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RomanesEuntDomus said:
Category 1) applies to those with small amounts of radiation poisoning, who are barely affected at all and can continue serving in the military. Catgory 2) is when you're irradiated so much, that you need medical treatment and 3) is when medical treatment no longer affects your chances of survival, thus you pretty much serve until you drop. That's some "Warhammer 40k Imperial Guard"-type shit.
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People who served at Chernobyl were categorized like this, and people in category 3 often continued to serve willingly even knowing they were in that category. I can't actually disagree with their choice, why not? If you're going to die anyway, you might as well die honorably.

A lot of people who did duty at the failure of Chernobyl knew what they were doing was going to be fatal.
 
During the filming of the princess bride, Andre the giant reportedly let out an extremely loud 16 second long fart. When the director asked him if he was okay, he just smiled and said "I am now boss".

According to accounts from other wrestlers and close friends, this was not an uncommon thing when dealing with Andre, the magnificent bastard.
 
During the making of The Silence of the Lambs, parts of the FBI were involved in the making of the film because they thought it would help encourage more female operatives, so they gave them some resources, including audio of the Toolbox Killers: Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris. Jodie Foster declined to listen to the tapes, while Scott Glenn listened to a minute of it, in order to understand what type of stuff his character has to deal with.

Glenn was so disgusted by the tapes that not only did he leave the room crying (and according to some reports, puking), he also refused to be in any sequels to the films, and it even got him to change his stance on the Death Penalty because of it.

Keep in mind the Toolbox tapes were so fucked up that the head of the investigation was so haunted by it that he killed himself ten years after the case, saying he always heard those screams.
 
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cornucopia said:
The kakapo, a flightless parrot from New Zealand, has an adult population of only 148 (as of August 2018) and almost every single one has a unique name. Kakapos are also know to have distinct personalities.

Bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY
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Gosh, these animals are cute...
and quite the right thing to distract me from my memories of reading through a transcript of the toolbox tapes...
 
"Wasabi" in Japanese restaurants in the U.S. is usually just horseradish colored green. Actual wasabi is made from a completely different plant.
 
Reportedly there was an incedent where a SAS officer was tasked to clear a cave that was supposedly a taliban hideout. Said officer decided to go in with nothing but his side arm and a claw hammer because he believed that it would be inconvenient to use a larger gun in such a small space. Sometime later the marvelous bastard came out caked in blood, apparently after the first few shots his pistol jammed, so he took out the remaining taliban faggots by hiding in the shadows and jumping them with the hammer once they got too close.


The fucker pulled a Hotline Miami IRL.
 
By law in China, the PLA has to be portrayed as the strongest military on the planet. Modders for ARMA3 have been threatened with arrest for making a mod with the Type 99 MBT less powerful than the M1A2 Abrams.
 
Up 'till the 19th century, there was an execution method in Italy called "Mazzolata" (named after a special kind of club or mallet).

The convicted would be lead by his confessor onto a platform with a coffin and the executioner.
He would then be struck on the side of the skull with the eponymous Mazzolata, and while he was lying on the ground, the executioner would cut open his throat and jump on his chest, to make the blood gush out of the wound.

This punishment was only used for particularly "loathesome" crimes.
 
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AnOminous said:
People who served at Chernobyl were categorized like this, and people in category 3 often continued to serve willingly even knowing they were in that category. I can't actually disagree with their choice, why not? If you're going to die anyway, you might as well die honorably.

A lot of people who did duty at the failure of Chernobyl knew what they were doing was going to be fatal.
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There were a bunch of old people in Japan that offered to go to the Fukushima area to help with the clean up knowing it would kill them. But they figured since they were so old may as well do it anyway and prevent younger people from doing it.

Apparently there were three guys that volunteered to jump the flooded area of Chernobyl to shut down stuff to prevent another more dangerous steam explosion.
 
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Pop-Tart said:
There were a bunch of old people in Japan that offered to go to the Fukushima area to help with the clean up knowing it would kill them. But they figured since they were so old may as well do it anyway and prevent younger people from doing it.

Apparently there were three guys that volunteered to jump the folded area of Chernobyl to shut down stuff to prevent another more dangerous steam explosion.
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History and modern day is replete with examples of people sacrificing themselves for the greater good. Most of the time you don't hear about good people because they don't seek publicity, they're too busy saving their corner of the world.
 
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For any integer n>1, there is always at least one prime number between n and 2n.
 
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