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In the Middle Ages, people thought farting in jars and sniffing them would help prevent death. True or false? Weirdly enough, it actually checks out as true. In fact, during the Great Plague of London in the 1600s, some doctors would recommend that people keep “fart jars” to ward off the bubonic plague.

While it more than likely did not save many people, the strange piece of information has been forever immortalized in history books. And it's just one of many very strange but fascinating tidbits that can be found on the Weird Facts IG page. Over 1.2 million people follow the account for their daily dose of oddly interesting information.

Bored Panda has picked out a few of our personal favorites from the page for your scrolling pleasure. Upvote the ones that leave you intrigued, and enjoy sharing your newfound knowledge with your family and friends this holiday season.

#1

Man in hooded robe portraying a character, with text about a heartwarming story. Weird fact shared below image.

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Druklet
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've read Mark has done this many times. A genuinely compassionate and amazing person.

Suck it Trebek
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mark Hamil is seriously one if the cookies human beings out there.

Agnetha
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a beautiful gesture. Respect to Mark.

Jnausicaa
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jedi do exist

Beth Wheeler
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awwwwww. Way to go Mark! You made his dreams come true before he died.

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    #2

    Dolphin at a marine institute trained to trade trash for fish, showcasing a weird fact.

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    BrownEyedPanda
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hehe hehe, clever little devil.

    FlamingZombies
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.

    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why you little shi... Respect. I got great respect.

    Grm Moore
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only humans think we're smarter than other species. Nope, we just have thumbs and can build is all.

    Bettye McKee
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only thing that makes animals dumb is that they can't talk, which is the meaning of dumb.

    Doe
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Might have been a cat in a past life...

    Ms.GB
    Community Member
    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Malicious compliance

    cj be like
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That face describes exactly how smug he feels about it

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    #3

    Person holding an award, with a black background and text about 1991 education initiative. Weird facts highlighted.

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    Mindi Rhoades
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We don’t deserve Dolly. She is truly one of the best among us.

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    Riley Quinn
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've never begrudged Dolly her wealth because she's so generous with her time and money. She fully remembers the poverty of her childhood and is doing everything in her power to to help those find a way out. She is an absolutely wonderful human being.

    ElfVibratorGlitter
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's got signs/giant bulletin boards outside of Denver that are about spreading kindness :) such a great lady

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    Agnetha
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dolly is an absolute legend.

    Beth Wheeler
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She has been so generous for so many different things over the years. When somebody started a wildfire in either TN or NC she gave money for the people there in the mountains that lost everything. I think she has also done the same for the Helene victims.

    Vera Diblikova
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish to have such a lady in my country. DP is No. 1 everywhere.

    Learner Panda
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She is one cool lady and greatly, deservedly admired.

    Liv
    Community Member
    8 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stay in school! - Dolly Parton probably

    April Armstrong
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do wish the world would be full of Dollys

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    #4

    In 2017, Georgia inmates save a fallen deputy in a cemetery, an unexpected heroic act.

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    Pandora
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a difference between bad person and a person who has done a bad thing.

    Sand Ers
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they were out on a work detail they were probably in for something minor. Fleeing custody would likely have been a felony. They committed some sort of crime, but that doesn't mean they're complete idiots.

    Jill Jones
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here work detail takes time off your sentence in county jail. Its mandatory at the prison level in the state of Georgia.

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    Panda Kicki
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Sweden they forgot to lock the cell doors at night. Prispners went out and happily made cake and watched TV all night.

    Lola July
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like knowing that these men were acknowledged for there morally sound decisions.

    Jill Jones
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    11 months ago

    Just a side fact...EVERY prison in the state of Georgia has been deemed inhumane as of 2024 and the county jails are even more so. I can confirm this 100% from experience. Just because I thought I was helping someone, I ended up trading that "help" for a few years of my life and freedom. Must people in jail are decent.

    Bettye McKee
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that tells you a lot about the South.

    Earthquake903
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Georgia? I was born and raised there and I rarely see happy stories coming out of there. Nice surprise :)

    CD Mills
    Community Member
    8 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember seeing a clip from a prison where the prison guard collapsed, a heart attack I think, and the inmates screamed and hollered until they got the attention of others and got him help. I don't remember any other details though, it was quite a long time ago.

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    #5

    Mad Max: Fury Road scene with guitarist on vehicle, flames shooting out, showcasing one of many weird facts.

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    XenoMurph
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fresh eyes. Always good to have fresh eyes. With a little balsamic and garlic.

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    El Dee
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds a bit off, like he 'just gave it to his wife' but she's an extremely successful film editor aside from this one film that her husband happened to be working on..

    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've watched them all. But, frankly, I never really got them. Yeah, yeah, dystopian planet, humans reverted back to primitive animals, whatever. But if Guzzoline was so scarce, why did these nitwits spend all their time traveling in gas guzzling vehicles? Made no sense.

    rullyman
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the same with Waterworld. Why were people wasting fuel raiding instead of having sailing ships or making bigger settlements?

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    Chris Landrum
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think George Lucas's wife edited several of the SW movies

    rullyman
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She did. She basically saved A New Hope. George's original cut was a mess

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    Kristen Woehlke
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anytgin you can do, I can do better! (Come on now.... Don't tell me you didn't sing that!

    Michael Largey
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher (the only time she was right.)

    April Armstrong
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine what a woman president could accomplish!

    Danny Dorito
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's just a standard action thing though? Cannot say edits are any better or worse than other films it just a big car chase

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    #6

    Marie Curie working in a laboratory, associated with weird facts about her achievements and education challenges.

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    BrownEyedPanda
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's sad. But if you can't keep a good man down, it applies even more so for a woman.

    XenoMurph
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh come on, sadly plenty of good people, especially women, have been kept down. Given no opportunity to develop, learn, publish. Or worse, treated like witches. How many peasants who were Eistein level genius have been subjugated and ignored. Ploughing and digging without any knowledge to develop to greater things. The world keeps great people down all the time.

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    John Dilligaf
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It wasn't just because she was a woman though, although that certainly didn't help matters. . At the time the part of Poland she lived in was part of the Russian Empire, which put restrictions on higher education of non-Russian ethnic groups. ... The "Flying University" also operated during the Nazi occupation and during the Communist regime.

    a.tyczynski
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    11 months ago

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    Tiny Dancer
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure how the Sorbonne would feel about this "fact". She did do some studying with the Flying University but moved to France to study at the Sorbonne where she later became a professor.

    Pandarosa
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Sorbonne would respect this fact (sans quote marks) because it's true. Good grief.

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    tameson
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, for a while in Warsaw. Then she went to Paris and got her higher degrees there.

    Cydney Golden
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Her notes are sealed in lead, never to be opened since so radioactive.

    Lorraine R
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Curie's notebooks are still radioactive and will remain so for about 1,500 years: The notebooks contain radium-226, which has a half-life of about 1,600 years. The notebooks are stored in lead-lined boxes at France's National Library. Visitors to the library must sign a waiver and wear protective gear to view the notebooks.

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    EJN
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that is what all of us girls will be doing if the Fundamentalist Christians take over America and institute Christian Taliban Nation.

    tee-lena
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't understand the downvotes. You're speaking truth.

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    #7

    Bearded man in sunglasses and plaid shirt outdoors, embodying a weird fact about mistaken identity.

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    Riley Quinn
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The magazine was the MIT Technology Review that used a stock photo off Getty Images for the article, “The Hipster Effect,” authored by Brandeis University researchers. His friends and family thought it was his image. The irony is that this man confirmed the article's research that hipsters consider themselves anti-conformists actively going against the norm, but reality proved otherwise.

    ॐBoyGanesh
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In junior year of high school, in 1987, I wrote a report on the goth or new wave kids I was friends with and how they considered themselves anti-establishment and existing outside of the norm. My thesis statement was that they were their own version of normal just as many different cliques or lifestyles were. I thought i was trying to show the inclusion within diversity. I titled the paper, “The Conformity of the Non-conformist.”

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    RamiRudolph
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How did the hipster burn his mouth on the pizza? He ate it before it was cool.

    Liz Siemens
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Oh, some obscure number, you've probably never even heard of it.

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    James016
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He is unique. Just like everyone else

    Angie May
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same reason goths, punks, emo kids, beauty influencers, stoners, gym bros, and every other social group of people look/dress the same. It's all about tribal ties and wanting to belong.

    G Bono
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For a moment, I thought that was a Kelce brother.

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    #8

    Sea lion on a rock with ocean waves behind, highlighted by an intriguing weird fact about a rescue story.

