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Ubiquitous said:
Upon meeting a female, the male angler fish will swim up to his mate and begin biting her body. As he does this, his mouth begins to melt, as does the rest of him while he fuses to the female angler's body. All that remains intact are his precious gonads, which the female will use to impregnate herself with. The female is not restricted to only one pair of gonads, either - she can absorb as many as several males to serve as her personal sperm depositories.
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Gets even stranger: When a male doesn't end up meeting a female angler fish for too long, he will become a female angler fish himself.
[insert joke about OPL here]
 
Billy Lynn's Long Half Time Walk was filmed at 120 frames per second, and shot in 3D, at 4K. Very, very few theaters could handle the high frame rate and TriStar refused to give many theaters extra money to set up the equipment necessary to watch it as the director intended. So only 5 theaters (Two in the United States, specifically one in LA and one in New York; three in China) could show it properly.

When the movie was released on Blu-Ray, it was capped to 60 FPS, but only on the 4K version. All other versions are at about 20-30 fps.


The film itself is so fucking huge it's file size is 84 Terabytes, with 540 Terabytes being shot for the film.

This is the only clip online that shows the 60 FPS version.

The movie itself bombed hard, making only $1.5 million in the US, $29 million elsewhere, on a $40 million dollar budget
 
Columbidae (doves and pigeons) are the only birds that are able to succ liquids, the rest can only drink water by tilting their heads up and letting gravity do its thing.
 
In 1922, 60 people were poisoned in New York City at the Shelbourne Restaurant when somebody slipped arsenic into a batch of huckleberry pies. Six of them died. No culprit was ever caught.
 
FatFuckFrank said:
Billy Lynn's Long Half Time Walk was filmed at 120 frames per second, and shot in 3D, at 4K. Very, very few theaters could handle the high frame rate and TriStar refused to give many theaters extra money to set up the equipment necessary to watch it as the director intended. So only 5 theaters (Two in the United States, specifically one in LA and one in New York; three in China) could show it properly.

When the movie was released on Blu-Ray, it was capped to 60 FPS, but only on the 4K version. All other versions are at about 20-30 fps.


The film itself is so fucking huge it's file size is 84 Terabytes, with 540 Terabytes being shot for the film.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x091jfFFe9g
This is the only clip online that shows the 60 FPS version.

The movie itself bombed hard, making only $1.5 million in the US, $29 million elsewhere, on a $40 million dollar budget
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Why would anyone choose to shoot a film at such a high frame rate that

  1. virtually nobody can afford to screen it and
  2. the film "looks cheap" (especially the special effects) because of the higher frame rate, effectively negating the money poured into the film?
 
frozenrunner said:
Why would anyone choose to shoot a film at such a high frame rate that

  1. virtually nobody can afford to screen it and
  2. the film "looks cheap" (especially the special effects) because of the higher frame rate, effectively negating the money poured into the film?
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Ang Lee did it just so he could say he did it
 
ToroidalBoat said:
In old Europe, a cheap blue dye called woad was made from yellow flowers.
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I think this was a thing in 2007 Runescape actually, you could make blue dye from "woad leaves." God that game was so British....

Speaking of British things, the author D.H. Lawrence based a character off of his mistress with whom he exchanged many letters. The character (Hermione Roddice from "Women In Love") is an unflattering exaggeration of her worst qualities, so it's safe to assume this was petty revenge after the breakup.
 
In 1977 we received a radio signal from space that lasted for exactly 72 seconds. To this day, we still can’t figure out where that shit came from.
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
Carrie Fischer was using so much cocaine during the filming of the Star Wars Holiday Special she didn't remember being in it, much like Stephen King and writing Cujo.
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The Beatles spent so much time working on "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" that when Paul McCartney announced that he wanted to scrap the song and start again, John Lennon stormed off, got high and played the final piano part while absolutely livid.

Geoff Emerick said:
Throughout the preceding weeks I had noticed that John's behavior was becoming increasingly erratic — his mood swings were more severe, and they were occurring more frequently. That was definitely the case with the recording of 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.' One moment he'd be into it, acting the fool and doing his fake Jamaican patois, the next minute he'd be sulking and grumbling about how the song was more of Paul's 'granny music shit.' [...] So when Paul announced several nights later that he wanted to scrap everything that had been done so far and start the song again from scratch, John went ballistic. Ranting and raving, he headed out the door, with Yoko trailing closely behind, and we thought that we'd seen the last of him that evening. But a few hours later he stormed back into the studio, clearly in a highly altered state of mind. 'I AM FUCKING STONED!!' John Lennon bellowed from the top of the stairs. [...] 'I am more stoned than you have ever been. In fact, I am more stoned than you will ever be!' [...] 'And this,' Lennon added with a snarl, 'is how the fucking song should go.' Unsteadily, he lurched down the stairs and over to the piano and began smashing the keys with all his might, pounding out the famous opening chords that became the song's introduction, played at a breakneck tempo. [...] 'Okay, then, John,' [McCartney] said in short, clipped words, staring his deranged bandmate straight in the eye. 'Let's do it your way.' [...] The remake, I had to admit, was quite good.
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During fights over who gets to mate, male wild boars will often bite and injure the penis and scrotum of their opponents.
 
Indian wrestler Great Gama did five thousand squats and three thousand pushups a day, often while wearing a 100 pound weighted belt. His extreme training later inspired Bruce Lee.
 
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