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Also, Isaac Newton fought English counterfeiting and is responsible for some American (and of course English) coins having those a little ridges around the edges. It prevents snipping and the creation of counterfeit coins.
 
-Captain Crunch's full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch.
-The guy who invented the frisbee was cremated and made into a frisbee after he died.
-Lego is actually the largest tire manufacturer in the world
 
In 1930 Spain had a republican revolution that toppled a dictatorship and the monarchy behind that dictatorship.

The 1931 election involved male suffrage and the socialist parties won a massive majority.

Women were granted suffrage by the socialists for the 1933 election and the conservatives won that election by a super majority.
 
Texas A&M University had more ground soldiers enlist in World War 2 than any other college in America combined.
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Allegedly elephants react to humans the same way that we react to animals like puppies, they think we're adorable (it hasn't been fully confirmed yet but god I hope it's true). It's also been found that elephants are surprisingly okay with being tamed by humans and our whole relationship with them is very odd. They can be viscious and deadly if provoked, but if a human gains an elephant's trust they more or less become instantly domesticated and will willingly follow directions without much fuss.

I like elephants.
 
Count groudon said:
elephants are surprisingly okay with being tamed by humans
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No, their spines can't handle the weight of saddles (and especially not the person sitting on them). Riding elephants is awful and incredibly harmful to their backs. Given how unexpectedly weak their spines are, basically any elephant outside of a zoo gets fucked over a bit. So I'm pretty sure a fair bit of elephants have some problems with domestication.
 
Y2K Baby said:
No, their spines can't handle the weight of saddles (and especially not the person sitting on them). Riding elephants is awful and incredibly harmful to their backs. Given how unexpectedly weak their spines are, basically any elephant outside of a zoo gets fucked over a bit. So I'm pretty sure a fair bit of elephants have some problems with domestication.
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Oh no, I know they're super not happy with having people ride them, but they get along with humans surprisingly well. Once an elephant has adjusted to being around people they're very docile and even playful. It's even been shown in studies that elephants can actually develope very close attachments with humans very easily. It's been nited that elephants in zoos are very gentle and affectionate with the people that care for them.
 
Count groudon said:
Oh no, I know they're super not happy with having people ride them, but they get along with humans surprisingly well. Once an elephant has adjusted to being around people they're very docile and even playful. It's even been shown in studies that elephants can actually develope very close attachments with humans very easily. It's been nited that elephants in zoos are very gentle and affectionate with the people that care for them.
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Yes, but do they give head?
 
Mount Rushmore was originally supposed to be carved out down to the four president's waists, but in 1941 the sculptor Gutzon Borglum died and the US entered WWII, and it was left as four busts. Gutzon Borglum himself grew up in a Mormon polygamist househould and later became a Ku Klux Klan leader.
 
Francis Wharton was an old-fashioned mountain man living in the wilds of British Columbia in the '50s, when one day, he found he'd lost too many of his natural teeth to chew the meat of a deer he'd just shot. Not one to let such inconveniences dissuade him, Francis removed the deer's own teeth, filed them down, and fashioned them into a set of dentures with some plastic wood and cement. Then he ate the deer.
 
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