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During the filming of a three stooges short in 1937 (3 dumb clucks) curly Howard fell in a shaft (With a crash pad at the bottom) for a stunt and suffered a torn scalp due to an exposed plank of wood he hit on the way down. He wasn't rushed to a hospital. an on set medic quickly stitched the wound and glued hair on to cover it up and Howard was filming again in a matter of hours.
 
Originally, Frodo was going to be called Bingo, but after a time, Tolkien decided that that name was too silly for The Lord of the Rings, which was becoming ever more serious.
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horrorfan89 said:
The director of the Jeeper Creepers movies (Victor Salvia) is a convicted child molester, his one and only confirmed victim was a the child star of his 1989 directorial debut film Clownhouse (Nathan Forest Winters) Due to thee controversy surrounding the film to this very day there are no plans to release clownhouse on blu ray.
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You forgot to mention that he didn't just get a slap on the wrist for that, he actually went to prison. Then he worked for Disney.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
You forgot to mention that he didn't just get a slap on the wrist for that, he actually went to prison. Then he worked for Disney.
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That’s okay, he also mis-spelled his name (it’s actually Salva).
Fact tax: Fredric Baur, the inventor of the Pringles potato chip can, was cremated and buried in one at his own request.
 
SITHRAK! said:
That’s okay, he also mis-spelled his name (it’s actually Salva).
Fact tax: Fredric Baur, the inventor of the Pringles potato chip can, was cremated and buried in one at his own request.
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Holy fuck it's salva? You mean to tell me I've been calling the child molesting director of Jeepers creepers by the wrong name for 20 years?! Why didn't anybody tell me?!


Also fact tax: when Doritos where first introduced in 1966 they came in a bland, unflavored variety similar to modern day tostitos chips. They didn't have any flavor till 1968 called taco flavor. The iconic nacho cheese flavor wasn't introduced until 1972 and cool ranch wasn't introduced until 1986.


Today the original unflavored variety is rarely sold and where it is it is referred to as "toasted corn flavor."
 
The real reason most toys don't have batteries included is because batteries are classified as a fire/explosive hazard for shipping. For the toy to come with batteries, it would mean having to jack up the price by quite a fair bit to cover the cost of insurance, the extra security, protection, packaging, and paperwork that would be required to ship them with some.

So while it might seem that the manufacturers are just being cheap by not including them, this is the one case where they're actually saving you money because the added cost of all of the above would be more than it would for you to just buy your own.
 
We don't know the exact origin of party hats.

Pointed hats as a festive wear date all the way back to ancient Egypt, with pointed hats very similar to party hats being worn by ancient druids during festivals as a way to "absorb and share knowledge and power among the high priests." Later the symbol of a pointed hat would be incorporated into the idea of a wizards and later the dunce cap but the earliest modern instance of a paper party hat are traced back to pointed paper party hats worn by the hosts and guests of honor at New Year's parties in the 1920s.
 
Harry Houdini once challenged Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's obsessive belief in the supernatural by performing a trick that the latter couldn't explain, believing that if Doyle saw that a normal human could do such a thing, he would stop thinking that every unexplained event, and/or so-called impossible feat was the work of the supernatural.

What does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of probably the most logic-driven character in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes, do in response to seeing him pull off such a thing?

Start believing that Houdini had psychic powers, and was, in fact, actually a wizard.
 
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horrorfan89 said:
The director of the Jeeper Creepers movies (Victor Salvia) is a convicted child molester, his one and only confirmed victim was a the child star of his 1989 directorial debut film Clownhouse (Nathan Forest Winters) Due to thee controversy surrounding the film to this very day there are no plans to release clownhouse on blu ray.
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Keep on consooming

FFS, the comment was about people watching this sexual predator's films, not the comment itself.
 
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Unlike horns, antlers are made of bone.

It takes 250k bolinus brandaris snails to make one ounce of Tyrian Purple paint.

Activated charcoal is often made from peach stones. Peach stone charcoal made up the filtration in gas masks WWI.

