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Foppe posted...

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

It's not an uncommon name. There's about thirty Josephs throughout the bible.

There are a few Judas as well, but I think it was only one Onan.

The systematic training of dogs leading the blind began after the First World War in Germany but history of service dogs goes back two thousand years:

The story of dogs being used as service animals begins in Pompeii in 79 AD. Excavations have revealed a wall-painting of a dog leading a blind man. Over the course of history there are records from Asia and Europe of dogs leading blind men.
The systematic training of dogs leading the blind began after the First World War in Germany. Many men were returning from the front line blinded by poison gas. A German doctor, Dr. Gerhard Stalling, got the idea of training dogs quite by coincidence. He and his dog were walking with a blind patient on the hospital grounds when Dr. Stalling was called away on an emergency. He left the patient with his dog and upon his return, he could see that the dog was looking after the blind patient.
Dr. Stalling began working to determine ways to train dogs as reliable guides and opened the worlds first guide dog school in 1916. The school grew and new branches opened across Germany, training 600 dogs a year primarily for servicemen, and later for civilians.
Over the next ten years, thousands of guide dogs were trained and working as service dogs, but the quality of the dogs had declined and the business venture failed. Luckily, another guide dog training center had since opened in Potsdam, Germany in 1923, run by the German Shepherd Dog Association.
In 1927, Dorothy Harrison Eustis, an American dog trainer visited the training center in Potsdam and was so impressed with it, she wrote an article for an American newspaper describing the methods and success of the training center. After hearing about the article, an American blind man, Morris Frank, contacted Eustis and told her he would like to introduce guide dogs to the United States. Eustis took up the challenge, trained a dog (Buddy) for Frank. Shortly after, Eustis established two guide schools; one in Switzerland and another in Morristown, New Jersey. Realizing the need for properly trained instructors, she established a training school for instructors in Switzerland.

The last joke Robin Williams did doing standup was an impression of Popeye in a porn movie.

Son Doong is considered to be the largest cave in the world based on its volume of 38.5 million cubic meters.

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bigtiggie23 posted...

The last joke Robin Williams did doing standup was an impression of Popeye in a porn movie.

The European version of his Popeye movie was almost 15 minutes shorter.
In the NA version, his search for his father was a big part of the plot.
In the European version, all that is cut and he just appears at the end.

Shirako (which means "white child") is a Japanese delicacy. It's the milt of cod, anglerfish, blowfish, and salmon.

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It's fish jizz

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They actually filmed this stunt for the new Mission impossible movie first, just in case he died.

Conservative women are considered prettier and smile more often according to data collection analytics from social media

The planet was named Pluto thanks to an 11-year-old girl.
Venetia Burney Phair named the planet after the Roman God of the underworld because the planet was found to be frozen and lonely. Previously to this, the planet was referred to as planet X.

indica posted...

The planet was named Pluto thanks to an 11-year-old girl.
Venetia Burney Phair named the planet after the Roman God of the underworld because the planet was found to be frozen and lonely. Previously to this, the planet was referred to as planet X.

Also, Pluto is no longer a planet, thanks to Neil deGrasse Tyson
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33462184

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Strawberries are decaploid, in that each cell has ten sets of chromosomes. Any given plant is so much DNA by mass, that a blender and dish soap will give a humongous amount of pure DNA crystals, to the point that the entire strawberry DNA can be observed.

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Imit8m3 posted...

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Ah hell naw. I make a hole in one people should be buying me shit.

Around 50% of the mined gold on Earth comes from one source.
This gold all once came from a single plateau located in South Africa. This plateau is known as the Witwatersrand.

The best estimates currently available suggest that around 208,874 tonnes of gold has been mined throughout history, of which around two-thirds has been mined since 1950.

indica posted...

A single dollar bill costs 5 cents to make.

On the other hand, the Mint spent 2.1 cents to make and distribute each Lincoln cent. The Mint's cost for each Jefferson nickel was 8.52 cents.

Thats why we mint coins out of zinc now.

In 2019, the world's production of raw green chili peppers amounted to 38 million tons, with China producing half.

(From Wikipedia article, Chile Pepper)

THE EVIL JUDGE (BIG Yikes ahead)

A 16th century painting showing the skinning alive of a corrupt judge, Sisamnes, in the year 500BC.
Sisamnes was a corrupt royal judge at the time of Cambyses ll in Persia.

It was discovered that he took a bribe in court and passed an unfair judgement. As a consequence the king ordered that he be arrested for his corruption and ordered that he be skinned alive. Before passing judgement the king asked Sisamnes who he wished to nominate as his successor. Sisamnes, in his greed, chose his son, Otanes.

The king agreed and appointed Otanes to replace his father. He subsequently passed judgement and ordered that Sisamnes removed skin should be used to upholster the seat on which the new judge would sit in court to remind him of the potential consequences of corruption.

Otanes, in his deliberations, was forced to always remember that he was always sitting on the skin of his executed father. This helped to ensure fairness and equity in all his hearings, deliberations and sentences.

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12 plants and 5 animals make up 75% of diets around the world.

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization states that this lowers major health risks. By concentrating our diets to this specific group, we become more resilient to diseases, pests, and climate change. On the other hand, monocrops leave us wide open to complete devastation. Never forget what Panama disease did to the Gros Michel banana

Gotta respect the continuity lol

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There are two movies: City of Angels and Season of the Witch, that are also subtitles of other completely different movies. City of Angels is the second Crow film and Season of the Witch is Halloween 3. Also both City of Angels and Season of the Witch star Nicholas Cage.

Squirrels have no terminal velocity, they can survive a fall from an airplane.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Squirrels have no terminal velocity, they can survive a fall from an airplane.

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Note that the above joke is untrue.

