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Star-Lord

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,782
Hey everybody let's do some interesting facts as it's one of my favourite things to do!
One fact since it's getting close to halloween!

Jack-o-lanterns were originally carved into turnips instead of pumpkins!

let's here a fact!

also another one that I didnt realize for awhile... Sunday is the start of the week and Saturday is the last day of the week. So technically you got the first and last day of the week off when in school!
 

Feep

Lead Designer, Iridium Studios
Verified
Oct 25, 2017
4,596
There is more gold in the sun than all the water in Earth's oceans combined. (1.6 times as much, in fact.)
 

subpar spatula

Refuses to Wash his Ass
Member
Oct 26, 2017
22,084
There are multiple people on the planet with the exact same amount of hairs on their head.
 

Mona

Banned
Oct 30, 2017
26,151
Venus's days are longer than its years
Uranus is one of the largest objects in the solar system
 

Stiler

Avenger
Oct 29, 2017
6,659
Oh, I'll drop in some middle ages fun facts.

1. Many castles were painted, not just "bare stone" like you almost always see in every single movie out there.
2. Swords and armor did not weigh much. Even two handers could easily be < 6 pounds, a good suit of full plate could be 45'ish and because the weight is over your whole body it could be easier to wear then chain, where the weight rested more on your shoulders.
3. Like castles, a lot of armor would be decorated, plate armor, helmets, etc. They could be painted, had cloth covering them, gilded, among other things. They could come colored from the armor smith depending on how he heated it even. The whole knight's in "pure shiny silver" armor trope isn't 100% how people wearing plate armor looked, in fact it's a hell of a lot of work to keep armor polished, especially while on a battlefield, it's much easier to cover it and help protect it from rusting, etc by painting it and putting things over it to protect it from the elements.
 

Okabe

Is Sometimes A Good Bean
Member
Aug 24, 2018
19,893
When you walk away you don't hear me say please oh baby don't go
 

FaceHugger

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
13,949
USA
The Greek artwork and structures from antiquity were actually vividly painted.

The Great Pyramids were a dazzling white. Time and the elements just wore them away.

The term "blowing smoke up your ass" comes from medieval times, when wealthy aristocrats would have servants literally blow smoke into their anus thinking it would protect them from The Plague.

LOL I made that last one up.
 

KillerMan91

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,354
Sweden, Finland and Norway are three countries with most islands in the world.
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Akira86

Member
Oct 25, 2017
19,585
In fact, one of the earliest documented references of using such a tobacco enema to resuscitate someone came from someone using a smoking pipe in 1746. In this case, the man's wife had nearly drowned and was unconscious. It was suggested that an emergency tobacco enema might revive her, at which point the husband of the woman took a pipe filled with burning tobacco, shoved the stem into his wife's rectum and then covered the other end of the pipe with his mouth and blew. As one would imagine, hot embers of tobacco being blown up her rectum had the intended effect and she was, indeed, revived.
 

The Living Tribunal

Prophet of Truth
Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,201
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
 

Stinkles

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
20,459

Hot damn


Yet we squandered this knowledge with vaping - the reverse tobacco butt enema
 

Mona

Banned
Oct 30, 2017
26,151
In fact, one of the earliest documented references of using such a tobacco enema to resuscitate someone came from someone using a smoking pipe in 1746. In this case, the man's wife had nearly drowned and was unconscious. It was suggested that an emergency tobacco enema might revive her, at which point the husband of the woman took a pipe filled with burning tobacco, shoved the stem into his wife's rectum and then covered the other end of the pipe with his mouth and blew. As one would imagine, hot embers of tobacco being blown up her rectum had the intended effect and she was, indeed, revived.

talk about blowing smoke up someone's ass
 

Z-Beat

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
31,838
In 1518, over 400 people in a small town were afflicted with the dancing plague. The death toll is unknown to this day, but is rumored to have killed 15 people a day for a while. There is no cure
 

Madison

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
8,388
Lima, Peru
The argentine rock band Soda Stereo"s first album (also called Soda Stereo) has a song called Dietético. The loudest lyric in the entire song is "El régimen se acabo" which translates in english to "the regime is over". Now, this entire song is about doing diet and "régimen" is a word that also means diet in spanish. However. this album was released in the same year the brutal argentinian dictatorship ended.

So, to this day people still debate if this lyric was a reference to the end of the dictatorship or if it was mostly a coincidence
 

Mona

Banned
Oct 30, 2017
26,151
In 1518, over 400 people in a small town were afflicted with the dancing plague. The death toll is unknown to this day, but is rumored to have killed 15 people a day for a while. There is no cure

what do you mean theres no cure, anesthesia is surely a cure
 

Lant_War

Classic Anus Game
The Fallen
Jul 14, 2018
23,543
Two weeks before Christmas is the most likely date for couples to break up, and Christmas the least likely.
 

sphagnum

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
16,058
Some pranksters in the 1840s tried to pull a fast one on Mormons by creating brass plates with fake markings on them, known as the Kinderhook Plates, planting them in the ground and digging them up in front of witnesses. The plates ended up getting sent to Joseph Smith, whose secretary noted in his journal that Smith actually thought they were real and was in the process of translating them, unaware that the symbols were bogus:

I have seen 6 brass plates ... covered with ancient characters of language containing from 30 to 40 on each side of the plates. Prest J. [Joseph Smith] has translated a portion and says they contain the history of the person with whom they were found and he was a descendant of Ham through the loins of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and that he received his kingdom from the ruler of heaven and earth.

