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Red Solo Cups are popular souvenirs for people visiting America.
For many, this is considered a novelty as many party scenes in movies use these cups. It is also one of the most iconic cups in modern cinema.

Ben & Jerrys made a graveyard for their former flavors.
These flavors all consist of discontinued ice cream flavors. Each flavor has its photo and as well as its life span. Each one even has its epitaph for people to remember it by.

https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/flavor-graveyard

indica posted...

Red Solo Cups are popular souvenirs for people visiting America.
For many, this is considered a novelty as many party scenes in movies use these cups. It is also one of the most iconic cups in modern cinema.

I can believe it. Somewhere I got red solo cup shot glasses. Yes they actually made disposable shot glasses that look just like a red solo cup

Sufferedphoneix posted...

I can believe it. Somewhere I got red solo cup shot glasses. Yes they actually made disposable shot glasses that look just like a red solo cup

I am more interested in those than I should be lmao.

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

I am more interested in those than I should be lmao.

Iirc they are a bit more sturdy then a normal solo cup but otherwise identical.

Bitch please. I have red solo cup stemware.

My friends just got married a week ago, and they had bride & groom goblets that looked like solo cups with wine glass stems on the bottom. White for the bride and black for the groom, but close enough.

St. Lucia is the only country that is named after a real woman.
Saint Lucia and Ireland are the only two sovereign states in the world named after a woman (Ireland is named after the Celtic goddess of fertility Eire) and Saint Lucia is the only one named after a human woman.The French named this country after Saint Lucy of Syracuse. Lucy was a Christian martyr who had died during the time of the Diocletianic Persecution.

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Only one letter in the English alphabet cannot be found on the periodic table.
Can you guess which? The letter J is the only letter in the English alphabet that isnt used for any of the elements in the periodic table.

Calling shotgun for the front passenger seat comes from having guards on stagecoaches.

The original term is the shotgun messenger and it was a term used to call the person who sat next to the driver. These messengers would act as guards and use a shotgun to prevent criminals from getting too close. Due to Hollywoods influence, this term eventually made its way into our society.

Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg have a deal. Apparently people mistake them for one another quite a bit, so they agreed to be on their best behavior when someone thinks they're the other as not to ruin their reputation. Also they'll sign each other's signature and play along lol

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A single strand of spaghetti is individually referred to as spaghetto. Spaghetti is a plural word in Italian.

indica posted...

A single strand of spaghetti is individually referred to as spaghetto. Spaghetti is a plural word in Italian.

Same with graffiti and graffito lol

Pointing your car keys at your head can help you find your car from farther away.
The fluid in your head is part of what protects your brain, and it's also what increases the range of a remote's signal. It can actually increase the reach by a few car lengths.

indica posted...

Pointing your car keys at your head can help you find your car from farther away.
The fluid in your head is part of what protects your brain, and it's also what increases the range of a remote's signal. It can actually increase the reach by a few car lengths.

My brother always pressed it to his chin. It worked still

A flamingos crop milk (the stuff they regurgitate and feed their babies with) is blood red. The sight of them feeding their child can be pretty jarring because it looks like one parent is trying to dig into the others skull lol

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Imit8m3 posted...

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Sp some people really do only think with their stomachs

Mount Everest is supposed to be pronounced "Eve-rest", as it's named after British surveyor George Everest (who actually was against it). But it just became more common over time to use the mispronunciation of "ever-est", like with other words such as "carry-oh-key".

The first statues of Buddha did not appear until after Alexander had conquered parts of modern day India and had statues of Apollo put up. The first statues of Buddha actually copied the features of the statues of Apollo, and were made to contest with the foreign religion.

A jockey from 1923 managed to finish a race after dying.
During the middle of a race, the jockey suffered from a heart attack. However, his horse was able to finish the race on its own and won. This event in history is the first and only time it has ever occurred since.

CPR isn't meant to revive people (although it can happen). When you perform chest compressions on someone whose heart has stopped, you're circulating the blood through their veins that still has oxygen in it, hopefully buying more time for paramedics.

I started watching a lot of Doctor Mike videos on YouTube lol

A Polish doctor once faked an outbreak to keep the Nazis away.
Eugene Lazowski announced that there was a typhus outbreak that ended up saving over 8,000 people during the second world war. At the time, this was considered to be a smart move because Lazowski decided to tug on the Germans phobias about hygiene.

indica posted...

Only one letter in the English alphabet cannot be found on the periodic table.
Can you guess which? The letter J is the only letter in the English alphabet that isnt used for any of the elements in the periodic table.

