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Thought about posting this in food, but I think it fits here.
Here's a recipe you guys can use to make easy dough for pizza, Stromboli, o really any kind of dough wrapped food.

3 cups of flour (2 of white, and 1 of whole wheat if you have it)
1Tblspn Sugar
1Tblspn Yeast
1Tspn Salt
After you've added your dry ingrediants
3 and 4th cups warmish water.

After you've added your wet and dry ingredients, mix by hand or with a mixer until the dough ball has soaked up the liquid and most of the flour. You can either let it rise for hours in a covered container, and roll it when ready OR if you want food soon just let it rise for 10 minutes then roll.
 
If there are 23 people in a room, there's a 50% chance that two of them share a birthday.
 
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DSP....
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I wanted to put some music into the video I'm doing from the relevant game but got two different soundtracks. I now know something about a game I will never play nor have any passing interest in thanks to its association to DSP and I'm a little bit upset valuable brain space was wasted on that.

My dogs enjoy butter, so therefore must be of southern origin. One does look strikingly like Paula Deen...that same one will also hesitantly lick up pure turmeric, which is good because she's rotund and old and needs the fat soluble whatever benefits it has, but the other took one lick and stared at it. Which is strange because he's the one who will lick anything just to check if its food.
 
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This fact is the basis for a very nice sucker bet to take people's money at bars.
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Another one is that the names of states aren't on the five dollar bill. They're there, in very tiny print on the top of the Lincoln Memorial. It's an anti-counterfeiting measure as well as giving people who like to inspect everything with a magnifying glass something to find.
 
DrJonesHat said:
Another one is that the names of states aren't on the five dollar bill. They're there, in very tiny print on the top of the Lincoln Memorial. It's an anti-counterfeiting measure as well as giving people who like to inspect everything with a magnifying glass something to find.
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EVEN ALASKA AND HAWAII?
 
Back during the operations in Iraq, a few U.S marines began using speakers to blast the predator’s laugh throughout the city of Fallujah in an attempt to unnerve the insurgents that were hiding there. It worked so well they had to shut it off because the Other marines who were in the city actually got so creeped out by it that they had to radio the others to tell them to cut it out.
 
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At the coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of France in 1804, a special hot air balloon was launched by the Montgolfier Brothers in Paris that drifted all the way to Rome. Carrying a huge gilded eagle on its gondola, the balloon narrowly missed a collision with St. Peter's Basilica and sailed by the tomb of Emperor Nero, where the eagle became dislodged and fell right on top of the Roman tyrant's sarcophagus. Napoleon, who was superstitious and mindful of omens, forbade all hot air ballooning in France, and not a single hot air balloon was launched there for forty years.

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This image was made with a color named "mummy brown", which was widely used starting in the 16th century.
Since it's slightly transparent, it could be used for shadows, glazing, flesh tones and shading.
The ingredients are white pitch, myrrh . . . and ground up mumies from Egypt.
Most painters didn't know the origin of this color and upon finding out, some refused to work with it, yet it was still popular amongst some other artists.
The production of this color was discontinued in 1964, when the last company that made it ran out of "mumia", which is the powder made of mumies.

Mumia in general was used in a wide range of things.
Here's an image of an egyptian mummy seller:
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Daniel Radcliffe once wore the same clothing for 6 months to fuck with the paparazzi. The pictures would be assumed to be old and thus difficult to sell to tabloids.

Water is used in rice fields to prevent weeds. Rice doesn't actually need to be grown in water, but it can survive in such conditions whereas weeds cannot.

During WWII many German POWs were forced to watch footage taken at concentration camps. Some were so appalled by what they saw that they burned their uniforms, and some even volunteered to fight in Allied regiments against the Axis.

Mozart once wrote a song just to fuck with a performer, Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, who had a habit of angling her head downward on low notes and upward on high notes. The piece contained many jumps from high to low so he could see her head "bob like a chicken" during the performance.

The US Navy replaced the expensive and clunky controls on submarine periscopes with Xbox 360 controllers. This reduced training time from hours to minutes.

On September 12th, 2001 the Queen of England ordered her royal guards to break protocol and play the Star Spangled Banner for Americans stranded in London.

Alan Alda met his wife of over 60 years at a mutual friend's dinner party. A rum cake had been dropped on the floor and they were the only 2 who decided to eat it anyways, during which time they bonded and fell in love.

During WWII Audie Murphy, who was only 5'5", was denied enlistment in the Marines, the Air Force Paratrooper Corps, and even the Navy. The army, however, was more than willing to take him. He went on to become the most decorated US soldier so serve in the war. After the war he became an actor, and even played himself in an autobiographical film. Many of his exploits were so incredible he actually requested they be cut from the film to make it more believable.
 
In The Chronicles of Narnia, during the scene where the "wolves" (actually huskies) surround the Beavers house, the production team had to CGI out all the wagging tails.

Along with Bollywood, Mollywood, Ollywood, Kollywood and Tollywood are also located in India.

ExceptionallyExceptional said:
Mozart once wrote a song just to fuck with a performer, Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, who had a habit of angling her head downward on low notes and upward on high notes. The piece contained many jumps from high to low so he could see her head "bob like a chicken" during the performance.
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He also wrote this


The title is translated exactly as you think it is
 
Lurkette said:
In The Chronicles of Narnia, during the scene where the "wolves" (actually huskies) surround the Beavers house, the production team had to CGI out all the wagging tails.

Along with Bollywood, Mollywood, Ollywood, Kollywood and Tollywood are also located in India.



He also wrote this

https://youtube.com/watch?v=C78HBp-Youk
The title is translated exactly as you think it is
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Mozart was fucking awesome.

Flamin' Hot Cheetos were actually invented by a Mexican janitor named Richard Montanez who was working at one of the factories producing FritoLay products. The machine that coated the Cheetos with cheese dust broke down one night and the current uncoated batch was going to be discarded until the machine was repaired and a fresh batch could be made. He took a good portion of the uncoated chips home and spiced them with elote seasoning. He pitched the product idea to then CEO Roger Enrico and Enrico told him to present the idea in 2 weeks. He even designed bags for the new Cheetos specially for the presentation.

He's now an Executive Vice President at PepsiCo.
 
During the production of Blade: Trinity, Wesley snipes was so upset with the script that, while he agreed to do it because he loved playing Blade, absolutely hated everything about the new movie, and decided that he would keep his eyes closed in almost every single scene just to piss of the other crew members. He was actually so stubborn they couldn’t get any footage of him with his eyes open, so they had to hire a guy to use CGI to make it look like his eyes were open.

Edit to add: Snipes was also so into playing blade that for the entire duration of filming each movie he never broke character and insisted everyone call him blade. It was cool at first, but after a short while the rest of the cast got really annoyed about it.
 
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When the A-Team (the series, not the movie) was first filmed, Dwight Schultz introduced himself politely to George Peppard. Peppard replied "Very good, I'm George Peppard, and I'm not a very nice man."
 
Count groudon said:
During the production of Blade: Trinity, Wesley snipes was so upset with the script that, while he agreed to do it because he loved playing Blade, absolutely hated the script, and decided that he would keep his eyes closed in almost every single scene just to piss of the other crew members. He was actually so stubborn they couldn’t get any footage of him with his eyes open, so they had to hire a guy to use CGI to make it look like his eyes were open.
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The guy who directed the movie Downfall (aka the Hitler rants movie) tried to get off the film to direct Blade Trinity, but legally couldn't because of his contract. Downfall got nominated for an oscar, Blade Trinity ruined nearly everyones career.
 
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