This would have spelled doom for early Mormonism when it was inevitably revealed (although it wouldn't be for decades) that the plates were a fake. However, Joseph either seems to have caught on or lost interest because he never made public the translation.

It turns out, however, that one of the plate's symbols, which sort of looks like a boat, vaguely resembles an actual Egyptian character, or at least the version of one that Joseph had copied in his Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (aka GAEL). The GAEL is a bizarre document where Joseph had copied down a bunch of Egyptian and then tried to decipher it, but everything he wrote is pure gibberish and has nothing to do with what the Egyptian characters actually mean, including an absolutely bonkers cosmology. Just try reading this stuff:

Jah-oh-eh The earth under the governing power of oliblish, Enish go on dosh, and Kai e van rash, which are grand Key or in other words, the governing power, which governs the fifteen fixed stars (twelve [unclear words]) that belong governs the earth, sun & moon, (which have their power in one) with the other twelve moving planets of this system. Oliblish - Enish go on dosh, and Kaii ven rash, are the three grand central powers that govern all the other creations, which have been sought out by the most aged of all the fathers, since the beginning of the creation, by means of the Urim and Thummim: The names of the other twelve of the fixed stars are: Kolob, Limdi, Zip, Vusel, Venisti, Waine, Wayoh=ox=oan, oansli, Shible, Shineflis, flis, os. The Egyptian names of the fifteen moving planest are: Oanisis, Flosisis, floese: Abbesels, Eleash, Subble, Slundlo, Carroam, Crashmakraw, obblesisim, Izinsbah, missel

Nahmesile, Oheeoopzah, Zool

Flo-ees The moon, the earth and the sun in their annual revolutions

Flos isis The highest degree of light, because its component parts are light. The governing principle of light Because God has said Let this be the centre for light, and let there be bounds that it may not pass. He hath set a cloud round about in the heavens, and the light of the grand governing of 15 fixed stars centre there - and from there its is drawn by the heavenly bodies according to their portions; according to the decrees that God hath set, as the bounds of the ocean, that it should not pass over as a flood, so God has set the bounds of light lest it pass over and consume the planets.

Kli flosisis signifies Kolob in its motion, which is swifter than the rest of the twelve fixed stars; going before, being first in motion, being delegated to have power over others to regulate others in their time, for example, one cubit of times signifies three days Therefore that which is appointed to run three days, runs one cubit according to the measure of time in cubits a cubit of motion is increased or lessened according to the sign of the degrees

Veh Kli flos-isis it signifies less power than the fourth fixed governing star but greater power than the sixth governing fixt [fixed?] star, in consequence of its slowness of motion

Kolob signifies the first creation nearer to the Celestial, or the residence of God, first in government, the last pertaining to the measurement of time, the measurement according to Celestial time which signifies one day to a cubit which day is equal to a thousand years according to the measurement of this earth or Jah-oh-eh

Joseph also believed that the Egyptian symbols could be broken down into sub-units that had different degrees of meaning. So the most likely theory is that he saw the symbol on the Kinderhook Plate, thought it was the same as one of the Egyotian symbols he had translated through "divine inspiration" previously, and began his "translation" of the plates from there. This accords with his definition for one of the boat-like symbols in the GAEL, which he writes means:

...honor by birth,
kingly power by the line of Pharoah.
possession by birth one who riegns upon his throne universally—
possessor of heaven and earth, and of the blessings of the earth.

So if you squint, you can see where that lines up with the "translation" from the Kinderhook plate.
 

Z-Beat

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
31,838
Chicago is based on a true story.

Instead of her husband leaving her and her going on to pursue a life of fame with her best pal/also a murderer, the real Roxie (Beulah Annan) left her husband right after being acquitted, got married three more times, then had a mental breakdown and died of tuberculosis.

Two weeks before Christmas is the most likely date for couples to break up, and Christmas the least likely.
Never understood this but I've seen it happen so I can't argue with the data.
 

Jintor

Saw the truth behind the copied door
Member
Oct 25, 2017
32,404
The Greek artwork and structures from antiquity were actually vividly painted.

The Great Pyramids were a dazzling white. Time and the elements just wore them away.

The term "blowing smoke up your ass" comes from medieval times, when wealthy aristocrats would have servants literally blow smoke into their anus thinking it would protect them from The Plague.

LOL I made that last one up.

we should play two truths and a lie
 

Z-Beat

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
31,838
Back in February 1942, the west coast (and most of the US) was so paranoid about attacks from Japan that at some point they entered into combat with actually nothing for an entire night. Despite fighting nothing and no one there was a death toll of 5; 3 people from car accidents and 2 people from heart attacks.

This is known as the Battle of Los Angeles, and is long believed to be a cover-up for aliens. Hollywood took this and ran with it
 

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Oct 26, 2017
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This is the Laniakea Supercluster. Every single dot is a galaxy separated by millions of light-years. Somewhere in the red dot is Milky Way. The "strands" is the direction of gravity and the eventually path of the galaxies.
 

Boy

Member
Apr 24, 2018
4,556
The brain temporarily paralyzes the body during REM sleep so that you won't be able to move about and act out your dreams.