Fun facts!

[RomanesEuntDomus]

But if you're born a squid can you still be a kid?

Of course, we're a progressive society after all.

 

[Raging Capybara]

But if you're born a squid can you still be a kid?

Another really fun fact: Fortnite has one redeemable quality. It made autistic kids forget Splatoon.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Another really fun fact: Fortnite has one redeemable quality. It made autistic kids forget Splatoon.

Kinda going off topic but I'm not a regular player of Splatoon but I like it more than fortnite, the few times I have played it I at least knew what I was doing. The one time I tried to play fortnite was the first time I ever felt like an old man trying to be into what "the young people are into"

Well better get back on topic


Splatoon was the first new Nintendo franchise since pikmin on the GameCube.

 

[The Sauce Boss]

Did you know:

The Parmesan cheese used in most American restaurants and grocery stores is not, in fact, authentic Parmesan cheese, which is classified under Europe's PDO (protected designations of origin) as Parmegiano Regigano. America is not beholden to the European PDO law, although it's considered bad form in upper-crust cuisine to sell non-PDO as being PDO. As such, most 'Parmesano Regiano' or whatever your restaurant or grocer calls it is a knockoff. Not necessarily a bad knockoff, mind, and definitely cheaper than the authentic, but a knockoff nonetheless.

If your store is selling wheel parmesan as 'authentic Italian', check to see if it has brands or markings identifying the Parmigiano-Reggiano Consorzio (the group in Reggio Emilia that oversees the quality control and production of authentic Parmesan cheese). This indicates that it is top quality cheese straight from the source. If it is unmarked, it is either sub-par product that the Consorzio deemed fit for export regardless, or a non-licensed knockoff.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Did you know:

The Parmesan cheese used in most American restaurants and grocery stores is not, in fact, authentic Parmesan cheese, which is classified under Europe's PDO (protected designations of origin) as Parmegiano Regigano. America is not beholden to the European PDO law, although it's considered bad form in upper-crust cuisine to sell non-PDO as being PDO. As such, most 'Parmesano Regiano' or whatever your restaurant or grocer calls it is a knockoff. Not necessarily a bad knockoff, mind, and definitely cheaper than the authentic, but a knockoff nonetheless.

If your store is selling wheel parmesan as 'authentic Italian', check to see if it has brands or markings identifying the Parmigiano-Reggiano Consorzio (the group in Reggio Emilia that oversees the quality control and production of authentic Parmesan cheese). This indicates that it is top quality cheese straight from the source. If it is unmarked, it is either sub-par product that the Consorzio deemed fit for export regardless, or a non-licensed knockoff.

Damn who knew the cheese industry was just as lucrative in Italy as the mafia.

in Japan it is actually consider proper to fall asleep at your desk if you work in an office. It is seen as a sign that you're working so hard you need a rest but don't wanna leave your workspace once you're rested up, of course your expected to have a higher level of productivity Everytime you do this or else this "privilege" will be revoked.

 

[UntimelyDhelmise]

If they could evolve the ability to forgo laying eggs and give birth to able-bodied young, some bird species would live out their entire lives without ever touching land, either by remaining perpetually airborne (terns/albatrosses/frigates) or seafaring (penguins). Both factions have little reason to ever set foot on solid land otherwise and actively benefit from staying off it.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

There are three foods in Japan that were introduced in the 1600 by the portuguese when they arrived to Kyushu: These are denominated in japanese "confeito", "castella" and "pan".

The first one is a typical candy made in Spain and Portugal. In Portugal it has the same name while in spanish it's "confite".
The second one is a very spongy and delicious cake that is known in Portugal as "Pan de Castela" while in spanish it's known as "bizcocho".
The third one is bread. It's said the same way in spanish and portuguese.

 

[AnOminous]

Did you know:

The Parmesan cheese used in most American restaurants and grocery stores is not, in fact, authentic Parmesan cheese, which is classified under Europe's PDO (protected designations of origin) as Parmegiano Regigano. America is not beholden to the European PDO law, although it's considered bad form in upper-crust cuisine to sell non-PDO as being PDO. As such, most 'Parmesano Regiano' or whatever your restaurant or grocer calls it is a knockoff. Not necessarily a bad knockoff, mind, and definitely cheaper than the authentic, but a knockoff nonetheless.

"Parmigiano-Reggiano" is actually a certification mark in the United States, although the U.S. doesn't have the Protected Designation of Origin system used in Europe. Anyone selling "Parmigiano-Reggiano" without certification is committing fraud and can be sued. What isn't protected is the name "parmesan," which is used by that disgusting sawdust Kraft makes. That isn't allowed to be called even "parmesan" in Europe, and is instead called a number of other names like "pamesello italiano" to make it clear it isn't actually Parmigiano-Reggiano.