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    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kevin Hines claims the man next to him on the bridge got photos showing a sea lion holding him above water. Kevin was 19yo and in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression when he jumped. He is now a speaker, author, and advocate for mental health.

    Jossh Nine
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watched a documentary about people jumping from the GGB. The guy who survived was interviewed for it. It's called "The Bridge". It's a bit sad, but also interesting.

    ॐBoyGanesh
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As many San Franciscans will tell you, our only visits to the bridge are generally to take people visiting us out to do the tourists stuff. We otherwise have little to no interest in Fisherman’s Wharf or Pier 39. I’m a 3rd generation SFer and I’ve never been to Alcatraz. Neither has my mother. But the bridge. Many of us have made the 1.7 mile journey to the middle & back. And the thing is, you can’t help but think about jumpers. With the crisis phones along the path & the signage encouraging living & using the phones, the thought enters one’s mind. Now there a safety net that also brings the jumping to the mind. Which is why so many of the few survivors say they didn’t have an intention to jump. It’s often some weird primal spontaneity. It’s as if they’re thinking life will never get better than it is right now so why not go out on a high, maybe? There’s an insightful film about it called “The Bridge.”

    Lowrider 56
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember reading about this guy. He said the second he jumped he knew he had made a mistake.

    Agnetha
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a thing for the Golden Gate Bridge and have a Pinterest portfolio dedicated to it. I even have 2 pictures of it on my bedroom wall.

    Jeanine Coxe
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dude was probably pissed. I know that if I were to so far as to jump off a bridge like that and lived, I would be

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    #9

    Weird fact: An octopus named Otto caused an aquarium power outage by shooting water at a light.

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    cerinamroth
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Give him a book of Sudoku and a pen or two!

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    Traveling Lady Railfan
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope the light was turned off for him afterwards

    Shannon Donnelly
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate trying to fall asleep when the lights on my computer or some appliance are on. I'm totally on Otto's side on this one. Lmao!!

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    Jayjay
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time for a "free Otto" movie?

    Rocky Rocky
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have heard in a few science journals that they are as smart as a dog, if given the chance.

    tee-lena
    Community Member
    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More so, actually. 🐙 there are a few, myself included, who think that given the right push that they could be the next dominant species. Their behavior is changing. Usually solitary, there is a place where the behavior is changing. Older octopuses are teaching younger ones, it's a huge departure from the norm. By the "few" I mean actual scientists. I'm just a fan. These and cuttlefish. They are so smart!

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    Upstaged75
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I highly recommend a book called Remarkably Bright Creatures if you're interested in this fact.

    Anony Mouse
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    8 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That book was wonderful - but most especially the Marcellus parts.

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    Mia C
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bored and stressed in captivity

    Jan Moore
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was an Octopus in New Zealand who escaped his tank and slid through a drain to freedom

    Lowrider 56
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People should watch the Netflix documentary "My Octopus Teacher." It's really good.

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    #10

    People watching a movie in a dark room, weird facts about the calming effect of rewatching favorite films displayed on screen.

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    Brian Droste
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I watch a movie or a show a second time a lot of times I will pick up something I missed or figure something out I missed the first time because I know what is going to take place further in the movie or show.

    Upstaged75
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do the same thing with books.

    Riley Quinn
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suppose if you choose to watch a movie again, but with me it's a bit different. I've rented DVDs (before streaming) and online movies, totally forgetting this is a repeat action. Watching, watching, watching, until about 1/2 way through the realization hits that my brain is broken, my memory is shot, and I've wasted time and money.

    Elladine DesIsles
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've had Gilmore Girls repeating since November 6th. The world can't feel 100% like a dumpster fire burning toward a full propane canister when Stars Hollow is on my screen. By the time we get through the impending era of world history (assuming we do) I suspect I'll have the whole series committed to memory.

    Learissa
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watch Gilmore Girls every year, starting in Fall 😂

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    somnomania (she/her, queer)
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    same with adhd, rewatching things you've seen a million times is good because you don't have to pay as much attention to them because they're familiar. if i'm working on something in a video game, i usually have youtube on in the background with markiplier or other people who play video games, with series vids that i've watched and listened to dozens of times before.

    Mari
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like to rewatch the old series ; Alloo Alloo, Keeping up appearances, Mind your language, are you being served...

    Subaru645
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it the same for music…?

    Rosie
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My shrink told me this years ago. I watch reruns a lot.

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    #11

    Two women on motorcycles, pioneers in a 1916 journey across the US, highlighting weird historical travel facts.

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    Riley Quinn
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kate Hepburn wore pants in the 1939 Broadway play "Philadelphia Story." Her action was considered scandalous.

    El Dee
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahhh, men. Always policing what women are wearing. Still doing it now. It used to be that they were too immodest and now they're unhappy when women cover up..

    Lola July
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People often don't believe me when I tell them my mother was born in the back of a covered wagon in 1916. In Washington State. They were still used on the Oregon Trail up until about 1920.

    BrownEyedPanda
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There should be. But that's just my opinion.

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    Sven Horlemann
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What next - allow women to vote? You mean, treat them like grown-ups???

    Travelling Stranger
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    in the us, in the 1970s, women were not allowed to wear pants in courts/institutions/corporate settings..

    Upstaged75
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the late 90s I was not allowed to wear pants at my job - at an upscale hotel. I had to wear a dress/skirt and pantyhose every day. Because the GM was a sexist pig.

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    Stephanie Barr
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sh*t like this makes me think of all those "before Ayatollah" pictures of Iran and then about electing Trump.

    Lene
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember when my grandma told me and my cousin about this girl she knew when she grew up (1920s, way out in the country in Denmark). This girl was a badass (not my grandma's exact words) and did a lot of things girls wasn't supposed to do. And this girl was the first female in the area that wore pants. And I could hear the pride my grandma had for this girl as she told us about her in the 2010s. (My grandma was also very untraditional in many ways so I think she really looked up to the pants-girl).

    Linda Riebel
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope young women today realize that men remorselessly take away women's rights that they fight the current fascist administration.

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    #12

    Brain scan image with text describing a weird fact about a woman hearing voices that led to a tumor discovery.

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    Danny Dorito
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is nice when the voices are nice most times you hear they nasty

    Definitely not a catnapper
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be great if the voice in my head wasn't so negative im talking to you sharon u nasty piece of c**p

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    Sand Ers
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I found a brief article in TheBMJ by a Doctor claiming to be the treating psychiatrist in this case. TheBMJ is a legit peer-reviewed medical journal with a long history. The story at least seems to be true, although there is no definitive way to verify the details, and there are alternative possibilities aside from telepathy or magical intervention.

    ZuriLovesYou
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mr. Ballen talked about this on his YouTube channel.

    Mary August
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whatever was the cause of the voices they helped her.

    Katie Allen
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm amazed the doctors took her seriously enough to do the scan

    Gary
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe this story.

    Traveling Lady Railfan
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope if I ever get a major illness, that helpful voices will give me a heads up so I can get treatment in time...

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    #13

    Doris Miller during Pearl Harbor attack, manning a gun; historical bravery depicted in 2001 film.

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    Data1001
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You gotta be a tough dude with a name like Doris. (That Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue" comes to mind.)

    Major Harris
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    sadly he was killed later on in the war when his ship, the light carrier u.s.s. liscombe bay was torpedoed by a japanese sub on thanksgiving day, 24 nov1943. the torpedo caused the ship's supply of torpedoes to explode, destroying the ship and taking with her 2/3 of the crew, miller among them.

    J W
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another movie ruined by Ben "Cardboard" Affleck

    Kurt Schilling
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes, heroic people don't fit the mold of 1950-1990 America! Dorry is indeed a Hero!

    Bettye McKee
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because that's what heroes do.

    Stephanie Barr
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They showed the guy in Tora! Tora! Tora!, too. Probably my favorite part of the film.

    Dariusz M. D.
    Community Member
    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why was it necessary to mention that he had been African-American?

    tee-lena
    Community Member
    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because no black enlisted at that time was ever allowed to be anything but cooks and dishwashers. He received no combat training yet still did his duty and saved countless lives. Color is important for context in life. You shouldn't be color blind but recognize that color is beautiful and rich. Celebrate the difference while acknowledging what makes us the same. The color of his skin? Brings the most needed context.

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    DC
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Action Movie? Damned,it was a disappointing romcom at best. Unrealistic flight scenes don't make up for it either, but ... we really expected a war movie when we watched it in the cinema. We were disappointed by the genre, and disappointed by the rather annoying stories that were sparked by this movie being a romcom happening to happen during WW2.

