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Eddie Riggs said:
Atheists have no morals.
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Yeah those damn atheists are disgusting with the way they're constantly in the news for raping kids. Oh wait.

Stewie Seagull said:
I've met more ultra-moralist atheists than I've seen from religious peers (for some reason, religion makes people more lax on things)
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That's because cultists only care about instant self gratification, as long as they're happy they couldn't care less about all the kids who get raped by their leaders. These vile shit bags why antitheism is a thing.

Meat Target said:
Venus flytraps only naturally grow in a roughly 100-mile stretch of Carolina swamplands.
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Pitcher plants too! There's several unique organisms living exclusively in that one south carolina swamp and i'm pretty sure it's a protected environment because of it. The carolinas also used to be one of if not the most popular places for hollywood to shoot movies because between north and south carolina there are swamps, deserts, mountains, plains and farmland, cities, small towns, beaches, lakes, rivers and forests of all sorts. It's an incredibly diverse region and any film could be shot there so that's exactly what was done pretty much into the 50s when studio sets started getting used more to save on cost and time.
 
There are two types of pitcher plants: the Nepenthes, which look like a toilet bowl, sometimes with "lid"; the Sarracenia, which look like organ pipes. They are not closely related.

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Bunny Tracks said:
Possibly. Public records do show that his grandfather was classified as black, but it is possible that the clerk just thought he was because of his black-looking features which apparently some Irish people can just naturally have because them also having Spanish descendants, or whatever.

I dunno. You be the judge.
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Looks more like a Southern Italian to me. Maybe that's partly why Henry's Mafia mentors actually liked his dad, despite being a "Mick". And the Black Irish myth is a fascinating thing: They can be owt from, as addressed in the article you sent me, descendants of Navy types who went AWOL during the Spanish Armada, or in the wake of their defeat, to Barbadian slaves from 200-300 years ago (I found this out today, but I already knew that actual Caucasian Irish people were sugar plantation slaves there, too).

Although, and this is flimsy, Henry Sr.'s old man was called Moses, which is usually an old-timey African-American name, but I'm more of the opinion that maybe Moses was Jewish. Jews and Irish people can look like the stereotypical Italian, due to them tending to having dark, wavy hair at times.

 
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The fly Erebomyia exallopetera, which is found in the east coast of USA, is the only known insect -- indeed the only known flying creature -- whose left and right wings are not symmetrical in shape. It is speculated that the asymmetry is an adaptation for sound creation in courtship.
 
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Agent Abe Caprine said:
The Odyssey 2 did well in Brazil and Europe. It flopped in the US, its home country.
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I can add that it was sold in Europe and Brazil as the Philips G7000, it was only in the US that it was known under the Odyssey 2 name. And I have one complete with the box and and a bunch of boxed games with manuals etc. All of that is worth exactly nothing at all on the retro market because it sucks ass and has possibly the worst keyboard that has ever been created.
 
The Ten Thousand were a band of Grecian mercenaries; veterans of the Peloponnesian War, hired by Cyrus the Younger, to whack his brother. Or simply help depose him. Most likely, that would result in a bloody, and or, agonising death, so, yeah, I'd most likely be right in saying they would have whacked him.

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Do they have some Black Company-esque stories about trying to get back to Greece after their employer died?
 
Due to an unfinished animation cycle, and the fact that during it he has no programmed collision with anything besides whatever he's standing on, it's possible for Link to phase through objects he otherwise wouldn't be able to in Twilight Princess while he's holding an item he just got out of a chest. The only catch is that it takes an incredibly long time.

As in, well over 12 hours.

This was all discovered when a guy who was playing the game opened a chest, and then left to do other shit while forgetting he left the game on only to return the next day to see Link suddenly standing inside the chest.
 
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During the filming of The Six Million Dollar Man a real life corpse was found hanging amongst the props of an amusement park attraction. It was discovered when one of the crew workers went to move what everyone thought was a fake mummy and accidentally ripping its arm off revealing real human bone underneath.
 
Plantation Barbie said:
During the filming of The Six Million Dollar Man a real life corpse was found hanging amongst the props of an amusement park attraction. It was discovered when one of the crew workers went to move what everyone thought was a fake mummy and accidentally ripping its arm off revealing real human bone underneath.
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Bonus Fact: The dead guy ended up being a man named Elmer McCurdy, and his corpse had actually been paraded around in various sideshows, and movies for decades before it ended up at the park.

