Fun facts!

[A Grey Cat]

From 1982 to 1987 KFC was owned by rj renoyolds a tobacco company. And yes they tried to add cigarette machines and smoking sections to restaurants but it never came to fruition because the KFC brand was bought by pepsico in 87

 

[A Grey Cat]

The only actor to return from the fly for the fly 2 is John Geitz who played stathis.


Martin brundle's actor Eric stoltiz was the original actor who played Marty mccfly in back to the future before being replaced by Micheal J fox.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

There's a strange amount of parallels in the lives of JRR Tolkien and outsider fantasy author Henry Darger. Both were born in 1892 and died in 1973, both lost their parents at an early age, both served in World War I, and both were devout Catholics.

 

[Goofy Logic]

Here is a fun tale of evolution in technology:

the telegraph would evolve into teleprinters, essentially typewriters connected to each other to form a chat line. This would further evolve into Telex exchanges in the 1930s, where those typewriters could dial up other typewriters to form a proto-internet chat group (they even used binary coding that would later be used and expanded upon for computer modems!).

Telex became an important tool for businesses and was used for a lot of inter-office communications.

The telex would fall by the wayside in favor of the fax machine in the 1980s, and those would grow obsolete as the internet gained a foothold. British telecom discontinued their telex service in 2008, though Wikipedia does suggest a few places still use it.

 

[737 MAX Stan Account]

There's a strange amount of parallels in the lives of JRR Tolkien and outsider fantasy author Henry Darger. Both were born in 1892 and died in 1973, both lost their parents at an early age, both served in World War I, and both were devout Catholics.

Also, Christopher Lee was the only cast member of the LOTR movies that actually met Tolkien.

 

[Dissapointed Grandma]

Also, Christopher Lee was the only cast member of the LOTR movies that actually met Tolkien.

Allegedly Tolkien wanted him to play Gandalf but Lee was too old at the time of filming and declined

 

[A Grey Cat]

David Bowie refused to wear trunks as part of his outfit on labyrinth to cover his crotch. His outfit as jaretith in labyrinth is actually considered tame compared to his other outfits worn on stage at the time.

 

[Longjack Attack]

Jello has pork in it. It contains gelatin which is found in pigs and cows through their bones and skin.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Grand Theft Auto vice city is the only grand Theft Auto game to not have the ak 47 as a weapon in it. The gun was intended to be in the game back when it was a PC expansion pack but it got cut as the game developed into a new game entirely.

 

[Wraith]

Loren Coleman of the company Catalyst which holds the Battletech franchise IP stole upwards of $850,000 for a new porch and house improvements. Randall Bills the company owner who from what I understand is a "Mormon" covered up the larceny and proceeded instead of screw over customers and contractors to help out his buddy. Catalyst has been terrible for years and customer morale is very low.

 

[AnOminous]

The famous scene in The Godfather where Brando pets the cat wasn't planned, and the script didn't even mention a cat. There just happened to be a cat on the lot and Coppola brought it in. They had to loop the dialogue after the fact because the cat was purring so loudly that it was drowning out the fairly softly spoken dialogue.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Tolkien's original name for Gandalf was 'Bladorthin'.

 

[Synthetic Smug]

Because of the combination of the weight and geometry of the skull, skeletal remains will often appear to have decapitation as the cause of death. Heads will roll, so to speak. The location of the hair mass is considered a far more reliable guide as to the initial orientation of the head.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

If a NES game only scrolls in one direction at the time, so no diagonal scrolling, it was probably a Famicom disk system game in Japan. Can't put extra chips on a floppy.

 

[Positron]

Only three groups of birds have the neural circuitry for song-learning: the songbirds (oscines), parrots, and hummingbirds. The vocal learning ability of hummingbirds is all the more surprising given hummers are only distantly related to the other two groups. It is believed that the neural circuitry have evolved independently at least twice.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Don't know if this is still true but...


Wife beating is (or was) legal in Alabama so long as its only done once a month. Any more than that and a spouse can call in a domestic disturbance.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Ants can recognize themselves in the mirror.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Mílk duds get their name because Hershey's originally intended for the candy to be perfectly round chocolate covered caramels. Because every batch was irregular or misshaped they said fuck it and named them duds.

Dr Pepper gets its name from the father of a girl the inventor had a crush on as a boy.

The dry in Canada Dry refers to the ginger ale being less sweet than any other brand of ginger ale. Similar to the dry flavor of wines.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Probably the craziest weapon used during World War I was the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector. It was a giant subterranean flamethrower built underneath no-mans-land, and it was designed to push its armored nozzle up through the ground and incinerate the German trenches before an infantry attack. Two of them were used at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The only problem was that they were fragile and vulnerable to artillery fire. Here's a video of a replica being fired on Time Team:

 

[AnOminous]

Probably the craziest weapon used during World War I was the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector. It was a giant subterranean flamethrower built underneath no-mans-land, and it was designed to push its armored nozzle up through the ground and incinerate the German trenches before an infantry attack. Two of them were used at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The only problem was that they were fragile and vulnerable to artillery fire. Here's a video of a replica being fired on Time Team:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BQlSutYJsV8:38

It seems you could get away with using this maybe once or twice. Once they realized what this fucking thing was they would heavily prioritize destroying it before it could do anything.