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    #14

    Vintage photo of a Mexican railroad brakeman with a mustache, wearing a hat. A text overlay shares a weird fact about his heroism.

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Absolutely. Monument, statue, town name changed in his memory to Nacozari de García, several streets and schools across Mexico are named after him, a ballad, a day of commemoration (7th November), posthumous American Cross of Honour, and declared a Hero of Humanity. He is a Mexican national hero.

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    Hugh Crawford
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe he should have stopped at 5?

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    #15

    Illustration of a stressed woman with text about weird facts related to a 2013 survey on mothers' stress sources.

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    Tyranamar Suess
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm often relieved to not have a husband. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have one to help. Then I remember all the stuff they'd probably want me to do for them.

    Breadcrumb.
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not womens work it's everyone's responsibility, "you live here too" should be enough said..

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    Cosmos in your eyes
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It depends. He isn't the greatest at the little stuff, but he ROCKS the big stuff. It's hard to keep it in perspective sometimes because the little stuff is easier to see than the big stuff. Thankfully we balance each other out pretty well. And he's cute!

    Kari Panda
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And often, it’s not balanced in the short but in the long term. My SO frequently plays on his phone instead of tending to stuff that needs tending. But then there are days where he has the house sparkling clean by the time I get up. And when our daughter was born, he did 90% of the housework for the first ~9 months because we both agreed that our little one comes first and I should rather cuddle/play with her than worry about housework while my husband’s at work.

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    tracy black
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i agree so i got rid of the husband kept the kids couldnt have been happier

    Lupita Nyong'heaux
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and this is breaking news because....?

    April Armstrong
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Learn how to use power tools and amass a garage full off tools. No need for a husband.

    Laura Deckers
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are so many helpful videos of how to maintain your house, car, and other things on YT.

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    Jeremy Klaxon
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another way to look at it is that 54% of mothers said that their children caused them more stress than their husbands.

    Tabitha
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You don’t have to be a mom to feel that way.

    Gannesh
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A survey should be taken from the husbands too...92% of husbands will also say, that their wife's give them more stress than anyone else in the world..and the balance 8% are even afraid to take their wifes names, as a reason for their stress...🤣🤣

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    #16

    Bowhead whale emerging from water, linked to a fact about surviving a century-old harpoon attack, highlighting weird facts.

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    Danny Dorito
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Give whales guns so they fight back make it fairer

    Upstaged75
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I often say that this is the only way I will consider hunting a sport. Unless the animals have weapons too how is it even a contest?

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    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Japanese went back to whaling in 2019. Now they are hunting Fin whales that are classified as Vulnerable. No excuse for this. Absolutely no excuse. And don't waste your time informing me how it's a tradition, because most traditions are idiotic and/or destructive.

    Mr.Mister
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They even come up with the blatant lie, that its for science....

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    Kerry Fletcher
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or someone was also using a really old harpoon

    cugel.
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a shovel made in 1951, I can dig 70 year old holes.

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    Jules
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Humans are f*****g arseholes

    Captive
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine swimming for years with a harpoon stuck in you

    Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This also clued marine biologists into the real life span of whales. Whales were hunted nearly to extinction right before electricity became popular and accessible. Whale blubber was used for lamps all over the world, so whale populations were quickly dwindling. It wasn't until the next generation of whales started aging, and finding the occasional whale with evidence of its age, that biologists became aware that whales lived past 100. Now that so many of that generation of whales are into their 100s, we're learning about their aging process and have yet to establish their true lifespan!

    John Dilligaf
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if you have to hunt whales you should have to do it the traditional way. No modern technology. Sailing ships, row-boats, and hand-thrown harpoons only.

    Peter H
    Community Member
    8 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or, you know, someone shot it with an old harpoon.

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    #17

    Man in glasses and checkered shirt, associated with weird facts about apologizing for creating pop-up ads.

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    Damned_Cat
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He doesn't look all that sorry to me.

    misfittrixx
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Evil genius!!!! Just look at that sinister grin,he knew what he was doing..

    Brian Droste
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All the pop up ads that have ever been invented should be sent to him one right after another without letup.

    Nils Skirnir
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Something about the prefix ‘zucker’ - rhymes with ‘sucker?’

    GrowingThruConcrete
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I personally know the guy who invented click bait is NOT sorry

    smitajky
    Community Member
    8 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had bored panda complain because I have an ad blocker. That is essential self defence in this world.

    D Gibson
    Community Member
    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An apology is simply not enough , Mr. Zuckerman.

    EJN
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now if he would only develop a secret way to disable them that does not involve money and would be distributed to users secretly, we would all forgive him.

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    #18

    Two men seated together, smiling, with a text overlay sharing a weird fact about the founding of Ben & Jerry's.

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    Dragon mama
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And now it's owned by Unilever and the quality went down the tubes

    tee-lena
    Community Member
    10 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The coffee flavor is still yummy and the new deep dark chocolate is beyond yummy. My dumb a*s means Hagen dass.(sp?)

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    Deborah
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    11 months ago

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    I prefer Hagen Daaz.

    Sand Ers
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There ain't no Hagen, there ain't no Daaz...

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    Leigh
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I met Ben Cohen. Not a fan of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream. I like Tillamook and hagen daaz because they use oregon strawberries to make strawberry ice cream.

    Manana Man
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to pick strawberries in Oregon when I was a teenager. Varieties intended for jams and such, super juicy and too fragile to ship to stores. But heavenly good right off the vine.

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    Cheryl Ramsay
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ben & Jerry's started in a garage.

    Cheryl Ramsay
    Community Member
    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ben & Jerry's started operation in a garage.

    Katie Allen
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've met Ben Cohen. he's a good dude

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    #19

    Old haunted house linked to carbon monoxide and hallucinations, illustrating weird facts about eerie experiences.

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    glowworm2
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's actually scarier than the house being haunted.

    Sky Render
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another common cause is old machinery that generates infrasound (ultra-low frequency noise). Infrasound is known to cause inherent sense of dread and (at the right frequency) can cause visual distortions that look like movement.

    Ms.GB
    Community Member
    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's one theory of what happened at Dylatov pass. If you haven't heard of the Dylatov pass incident look it up, it's a crazy story.

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    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why, you don't say? Haunted houses are actually poison houses? Flabbergasting news!

    Winnie the Moo
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But all the camera’s “registering” ghosts…

    Michael Largey
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or you're unlikely to haunt a house that didn't exist when you died because it wasn't built yet.

    Sven Horlemann
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nooo, that's what the devil wants you to think.

    Katie Allen
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Haunted houses aren't real! FFS

    Tiger
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ….That’s kind of what this post is saying though? Houses that are allegedly haunted often have reasonable explanations.

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    #20

    Man adjusting glasses beside Chewbacca costume; text reveals he chose to play a hero. Weird facts from movies.

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    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This wonderful person, whom his fellow cast called a "a sweet man", suffered with such pain. He had Marfan syndrome and gigantism that caused respiratory problems, and he was forced to use a wheelchair due to the pain.

    Samantha
    Community Member
    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Peter came to my Wedding in the 1980's, he worked with my Ex Father in Law in a Large Hospital.

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    Major Harris
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    while filming out in the redwood forests, he had to have body guards to prevent him from being shot from over eager hunters believing him to be a bear or even bigfoot!

    Bettye McKee
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And killed it! He is everyone's favorite character. In my opinion, anyway.

    Michael Largey
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neither he nor Prowse had any trouble remembering their lines.

    cj be like
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was great as chewie!! Its almost a good thing he didn't go for Vader because that freed up the role for James earl Jones. Rip to the legend <3

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    #21

    Vintage photo of Vince Coleman and his gravestone, highlighting a weird fact about his heroic telegraph message saving 300 lives.

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    Major Harris
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    06 dec 1917, halifax nova scotia. the s.s. mont blanc, a freighter HEAVILY loaded with explosives for the war raging in europe, collided with another ship in the harbor. the mont blanc caught fire and the crew could not put it out. they radioed the harbor of the situation and then abandoned the ship, made it to shore and took shelter behind a small rise. the explosion is one of the largest non nuclear explosions caused by man, killing 1,782 people in the town.

    Upstaged75
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Halifax right? I toured the city once and they showed us how far the impacts of the explosion went. Unbelievable!

    Michelle C
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A true hero; may Vince Coleman rest in peace!