There are reasonably good knockoffs just called "Parmesan" in the United States, at least for plebeian uses. Nothing but actual Parmigiano-Reggiano is worth using for anything where the cheese is a central ingredient, like basil pesto. Just don't do it. Those are only available imported from the traditional producing regions.

 

[The Sauce Boss]

"Parmigiano-Reggiano" is actually a certification mark in the United States, although the U.S. doesn't have the Protected Designation of Origin system used in Europe. Anyone selling "Parmigiano-Reggiano" without certification is committing fraud and can be sued. What isn't protected is the name "parmesan," which is used by that disgusting sawdust Kraft makes. That isn't allowed to be called even "parmesan" in Europe, and is instead called a number of other names like "pamesello italiano" to make it clear it isn't actually Parmigiano-Reggiano.

There are reasonably good knockoffs just called "Parmesan" in the United States, at least for plebeian uses. Nothing but actual Parmigiano-Reggiano is worth using for anything where the cheese is a central ingredient, like basil pesto. Just don't do it. Those are only available imported from the traditional producing regions.

Huh, I did not know that. That's actually pretty smart of them to do that. American restaurants are notorious for selling shortcuts however possible,.

 

[Tahoma]

One in every five miles of the United States Interstate System is straight so that airplanes can make emergency landings.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

The pentagon has twice the number of bathrooms required for its personnel. This is because it was built in the time that black people required separate bathrooms.

 

[A Grey Cat]

R.L Stine got the name goosebumps from an ad in tv guide that listed a "goosebumps week" of Horror on channel 11

62 original books were published from 1992-1997 the tv show ran from
1995-1998

Goosebumps books have been rebooted three times in 2008, 2011 and 2012

Goosebumps has two mascots the "official" mascot curly the skeleton

and the "unofficial" one Slappy the dummy.

 

[A Grey Cat]

The sixth sense was never meant to be an episode of are you afraid of the dark, M night shamalyan had never even heard of the show until after the rumor was brought to his attention.


Halloween of Horror is the only non treehouse of horror halloween episode of the Simpsons

Three horror movies; from dusk to dawn, death becomes her, and the frighteners were all intended to be tales from the crypt movies

 

[Tour of Italy]

One in every five miles of the United States Interstate System is straight so that airplanes can make emergency landings.

The Federal Highway Administration says that that’s not the case:

Interstate Highway System - The Myths - 50th Anniversary - Interstate System - Highway History - Federal Highway Administration

www.fhwa.dot.gov

Emergency landings do happen, but safety concerns and costs associated with loss of service make it a last resort, not a design intent.

 

[Count groudon]

more Late horror movie shit to commemorate my favorite spooky Holiday:

1. In the original Halloween, Micheal’s adult form is credited as “The Shape” in the credits as opposed to his child form which is dubbed as plain old Micheal Myers. This is referenced in Micheal’s appearance in Dead By Daylight, where his title is “The Shape”
2. In the original Jeepers Creepers, there’s a deleted scene during the Creeper’s attack at the cat lady’s house where he actually speaks, appearing in front of the twins in the doorway to the house holding the cat lady up by the back of her neck and saying something like “she don’t smell too good....” in a very thick southern drawl. This was cut because everyone working on the movie thought that this made the creeper way less intimidating.
   
