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'Giant frog egg' is an anagram of 'nigger faggot'.

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LED's are basically just solar panels wired backwards. In fact: You can measure the voltage across a disconnected LED and it will vary depending on the intensity and color of light hitting it.
 
Flintheart glomgold of ducktales fame was originally an Afrikanass from south Africa in the barks comics. His nationality was changed to Scottish like Scrooge due to the then ongoing apartihe in South Africa during production of the ducktales cartoon.
 
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A Grey Cat said:
Flintheart glomgold of ducktales fame was originally an Afrikanass from south Africa in the barks comics. His nationality was changed to Scottish like Scrooge due to the then ongoing apartihe in South Africa during production of the ducktales cartoon.
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In the reboot of the cartoon, he’s still Scottish.
It’s an act to get under Scrooge’s skin. When he gets amnesia, he reverts back to his South African accent.
It’s a pretty good reboot, especially if you’re a fan of the Disney Duck comics.
 
McMitch4kf said:
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In the reboot of the cartoon, he’s still Scottish.
It’s an act to get under Scrooge’s skin. When he gets amnesia, he reverts back to his South African accent.
It’s a pretty good reboot, especially if you’re a fan of the Disney Duck comics.
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Yes, it was a breath of fresh air to have a reboot that stayed true to the spirit of the original for once, but this isn't the western animation or Disney thread so fact tax.


The hottest (confirmed) hot pepper in the world is currently the Carolina Reaper pepper. A hybrid of ghost pepper and habenero peppers. It is over a million scoviale units strong and beat the previous record holder the Caribbean scorpion pepper.


I say confirmed because there are two peppers currently awaiting confirmation that are said to be even more potent than the reaper pepper.
 
Clarence Darrow, one of the greatest lawyers of all time, took seven tries to pass the bar. Not only didn't he go to law school, he even dropped out of college and just took the bar until he passed.

He took many capital cases at a time when these were much more common, and had a flawless record of never having a client sentenced to death.

This is actually part of why I don't like the death penalty as applied in the U.S. because the only real capital crime is "first degree having a shitty lawyer." Juries, even death-qualified juries (if you flat out admit in voir dire you are never ever sentencing anyone to death you are gone), do not want to sign off on killing someone if there's the slightest reason not to.

Anyway Darrow was a shocking genius and what any lawyer should aspire to be.
 
Krystal said:
Six states (including California) have had executions by gas chamber.
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The funny thing is execution by gas chamber was poised to become the next big thing in forms of capital punishment. It was well on its way to replacing the electric chair as a more humane form of execution. Then the chamber got associated with a certain.... "mishap " during ww2 that forever tarnished its reputation.
 
Silphium was a plant known to the ancient Mediterranean civilizations, probably of the same family as parsley and fennel. It was extremely valuable as it could be used as seasoning and perfume, and also as a medicine that could induce horniness and abortions, stop periods, and heal various pains and ailments. It was only found in a small area outside of the North African city of Cyrene, and it made that city very rich. But these circumstances led to over-farming and extinction. Pliny reported that the last known stalk of silphium found in Cyrene was given to Emperor Nero "as a curiosity."

Silphium could be one of, if not the, origin of the heart symbol. It was portrayed on Cyrenese coins, sometimes along with a heart shape that represents its seed or fruit. Possibly related plants bear seeds shaped like hearts, and remember it was the ancient version of Plan B which would explain the symbol's connection to affairs of the heart.
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Finally, in Italian military heraldry a stalk of silphium is a symbol for units that served in the North African front during World War 2 - used even today.
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(Coat of arms of Italian Libya)
 
Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie. If you know the people behind it and why things are the way they are, it's legitimately a WWII themed movie. The fact that it's during Christmas is only a hint about certain elements in play and has nothing really to do with the holiday itself. DH3 is a bit the same way as well.
Also in worst korea some people play DH1 during Christmas as a thing.
 
Since the farms have been talking about chip and dale all weekend I have one last thing to say about them (for the weekend) the duo first appeared as comic foils to Donald Duck in a 1947 cartoon. And contrary to popular belief, the loony tunes characters the goofy gophers were not meant to be a parody of them. Rather they where a parody of an 1900s comic strip named Alphonse and Gaston with some influence from pip and Mr pocket from a 1946 version of Great expectations .
 
McMitch4kf said:
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In the reboot of the cartoon, he’s still Scottish.
It’s an act to get under Scrooge’s skin. When he gets amnesia, he reverts back to his South African accent.
It’s a pretty good reboot, especially if you’re a fan of the Disney Duck comics.
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I don't know all the places they are distributed but Duck series in pocket book form started to be drawn and produced in europe during the late 60's due to a lack of American material to fill the pages with in European magazines. Imagine that.
Barks material was published when there was enough of it to fill a book and even as a kid that knew nothing about anyone he stood out, but it was often new adventures with a story that spanned from the first to last page(~150-200 pages). You don't often see Mickey Mouse with a revolver shooting at a dindu hatchet man crashing a dinner party, but in the European pocket books...

There's a lot of these books and they were pretty great as a kid.
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