    Leslie B
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Coleman_(train_dispatcher)

    Lorraine R
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

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    Arenite
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t get it. He’s a train dispatcher. Was he on the burning ship? Was the ship headed directly for his train station? A brave man, deservedly honored by his country, but this telling of his story makes no sense.

    Mattie
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was 93 when he did that??

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    #22

    Whynot sign in North Carolina surrounded by greenery, showcasing a weird fact about its naming origin.

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    BrownEyedPanda
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess it's better than "Who Cares."

    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Boy, this gave me some serious flashbacks of sitting on uncomfortable folding chairs or gym bleachers in town meetings well past midnight and realizing I live among some of the dumbest people on the planet. But it's their democratic right to speak and speak and speak.

    Anonymouse
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like the story of the zoo in california, that put in a railroad. They held a contest to name it. The winner? W'Gasa, when asked the winner sheepishly replied, "Who gives a s**t, anyway?" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wgasa/

    Trophy Husband
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the fifth hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy book, Arthur Dent is on a version of the planet Earth that is called now what. I always thought that would be a great name for a town. They said that the name came because people landed on the planet looked at how horrible it was and said now what?

    catpanda
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sister city: Because, Idaho (just kidding)

    Lowrider 56
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to go to a bar in North Carolina called "He's Not Here!

    Bettye McKee
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a town named Ink because the directions were "Print in Ink."

    Nathalie Harris
    Community Member
    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a restaurant in Barcelona (in the Raval area, just right of The Rambla) called 'It's MY F**** Restaurant' I went in and chatted to the owner. I said I bet this is so named because you're sick of having to get rid of drunk tourists at the bar and KEPT having to repeat the statement. He smiled and said he had named it thus to prevent him from having to do that since he was so sick of it in his last place!

    Jeanine Coxe
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Terrible Maps says that the strangest city name in GA, USA is “Flippen”, and while that is a legitimate city in GA, Cumming has it beat, hands down. Which is also a legitimate city. I like to joke that it’s just north of Breathing Hard (which is not a legitimate city), but it always gives me the giggles

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    #23

    Tomb of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier in Paris adorned with potato plants, highlighting an interesting historical fact.

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    Brian Droste
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I die I think I might want potatos plants each year planted on my grave site. My favorite food when growing was mashed potatoes and gravy. Either that be cremated and my ashes be spread in a potato field.

    Annik Perrot
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was also, if the legend is true, a fine psychologist. Story has it that, since the people of the time wanted nothing to do with that weird stuff, he posted armed guards around the fields. That made the content of the fields valuable, and the potatoes were promptly stolen and presumably enjoyed by the thieves. People are contrary that way.

    John Dilligaf
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes. In fact he instructed the guards to be corrupt and take bribes to allow people to steal the "valuable" plants.

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    Pernille
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He even got the french version of cottage pie named after him, hachis Parmentier.

    Janissary35680
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also Potage Parmentier, a leek and potato soup. One of my all-time favorites.

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    Tyranamar Suess
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That MARS book the guy survives by planting and eating potatoes. High calorie yield with easy growing.

    rullyman
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Martian! I once asked author Andy Weir why they didn't have seeds for other food, given that the character is a botanist, and got the reply that he was studying ferns.

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    n75mk9nk2n
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If those are potato plants in the picture, they''re surprisingly lovely!

    Lousha
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't find a single potato plant in that picture.

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    Bettye McKee
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What would we do without potatoes?!?

    Katie Allen
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    there are so many great French recipes using potatoes

    Ace
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also gave his name to a classic French dish of shredded meat topped by gratineed mashed potatoes. Not dissimilar to a cottage pie, Parmentier de (meat of your choice, usually beef or duck) is one of the most commonly available supermarket ready-meals.

    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Potatoes are nightshades, so it made sense that people avoided them. Back then, no one would've known how close a pig's physiology is to human, so if the pigs weren't dying, it meant they were safe to eat (if cooked and not green or black). The mistake that caused The Irish Famine was too great a reliance on potatoes as a food source.

    Annik Perrot
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, that and the English still taking the wheat when the potatoes failed.

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    cj be like
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    good job to him! Without it france might not have French fries.

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    #24

    A jaguar resting on a tree in a South American forest, known for gnawing on caapi roots causing hallucinations; a weird fact.

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some animals purposely eat fermenting fruit and get drunk, some bears in Russia huff jet fuel to get high, shrews eat fermented nectar. Animals do find ways to get high.

    Kalikima
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do bears huff jet fuel?

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    Kristen Woehlke
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So instead of SNOOP DOGG, we have SNOOP CATT

    Upstaged75
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It must be super fun to be a big powerful cat that can hunt and kill things with claws/fangs and then go get high. ;)

    Stephanie Goadsby
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does it make forbidden pets acceptable? 😸

    Senjo Krane
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder how they know that the jaguars hallucinate.

    cj be like
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    when the sesh so good even your spots are seeing spots

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    #25

    A historic couple from Macy's involved in a Titanic anecdote, highlighting a weird fact.

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    Rocky Rocky
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True Love, in a sad way. They're still together though.

    Ms.GB
    Community Member
    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can understand it. I've been with my husband 23 years and the thought of being separated or one of us dying is terrifying. I'm sure they were together much longer than that.

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    Abdullah Abd Rahman
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess that's the source of inspiration for James Cameron's iconic shot of that couple in the "Titanic" movie.

    Michelle C
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup! They absolutely refused to leave one another in the end. Isidor Strauss even told his wife to get on the boat she was offered since she could save herself even if he couldn’t come with her. Indeed, she told him that wasn’t going to happen because she wasn’t going to be with him.

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    Lewis KR
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Last seen standing on the deck, arm in arm as several half empty lifeboats floated away.

    Sven Horlemann
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    100% dedication. How it should be.

    smitajky
    Community Member
    8 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have discussed the matter enough. We know that whoever dies first will be the lucky one. I would hate to have to live a day without my soulmate and love of my life. We have been inseparable since we were teenagers.

    Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero"
    Community Member
    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well... I have always liked Macy's over Dillard's. That and 'Miracle on 34th Street'. But now this too.

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    #26

    Pirate-themed man on a ship, showcasing weird fact about MIT offering a "pirate certificate" for completing specific courses.

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    Upstaged75
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You still have too be able to get in to MIT. Which is NOT easy. :)

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    LizzieBoredom
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Upon graduation, you are given the choice of losing an eye or a leg.

    Dumb teenager
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “The degree cost me an arm and a leg but it was worth it”

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    My O My
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you recieve a parrot with the certificate

    Ilan Elron
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it actually makes sense, in a number of ways say "Science, technology, engineering, mathematics and piracy" - STEMP

    Michael Largey
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At Harvard, to earn the right to rob, loot, and pillage, you must graduate from their business school.

    JohninND
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aaarrgghhh, I went to mmm-iiii-tttt aarrgghh!

    Arenite
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is the highest grade you can get an ARRR?

    Linda Riebel
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just learned my brother-in-law did all those courses!

    JuniorCJ82
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, so I could have gotten a "degree" from MIT?

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    #27

    Silhouette under colorful sky with floating money, highlighting a weird fact about wealth and happiness.

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    Bookworm
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Money may not buy happiness but it sure as hell helps with what does give happiness. Access to better food and medical care, less stress, doing things to enjoy your life like traveling and experiences like concerts and plays. Things you simply can't afford if you're poor.. Next can they study why there are idiots who need to study the obvious?

    Tucker Cahooter
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember when taking Psychology classes one professor saying something along the lines that most psychological research ends up just saying things that your grandmother could have told you and this fits that definition to a T

    n75mk9nk2n
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Money can't buy you happiness, but it can sure as hell rent you paradise.

    cj be like
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    immediately thought of Glitz and Glam's song from Helluva Boss

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    Lola July
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gee, what an astonishing realization. Who would have thunk it? Not having to worry about being able buy groceries all month verses having ones electricity shut off. Forget about having medical tests run that you need but cannot afford. Of course being poor and being treated like c**p at work because your employer knows you have to have this job is happy making.

    greenguy
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who tf thought otherwise

    ZuriLovesYou
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People who say money doesn't bring you happiness.

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    Rocky Rocky
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not a rich Vet but it sure seems that the less I worry about money, the more I have.

    DC
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my ... "MoNeY dOnT hApPiFy YoU11111" - random obnoxius stupid rich person. Seriously, lack of money is what sparks worries and sorrow, often to the point these eclipse everything else you're trying to think. That makes you unhappy. Once money has pulled you out of this valley of fears and frownery, MORE money will contribute very little to your happiness. Affording, having TWO Ferrari instead of one, never can make you as happy as having one instead of a VW, and having a VW instead of no vehicle at all, is the largest step in these by far, in regard to overall happiety. Which money doesn't improve over the abscence of threats and sorrows, but up until that point, sure does. Surest!