Hilariously, one the reasons it was sold to the park in the first place was because its owner at the time thought it was "not lifelike enough for his exhibit".
 
In the South Park movie, there's a scene where the kids try to do online research on the fabled clitoris. They inevitably end up on a porn site called "German Sick Fetish Video" with a scat fetish video playing that features Cartman's mom. The audio from the video is (mock) German ("Here I scheiß again!, "Essen meine Scheiße!") and Stan reacts by saying "Dude, what the fuck is wrong with German people?".

The German release/dub of the movie still contains this scene, except now the joke's at the expense of the British. The audio of the scat video is changed to a male voice with a cockney accent saying "Swallowin' this, ya cunt", "Eat my poo poo" and "Now gobble it up and swallow it!", and Stan exclaims "Alter, was zum Teufel ist los mit diesen Engländern?" (Dude, what the hell is up with those English people?).
 
demicolon said:
Do they have some Black Company-esque stories about trying to get back to Greece after their employer died?
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the novel The Warriors (made famous by the movie) is basically a modern retelling of the ten thousand, and one of the main characters is reading a comic book in-story about the ten thousand to show off its exact inspiration.

the novel is a lot different than the film The Warriors as well, a lot more brutal and none of the gangs are white.
 
Your gut contains about 20% of the neurons in your body. This means your gut can just about think for itself, and there has been a link between the food you eat and depression. If you eat healthier, you might be happier if you do suffer from depression.

Also, if your diet suddenly changes and it makes you feel sick, this is because the microbiome in your gut isn’t used to that sort of food, and it either dies or has a tantrum (or both, I guess), and it takes a little while for your biome to regrow/recalibrate.

Look after your body and it’ll look after you. Meanwhile, I eat so much shit my name might as well be Garbage Guts.
 
Bunny Tracks said:
Bonus Fact: The dead guy ended up being a man named Elmer McCurdy, and his corpse had actually been paraded around in various sideshows, and movies for decades before it ended up at the park.

Hilariously, one the reasons it was sold to the park in the first place was because its owner at the time thought it was "not lifelike enough for his exhibit".
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Allegedly Mark Taylor, a designer for Mattel, claims to have seen the hanging corpse on display as a child and that no one believed him when he said it was a real corpse. Elmer's mummified face later became the inspiration for Skeletor.

Loris Yeltsin said:
In the South Park movie, there's a scene where the kids try to do online research on the fabled clitoris. They inevitably end up on a porn site called "German Sick Fetish Video" with a scat fetish video playing that features Cartman's mom. The audio from the video is (mock) German ("Here I scheiß again!, "Essen meine Scheiße!") and Stan reacts by saying "Dude, what the fuck is wrong with German people?".

The German release/dub of the movie still contains this scene, except now the joke's at the expense of the British. The audio of the scat video is changed to a male voice with a cockney accent saying "Swallowin' this, ya cunt", "Eat my poo poo" and "Now gobble it up and swallow it!", and Stan exclaims "Alter, was zum Teufel ist los mit diesen Engländern?" (Dude, what the hell is up with those English people?).
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Fun fact: A similar but more family friendly version of this gag was used by Pixar. In Toy Story 3 there is a scene where one of the toys accidentally presses Buzz Lightyear's reset button causing him to re-awaken as a Spanish speaking Casanova. When the film was released in Mexico/latin America Buzz spoke with a transitional Spaniard accent. However, in Spain the character was given a thicker, more regional dialect.
The language was the same, they just enhanced the accent.
 
42 is an unlucky number in Japan, because it can be pronounced "shi ni" which sounds like 死に ("to die" or "in death"). Meanwhile in the West, 42 is just some meme number.

Over in Mexico, 41 can be a taboo number, for a rather wat reason.

The number 13 is commonly considered unlucky, but in Mexico, the number 41 has been seen as taboo and avoided-at one point the Army left the number out of battalions, hotel and hospital rooms didn't use it and some even skipped their 41st birthday altogether. The reason has to do with a party held in a secret location in Mexico on November 17, 1901.

On that night 41-possibly 42-men gathered under the cover of night to dance together. Though some may not consider this scandalous by today's standards, fallout from "The Dance of the 41," as it was called by the press, was controversial enough to change the landscape of sexuality in Mexico.​

- 41 Has a Secret Meaning in Mexico, Thanks to a Queer Underground Ball | HISTORY (ad blocker advised)
 
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