   
3. George Romero never actually intended for the walking corpses in the original Night of The Living Dead to be zombies. He’s stated several times that he actually considered them ghouls because their behavior matched up with the feral, cannibalistic nature of ghouls more than the subservient, mindless behavior of zombies in folklore. The corpses being dubbed as zombies was more a result of fans of the movie using the word since zombies were a much more well-known undead creature than ghouls.
4. In Steven King’s It, the titular monster was originally going to be a troll akin to the ones seen in old fairy tales (in the novels Ben even references this several times, stating that It reminds him of the old troll from Billy Goats Gruff since he initially encounters it standing on the old creek under the bridge he was crossing as he was walking home during a blizzard). After toying around with the concept for a bit, King decided that trying to make a fucking troll of all things fit a story about the traumas of growing up and how they shape us into adults was beyond him. He eventually came up with the idea of using a shape shifting monster that loves the taste of scared children as an amalgamation of all the weird fears we have in childhood brought to life. He came up with Pennywise the clown, It’s favorite form, after an incident where he was flying home after a Book tour or something and a man dressed as Ronald McDonald sat down next to him smoking a cigarette and ordered whiskey in a deep scratchy voice. After seeing somebody dressed in such a funny, cheerful getup act so off putting he decided that an evil clown would be the perfect monster for his new novel.
5. In Nightmare on Elm Street 3, the scene where the mute kid gets attacked by Freddy in the form of a hot girl jumping his bones was slightly different in the early stages of production. Rather than having the girl suddenly taunt the kid with Freddy’s voice, she was going to partially transform into Freddy when she delivered the line. It was scrapped because apparently seeing Robert Englund’s face on a busty super model’s body was so inexplicably disturbing and weird that they couldn’t find a way to implement it without it completely fucking up the tone of the movie.
6. And one last little Nightmare on Elm Street thing. During production of one of the earlier movies ( I wanna say the first one?) there was going to be a character that was a pregnant teenage girl. Her death would’ve involved Freddy’s claw bursting out through her stomach and tearing the rest of her body to shreds. While pitching this idea to potential producers, Leslie Bohem pitched the idea to a pregnant executive by saying “imagine if Freddy’s claw just tore out of your stomach” which, as you would imagine, horrified the executive. This cut scene was actually the main inspiration for the 5th movie The Dream Child.

 

[AnOminous]

It was scrapped because apparently seeing Robert Englund’s face on a busty super model’s body was so inexplicably disturbing and weird that they couldn’t find a way to implement it without it completely fucking up the tone of the movie.

It worked for Richard James, though.

 

[Coldgrip]

1. putting he decided that an evil clown would be the perfect monster for his new novel.
2. In Nightmare on Elm Street 3, the scene where the mute kid gets attacked by Freddy in the form of a hot girl jumping his bones was slightly different in the early stages of production. Rather than having the girl suddenly taunt the kid with Freddy’s voice, she was going to partially transform into Freddy when she delivered the line. It was scrapped because apparently seeing Robert Englund’s face on a busty super model’s body was so inexplicably disturbing and weird that they couldn’t find a way to implement it without it completely fucking up the tone of the movie.
3. And one last little Nightmare on Elm Street thing. During production of one of the earlier movies ( I wanna say the first one?) there was going to be a character that was a pregnant teenage girl. Her death would’ve involved Freddy’s claw bursting out through her stomach and tearing the rest of her body to shreds. While pitching this idea to potential producers, Leslie Bohem pitched the idea to a pregnant executive by saying “imagine if Freddy’s claw just tore out of your stomach” which, as you would imagine, horrified the executive. This cut scene was actually the main inspiration for the 5th movie The Dream Child.

Speaking of the Freddy movies, Robert Englund, who played Freddy, and George Lynch of Dokken both did coke while on set, and yes, they did lines off the finger blades.

The 80's were a magical time.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Tim jaccobs the artists behind the original goosebumps covers said that the second series goosebumps 2000 had looser standards to censorship, jaccobs drew cover art that in his own words "would have never been accepted for the original goosebumps"

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Gee I wonder what gave him that idea?

Also love the werewolf art it always reminded me of an American werewolf in London only if the werewolf effects and the zombie makeup were bended together.

 

[Tour of Italy]

There was a WWII American reconossaince pilot who earned the nickname “Bazooka Charlie” after deciding that just taking pictures over enemy territory wasn’t good enough and it would be better if he attached multiple bazookas under each wing and flew suicidally at tanks and armored vehicles in an observation plane never designed for that purpose. He survived the war.

He’s credited with immobilizing several tanks and troop transports with over a dozen casualties, and, according to him, caused multiple German units to adopt the policy of shooting at American observation planes on sight, just in case.

Another fun fact: I did not spell reconnaissance right on the first attempt while writing this post, nor is anyone capable of doing so.

 

[DrJonesHat]

Personal fun-fact: During the run-up to the first Gulf War (1991), I was in high school, and our social studies teacher had us write letters to Saddam Hussein himself. Sadly, they never got delivered because the US was interdicting all traffic into Iraq.
Related: At the time, I was really into ham radio and the associated technologies, so with permission, I brought my portable shortwave radio to school and my science class rigged up an antenna and we listened to Radio Baghdad the day before the war started. It was a pretty bad signal (shortwave is usually pretty awful during the day due to the sun ionizing the atmosphere) but we could make out what they were saying (it was in English, and it was a laughable attempt to persuade Americans that Iraq was totally innocent). I got some extra points from my teacher, and we tried again during the war, but couldn't get anything. We did get the BBC though (this was several years before the web was widespread, so listening to the BBC was a big deal).