    Michael Largey
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Possible reason: Happiness can be the result of achieving a goal. With inherited wealth, there is no goal to achieve.

    Breadcrumb.
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And, they also had good parents.

    Riley Quinn
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I argue psychology isn't a real science, and it's reasons like this that I maintain that opinion. All these clowns had to do was randomly ask poor people if money would brighten their lives. It's common sense. As a nihilist, I'm firmly aware that the one who dies with the most toys wins.

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    #28

    Sean's Bar in Ireland, the world's oldest bar, with a blue facade and outdoor seating since 900 AD, showcasing weird facts.

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    Mark Howell
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kieth Richards old haunt before the stones

    Warren Peece
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they still haven't paid off the mortgage.

    clara belini-king
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They meet every 100 years, in the same bar.

    Max Fox
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the oldest continuously working bar. There are ruins of bars that are much older.

    Sand Ers
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's nothing of the sort. Every single piece of this "fact" has been utterly debunked.

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    Queeqec
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But did it survive the lockdowns and other restrictions since 2020?

    Rali Meyer
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    went past a winefarm in Germany last summer, dated around 700 AD. Probably had no bar!

    Ashlie Benson
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oldest or oldest still in operation? Regardless, no one is shocked it's in Ireland.

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    #29

    Eclipse image with weird fact about moon's size and distance from Earth compared to the sun.

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    J W
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can anyone comment on whether that works out mathematically - I don't think that apparent size scales 1:1 with distance.

    Lorraine R
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The moon is 1/400th the size of the Earth, not the sun.

    Scott Rackley
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another fun fact: This will only be true for a set period of time. The moon is moving away from us, which will make total eclipses go away.

    Danny Dorito
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But with all the star/planet/moon combos out there they gotta be more coincidences like this

    Riley Quinn
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That we know of, so far. JWST is out there providing some incredible, mind blowing details and changing the opinions of astronomers and physicists on certain aspects they thought they understood. We've only scratched the proverbial surface.

    D Gibson
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The diamond ring effect during a solar eclipse.

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    11 months ago

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    DC
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, we don't know all too many planet-moon-combinations to begin with. Exomoons, I'm not sure if there even are known ones yet, but the widespread possession of moons in our solar system might point to many, maybe most, planets do have moons. Just seems like our one is exeptionally large in relation to the planet ... but, maybe only those planets allow evolution up to the point of understanding it's necessariety, and thereby, of course, allow only habitants of larger-than-due moon bearing planets to recognize them having any moon at all.

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    #30

    Aerial view of a blue whale, the largest known animal, swimming in the ocean; a weird fact about its size is highlighted.

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    Riley Quinn
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't help but think of Alan Davies (QI) every time I read/see something about Blue whales.

    Leekun
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And when the answer finally was "blue whale" he didn't get it xD

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    RamiRudolph
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wrong. There were dinosaurs - Sauropods - the were probably even larger. Blue whales get up to 33 meters long, but some dinos reached lengths of 40-50 meters. Sure, they haven't found a complete skeleton yet, but scientists can guess their size from individual bones.

    Tiger
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The post says largest, not longest. Largest refers to body mass. They can weigh more than 180,000kg, so yes, they are larger than any dinosaur and the largest animal that has ever been known to live.

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    Lilly Pomar
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The extinct whale species Perucetus colossus was estimated to have been slightly bigger.

    tater.gonna.tot
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just forget about Godzilla then, rude

    Kat
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For some reason this fact makes people unreasonably angry and incredulous and they refuse to believe it. I've had people argue me on this more than once even after proving it with a Google search.

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    #31

    Man sitting, mentioned as RADAR inventor caught speeding, expressing surprise at use of his invention.

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    Kira Okah
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of the designers that created the breathalyser was recently done for drunk-driving and has been banned from driving for a year, was in the local news yesterday, think they did use a breathalyser on him too.

    Kelly Scott
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I heard about a guy caught speeding with a radar gun who went to court to fight the ticket. When it was his turn to get on the stand, he brought up a screen and proceeded to list all the things that could go wrong with a radar gun, and how, and why. Like birds flitting through trees, wind blowing, etc. It was pretty technical and he got off.

    DC
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After all, here it's the same as everywhere else - they gotta prove that you've committed an offense, not just assume so and have you prove otherwise. Therefore, objection may be taken unless they've followed the protocol issued for the device they're employing, and if they fail to do so, the measurement can vastly deviate from the true velocity (... which is why there's a rather strict protocol about all of them, and how to set them up and so forth), which, to me, sounds like it's perfectly reasonable to object, if you're uncertain about the measurement being correct.

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    #32

    Close-up of an eagle's eye and beak illustrating weird facts about their vision capabilities.

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    Hippopotamuses
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Must remember not to pee myself if I'm being chased by an eagle.

    Jeanine Coxe
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good luck with that. If one comes after me, I’m sure to leave a pee trail

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    Brian Droste
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was in middle school, there was two pictures of a field. One showed what a human saw in the field. The other one showed what a bird like a eagle saw. The second one showed like small animals hidden in the field the bird saw while humans couldn't see them.

    Norma
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eagles' eyesight is 3 x better than humans. Hawks' eyesight is 7 x better than humans.

    Ace
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're going to get so specific then you might think about naming an individual species of hawk or eagle that's used for the comparison. There will be considerable variations between subspecies, especially hawks, which is a very broad group of species, with inconsistent definitions varying between the US and Europe.

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    Rocky Rocky
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds likle my wife shopping when she's looking for something. Or me in a hardware store, for that matter.

    Rali Meyer
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my wife can spot me in the bar (in Ireland...) many miles away

    Riley Quinn
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm a gonna if any of 'em spot my trail.

    Jane Hower
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems it was a good choice for our National BIRD!!!!!!

    Jnausicaa
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Raptors are cool. Very cool

    Lyone Fein
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So basically they're just missing thumbs and that's why they don't rule the world?

    Chich
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And their call is kind of like a sick chick or a hyperactive puppy. The movies use the call of a hawk in it's place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEmYEQ78zS0

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    #33

    Black and white photos of Charlie Chaplin with text discussing weird facts about his career and 12-minute standing ovation.

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    ZuriLovesYou
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nice. Too bad he was a pedophile.

    smugdruggler
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read somewhere that Hitler copied the toothbrush style moustache from Chaplin, who he was a fan of. Chaplin"s response was the movie "The Great Dictator ", as a fu€k-you to Hitler.

    Lola July
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    11 months ago

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    Against Capitalism? Hypocrite! He certainly was charging money for his acting. He did however sexually abuse minors for free...

    Tiger
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being against capitalism doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay your bills. But yeah F Charlie Chaplin .

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    #34

    Morgan Freeman as "Red" in The Shawshank Redemption, with a fun trivia fact displayed about the character's origin.

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    TruthoftheHeart
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are Black Irish, some even still get red hair

    Bettye McKee
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Black Irish have black hair. That's how they distinguish between the Black Campbell and the Red Campbell. Also the Scots, the Black Douglas has black hair and the Red Douglas has red hair.

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    Christine Stewart
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Morgan Freeman's Red is one of my favorite characters in one of my favorite movies!

    Onan Hag All
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    11 months ago

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    Far more politically correct to cast a black bloke.

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    #35

    Great white shark close-up with text about its unusual behavior near Farallon Islands, highlighting weird facts.

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    Janissary35680
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "We're gonna need a bigger boat." "Fück boats. I'm gonna get an orca." (From an early rejected draft of "Jaws".) 🤫

    Lousha
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So basically if a bit of shark blood was released into the water at regular intervals at beaches where shark attacks are a known risk, that risk could be reduced to zero without any special equipment or mass killing of sharks.

    My O My
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, but Hawaii would get buttloads of sharks

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    John Dilligaf
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Orcas will also teach other Orcas ways to kill Great Whites. An Orca pod off California was observed to be killing GWS in a unique way. The pod migrated up the coast and as they went other Orca pods in their path started killing sharks with the new method.

    Lola July
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Proving sharks are not mindless killing machines.

    Kristin
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's crazy, if s shark senses a orca is an area the shark will abandon that area for up to a year. Or as are beautiful but man are the bullies. Some people done realize or know that orcas are the oceans Apex predators. Sharks are even afraid of dolphins. They will check all around before nodding off. Sharks have evolved strategies like camouflage, keen sense especially with electroreception and also being able to remain motionless in the water.

