porn. MxR has to censor every little thing because YouTube hates them more than No_U hated telling the truth lol

Lmao. Nice burn and fact!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/5/AAZgIXAADfnV.jpg

I checked. Yup, that exists.
https://www.roseingoodfaith.com/products/plastic-soul

My first ever Heavy Clear on DDR was Holic.

Imit8m3 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/5/AAZgIXAADfnV.jpg

I checked. Yup, that exists.
https://www.roseingoodfaith.com/products/plastic-soul

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/5/AAPV5JAADfnp.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/7/5/AAc7wlAADfoH.jpg

YugiNoob posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/5/AAPV5JAADfnp.jpg

Those aren't Crocs. They're Cocs.

Why not just use the dildo as a dildo and save the effort

When you're playing your naval-themed gacha game and notice the USS Arizona is portrayed as a crybaby in some way, did you ever think why? It's because the ship's actual wreck in Pearl Harbor leaks tiny bits of oil, causing a small slick on the surface. This has been going on for over eighty years and has been nicknamed "the tears of the Arizona".

(From IMDB)

Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane narrowly missed being on American Airlines Flight 11, one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Wahlberg was booked on the flight, but decided to drive to New York City and fly to California later. MacFarlane arrived at the gate ten minutes late and was not allowed to board. He was sitting in the airport when he saw that his plane had hit the World Trade Center's North Tower.

Joelypoely posted...

MacFarlane arrived at the gate ten minutes late and was not allowed to board. He was sitting in the airport when he saw that his plane had hit the World Trade Center's North Tower.

Fuck. That's got to change a person...

Joelypoely posted...

(From IMDB)

Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane narrowly missed being on American Airlines Flight 11, one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Wahlberg was booked on the flight, but decided to drive to New York City and fly to California later. MacFarlane arrived at the gate ten minutes late and was not allowed to board. He was sitting in the airport when he saw that his plane had hit the World Trade Center's North Tower.

indica posted...

Fuck. That's got to change a person...

I never knew that about Mark. Seth is pretty indifferent about it, at least when he tells it.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Bismuth (specifically 209Bi, which is all of primordial bismuth) is a radioactive heavy metal that is nigh-harmless. In fact, it cures diarrhea.
It's the "bis" in Pepto Bismol

Also the crystalized element looks likes this:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/3/AAEhCpAADfAj.jpg

Bismuth is fucking cool

Hitler had a flatulence problem:

In 2012, Adolf Hitler's medical documents were being auctioned to the public by Alexander Historical Auctions. According to the files, The Telegraph reported, flatulence had become such a pervasive issue for Hitler that he had to regularly ingest 28 different drugs to keep it under control. But some of the anti-gas pills he used contained a base of strychnine, a poison that caused further stomach and liver issues.

indica posted...

Hitler had a flatulence problem:

In 2012, Adolf Hitler's medical documents were being auctioned to the public by Alexander Historical Auctions. According to the files, The Telegraph reported, flatulence had become such a pervasive issue for Hitler that he had to regularly ingest 28 different drugs to keep it under control. But some of the anti-gas pills he used contained a base of strychnine, a poison that caused further stomach and liver issues.

So Family Guy was probably right, except that instead of being mad about being a scrawny weakling, he was mad about farting :o

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/health/wuhan-market-covid-19/index.html

New studies agree that animals sold at Wuhan market are most likely what started Covid-19 pandemic

Not all viruses are harmful.

For example, Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV) infects plants, but instead of killing them it increases their heat tolerance by inhibiting the plants' heat stress signals.

https://phytopatholres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42483-019-0028-4#:~:text=At%20high%20temperatures
%2C%20the%20collapse%20of%20the%20N.,stimulation%20of%20dehydroascorbate%20reductase%20%28Kir%C3%A1ly%20et%20al.%202008%29.

A scientist got paid to put 3d glasses on a cephlapod.
During the start they had to solve the problem that the cephlapod kept taking them off because it was annoying.

Lunar scientists think they've found the hottest places on the Moon, as well as some 200 Goldilocks zones that are always near the average temperature in San Francisco.

Pas5wordFAQ posted...

Lunar scientists think they've found the hottest places on the Moon, as well as some 200 Goldilocks zones that are always near the average temperature in San Francisco.

