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AStrayBard Sega's Last Hope from 867-5309 Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#26: Nov 13th 2012 at 10:49:34 PM

While many people assume "thou" came from Old English, it was a second person pronoun used in Modern English that was replaced by "you". Old English was actually much closer to German, and would be incomprehensible to speakers of Modern English.

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#27: Nov 14th 2012 at 8:30:48 AM

Frogs can sometimes eat enought fireflies that they glow.

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#28: Nov 15th 2012 at 10:36:05 AM

House cats' kidneys are so efficient that unlike humans, they are able to survive with only seawater to drink, though only for a few days.

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#29: Nov 16th 2012 at 4:53:38 AM

In Muddy, Illinois, the post office measures only 7½ by 10½ feet, about the size of a garden shed. If it wasn't for a sign hanging above the door stating, "U.S. Post Office, Muddy, IL., 62965," finding the tiny, wooden building could be difficult. It is believed to be one of the smallest post offices in the United States

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#30: Nov 16th 2012 at 5:38:03 PM

Before the rise of the Witch-hunt in Early Modern Europe, some countries actually had laws against judicial torture, one of these being Sweden.

"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."
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#31: Nov 17th 2012 at 6:56:40 PM

Alex Dumas, father of Alexandre Dumas, was a black French nobleman and soldier and a total badass who became known throughout pre/post-revolutionary France for feats such as capturing twelve enemy soldiers all by himself. Alex became the equivalent of a modern-day US four-star general. He shared the record of highest-ranking black officer in the Western world with his contemporary Toussaint Louverture, a record that wasn't broken until 1989. His personality and life story were a large part of the inspiration for his son's novel The Count Of Monte Cristo.

edited 17th Nov '12 6:56:57 PM by resetlocksley

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#32: Nov 17th 2012 at 8:39:03 PM

Angelina Jolie's first starring role in a feature length film was in Cyborg 2 with Jack Palance.

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#33: Nov 17th 2012 at 9:30:24 PM

The first breast augmentation surgery was performed in 1895, by Vincenz Czerny, to even out the chest of a woman who had had a tumor removed.

Paul Charles Morphy, an amateur chess player hailed as the greatest chessmaster of his day, once played eight simultaneous games against eight different opponents, while blinded against any of the boards (Paris, in 1858). The results: six victories and two stalemates.

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#34: Nov 19th 2012 at 2:48:54 PM

Before the Vietnam War, the USA actually supported Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong (then called the Viet Minh), as they were fighting for their independence.

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#35: Nov 20th 2012 at 8:42:08 AM

Pirate William Kidd's buried treasure is still not found.

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#36: Nov 20th 2012 at 8:20:10 PM

Ho Chi Minh's government, while communist and repressive, was popular with the Vietnamese people thanks to its land reform and allowing some autonomy within the village communities. Conversely, the "democratic" government of South Vietnam that the US supported rigged elections and was highly nepotistic and corrupt. There was land reform in South Vietnam, but it was more of the 'take land from the poor people and give it to the rich to sell back to the poor at a ridiculous price' kind. There's a reason why one government was more popular.

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#37: Nov 23rd 2012 at 2:18:38 PM

The fencing moves that Inigo and Westley name during their duel in The Princess Bride are the names of Real Life fencing masters.

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#38: Nov 23rd 2012 at 2:21:14 PM

Not all species of praying mantis practice sexual cannibalism, and many females simply let the male leave after copulation.

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#39: Nov 25th 2012 at 2:57:42 PM

In "Before You" by Chantal Kreviazuk, she sings:

"Ever since I met you on a cloudy Monday/I can't believe how much I love the rain."

Chantal Kreviazuk is married to Raine Maida.

Coincidence? I think not.

edited 25th Nov '12 2:58:00 PM by resetlocksley

Fear is a superpower.
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#40: Nov 27th 2012 at 4:22:09 PM

If a man tries to fail and succeeds, what does he do?

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#41: Nov 28th 2012 at 5:51:42 PM

Oliver Cromwell didn't actually have as much power in the Protectorate as some may think.

There was still a 20 day thing where if Cromwell didn't sign the bill or give satisfaction to Parliament, the bill would automatically pass.

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#42: Nov 29th 2012 at 11:53:55 AM

Vatican City contains approximately 2.25 Popes per square kilometre.

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#43: Mar 5th 2013 at 6:31:11 AM

John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved Abraham Lincoln's son. Pretty ironic.

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#44: Mar 5th 2013 at 8:59:49 AM

In chess, the Napoleon Opening involves moving one's queen into the fray on the second move. It is so named because A) Napoleon Bonaparte is known to have used it and B) Napoleon's wife was notoriously adulterous, the joke being that he "couldn't keep his queen at home".

Bonus: Napoleon loved chess and believed it contributed to his success on the battlefield, yet he was reputedly a terrible player.

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#45: Mar 5th 2013 at 9:43:07 AM

Starfruit contains neurotoxins that normally pass through the body harmlessly, but having inadequate kidneys can cause it to poison you.

Nuts are fruit. Cashews and peanuts are not nuts, but they still both are fruit, and even then those two aren't the same kind of fruit.

Like peanuts, beans really are fruit. Guess the songs about it being the "musical fruit" aren't just trying to find a word that rhymes with "toot"...

Certain species of jellyfish are biologically immortal; when they reach their old age, they merely revert themselves to a younger age and continue.

Lobsters may be even better about this than those jellyfish. Due to certain protein structures produced in lobster bodies, their bodies seem to never degrade from age; they simply continue getting bigger and stronger (And more fertile) with age, and are suspected to have indefinite lifespans barring predation, injury, disease, ect.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. It is, obviously, ironic, and deliberately padded out with unnecessary parts just to make it longer. A more concise version is still pretty long, as sesquipedaliophobia.

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#46: Mar 5th 2013 at 5:02:59 PM

Batman was originally based off Dick Tracy, Zorro, and an old pulp hero named the Shadow, among other things.

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#47: Mar 5th 2013 at 5:56:31 PM

There is such a food as deep-fried butter. It is exactly what it sounds like; a stick of butter on a stick deep fried. Yo dawg I heard you like fat...

Super Mario has a hat because it was easier to just make a hat on his sprite than to animate hair moving from his jumping. His moustache is to help make his face more distinct since a mouth wouldn't show up at that pixel level.

Some species of monkey will find poisonous millipedes and rub their poison on themselves, to protect them from bug bites. Or to get high.

Pet tarantulas can imprint on human owners, much like a dog or a cat would.

Many tarantulas attack prey or defend themselves not by biting but by flicking their hairs at the target to cause irritation. Don't get them in your eye, it'll hurt! Though to provoke a tarantula into defending itself rather than just running away would require you cornering it to the point that you've pretty much brought it upon yourself.

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#48: Mar 5th 2013 at 6:23:01 PM

The banana, watermelon, and cucumber are all berries, but not the strawberry.

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#49: Mar 5th 2013 at 6:34:54 PM

To expound on that, the strawberry isn't even a fruit the way we think of it. The individual "seeds" dotting the red object are the individual fruits.

A pineapple is actually many fruits fused together. Each little hexagon is an individual fruit.

Pomelos are one of the oldest fruits still around today, and are the ancestor to every other citrus fruit such as lemons, limes, oranges, ect.

A single acerola cherry, about the same size as a normal cherry, contains 65 times the vitamin C of an orange.

The banana tree is an herb.

edited 5th Mar '13 6:35:14 PM by Anomalocaris20

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#50: Mar 6th 2013 at 7:53:37 AM

George Lucas orignally wanted to be a racecar driver, not a director. After a car accident, he decided to go into cinema.


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