    Rali Meyer
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    we kind of have the same in False Bay, Cape Town

    Kat
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would be equally terrified of anything that could kill the ocean's top predator

    Jeanine Coxe
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, we had the movies Jaws and Orca back in the day. Why not a crossover like Jason vs Freddy?

    Greenmantle
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which is shark language translates to: "AAAHHHHHHHRRRR!!! RUN FOR YOUR FECKIN LIVES MATES!!!!"

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    #36

    Crowd of students in South Korea preparing for Suneung, a major exam day, highlighting unique cultural practices.

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    Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Scholastic_Ability_Test On test day, the KRX stock market opens late, and bus and metro service is increased to avoid traffic jams and allow students to get to the testing sites more easily. Planes are grounded during the listening portion of the English section so their noise does not disturb the students. In some cases, students running late for the test may be escorted to their testing site by police officers via motorcycle.

    Lulu
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, I'd gotta hand it to the late people, arriving via police motorcycle is pretty bada**

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    Elladine DesIsles
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By contrast, when I was living in student family housing at the University of Toronto, they wouldn't even reschedule the building's monthly fire alarm test to fall outside of exam periods.

    Data1001
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also like to "make silence" whenever possible.

    Kari Panda
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This always struck me as dystopian. These are highschool students, barely adults, and a stupid exam is deemed as so important that planes are halted. I feel so sorry for them. Also, many of them repeat the year and take the exam again only so they can get a better score. They would have passed - often even with a high score - but are pressured to retake the exam a year later because only perfect is considered good enough.

    Pittsburgh rare
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the suicide rate over these exams is... well, terrible

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    smitajky
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    8 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was sitting the exams for the commonwealth scholarship we had blasting going on outside our window. Perhaps 10 m away. Every quarter to half an hour we had to stop work and duck under the desks in case of flying rocks. Then KABOOM and back to work until the next one. Those Korean students get it easy.

    Captive
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love it. We should have such days regularly a few times a year

    JohninND
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Makes silence. Interesting.

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    #37

    Map of Australia with text about a weird fact regarding the origin of the Australian accent.

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    arthbach
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Adam Hills has a fantastic routine about the Australian accent coming from the Cockney convicts being sent over from London. The Oz heat caused them all to slow right down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKgVln8XmuE

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    Huddo's sister
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds legit. Would explain why Queensland has broader accents too, since the are the home of Bundaberg rum.

    Settled for Infamy
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could be, I'm originally from Victoria and have often been told, now I'm a Queensland resident, I sound British 😄

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    cugel.
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This bloke is a fair dinkum drongo.

    Helen Rohrlach
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, rum was used as currency for a while in the early settlement.

    Pittsburgh rare
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For the untrained ear, some Australian accents are surprisingly similar to the UK. I'm watching a series set in Tasmania and I have to remind myself they're not Scots or northern Irish 😆

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    #38

    Lego figure at desk illustrating weird fact about unnoticed Spanish civil servant absence for six years.

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    Bookworm
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was working from home before it was cool /s. He did have to pay back a fine which was equivalent to a year's salary. That's the most the company could recoup so he still got 5 years pay for nothing. His defense? He moved to a location that had no work. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35557725

    Kerry Fletcher
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He had to pay them back if I remember correctly

    Science Nerd
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He should have called in sick that day.

    #39

    Man in a suit sitting at a table, with text discussing a weird fact about school drop-offs.

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    Riley Quinn
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes it doesn't take much to set a good example. But we all know why the dads took up this responsibility.

    Kamal Hasan
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bill Gates balancing his professional life with fatherhood, showcasing the influence of leading by example. It's fascinating how one simple gesture can inspire others to reassess their own roles and responsibilities in family life

    Ece Cenker
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Monkey see, monkey do. I mean, where were they before their CEO had the idea! I would be mad to find out that my dad is dropping me off everyday at school so he could gat a score with his boss.

    Beef Brisket
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's wrong with your Dad doing both? After all, he would be trying to advance his career to support you and the rest of the family.

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    Kristin
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has nothing to do with this but everyday me and my daughter set aside 1 hour or longer if needed to just talk about everything and anything she wants. She loves to do this while helping me cook. We even have a journal we have back and forth if she don't want to talk that day or whatever. My husband is a OTR semi driver. So when dad comes home they get a daddy daughter day with only them. According to her she absolutely loves how our family operates (which i hope is true haha) spens time with your kids people. The dishes can wait but the time with them as kids you'll never get back

    Hmmm hmmmm
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've always thought that bill gates is just a better billionaire than musk or bezos

    cj be like
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not the best person but it's not hard to be a better person than elon musk

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    Dariusz M. D.
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    in 2021 Belinda Gates decided to file for a divorce from Bill Gates. It is well observed facts that around that time many women divorced their husbands.

    Michael Largey
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why had these guys been dropping their wives off at kindergarten?

    Rali Meyer
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they tried to get their MS-Office to start with ol' Gates

    Lola July
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nice dad, evil elitist who believes us peons should eats bugs.

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    #40

    Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh, noted for realistic psychopath depiction in "No Country for Old Men" by psychologists.

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    MorticiaRS
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shout out to Kathy Bates/Annie Wilkes!

    Katie Allen
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that character was scarier than most characters in horror movies IMHO

    Zero
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only character in a movie that seriously scared me

    Michael Largey
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have to assume that political leaders were excluded as candidates.

    Powerful Katrinka
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “What’s the most you ever lost in a coin toss?”

    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watch a lot of action movies and psychological thrillers that contain graphic scenes, but this movie, whew boy. It began with graphic violence. After putting it off for a few years, I finally watched it, I'm guessing for at least the first 15 minutes before shutting it down. This level of reality is too much for me.

    Je souhaite
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol guess you haven't seen the Substance makes this movie look like peppa pig

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    Trisec Tebeakesse
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait until they see the Trump presidency!

    Farnzy
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He goes to the barber and tells them "Make it long in the short places and short in the long places"

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    #41

    Two people behind a store counter, discussing a weird fact about Kevin Smith's filming of Clerks.

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    Bill
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The whole a*s to mouth conversation left me speechless. But Jay and Silent Bob were en pointe. 20 bucks little man, put that s**t in my hand. lol

    Karina
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is not possible without eighter d***s or mania.

    Dave Morris
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are we allowed to know what film??

    Kelly Scott
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The guy that played Jeff was a Christian and had an extremely difficult time saying the swear words and the reading off the list of porn videos in his store.

    Farnzy
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who's leading this mob?!

    Farnzy
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    11 months ago

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    Deborah
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which Kevin Smith? There have been a lot of them.

    Amy S
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The one that directed Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma

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    #42

    Scene from "Dirty Dancing" with a couple's iconic lift in a dance hall, highlighting a weird fact about its surprising success.

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    Pollywog
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nobody puts Baby in the corner!!

    Jan Olsen
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably the stupidest line in a movie ever

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    tracy black
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    one of my favorite movies ever

    Bettye McKee
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An outstanding movie. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

    Gavin Johnson
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s a dodgy storyline though.

    Susical
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It depicts a 30-something man in an emotionally abusive, inappropriate relationship with a 17 year old girl. I couldn't believe so many people loved it just because the dance scenes were good.

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    Leigh
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🎶I've had the time of my Life...🎵

    Karina
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When Monthy Python premiered one of their first films, the audience hated it. So to make sure they made the next batch of viewers pay a token price, and suddenly there was so much love for it. This has later been known as sunken cost fallacy, and they are proud to have played a part in proving it to be accurate :p

    Beth Wheeler
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How could anybody think that Dirty Dancing would bomb in theaters.

    Barbara Burns
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So many critics are just full of hot air. I can't tell you how many highly rated movies I've seen that end up being garbage! I've concluded that Rotten Tomatoes is worthless. So sad!

    Pittsburgh rare
    Community Member
    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My guilty pleasure. Objectively worse than many, but thoroughly entertaining. I remember all the rave about it when I was a teenager

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    #43

    Portrait of Jordan Anderson with text about his witty letter asking for 52 years' back pay, illustrating a weird historical fact.

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    Dusty's mom
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He wanted justice, not to make a joke.

    Crissy Newbury
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t find it funny. The man was OWED.

    EJN
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only humorous to the former slave owner...

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    #44

    Bowl of tomato sauce on a table with a spoon, highlighting a weird fact about its Mexican origins.

