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CassandraCroft posted...

To go along with that but it is now generally taken that Jesus was born in around March/April not December.

There are clues in The Bible regarding when Jesus was born. For instance Shepards watched their flocks by night. Well you do not do that in late Autumn/early Winter. Also it is taken that the shepards did that because it was Lambing season which only happens in the Spring.

The reason why December 25th was chosen to celebrate Jesus birth was because in December the Pagans/Romans had their festivities like Saturnalia and the celebrating of the Winter Solstice so the Christians/Catholics were feeling left out so they decided to make December 25th Jesus birthday so they to could join in the festivities.

In the Nordic countries, Christmas is celebrated the 24th.
It originates from the Middle ages, before the mechanical clock. In the Nordic countries, a new day started when it became dark outside. So the 25th started when it became dark on the 24th.
And then the tradition have continued.

Frank Oz was the puppeteer for both Miss Piggy and Yoda

Getting a real Christmas tree is good for the environment since all those trees growing in tree farms remove a lot of carbon from the atmosphere.

You have to dispose of it properly though. The best way is to turn it into mulch and a lot of cities have recycling programs that will do just that. Another good way is to simply throw it in your backyard or in the woods where it can decompose naturally.

The things not to do are to burn it, since that releases the trapped carbon back into the air, or take it to the landfill because if it's covered up and not getting oxygen as it decomposes it'll produce methane.

YugiNoob posted...

Frank Oz was the puppeteer for both Miss Piggy and Yoda

He also used his real arms for The Swedish Chef while Jim Henson was the puppeteer. Oz would often intentionally throw the utensils in an attempt to get Henson to screw up his lines.

The shore of the Dead Sea is the lowest land on earth, at 400 m (1,300 ft) below sea level.

I read this in Wikipedia but I found a second source

https://www.statista.com/statistics/504443/the-lowest-places-on-earth/..

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The company name Yahoo isn't actually a word; it's an acronym. It's stands for: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, referring to the company's beginnings as a phone-directory-like search tool for the early internet.

Kinda hard to read, but the average weight of MLB teams lol

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Back in 2016, 74-year-old Chen San-Yaun used to play Pokemon Go on 75 phones while riding around on this accident-waiting-to-happen of a bike

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/85f2af44.jpg

But he had a stroke and is down to only 25 phones at once now.

Here is one for everyone.

Have you ever eaten something that is Banana flavoured and thought to yourself "this doesn't taste like Banana"!

Actually it does taste like Banana but a different type of Banana from the ones we eat.

I'll explain, Up until the mid 1950's the main type of cultivar of Banana exported around the world was a variety called the Gros Michel (Big Mike) but in the 1950's it was almost virtually wiped out by a fungal disease called Panama disease.

So in the 1960's Banana plantations changed to growing the Cavendish Banana which is what we eat today.

Both types of Bananas have a different flavour and texture to one another.

So even though we have been eating the Cavendish Banana for decades food companies have never changed to changing their Banana flavour to mimic the Cavendish and it is still based on the Gros Michel.

So basically we are eating Banana flavour just a different type of Banana.

Damn lazy banana flavoring companies, update your banana flavor >:(

I, for one, am very glad to live in a world where that is not what bananas taste like. That shit is universally disgusting in every possible way.

I know that's the reason given all the time, but artificial banana flavouring doesn't taste like Gros Michel either. They just count on most people nowadays having never tasted them.

(Courtesy of Style Theory)
Black Friday is not necessarily the best time to buy the stuff you need. Sure, the best time to get most electronics is on BF but non-BF sale prices of other products at other times of the year can be even cheaper. A few examples of things best bought at other times of the year are as follows:

Clothing - At the end of a season
Large furniture items - Memorial, Labor, Presidents and Independence Day
Jewelry - In the few weeks after Christmas and Valentine's Day
Car - Late summer on a Wednesday, at the end of the day

Most of the old lady characters in Fallout 3 are voiced by Charlie's mom from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

The shape of a football is called a prolate spheroid

Hitler won TIME's Person of the Year award in 1938, and Stalin won in both 1939 and 1942

YugiNoob posted...

Hitler won TIME's Person of the Year award in 1938, and Stalin won in both 1939 and 1942

Well it's not meant to be who's the best person just most influential.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Well it's not meant to be who's the best person just most influential.

I mean yeah, otherwise Trump wouldn't have won lol

Lmao theres a 2016 film made to protest against film censorship in the UK called Paint Drying. It was 10 hours and 7 minutes of a brick wall painted white. It was made so that the British Board of Film Classifications had to watch it to give it an age rating lol

It was rated U for Universal :o

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Nikes Just do it slogan was inspired by murderer Gary Gilmore. In front of a firing squad in 1977, he was asked if he had any last words. Gilmore said: Lets do it. Dan Wieden, founder of the ad agency that made the slogan said he liked the do it part.