Shame about the lack of atmosphere. All this means nothing without that.

Imit8m3 posted...

Shame about the lack of atmosphere. All this means nothing without that.

Put up a hefty tent or something. Any structure only has to hold in 1 atmo, or about 15PSI/100kPa

Dont worry humans will figure out how to live on the moon before they do anything about destroying this place

Dead spiders work as grippers for robots.

Nobody knows how to pronounce "Missouri".

There is a game that you lose simply by thinking about it.

The Trilby hat's name derives from the stage adaptation of George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby. A hat of this style was worn in the first London production of the play, and promptly came to be called "a Trilby hat".

Jack Nicholson, the actor, didn't understand who his mother truly was until he was 37, and he learned it from a journalist. His mother gave birth to him, but gave him to her mother (his grandmother) to raise in the guise of being his mother. So up until then, his family led him to believe that his grandmother was his mother and that his real mother was his SISTER. And, in one last ironic twist, he prefers the lie. From Wiki...

"As June was only seventeen years old and unmarried, her parents agreed to raise Nicholson as their own child without revealing his true parentage, and June would act as his sister. In 1974, Time magazine researchers learned, and informed Nicholson, that his "sister", June, was actually his mother, and his other "sister", Lorraine, was really his aunt. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died (in 1963 and 1970, respectively). On finding out, Nicholson said it was "a pretty dramatic event, but it wasn't what I'd call traumatizing...I was pretty well psychologically formed".

Scientists were able to take a picture of an atom's shadow:

Whether you're a professional photographer or not, you'll probably be impressed by the photo-related feat accomplished by a team at Australia's Griffith University in 2012. Using an electrical field to suspend a charged atom in a vacuum chamber, the team shot a laser beam at the atom and took a photo of the shadow it produced. While atoms have been photographed before, their shadows have not, making this accomplishment unprecedented.

There's a kind of mushroom in the genus Phallus that's commonly known as stinkhorns. As the name and genus suggest, they smell bad and are shaped...like penises, from which the genus got its name.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/8/4/AAPV5JAADgwI.jpg

Meg Griffin's name is Megatron lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/5/5/AAPV5JAADg8L.jpg

De Spelbrekers was a Dutch singing duo, consisting of Theo Rekkers and Huug Kok.

Maine is the only state that borders just one other state:

If you're in Maine, you'll find the Atlantic Ocean to the south and Canada to the north. But if you want to stay in the U.S., you'll have to head west to New Hampshire, because Maine is the only state in the country that borders just one other state.

Jack Nicholson grew up living a lie he didn't know about. There were some family problems and, when he was still very young, his family made like his mom was his sister, and that his grandma was his real mom.
He didn't know the difference until later in life when a journalist inadvertently discovered the connections and asked him about it.
He actually preferred the lie in retrospect, he said.

Cocytus posted...

Jack Nicholson, the actor, didn't understand who his mother truly was until he was 37, and he learned it from a journalist. His mother gave birth to him, but gave him to her mother (his grandmother) to raise in the guise of being his mother. So up until then, his family led him to believe that his grandmother was his mother and that his real mother was his SISTER. And, in one last ironic twist, he prefers the lie. From Wiki...

"As June was only seventeen years old and unmarried, her parents agreed to raise Nicholson as their own child without revealing his true parentage, and June would act as his sister. In 1974, Time magazine researchers learned, and informed Nicholson, that his "sister", June, was actually his mother, and his other "sister", Lorraine, was really his aunt. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died (in 1963 and 1970, respectively). On finding out, Nicholson said it was "a pretty dramatic event, but it wasn't what I'd call traumatizing...I was pretty well psychologically formed".

Cocytus posted...

Jack Nicholson grew up living a lie he didn't know about. There were some family problems and, when he was still very young, his family made like his mom was his sister, and that his grandma was his real mom.
He didn't know the difference until later in life when a journalist inadvertently discovered the connections and asked him about it.
He actually preferred the lie in retrospect, he said.

Dude.

Bandit_Keith posted...

Dude.

Hahaha, man I thought I posted that one, but I forgot and I was too lazy to check.

I just witnessed my bird sneeze for the first time lol