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    LilliVB
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mmm, yes? I'm Italian, but even I know that tomatoes weren't endemic in Europe. It's quite obvious that tomato sauce was a thing in the place where tomatoes naturally grew.

    Jeanine Coxe
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Y’all were just too chicken to eat tomatoes because of the pewter dishes they were served on

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    DC
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... and one that was made yesternight in northern germany was extremely delicious. Still is ... well, I'm off, stuffing myself until the lack of a gallbladder makes me regret it. Have a nice meal, comrades!

    Hippopotamuses
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's easy to forget what came from the New World.

    CaliPanda
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also chocolate and potatoes. Two foods that most people don’t realize first came from what is now the Americas.

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    #45

    Orca swimming in the ocean, addressing a weird fact about no recorded fatal attacks by wild orcas on humans.

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    keyboardtek
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still. If I were to be in the water and see one of them, I am outta there!

    Trophy Husband
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, I've seen the documentary, nothing bad really happens You just live in the whale's belly for a little while and get shot out the blowhole and then you're fine. A wooden puppet might start talking to you, but the documentary said that's perfectly normal.

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    Hippopotamuses
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unlike captive orcas. And frankly, who can blame them for lashing out.

    Ashlie Benson
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You think that, to orcas, we're like dogs? Like, they're more advanced so see us and are like ahh, such pure innocence, so to kill one of us is like us seeing people hurt/kill dogs? And that's why they hate Great White's so much, because they hurt us. They go full John Wick.

    FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But Great Whites don't intentionally hurt us either. Most attacks are due to a case of mistaken identity.

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    Spittnimage
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Orca: Pardon me, my mistake. 🐳

    7r8cw76q9f
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Killer whale Tilikum killed trainer Dawn Brancheau at Sea World Orlando in 2010

    Tiffany Munday
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Captive orcas on the other hand will.

    El Dee
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently we don't taste nice. Good to know!!

    Cristi nah
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Spain we have the "Gladis" orcas that bump against boats and nobody knows why

    Rocky Rocky
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hear these too are as smart as dogs.

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    #46

    Historical sign for Fort Gay, West Virginia, with text about its establishment and a weird fact involving Microsoft.

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    Count Stefan Amaranth
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about those who are named Ben Dover?

    Panda McPandaface
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm willing to bet the problem would not have arisen if the name had been Fort Straight.

    GrowingThruConcrete
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG this used to happen to me when I lived on buttchop avenue

    Warren Peece
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about Blue Ball, Pennsylvania?

    Michael Largey
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They rejected Fort Gay, yet the Strait of Gibraltar was accepted as a location without issue.

    Leigh
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was told I couldn't wear a weed California shirt into a food pantry. Refused to believe me when I explained it was the name of a town. Also had issues wearing a billabong shirt because it has bong on it. With that logic I can't wear a home depot shirt because of the word pot.

    Greenmantle
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about Woodenbong and Tittybong then? Both towns in Aust. You shoud start a t shirt collection just to see how ridiculous they get about turning you away

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    Lupita Nyong'heaux
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so, we just not gonna mention good ol' Mike Hunt, huh?

    Greenmantle
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Used to drive past a used car sale yard calked Mike Hunt Motors. It never failed to get a giggle

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    Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero"
    Community Member
    9 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "War between the States", which my mother, who was born in Florida and raised in South Carolina, refers to as the "War of Treason". As opposed to one of my coworker who was born and raised in Indiana, who refers to as the "War of Yankee Aggression" or the "War for States Rights". But he states that it was never about slavery.

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    #47

    Country road leading to Wauconda, Washington, purchased by a couple for $360,000. Features café, gas station, post office. Weird facts.

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    Cole Earnhart
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wauconda Forever! Woops, wrong place 😁

    YDNinja
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I literally made this joke in a post like 2-3 weeks ago!

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    Pittsburgh rare
    Community Member
    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Considering the housing market, it seems a hell of a deal, but also looking at the photo a hell of traffic noise

    Greenmantle
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess if they decide to open up the businesses and get people in again they could change the name to "waucyonda"

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    #48

    Great Fire of London painting with text about a man wrongfully executed for starting it.

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    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had to make someone, anyone, pay. That's just the way justice works. Hence the blindfold. She doesn't see a thing. We have cases pending here in the US where death row prisoners have been medically exonerated via DNA or expert research, and their cases are still pending. Some of them could actually be executed in spite of the scientific evidence.

    Farnzy
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three, was exonerated through DNA and it took 3 years before he was released. THREE YEARS!

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    Nobody Special
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing suspicious about that...

    Chich
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not interested in fixing the problem, just the blame.

    ZuriLovesYou
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People can be so stupid sometimes.

    Bettye McKee
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The British apparently got their kicks hanging people.

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    #49

    Man smiling, wearing a suit, highlighted in weird facts; related to pole vault record achievements.

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    Chonky Panda
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like every other top athlete do, this isn't smth new

    Leekun
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Armand Duplantis is following in his footsteps

    Greenmantle
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was going forward in leaps and bounds

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    #50

    Actors in a comedic barbershop scene, wearing capes, highlighting a weird fact about "Dumb and Dumber" salaries.

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They didn't want him in the role because he hadn't done any comedies, so they made him an offer they thought he'd refuse, but he didn't because he wanted to get into comedy and wanted to act with Jim. Context: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jeff-daniels-dumb-dumber/

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    #51

    Astronaut with moon background, text describes a weird fact about Neil Armstrong visiting Langholm, Scotland.

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    iirc the law was in place because a Johnnie Armstrong royally plssed off the King with an insult, so he was hanged.

    Warren Peece
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He replied "Well then, I'm not going to hang around here!"

    #52

    Guinea pig on a rug with a fact about a notorious male guinea pig's escapades.

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    keyboardtek
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did he have an influencer channel?

    Pferdchen
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This sounds like the beginning of a variation on the classic "Randy the Rooster" joke.

    WalterWhiteSavannah
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Randy Giles?!? Why not just call me horny Giles or desperate for a shaggy Giles? (Spike in the episode tabula rasa).

    Deborah
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LOL. Lots of halt- brothers and sisters in the near future.

    ZuriLovesYou
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I reckon they didn't consent to that. Not all of them, anyway.

    #53

    Cartoon pandas from Kung Fu Panda with text about its success sparking cultural debate in China.

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    Pandora
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the CCP stifles independent thought and creativity?

    Khavrinen
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shhhh. They don't like it when you say that out loud.

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    Scott Rackley
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not surprising. I bet the best film about the US wasn't made in the US.

    DramaDoc
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didn't realize how accurate KFP 3 was with the panda rolling until I did a deep dive into panda videos. Those vids are hilarious!

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    #54

    Game show contestant wins record prize using strategy, highlighting weird facts about game board patterns.

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    #55

    Black and white image of a distressed man with head in hands, highlighting a weird fact about a unique legal case.

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    Deborah B
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He lost - the court found that human tissues and organs are not "marital property" and can't be considered an item of property to be valued in a divorce suit. The court also warned Batista that his attempt to extort money for the kidney was legally unsound and could expose him to criminal prosecution.

    Hippopotamuses
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just as well he didn't demand it back.

    #56

    Person using a laptop with code on screen; caption discusses a programmer outsourcing work, highlighting a weird fact.

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    keyboardtek
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And for many years, Microsoft used Apple computers to write the code for the Windows operating systems.

    #57

    Skeleton on a couch with a caption about a weird fact related to the discovery of skeletal remains in Tokyo.

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    Hippopotamuses
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently, this is more common than you might expect, and may be responsible for claims of Japanese longevity.

    Rob D
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is responsible. Japanese researchers have shown like 80% of their centigenarians are dead. And apparently the number major factors to living so long is bad record keeping and fraud; not just in Japan either.

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    Bugoy-420
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder how many 110-year-olds were in that city?

    Jnausicaa
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    www.wtfjapan.jp

    RagDollLali
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think most of the smell dissipates once the majority of the "meat" is gone

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    #58

    Ancient artwork depicting a man pouring a drink, illustrating weird facts about historical traditions.

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    Max Fox
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It comes from pouring a libation to the Gods or spirits. Sometimes to honor them, and sometimes to honor a friend, like somebody would do when donating to their place of worship in honor of a friend or family member who passed away.

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    #59

    Exterior of KaDeWe store, site of a 2009 $6.8 million jewelry heist involving identical twins; a notable weird fact.

