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George A Romero was at one point in 1998 going to make a movie of the first goosebumps book Welcome to dead house, after that fell through other potential directors included Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus, Joe Johnston, and Joe Dante.
 
Here's some fun facts from a list of fun facts in a Civil War museum I went to the other day.

1) General Benjamin Butler lost every battle he fought.
2) Former President John Tyler served in the Confederate Congress and died during the war; his death was not recognized by the US Government (for memorial purposes).

Actually, reading more on this, John Tyler was also laid in state by the Confederacy under a Confederate flag, making him the ONLY US President to be laid in state/buried under the flag of another nation.

3) At least 88 engagements were fought in California. (Mostly naval actions or outlaws calling themselves Confederate guerillas.)
5) 8% of Confederate soldiers were classified as being "students" before the war, in contrast to 0% of Union soldiers,
6) Of military-age men, 80% of Confederates and 55% of Union served
7) 25% of the Union Army was immigrants, 9% of the Confederate Army was immigrants

Not from museum, but since I'm on about it:
Last general to surrender: Cherokee Chief Stand Watie (CSA) in Indian Territory
Last military unit to surrender: CSS Shenandoah, a commerce raider sinking ships off the coast of Alaska
First submarine to sink an enemy ship in action was CSS Hunley in Charleston harbor, pedal-operated by a crew
First "aircraft carrier" (on a technicality) was a Union barge that launched hot air balloons
One naval battle (between two ships) was fought off the coast of France; French civilians turned out to watch it.

Bet you would have never guessed that two Confederate states participated in the 1864 election? Tennessee and Louisiana both had the right to vote for the Union president and they elected Lincoln.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
First submarine to sink an enemy ship in action was CSS Hunley in Charleston harbor, pedal-operated by a crew
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The Hunley also has the distinction of having been sunk three times, killing 21 of its personnel in the process, and of being (IIRC) the only submarine in history sunk by small-arms fire.
There’s a great doco on Amazon Prime called ‘The Secret Weapon of the Confederacy’ about it being recently retrieved after its third and final sinking.
 
SITHRAK! said:
The Hunley also has the distinction of having been sunk three times, killing 21 of its personnel in the process, and of being (IIRC) the only submarine in history sunk by small-arms fire.
There’s a great doco on Amazon Prime called ‘The Secret Weapon of the Confederacy’ about it being recently retrieved after its third and final sinking.
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That may be the first time an inanimate object was a lolcow.

Other fun fact, after it sank the first time, killing all its crew, they sent it out a second time, this time with its creator, lolcow Hunley. This time, it also sank, killing all its crew (including Hunley). Finally, on its third run, it sank a warship. The Housatonic. And then sank, killing all its crew.

(Correction, only five the first time, with four escaping.)
 
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AnOminous said:
That may be the first time an inanimate object was a lolcow.

Other fun fact, after it sank the first time, killing all its crew, they sent it out a second time, this time with its creator, lolcow Hunley. This time, it also sank, killing all its crew (including Hunley). Finally, on its third run, it sank a warship. The Housatonic. And then sank, killing all its crew.

(Correction, only five the first time, with four escaping.)
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Getting volunteered for the Hunley would be a lot like the Cheech and Chong kamikaze sketch (fun fact tax: which was written by Douglas Adams, of all people).
 
SITHRAK! said:
The Hunley also has the distinction of having been sunk three times, killing 21 of its personnel in the process, and of being (IIRC) the only submarine in history sunk by small-arms fire.
There’s a great doco on Amazon Prime called ‘The Secret Weapon of the Confederacy’ about it being recently retrieved after its third and final sinking.
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I mused to a museum docent about how the collective experiments sank three craft and killed four times as many Confederates as Union and the docent got really snippy about it.

It's on display in Charleston, though only from a kind of shitty top-down view.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I mused to a museum docent about how the collective experiments sank three craft and killed four times as many Confederates as Union and the docent got really snippy about it.

It's on display in Charleston, though only from a kind of shitty top-down view.
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You’re lucky he didn’t slap you in the face with a kid glove and call you out for “a duel at dawn the next day, suh”.
 
liechtenstein and uzbekistan are the only double-landlocked country in the world, meaning all countries that surround them are also landlocked
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The columbine shooter Eric Harris had a chest deformity known as pectus excavatum. Although he had surgeries to fix it at 12 and 13, the autopsy noted that it was still visible.
 
Lewis Carrol once claimed to be Jack the Ripper though nothing ever confirmed he was the killer he stuck by his claim for the rest of his life insisting he was the killer and even bragged about having "gotten away with it."
deerPropaganda said:
The columbine shooter Eric Harris had a chest deformity known as pectus excavatum. Although he had surgeries to fix it at 12 and 13, the autopsy noted that it was still visible.
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Also despite what incels say about them to try and prop them up as their patron saints of inceldom, No. Harris and Kleboild where not; "weak, unattractive, dateless, victims of constant bullying, that got pushed to the limit and did what they did out of repressed anger." They were both spoiled brats who wanted attention and infamy.
 
A Grey Cat said:
Lewis Carrol once claimed to be Jack the Ripper though nothing ever confirmed he was the killer he stuck by his claim for the rest of his life insisting he was the killer and even bragged about having "gotten away with it."

Also despite what incels say about them to try and prop them up as their patron saints of inceldom, No. Harris and Kleboild where not; "weak, unattractive, dateless, victims of constant bullying, that got pushed to the limit and did what they did out of repressed anger." They were both spoiled brats who wanted attention and infamy.
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thats not a very fun fact
 
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