There is only one Beatles song that starts with the letter J.

8Be is the lightest isotope that undergoes alpha decay.
It splits exactly into two alpha particles, with a half life of 10^-17 seconds

Sufferedphoneix posted...

I can believe it. Somewhere I got red solo cup shot glasses. Yes they actually made disposable shot glasses that look just like a red solo cup

When the Bed Bath and Beyond I worked at first opened, we have a red solo line of drinkware. Shot glasses, double old fashioned, wine glasses. I think I still have a shot glass somewhere.

gmanthebest posted...

When the Bed Bath and Beyond I worked at first opened, we have a red solo line of drinkware. Shot glasses, double old fashioned, wine glasses. I think I still have a shot glass somewhere.

The shot glasses I had where still plastic. Thicker though. Could you imagine how flimsy they'd be if they scaled down to ratio?

Sufferedphoneix posted...

The shot glasses I had where still plastic. Thicker though. Could you imagine how flimsy they'd be if they scaled down to ratio?

Yeah, it was like a hard plastic. Definitely a lot more expensive than a pack of the regular cups lmao

gmanthebest posted...

Yeah, it was like a hard plastic. Definitely a lot more expensive than a pack of the regular cups lmao

I'd have to see if I could find them but I feel like they wherent hard enough I couldn't crush them up like a regular solo cup. I misspoke in my last comment. They where like the same thickness where as one would expect it to be thinner due to being a smaller scale version.

Sufferedphoneix posted...

I'd have to see if I could find them but I feel like they wherent hard enough I couldn't crush them up like a regular solo cup. I misspoke in my last comment. They where like the same thickness where as one would expect it to be thinner due to being a smaller scale version.

Ah, gotcha. Either way, still a hilarious product to even exist lol

gmanthebest posted...

Ah, gotcha. Either way, still a hilarious product to even exist lol

Yeah what i got was from Walmart. I don't doubt something more high dollar exists too

Butt plugs were once sold as a miracle cure for; acne, headaches, insanity and many more conditions. This was before the FDA, of course.
https://twitter.com/IFLScience/status/1361699717231607818

Imit8m3 posted...

Butt plugs were once sold as a miracle cure for; acne, headaches, insanity and many more conditions. This was before the FDA, of course.
https://twitter.com/IFLScience/status/1361699717231607818

May be used by any intelligent person.
lmfao

I'd be horrified to see what happens if an intelligent person were to get their hands on it.

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.

Spiked collars were meant to protect dogs' necks from attacks.
This iconic accessory was invented by the Ancient Greeks to protect their dogs against wolves when attacked. The spikes would prevent predators from instantly causing heavy damage to their dogs necks.

On the way to the shooting location for The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger paid a visit to a fine dining restaurant... in full makeup looking like the T-800 after he got hit by a truck.

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This was before the movie came out, so people didn't know who the character was, and understandably a lot of them were freaked out lol

Jeeps have Easter eggs; small pictures of objects or animals hidden somewhere on the vehicles. Stuff like a lizard, Nessie, or the very first Jeep

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Jack Daniels died from a toe injury.
The founder of the famous whiskey injured his toe after kicking a safe. This then later led to an infection until he eventually died of blood poisoning.

indica posted...

Jack Daniels died from a toe injury.
The founder of the famous whiskey injured his toe after kicking a safe. This then later led to an infection until he eventually died of blood poisoning.

Funny I believe I broke my hand punching a safe drunk on jack.

Sufferedphoneix posted...

Funny I believe I broke my hand punching a safe drunk on jack.

Modern safety and medicine hopefully made sure you were ripped, roaring and ready to go soon, lol

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

Modern safety and medicine hopefully made sure you were ripped, roaring and ready to go soon, lol

A month and 3 weeks plus much longer if you count it not hurting from time to time due to being used.

Get what you are saying just saying I found it funny/ironic to me

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Because of the way your blood cells take water from what you consume, your blood will literally smell of garlic after eating it.

The boss in Metal Gear Solid 3 takes a week to beat.
The player can either defeat them by not playing for one week or simply by changing the date on the console. Battle the boss as you would normally until it is almost beaten after that quit the game and change the date one or two weeks later.

The correct English translation for Jesus is Joshua.
You are only able to get Jesus if you originally translate it from Hebrew to Greek, then Latin, then English. Jesus in Hebrew is Yeshua, which explains why google translate leads you to Joshua.

indica posted...

You are only able to get Jesus if you originally translate it from Hebrew to Greek, then Latin, then English.

which... is how that happened.

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