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The three U.S. cities that have the most gay couples are New York City (47,000), Los Angeles (12,000), and Chicago (10,000). The major metropolitan cities with the highest LGBT concentration are San Francisco 15.4%, Seattle 12.9%, and Atlanta 12.8%.

So we need to nuke/burn those cities first.
 
In the early 1960s, Leonard Nimoy's acting career was going so poorly that he had to get a day job cleaning fish tanks in doctors offices. One year he even had to pawn his watch to buy his kids Hanukkah presents.
 
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Originally, the role of security chief on Star Trek: The Next Generation was written to be a Latina woman, in the model of Maria Vasquez from Aliens, which had come out the previous year. Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi) actually auditioned for that role first, but they changed the concept, but still were impressed with her so they gave her the role she's known for.

Jonas Salk is widely renowned for developing the polio vaccine. What is not as widely known is that he refused to patent it, so it could be manufactured and distributed as cheaply as possible. He passed on being very wealthy so he could eliminate a scourge on humanity.
 
In the 1800s, the rise of the pseudoscience called 'phrenology' (measuring the bumps on people's skulls to determine their mental abilities) led to an increase in grave robbing, as dozens of famous people had their tombs ransacked and their skulls stolen to be analyzed, including Isaac Newton, Mozart, Jonathan Swift, and allegedly William Shakespeare.
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
In the 1800s, the rise of the pseudoscience called 'phrenology' (measuring the bumps on people's skulls to determine their mental abilities) led to an increase in grave robbing, as dozens of famous people had their tombs ransacked and their skulls stolen to be analyzed, including Isaac Newton, Mozart, Jonathan Swift, and allegedly William Shakespeare.
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Mark Twain disproved the concept of phrenology by going one day and requested a session without telling them who he was. He was told he was dull-witted and slow. A few months later he goes in again, the phrenologist doesn't remember him, so this time he tells him who he is. The phrenologist concludes that he was sharp and quick-witted. Thus, Twain helped destroy phrenology's credibility.
 
In the 80's there was a computer game where Popeye the sailor man could wrestle a xenomorph.

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Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
In the 1800s, the rise of the pseudoscience called 'phrenology' (measuring the bumps on people's skulls to determine their mental abilities) led to an increase in grave robbing, as dozens of famous people had their tombs ransacked and their skulls stolen to be analyzed, including Isaac Newton, Mozart, Jonathan Swift, and allegedly William Shakespeare.
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In the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett, there's the concept of retro-phrenology for trolls (who are made of stone). Retro-phrenologists are people who aim to improve another troll's wits or personality by resculpting the head using a chisel or conrete.
 
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There's a conspiracy theory floating around that Orson Scott Card didn't write Ender's Game, or at least he had co-authors that weren't credited.
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What evidence is there to back that up? Sounds like people are just butthurt that they enjoyed a book written by a guy who doesn't like the queers.
 
There's a Mt. Diablo in Northern California between Oakland and Antioch. Over the last few years, Republicans have petitioned to rename it either 'Mt. Jesus' or 'Mt. Ronald Reagan'.
 
Hat said:
What evidence is there to back that up? Sounds like people are just butthurt that they enjoyed a book written by a guy who doesn't like the queers.
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The guy who wrote the post accusing him of such was butthurt that OSC won a Hugo and he didn't. So take it with a grain of salt.
 
In the later years of the Roman Republic, the high profile Senator Cato called a Senatorial Hearing to discuss the possibility of traitors in the Roman Senate. During the hearing a messenger arrived with a letter for Julius Caesar, who was a Senator at the time. Cato had a very personal and deep hatred of Caesar and was quick to accuse him of treason for receiving the letter. Cato proceeded to take to letter from Julius and read it aloud to the Senate, to prove Caesar was trying to undermine the Republic. What the whole Senate, and Cato, found out was that the letter was actually a love note addressed to Caesar written by Cato's sister
 
There was a famous 17th century artist and stage magician called Matthias Bunchinger who was born without hands, feet, or legs and stood only 29 inches tall.
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
There was a famous 17th century artist and stage magician called Matthias Bunchinger who was born without hands, feet, or legs and stood only 29 inches tall.
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This fuckin' guy.

Buchinger was married four times and had at least 14 children (by eight women). He also is rumored to have had children by as many as 70 mistresses. Buchinger's fame was so widespread that in the 1780s the term "Buckinger's boot" existed in England as a euphemism for the vagina (because the only "limb" he had was his penis).
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Wikipedia.
 
A few days before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer along with his brother, his brother-in-law, and his nephew dug up a Lakota burial ground for souvenirs and used pieces of the bodies as bait to go fishing. All four of them were killed in the battle.
 
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