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    Danny Dorito
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They both could have done it lock them both up

    Ace
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a basic tenet of law, in America as elsewhere, that "better ten guilty men go free than one innocent is wrongly punished". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio

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    #60

    Inventor of Vaseline believed in its benefits so much he claimed to eat a spoonful daily; lived to 96. Weird facts.

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    sofacushionfort
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He “invented” Vaseline by scooping it off the surface of a creek in Pennsylvania, as the Shoshone had already been doing for centuries for use as a salve and leather conditioner

    #61

    White coffin with flowers in hearse, highlighting weird fact about body donations to science due to rising funeral costs.

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    John Boy
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to be an organ donor, and we had a cheap funeral arrangement where the casket was "rented", and the silk liner was actually a body bag. Our corpses would be put in a styrofoam "box", then our remains interred into a double-deep cement vault. Years later, I decided to give my body to our State University for as long as they wanted it, in order to train future Doctors. Yes, they will cremate it when they're done with my body & put the ashes into a memorial wall. The best part?, that wall is less than a stone's throw away from our cemetery plot. (And, no, they don't sell the organs, they study them. Previous poster is a liar.)

    sofacushionfort
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The schools and organizations harvest any usable organs & tissues, and sell them, keeping the profits. It’s illegal for private individuals to make these same business arrangements

    Geoffrey Scott
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My MIL had this idea to reduce costs of her funeral/final disposition. She found it was FAR more expensive than just cremation.

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    #62

    Weird facts: Brick house with overgrown shrubs, car in driveway, highlighting unexpected story of a hoarder living with a corpse.

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    Hippopotamuses
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is, kind of, difficult to believe. 20 years is a very long time.

    Ace
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly all too easy to believe. Hoarders' homes often have whole rooms, blocked off by rotting garbage, that haven't been accessible for years or even decades.

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    Black Cat
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldnt she have smelled him decomposing?

    Ace
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Says someone who's clearly never been in a hoarder's house. There's a reason they wear ventilators to clear them out.

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    #63

    Four pints of beer on a table, reflecting the Irish tradition of the "12 Pubs of Christmas."

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    Ian Dennison
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the last pub is called "The Worlds End"?

    Gossameringue
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder what the lyrics would be to "The Twelve Pubs of Christmas"?

    on second thought....
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't last further than the 2d pub, considering the stimulating effect any type of brew has on my bladder (excluding tea and coffee).

    #64

    D***o town sign and Captain D***o statue in Newfoundland, showcasing a weird fact about local traditions.

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    El Dee
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They knew when they named the town, there's no way it meant something different..

    #65

    Singer performing on stage, recounting a weird fact about saving his guitar and cannabis from a fire.

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Trying to rescue the weed to stop someone seeing it and getting arrested?

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    #66

    Man holding a jar of mosquitoes during a presentation on malaria, illustrating a weird fact.

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    #67

    Alaska and Hawaii landscapes with a fact about U.S. states' temperature records below 100°F.

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    keyboardtek
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That will soon no longer be true.

    arthbach
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This hasn't been true for 7 years. In 2017, in Kekaha, on Kauaʻi, the temperature was recorded at 114F (46C).

    ZuriLovesYou
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not surprised about the Alaska one.

    Geoffrey Scott
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nor should you be of the Hawaii one, given the tempering effect of the Pacific.

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    Hippopotamuses
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's surprisingly low. (37.7 c)

    #68

    Two historical figures, one in formal attire, with a text about the weird fact of Hiram Maxim and his son Hiram Percy Maxim.

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    TotallyNOTAFox
    Community Member
    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that's indirectly the fault of Thomas Edison, as he sent his employee Maxim to Britain to get rid of him as competitor. Maxim got bored with doing paperwork and developed the first real machine gun

    #69

    Fireworks light up the sky in Vrontados, Greece during the famous "Rocket War" tradition between two churches.

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    Verena
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everybody claiming shooting fireworks at living creatures is fun, is invited to come along at my place with their kids or little sibling. They will get placed in the saddle of one of my horses, which are sweet and gentle, and then the fireworks-lovers may shoot. Let's how much fun this really is. Fireworks-lovers claim that animals should learn to deal with it, "because it is the same as a thunderstorm".

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    #70

    Actor adjusts glasses while filming a scene, related to a weird fact about an injury during a movie shoot.

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    ZuriLovesYou
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is what stunt doubles are for.

    Warren Peece
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Frank Sinatra broke several bones in his hand while acting in a fight scene in his 1962 movie The Manchurian Candidate.

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    #71

    Mugshot of a man with text about a peculiar fact involving locked doors and a serial killer.

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    Huddo's sister
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Glad he wasn't around my place last night. I fell asleep on the couch and woke at 4am and went to bed. After lying there for about 10 minutes I suddenly wondered if I had locked the front door. Glad I got up to check, because I hadn't.

    Riley Quinn
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Locking doors is so routine for me that it's rote behavior. When I moved to a quiet town many years ago, the neighbors razzed me for locking my car and home. My house and car, btw, were the only ones not robbed about 10yrs later. I'm back in the city and both doors are locked. Automatic reflex.

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    cugel.
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My doors are never locked when I'm home. They're not even closed, just the screen door.

    ZuriLovesYou
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who the heII keeps their doors unlocked anyway?

    Multa Nocte
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You need to understand where some of us live. We haven't locked our doors in 2+ years, but we live in southwest France in the vineyards. The only thing that comes in our house uninvited is mice, and we have cats for that.

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    #72

    Man's photo with a text about a Hong Kong gangster demanding a $130 million ransom and asking for investment advice. Weird facts.

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    #73

    South Pole station in snow, scientists watch "The Thing" during six months of darkness, showcasing weird facts.

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    Max Fox
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, you thick-skulled ignoramuses, it's THREE months of darkness. Some terminally ignorant person on Weird-facts posts something astoundingly moronic, which is then copied by an equally ignorant person on BP, because some of the "writers" on BP evidently failed out of school before they learned about the tilt of the earth in third grade.

    Ace
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The ant/arctic circle marks the point at which the sun will not set or rise, for three months. Closer to the pole the ant/arctic night gets longer and longer, so in theory if you are exactly on the pole at the earth's surface then the period of "darkness" would be six months. But it's not really dark, more a sort of twilight anyway.

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    #74

    Mrs. Doubtfire character with glasses and makeup during filming for a scene involving weird facts.

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    Cole Earnhart
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol that sounds like Robin Williams! RIP

    Ariadne Toms
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And I don't think I wanted to know that....

    whiterabbit
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just watched that movie a few days ago, laughed so hard I was crying when he throws that orange and hits Pierce Brosnan in the back of the head. Such a great movie.

    ZuriLovesYou
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would've scared me. 😅

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    #75

    Three people sitting together indoors, with text about a weird fact involving Salvador Dali selling a blade of grass.

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    roddy
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Famous or celebrated, not infamous. How can a mustache be infamous? Did it commit a crime?

    Warren Peece
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently you are not aware of what he did with mustache. Eww, gross. I can't even talk about it.

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    #76

    People enjoying a thrilling roller-coaster ride; weird facts about the physics of the 'stomach in your mouth' sensation.

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    keyboardtek
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter recently went tandem skydiving. You fall at terminal velocity which is close to 150mph. She said she was told not to look down. And the reason was it was so hard to take a breath into her lungs from the pressure on her ribs. Apparently when you look up you can catch a breath.

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    #78

    Three side-by-side images of an actor from three 1994 films highlighting a weird fact about box office success.

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    Smeghead Tribble Down Under
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe you aren't old enough to remember that time. If you were, you would understand :)

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    #79

    Director discussing scene with actor in "Passion of the Christ," highlighting a weird fact about its production challenges.

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    Max Fox
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's repeating that Antisemitic propaganda that was added to the New Testament by the Church. Any part of the story from before his arrest until the crucifixion that involves Jews was added on to shift the blame away from the Romans to the Jews. There are some many parts of that story which are contradicted by basic Jewish law, how the Temple was run, the strict separation between the Priesthood and the Rabbis, the actual struggles between the different movements (the Sadducees, the Pharisees, the Essenes, and more), the assorted courts of Jewish law, etc. Yet the movie tries to be true to Christian antisemitic propaganda, rather than to historical truth.

    Otto Katz
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pornography of violence. I would never watch this and give it the time of day.

    #80

    The cast of Super Mario Brothers smiling together on set in colorful costumes.

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    Data1001
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which is also pretty much the only way to get through watching the movie.

    somnomania (she/her, queer)
    Community Member
    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i loved that movie! it wasn't good, but it was fun, which is what matters.