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Charles Dickens got the idea for A Christmas Carol when he walked through a graveyard in Edinburgh and saw a tombstone with the inscription 'Ebeneezer Scroggie - Meal Man' i.e. a grain merchant. Dickens, who was somewhat dyslexic, misread it as 'Ebeneezer Scrooge - Mean Man' and wondered what the poor guy had done to be buried with such an epitaph.
 
Great white sharks give birth to live young. During the pregnancy they carry multiple fetal sharks inside of their wombs which will viciously kill and eat their siblings until only the strongest survives to be born.

Spotted Hyena females produce testosterone (In fact more testosterone than the males do), and their vaginal opening is a tube-like organ called a psuedopenis which is positioned in the same location where an actual penis is on a male, making mating an incredibly difficult process. This is further complicated by the natural aggression of the female who will attack the male if she feels he's being too forceful during mating.
 
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In the Magical Mystery Tour film, John Lennon stands in front of a sign that says "The best way to go is by M&D Coaches." This can be shortened to MDC. Lennon was murdered 13 years later by Mark David Chapman.

To make this even weirder, "M&D Coaches" has long been held to be a hearse company by supporters of the "Paul is Dead" conspiracy theory.
 
FatFuckFrank said:
dude was caught a few weeks later and had to pay a fine

Also my 666th message
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Unlike Captain Midnight, the probably two guys who hijacked two Chicago TV stations on November 22, 1987 was never caught.

They transmitted this:


They probably weren't caught because unlike the HBO jamming, which involved hijacking a satellite, this just affected the Chicago area.
 
According to Greek myths, when one of Zeus' pregnant mistresses died, he yanked her womb out, absorbed it into his thigh, and then gave birth to his son Dionysus.

That's right, Mpreg has been a thing since ancient times, and the Greeks wrote fanfiction about their gods doing it.
 
AnOminous said:
Unlike Captain Midnight, the probably two guys who hijacked two Chicago TV stations on November 22, 1987 was never caught.

They transmitted this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs
They probably weren't caught because unlike the HBO jamming, which involved hijacking a satellite, this just affected the Chicago area.
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That was the single greatest piece of television I have ever seen. If I was them I would have spared no expense to track this fucker down and given him his own show!


About 60% of the composition of the human brain is fat.

Unspayed female ferrets will actually die if they go too long without mating. Pregnancy is not a factor, the act of mating is.

Oranges are not naturally occurring fruits. They're a hybridization between tangerines (aka: Mandarin Oranges) and Chinese grapefruits known as pomelos.

Stop signs used to be yellow for visibility reasons but were changed when fade resistant red coatings became available because red instinctively draws the human eye.

Adult horses sleep only 3-4 hours in a day in short bursts of around 15 minutes.

The word for a blob of toothpaste applied on a toothbrush is a "nurdle". Yes, really, there was a specific fucking word for this.

An average healthy man produces enough sperm cells in a week to impregnate every woman on Earth.

This symbol # is known as an "octothorp" (also commonly varied as octothorpe, octathorp and octatherp)

Web pages featuring porn outnumber web pages without porn by 5 to 1.

Charles Darwin married his first cousin and had 10 children with her, 7 of which survived to adulthood. The man that left us with the concept of "Survival of the fittest" also left us a gaggle of inbred children.
 
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AnOminous said:
Unlike Captain Midnight, the probably two guys who hijacked two Chicago TV stations on November 22, 1987 was never caught.

They transmitted this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs
They probably weren't caught because unlike the HBO jamming, which involved hijacking a satellite, this just affected the Chicago area.
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I was in sixth grade when that happened and I remember seeing a story about it on the evening news. It would be very difficult to do that today, but back then, you could cobble together a transmitter if you knew enough about electronics and do something like that.
 
After the Cuban Revolution, the CIA was desperate to overthrow the Castro regime. This ultimately led to the Bay of Pigs invasion, which in turn triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis. But at one point, the CIA seriously considered staging false flag terrorist attacks in the US and blaming it on Cuban-backed terrorists. They calculated this would get the US population screaming for an invasion of Cuba. This never happened because someone pointed out this would in fact be treason.
 
DrJonesHat said:
After the Cuban Revolution, the CIA was desperate to overthrow the Castro regime. This ultimately led to the Bay of Pigs invasion, which in turn triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis. But at one point, the CIA seriously considered staging false flag terrorist attacks in the US and blaming it on Cuban-backed terrorists. They calculated this would get the US population screaming for an invasion of Cuba. This never happened because someone pointed out this would in fact be treason.
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You wouldn't believe how many plots to kill Castro were considered. The CIA actually had a big list of possible ways to do it (some were attempted, some were not) the craziest of which included the following.

Slipping him an exploding cigar. Not one of the little joke ones, either. The one they devised for the job would blow a good chunk of your face off and send teeth into the back of your throat like shrapnel.

Planting a special pen into his office that, when the thrust tube was depressed, would send an ultra-fine poisoned needle that he wouldn't even feel into his thumb.

Attempting to exploit his love of scuba diving two plots were devised. One was to plant explosives in an exotic shell hoping Castro would attempt to collect it. The other was to contaminate his diving suit with a fungus that would cause painful and debilitating skin conditions.

Attempting to drug him with hallucinogenics or amphetamines to destabilize Castro's mental state. It was believed that this would prompt one of his own generals to assassinate him fearing that Castro was no longer capable of leading the country.

They even considered attempting to undermine his image as a strong leader in the eyes of the Cuban people by, again, drugging him before a speech.... or lacing his shoes with Thallium to make his beard fall out.
 
Nobody ever said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca. Ilsa said "Play it once, Sam." And "Play it, Sam."

ExceptionallyExceptional said:
Slipping him an exploding cigar. Not one of the little joke ones, either. The one they devised for the job would blow a good chunk of your face off and send teeth into the back of your throat like shrapnel.
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Never buy an exploding cigar from Acme.
 
Guglielmo Marconi was so socially awkward he refused to ride in an elevator with anyone, even though he owned the elevator, the building, and the company. In later life he became an ardent Italian Fascist, and the first person who arrived at his bedside after he died was Mussolini.
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
Guglielmo Marconi was so socially awkward he refused to ride in an elevator with anyone, even though he owned the elevator, the building, and the company.
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If you ride in an elevator with someone, they will fart, and then they will pretend they didn't even though you know damn well you didn't and they're the only other person in there.
 
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