Because indian ink can be removed with water or rubbing, gall ink is used for all official certificates of birth, marriage, and death. Gall ink is made when the gall wasp punctures soft buds on an oak tree to lay eggs. The tree makes nut like growths around the wasp holes called oak galls.

Squid ink is concentrated melanin.

Chinese combined rabbit skin glue and lamp black (soot collected on a lamp) to make Indian Ink. It is called indian ink because it was traded from India to the British.

Until 1789 Graphite was called blacklead. The modern term comes from the greek work graphos (I write.) In 1795 the first pencil was created by French painter Nicolas Jacques Conte. Compressed conte "crayons" are still used by artists everywhere!

For more crazy factoids on pigment, color, and paint may I recommend "Chromatopia" by David Coles. It's a beautiful book for any collection or coffee table.
 
"Canola oil" is absolute shit. It is a barely modified version of what used to be called "rapeseed oil" (Beavis laugh), which used to be used as a lubricant for hydraulics and engines in World War II. Once the war ended, they had endless amounts of land dedicated to growing this shit, which was completely inedible. Eventually, they figured out a horrible process of filtering with hexane, an incredibly toxic substance, deodorizing it (in its original form it has utterly foul tastes that are still noticeable in the finished product), and otherwise processing it until it is at least presumably safe for consumption.

Then it is presented by the industry as if it is nearly a health food. It is not. It is at best just yet another oil. Maybe it's as good as corn oil. The main advantage it has is it's a ridiculously cheap industrial byproduct that can be used in huge quantities, which is why so much is sold.

Much as butter was slandered by an industry desperate to pawn off margarine on people, which is terrible crap, you'd probably be better off using lard than canola oil. But there I'm slipping off into opinion rather than fact.

Fact is, "canola oil," and its similar seed oil sibling cottonseed oil, are both from inedible plants, and are both foul-tasting substances in their original form, and are only popular because they have been heavily pimped after they discovered industrial processes to make them nominally edible.
 
You can extract the profanity filter lists from old Vanilla World of Warcraft clients.
It wasn't just the seven dirty words that get censored...The devs got very creative in what they chose to include.

The list, plus names that were forbidden for characters:

Some highlights:
  • Multiple ways of spelling "jizm"
  • hornytauren
  • ismellniggersbuttseks
  • lilhitler
  • longusdongus
  • negrocow
  • shateatinadog
  • throbknobbin
 
The popular image of a blood oath of brotherhood involves two people creating a cut on their hand and pressing them together. Historically, doing something like this was very rare across most cultures. What was more common was for the two (or more) brothers to do a cut on their arm and let it bleed into a cup, which was often filled with an alcoholic beverage (usually wine) or milk to dilute the blood. This was noted to happen among many nomadic cultures, such as the Scythians and the Mongols, the national myth of the Hungarians involves 7 Magyar tribal chiefs mixing their blood into a bowl and then drinking from it. In the history of the Philippines the "Sandugo" or blood contract is an important event where the Spanish explorer Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and the Bohol chief Sikatuna drank a cup of wine mixed with their blood, as a proof of friendship between the Spaniards and the people of Bohol.
 
I'm s day late but a few facts about the original Friday the 13th (1980)

The original script title was "long night at camp blood."

The snake that gets cut up by a machete wasn't just some random snake they found in the woods. It was a pet that belonged to a crew member who didn't know they planned on killing it.

The trucker who gives Annie a ride before getting killed off by Mrs Voorhees would later go on to voice Maurice in beauty and the beast (1991)
 
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Hyperion is the seventh moon of Saturn discovered. Despite it rocky appearance, it has only slightly more than half the density of water ice and is just twice as dense as pumice. There are lots of empty space within it, and it might just be a collection of uncompacted rocky and icy material barely held together by gravity.

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It is also the one of the only few known moons that have unstable, unpredictable orbits. The rest of such known "chaotic" moons are all tiny moons of Pluto.
 
During the "GREAT ASS!" scene in Heat, Al Pacino had improvised that bit-the script originally called for the line to be delivered in a normal tone and volume, but they had done multiple takes of the scene and Pacino was growing irritated, so he delivered the line in the bombastic way he did and the look of surprise on Hank Azaria's face was genuine.
 
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