Fun facts!

[Cheetahman]

Cashews are not nuts.
They grow on trees, as a single external seed from a cashew apple.
They look like pooping bell peppers, which is just weird enough to be funny.

 

[Positron]

Neither the cashew apple nor the "common" apple is a true fruit.

 

[Token Weeaboo]

There are only 7 ancestors to citrus fruits;
Pomelo
Citron
Mandarin Oran
Papeda
Kaffir lime
Ichang papeda
Kumquat

The rest of them are hybrids. You see this? Life didn't give you lemons.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Universal was once owned by a alcohol beverage company called Seagrams.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

You have the same number of cervical vertebrae in your neck as a giraffe. 7.

That's why butchering the neck of a giraffe isn't the rainbow road you think it would be.

 

[Tour of Italy]

When famous American pilot Chuck Yeager was asked what he thought about the revolutionary Me 262, the world’s first jet fighter that the Nazi’s fielded to a fairly substantial degree, he responded:

“The first time I saw a jet, I shot it down”.

 

[DrJonesHat]

It did in fact have an HDD made for it.
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By the looks of things, the port was Japanese only.

I think I've posted this before, but the Sega Genesis was supposed to have an add-on that would turn into an MS-DOS computer. The device was supposedly called TARDIS, but as far as I can tell, it didn't get out the planning stage. I couldn't even find anything on it. I only remember reading an article about it in a video game magazine when I was 15.

 

[Pissmaster]

With the PS3 they removed, from unveil to release, one extra HDMI port, two USB ports and two out of three ethernet ports. After release they quickly removed the hardware backcompat and I don't know if the flash card reader made it to EOL.

The final model of the PS3 (the Super Slim), got it down to two USB ports, ethernet, optical audio, A/V, and HDMI. That's it. The disc eject button is just a mechanical release and the little Playstation logo doesn't even rotate.

By the way, in case anyone here didn't know, you can rotate the Playstation logo on any model of the PS2 and older PS3s. So it can be upright if you have it on its side.

 

[A Grey Cat]

The last non educational program on network television (aka Saturday morning cartoons) was the CW block vortexx, which itself was a replacement for the toonzai block which was the replacement for the kids WB TV block.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

The Roman census of 1515, at the peak of the Renaissance, registered a population of about 50,000, of which 7000 were filed in as courtesans — about 30% of the female population.

If Renaissance Rome was anything like Ancient Rome - and I wouldn’t have a clue if it was or not - they may have used the courtesan classification for any woman guilty of fornication, regardless of if they made their trade from prostitution.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Anthony Hopkins has aspergers syndrome.

 

[Plasmapheresis]

Windows XP, Vista, and 7 all had codenames in development that were related to a ski-resort named "Whistler-Blackcomb" in BC, Canada.

XP was Codename Whistler

Vista was Codename Longhorn (Named after "Longhorn Bar" at said ski resort)

7 was Codename Blackcomb

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Windows XP, Vista, and 7 all had codenames in development that were related to a ski-resort named "Whistler-Blackcomb" in BC, Canada.

XP was Codename Whistler

Vista was Codename Longhorn (Named after "Longhorn Bar" at said ski resort)

7 was Codename Blackcomb

Codenames actually follows some rules and regulations, self-regulation, but still. Something like a military project would use a codename to obfuscate what they're working on, if they had a project called Dinkenspiel then it could be almost anything. If it is Intel then we know what they're doing, they're not developing a revolutionary genital shaving gel or black helicopters.

Intel's naming scheme was rivers adjacent to where development was happening, things that can't really be trademarked and more importantly something they can't get sued over. If they were developing the fastest, slickest chip yet and codenamed it Ferrari then Ferrari would not like that. This actually happened to Apple in the 80's when they called something Carl Sagan which Carl Sagan didn't like so they changed it to BHA - Butt Headed Astronomer. That set a precedent for internal names.

Now the names have become the name of the platform on a grander scale, both people and Intel calls it Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Coffee Lake, Icy Lake, instead of moving away from it when a formal product name was announced. Klamath, Nehalem, very few people, with the exception of spergs, continued to call a particular processor that.

It's not much of a fun fact except for the Apple bit.

 

[A Grey Cat]

The women working on the coloring for Disney's snow White added and used their own makeup on the female characters to make them look prettier

The little mermaid was the last Disney animated film to be traditionally colored by hand every film after has used some form of digital coloring over cel animation

Malibu comics had an advanced computer system for coloring thier books that was so unique and innovative for the time that it's often said to be the only reason they were purchased by Marvel in 94, they wanted the coloring system for themselves and didn't want the competition.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

The name "America" comes from the italian cartographer Americo Vespuci. Years before Cristopher Columbus discovered the american continent, he drew a map of an unknown continent that uncannily resembled the newfown continent. If this didn't happened, the whole continent probably would be called Colombia.

As well, Argentina comes from the spanish "Land of silver" while Spain comes from the Latin "Land of rabbits".

 

[Tour of Italy]

The name "America" comes from the italian cartographer Americo Vespuci. Years before Cristopher Columbus discovered the american continent, he drew a map of an unknown continent that uncannily resembled the newfown continent. If this didn't happened, the whole continent probably would be called Colombia.

As well, Argentina comes from the spanish "Land of silver" while Spain comes from the Latin "Land of rabbits".

The number of Latinamerican countries that reference Columbus in either their names or currency is kinda weird, all things considered. Obviously Columbia is the best example, but several post-Bolivar states in Central and South America used his Spanish name “Colón” for their currency.

The most oblique reference is the country of Honduras, which pulls its name from a supposed quote of Columbus from after when he supposedly escaped a storm suddenly on his way towards the coast of where the country sits today:

“Gracias a Dios, hemos salido de esas honduras”

“Thanks to God, we have come out of those depths”

I don’t know if they chose it because it was poetic or ironic. Either way, if you thought it was weird that Americans have a weird worship a Columbus, it’s even weirder how much play he has in a land where their primary ancestors were enslaved by the guy’s compatriots. And in the case of Honduras specifically, due to some of common ancestry with Caribs and other island tribes, some of their ancestors were probably enslaved by the guy himself.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

The number of Latinamerican countries that reference Columbus in either their names or currency is kinda weird, all things considered. Obviously Columbia is the best example, but several post-Bolivar states in Central and South America used his Spanish name “Colón” for their currency.

The most oblique reference is the country of Honduras, which pulls its name from a supposed quote of Columbus from after when he supposedly escaped a storm suddenly on his way towards the coast of where the country sits today:

“Gracias a Dios, hemos salido de esas honduras”

“Thanks to God, we have come out of those depths”

I don’t know if they chose it because it was poetic or ironic. Either way, if you thought it was weird that Americans have a weird worship a Columbus, it’s even weirder how much play he has in a land where their primary ancestors were enslaved by the guy’s compatriots. And in the case of Honduras specifically, due to some of common ancestry with Caribs and other island tribes, some of their ancestors were probably enslaved by the guy himself.

I wish i knew more about the whole thing, but some records of the "colonization" of America are quite appaling.

 

[Rand /pol/]

Cuck porn being disproportionately popular in red states really makes me think.

 

[No Exit]

inb4 "That's just the California white-flighters"

 

[Clipper]

Obviously all voters of Trump are a bunch of cucks.