Fun facts!

[Linako 2.0]

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.

Didn't at one point they considered to shave hi beard, since it was theorized to be the source of his powers?

 

[The Cunting Death]

The only surviving uncut print of The Passion of Joan of Arc was found in a storage room in an Insane Asylum in Oslo, Norway (which was weird because it was a French-Danish movie), 60+ years after the movie was filmed, in 1981.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

The Dude's car from The Big Lebowski was originally supposed to be a Chrysler LeBaron convertable, but John Goodman couldn't fit into the passenger seat, so they swapped it for a Ford Gran Torino beater.

 

[DrJonesHat]

Avril Lavigne has ADHD-Primarily Hyperactive, and some of her songs are about having this condition.

The original V miniseries made back in the early 80s was actually supposed to be about a fascist party taking over the US, but at the time, NBC was wary of politically-themed shows, and rejected the pitch. So the writer made the fascists flesh-eating lizard people but left in the themes of fascism and it was successful enough to spawn a sequel miniseries and a short-lived TV show. A remake of the series aired in 2009, but lacked the overt political themes, it tended more towards conspiracy theory. It got cancelled after two seasons and ended on a cliffhanger due to both a writer's strike and ABC's apparent dislike of sci-fi shows.

The CIA is infamous for many misdeeds, but was the first government agency to recognize that conspiracy theorists, while weird as fuck, were often acting out of a sense of genuine grievance with the government. The report issued on this topic recommended that the government do more to win the trust of the citizens. Obviously, this was taken to heart and the government is completely trustworthy today.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

The CIA spent 20 Million dollars to sew eavesdropping equippement into a cat's body in the 60s.
Tests were less than successful and an urban legend states that the first time they released the cat into a park to listen in on a conversation in said park, it was hit by a car and killed. According to some CIA dude, this never happened and instead, long before that phase, the equippement was taken out of the cat and it lived a long and happy live.

This ran under the name of "Acoustic Kitty".

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

After communists came to power, they banned certain dishes as "bourgoise crap", so a lot of great recipes were lost completely, and some, like Guriev porridge, only sirvived cause someone in other country liked them.

 

[Coldgrip]

There is always at least one duck looking in your general direction.

 

[Count groudon]

There’s apparently a “demon cat” that’s said to haunt the capital building in Washington D.C. Its said that this spooky cat always comes out shortly before a great tragedy occurs in the U.S. it was reportedly seen just a few days before the assassainations of JFK and Abe Lincoln.

 

[Ass eating cunt]

Donald Trump is a racist

Fake
And
Gay

 

[Tiamat]

Fact Dump Part 2

Orange fur is almost never seen in female cats.

Pitbull is less a breed and more a group. It includes american staffordshire terrier, american pitbull terrier and Staffordshire terrier. I think even American bulldogs count as well.

Kiwis lay eggs as big as their bodies

Neanderthals apparently had very loud, high pitched voices thanks to their massive chests and small vocal cords.

Hyenas are technically cats

A tribe in papua new guinea all got kuru, a parasite received from eating human remains thanks to cannibalism within it

A human body is 110,000 calories!

 

[Shiversblood]

England sucks for making pit bulls illegal there. That’s like making black men illegal.

 

[Irwin M. Felcher]

Spock never said "Beam Me Up, Scotty" ever.

Nobody ever said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca. Ilsa said "Play it once, Sam." And "Play it, Sam."

Similarly, the line "We don't need no stinking badges!" does not appear in The Treasure of Sierra Madre. What is said is, "Badges? We ain't got no badges... we don't need no badges! I don't need to show you any stinking badges!"

Didn't at one point they considered to shave hi beard, since it was theorized to be the source of his powers?

I don't know about the Samson angle, but I recall reading about a plan to somehow cause his beard hair to fall out during a television interview, in the hopes that the humiliation would have hobbled his political capital.

 

[Coldgrip]

Orange fur is almost never seen in female cats.

So calicos and torties are the exception I take it?

 

[Tiamat]

So calicos and torties are the exception I take it?

Yup. More facts on the orange cat thing: the actual ratio is 80% male and 20% female, so its actually not too rarbut still pretty uncommon. This is because in order for a female to be orange both her parents need to be orange.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

Adult Luna Moths lack any form of mouth or other means to ingest food. After emerging from their cocoon they live for about 7-10 days before starving to death.
Really a shame because they're rather beautiful creatures. They're like something out of a fantasy novel or game. In fact, they actually put them into Skyrim because they look so freaking awesome.

Spoiler: In Skyrim

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[The Cunting Death]

Weird Al is the first person in over 50 years to have a #1 comedy album on top the billboard 200 with Mandatory Fun. Last person who did that was Allen Sherman in 1963 with My Son the Nut.

 

[Marvin]

Yup. More facts on the orange cat thing: the actual ratio is 80% male and 20% female, so its actually not too rarbut still pretty uncommon. This is because in order for a female to be orange both her parents need to be orange.

Yeah, it's unbalanced but it's pretty stable at about 20%. The gene is encoded on the X chromosome, so female cats have to inherit it from both parents.

My cat (snoozing, blocking my monitor) is a female orange tabby that I got from a good friend I met while trolling Chris Chan years ago.

 

[Roast Chicken]

Upon meeting a female, the male angler fish will swim up to his mate and begin biting her body. As he does this, his mouth begins to melt, as does the rest of him while he fuses to the female angler's body. All that remains intact are his precious gonads, which the female will use to impregnate herself with. The female is not restricted to only one pair of gonads, either - she can absorb as many as several males to serve as her personal sperm depositories.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

It was made up for a cartoon. And even if that illness was real, it would be called nessaphobia.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

In old Europe, a cheap blue dye called woad was made from yellow flowers.