This isn't so much interesting as it is tragic :(

Nickelodeon studios '90s vs now

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/79defc59.jpg

Dr. Seuss is credited with inventing the word "nerd", from his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo"

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YugiNoob posted...

This isn't so much interesting as it is tragic :(

Nickelodeon studios '90s vs now

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oof

Puffo is Italian for Smurf according to the wiki about Blue Moon ice cream lol

Plural is puffi, similar to how spaghetti and ravioli is plural, whereas spaghetto and raviolo are singular.

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Are you telling me that a single spaghetti noodle is a spaghetto?

Heartomaton posted...

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Are you telling me that a single spaghetti noodle is a spaghetto?

Damn straight

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Also this Raviolo al' Uovo, or egg yolk ravioli

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Fettuccino?

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Tortellino?

speaking of random interesting facts, you and I, TC are gamefaqs friends, but I actually don't know how we know each other. Like don't just up and unfriend me or anything >_> just saying, I don't recognize your name

Machete posted...

speaking of random interesting facts, you and I, TC are gamefaqs friends, but I actually don't know how we know each other. Like don't just up and unfriend me or anything >_> just saying, I don't recognize your name

I recently requested a name change on my account. I used to be "indica" but felt I grew out of that name a long time ago.

Here's a fun fact: Ketchup used to not have tomatoes at all and was actually a fish sauce. The word originally comes from the Malay word kecap which then becomes the Chinese (Hokkien) word k-chiap: "brine of pickled fish or shellfish"

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Some basketball trivia:

In 1953 the Baltimore Bullets made the playoffs with a record of 16-54

14 different players have a recorded 5x5 game, though blocks and steals weren't recorded before 1972 so it's very likely some others did it. Hakeem Olajuwon has by far the most with 6, and the only other player with more than one is Andrei Kirilenko.

AC Green holds the record for consecutive games played at 1192. Mikal Bridges holds the active iron man streak, having never missed a game in his NBA career.

The record for games played in a single season is 88.

Scottie Pippen's first name is actually Scotty. When he was drafted, commissioner David Stern called him Scott Pippen, causing quite a bit of confusion lol

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The eye is the only part of the body that gets its own oxygen supply from contact with the air.

BlueKat posted...

The only innate fears we have at birth are the fear of falling and loud noises.
All other fears are learned through traumatic experiences and by social means.

Pain could be an innate fear as well, no?

A horse normally has more than one horsepower.
A study in 1993 showed that the maximum power a horse can produce is 18,000W, around 24 horsepower.

Heartomaton posted...

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Are you telling me that a single spaghetti noodle is a spaghetto?

Every time my mom tells my Italian girlfriend about the paninis at Panera Bread, I see and feel an aura of pain.

HUMMINGBIRDS. I believe this but copied from a site about gardening

Birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman explain. Its true. When we look at an Annas or ruby-throated hummingbird, for example, were not really seeing green pigment on their back feathers or red pigment on their throat feathers. Instead, those are structural colors. The feather itself is just dull and dark, but its covered with transparent layers of particular shapes that operate like a prism. They bend the light and reflect back only certain colors. This is why the colors can seem to change, too. Those red throat feathers may look orange, gold or even green, depending on the angle of the light.

My friend informed me about an old video taken at the Honolulu zoo where a chimpanzee grabbed a frog/toad and used it as a fleshlight, and it was truly disturbing D:

BewmHedshot posted...

AC Green holds the record for consecutive games played at 1192. Mikal Bridges holds the active iron man streak, having never missed a game in his NBA career.

Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak September 6, 1995, playing in his 2,131st consecutive game. When Ripken's streak started on May 30, 1982, most of his teammates on that 1995 team were in elementary school. Ripken's streak is more than twice that of third place holder Everett Scott (1,307, which is still the National League record set between 1916-1925). It's also believed that during his streak, Ripken played 8,264 consecutive innings, though MLB does not recognize that as an official record.
The current MLB consecutive games leader is Matt Olson with 438 straight.
Also, the longest professional baseball game lasted 33 innings and a 2-month suspension to complete (Started April 18, 1981, suspended at 4:07am on April 19, completed June 23). Guess who played every inning of that game....

Did you know that in 43% of observed cases, two Lobotomites will either fight for dominance or inject bodily fluids into each other?

Unsanitary.

Towards the end of the Jurassic period, the Thesaurus was one of the first dinosaurs to become extinct, obsolete, belated, abolished, vanished, terminated, extinguished, ended, vanquished and wiped out.

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