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Kentucky has more bourbon than people:

If bourbon is your drink of choice, then you might want to plan a road trip to Kentucky. The state is not only responsible for 95 percent of the world's bourbon, according to The Atlantic, but there is also so much of it that the 4.7 million barrels in the state's distilleries outnumber the 4.3 million people living in the area.

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Size of Mario games development teams.

The oldest living film director is Bert I. Gordon, responsible in his heyday for for schlock like King Dinosaur and Empire of the Ants. His 100th birthday is three weeks from today.

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Rubber bands will last much longer when they are refrigerated:

When a rubber band is placed in the fridge, it causes the polymers to relax. This keeps the band from breaking down as fast as it normally does.

Of the eight Universal monsters, the only ones that Abbott and Costello did not meet are the Bride of Frankenstein and the Phantom of the Opera. They met the Creature from the Black Lagoon on a TV show in order to promote the movie, and they met the other five in the famous films.

The Phantom of the Opera is the only one of the eight Universal monsters that is actually a remake. Universal had released a version of the story back in 1925, starring Lon Chaney.

The Bride of Frankenstein is the only one of the eight monsters who was created for a sequel of the other monsters. The Phantom of the Opera is the only one of the monsters that does not have, or is involved in, a sequel.

The eight Universal monsters are actually a short of offshoot from a series of films made in the 1920s, adapted by Universal from literature. Lon Chaney portrayed The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera in 1923 and 1925 respectively, and Conrad Veidt portrayed Gwynplaine (The Man Who Laughs) in 1928. Since these films were made before the Great Depression, they actually had much higher budgets than most of the films associated with the later monsters, which were largely considered B movies.

Hammer Films adapted/remade five of the Universal Monsters in the 50s and 60s, often with many sequels: Frankenstein, Wolf Man, Dracula, the Phantom, and The Mummy; with their Frankenstein and Dracula movies being particular international sensations that arguably changed the face of horror just as much as their Universal counterparts.

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

The oldest living film director is Bert I. Gordon, responsible in his heyday for for schlock like King Dinosaur and Empire of the Ants. His 100th birthday is three weeks from today.

the film director Roger Corman is almost as old as Bert Gordon

xue1 posted...

the film director Roger Corman is almost as old as Bert Gordon

I have Roger Cormans autograph! I mounted it with a Masque Of The Red Death poster on my wall.

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The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain. Its eyes are around the size of a billiard ball. One eye is also smaller than the other. Perhaps this is why they tend to run in circles.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. This includes change in dimes, quarters, and combinations of the two. Can you figure out all 293 combinations?

The dot over the small letter 'i' is called a tittle.

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Anonychia is the absence of nails D:

Creepy picture or nailess hand below :<

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YugiNoob posted...

Anonychia is the absence of nails D:

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Ahh this needs a warning

I changed it. But did it work? I put the URL into spoilers, but since I give zero fucks about spoilers and always have them on, the picture still comes out normally.

Wehn yuor barin lokos at jmubeld wrods it can sitll raed tehm porprely as lnog as the frist and lsat letetrs are crorcet.

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It's true!

The Tupolev Tu-95 bomber was created in 1952. It was first used in combat in 2015.

Dope topic

It's not uncommon for old people to get their balls stuck in plastic chairs. That's because old people will often use regular plastic chairs instead of specially designed ones to sit in the shower D:

The upcoming movie The Woman King is loosely based on the true story of Dahomey Amazons.

...Likely very, VERY loosely, though. The movie appears to be mainly about the wars between the French and the Amazons, both of which resulted in crushing defeats for the Dahomey.

Helium-4 does not have a solid phase, at all.
At temperatures reaching absolute zero, and absurd pressure, it becomes basically a non-newtonian fluid roughly analogous with silly putty.

Japan has 23 vending machines per person. This ratio is the same per capita. Japan has the highest amount of vending machines in the world.

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Statue of Jesus getting slowly absorbed by tree at old cemetery in Bieszczady mountains, Poland.

What happens when you combine a bat and a flashlight? BashLight :D

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The dust that the kids in the show Are You Afraid of the Dark? threw onto the campfire was non-dairy creamer lol

The Pokemon Rhydon was the first to ever be created. According to the lead video game designer, Ken Sugimori, Rhydon was the first-ever Pokemon to be created by the team. No, it was not Bulbasaur.

indica posted...

The Pokemon Rhydon was the first to ever be created. According to the lead video game designer, Ken Sugimori, Rhydon was the first-ever Pokemon to be created by the team. No, it was not Bulbasaur.

That's super clear in the game too as Rhydon is used as the default sprite for the first game.

500 million years ago, there were 418 days in a year, each day being less than 22 hours long, 13 total months. The Earth's rotational velocity is slowing by 2 seconds every 100,000 years.

Scientists know this after studying extinct rugose corals, which added a growth ridge every day, bookended by annual rings.

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500 million years ago, there were 418 days in a year, each day being less than 22 hours long, 13 total months. The Earth's rotational velocity is slowing by 2 seconds every 100,000 years.

this is true as a generalization, but there are some years when the Earth's spin speeds up. This past year, the Earth's spin sped up, and a second was lost. There are certain events that cause the Earth to spin faster, such as earthquakes

Around 90% of people struck by lightning actually survive.

The plastic tips of shoelaces are called aglets.These tips can also be made of metal. Its purpose is to help make the lace easier to hold when running through the holes of the shoes.

The highest tempurature ever recorded in Alaska AND Hawaii is 100 degrees.

There's too much interesting information about this bear in the Polish military lol. Main points are that a bear cub was purchased and eventually became officially enrolled in the military. He enjoyed drinking beer and eating cigarettes, and helped out by carrying heavy crates.

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Monkees as an actual band

• Mickey Dolenz as front vocals
• Peter Tork on lead guitar
• Mike Nesmith on bass
• Davy Jones on drums

Sign language has tongue twisters.They are called finger fumblers. Many who have practiced sign language over the years still fumble over certain sequences in ASL.

Scots English is closer to English English than modern English.

English is not Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Norman is a dialect of French that was spoken in England in the middle ages.

Humans have been on the moon for only 80 hours.

These Cyclone arcade games are literal scams. In the owner's manual, it says that you can set how often you want it to pay out :<

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YugiNoob posted...

These Cyclone arcade games are literal scams. In the owner's manual, it says that you can set how often you want it to pay out :<

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That would only be a scam if the operator was dishonest

No, it's a scam because you can't regulate how often it pays out fairly (in other words, by player skill); it has to go by what percent the operator wants to win.

YugiNoob posted...

No, it's a scam because you can't regulate how often it pays out fairly (in other words, by player skill); it has to go by what percent the operator wants to win.

That's wild. Then you can press the button at any time.

The fact: I'm thinking of that timing game where you hit the button at the right time to win the prize.

You do realize that if you're not in the machine's programmed win time, even if you hit the button at the perfect moment, you won't win, right? I don't understand why you can't grasp that that's a scam.

YugiNoob posted...

You do realize that if you're not in the machine's programmed win time, even if you hit the button at the perfect moment, you won't win, right? I don't understand why you can't grasp that that's a scam.

So you're saying it's a chance game decided by the operator, ideally corresponding to the likelihood of winning other games that can be played?

I would pick the pink light.

It's a game that will intentionally misinterpret your command so you lose when you should've won. That playing card game War where you just flip over cards and the higher number wins is a chance game. If War were like Cyclone, you could flip a king and the game would flip a 2, but then be like "Nah, lemme pull out an ace"

The Great Hammerhead Shark reaches 20 feet in length and is critically endangered, they believe only around 200 remain.