The squirrel would die about 2-3 days into its descent from thirst rather than the roughly 6 days it would take to starve from falling 4,800 miles, so it would die from a lower height

Washington Post article

In 2022, a claim circulated on social media asserting that, on July 8, 99 percent of the worlds population would experience daylight or twilight simultaneously.
EarthSky.org crunched the numbers. At 11:15 Universal time, or 7:15 a.m. Eastern time, on July 8 each year, about 96 percent of the planets population is bathed in at least a bit of sunlight. An additional 3 percent is in astronomical twilight, which occurs when the sun is below the horizon but its glow still illuminates a patch of the sky. This means, 99 percent of Earths nearly 8 billion residents will be on the sunlit side of Earth at the same time. July 8 turns out to be the day that most people around the planet experience daylight at the same time.

This occurs because most of Earths population lives on one side of the planet. It might not look like that on most maps, but thats because the majority of classroom maps are distorted to be population-centric. In reality, the Pacific Ocean occupies virtually half of Earth. When its nighttime there, its daytime for almost all of Earths land masses.

YugiNoob posted...

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Note that the above joke is untrue.

The squirrel would die about 2-3 days into its descent from thirst rather than the roughly 6 days it would take to starve from falling 4,800 miles, so it would die from a lower height

Wouldn't a squirrel asphyxiate or worse, seeing as 4800 miles is out in space, roughly around the inner van allen belt?

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Not if he had a space suit to give him oxygen and protect him from atmospheric reentry while also not affecting his weight/falling speed

Gentleman, you're not asking all the questions!

Does Squirrel Girl also not have terminal velocity?

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Minnesota has the worlds quietest room.
The noise in this room is measured in negative decibels. It is so quiet, that you are able to heart your own heartbeat and as well as the sound of your bones moving. People say that this room is so quiet that it can also drive you crazy within 45 minutes.

indica posted...

Minnesota has the worlds quietest room.
The noise in this room is measured in negative decibels. It is so quiet, that you are able to heart your own heartbeat and as well as the sound of your bones moving. People say that this room is so quiet that it can also drive you crazy within 45 minutes.

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indica posted...

Minnesota has the worlds quietest room.
The noise in this room is measured in negative decibels. It is so quiet, that you are able to heart your own heartbeat and as well as the sound of your bones moving. People say that this room is so quiet that it can also drive you crazy within 45 minutes.

Bet I could last more than 45. I used to get fucked up on a drug and I could both feel and hear my internal organs. And that shitbwoulf last hours

Madmen! My tinitus would drive me literally insane.

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Hanlon's razor is my favorite and something that could really change a lot of CEmen's lives

Every decade, brain fibers lose 10% of their strength.
At times of acute stress, they shrink even more than the average amount. This decline continues between the age of 20 to 80.

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Victorian women had an "intimate wig" called a Merkin. They were used by courtesans to mask signs of VD. You see, syphilis was treated with mercury, which caused the hair to fall out. So a bald "lady garden" used to be a sign that someone "poisoned the well". And working women would try to hide that to stay in business.

Some facts about Scooby Doo On Zombie Island *may contain spoilers*
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The only reason this movie was made in the first place was because the Scooby Doo property tested well in a survey with mothers.
Some screen writers wanted real monsters, because they were tired of all the fake ones, while others thought it ruined the Scooby Doo formula. The Director compromised by using both fake and real monsters.
This was supposed to be a one-off direct-to-video movie, so it had no studio interference. It sold extremely well and had great reviews, which resulted in another 36 direct-to-video movies over 24 years. It was also the darkest one, with onscreen deaths! The sequels got toned down.
The movie is based on an unfinished SWAT Kats episode.
Frank Welker, Freds voice since the beginning in 1969, was the only old voice.
Hearher North, the second and then current Daphne voice, did a day of recording before being replaced by Mary Kay Bergman.
Don Messick, Scoobys original voice, had retired in 1996 and died in 1997, and was replaced by Scott Innes.
Casey Kasem, Shaggys original voice, was supposed to return. But he had recently gone vegan and demanded that Shaggy should stop eating meat and dairy. Billy West got the role instead. Casey would later return as Shaggy.
B.J. Ward had voiced Velma earlier in that Johnny Bravo episode.
It was the first Scooby Doo production that alludes to a romantic relationship between Fred and Daphne.
It is the only movie not executive produced by Hanna and Barbera prior to their deaths.
They promoted hard that this is the first time that they have met a real monster, but they had med real supernatural monsters at least 5 times before.
Fred is seen eating more than he ever did in the almost 30 years history of the series.
The name of the pirate ship is Maelstrom, a reference to the ship in Pirates of Dark Water.
There is a chance that this movie inspired The Blair Witch Project.

The happiest countries in the world have the highest antidepressant consumers.

This paradox has of late become the focal point of the criticism directed at studies of happiness, with people from around the world, including Finns themselves, pointing out that the measures used often dont account for such things as loneliness in highly-developed societies and the fact that material well-being does not preclude conditions like clinical depression.What they really rank is how well each nation has created the conditions for happiness among its citizens. Because happiness itself is too ineffable, individual and elusive to be contained within such prosaic things as rankings and measurements.

The official language of Ireland is not spoken by most of the country.

More people speak Polish than Irish in Ireland. The most common spoken language is English.

Sourtoe cocktails are served in Yukon.
The drink containing a shot of whiskey and a human toe floating inside the glass has been served since the 1970s. All toes that are served with the drink have been mummified beforehand.

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That Fort Gay thing reminded me of how a guy had an XBox name Ligma Rensin years before the meme, and it was reported as offensive lol. His wifes account, MrsLigma, was also suspended.

Luckily, they were both able to get their names back in the end :3

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