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There existed a theme park that was the largest theme park in the Southern Hemisphere when it was active called Wonderland Sydney from 1985 to 2004.
The reason it closed? The owner said it was because of world events.
No seriously, he blamed 9/11, the Bali Bombings, the collapse of Australias second largest insurance company, a bird flu outbreak, a financial crisis in Asia and the outbreak of a disease known as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) that broke out in China in 2002.
 
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Patton WAS insane. After Germany surrendered, Patton wanted to take the western allies and what was left of the German army and attack the Soviet Union. He wanted to kick this off with dropping an atomic bomb on Moscow. Truman said something to the effect of "that boy ain't right" and denied permission. This scenario is included in the computer strategy game Hearts of Iron II as one of the campaigns. I haven't played any of the later versions so I don't know if it's included there.
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I mean, it might have been the right call considering what we know now, the war with the USSR and Mao would have most likely been fairly short and easily won while destroying socialism outright. But then again there's almost no way that doesn't lead us directly in to some Orwellian hellscape by 1975, either
 
The fact is, the double helix model was dreamed up by someone tripping on LSD. A more important fact is that this model was conceived before the truth of the universe was known. Back then people still believed in 24 hour days, for god's sake.

The truth is that it's not a double helix, it's a quadruple helix, a 4 sided cube. And I know you're gonna think you're clever and say "But cubes have 6 sides!". WRONG! Everyone knows cubes have 4 sides, a top, and a bottom. The top and the bottom aren't sides!

You'll notice this maps perfectly to the human baby. They have a front, back, left side, and right side. They have a top and a bottom. Do you think this is a coincidence? Maybe you'll also notice babies are not in the shape of a ladder twisted around.

However the stupid educated godless masses won't accept that because... I dunno... cubes or something.


That timecube guy had some dedication. I couldn't keep this up for even a page....
 
Phil Hartman's final words uttered on film were for the English dub of Kiki's Delivery Service

His last words?

"Kiki, can you hear me?"

Another fun fact: Andy Dick is a huge piece of shit and I hate him
 
FatFuckFrank said:
Phil Hartman's final words uttered on film were for the English dub of Kiki's Delivery Service

His last words?

"Kiki, can you hear me?"

Another fun fact: Andy Dick is a huge piece of shit and I hate him
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Andy Dick once taunted Jon Lovitz about how he got Brynn Hartman back on cocaine, leading to the death of Phil Hartman, and Jon Lovitz beat the shit out of him.
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
Andy Dick once taunted Jon Lovitz about how he got Brynn Hartman back on cocaine, leading to the death of Phil Hartman, and Jon Lovitz beat the shit out of him.
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He did it twice. It was only the second time that Lovitz beat the shit out of him by slamming his face into the bar repeatedly.
 
Purple is considered the color of royalty because back in the olden days of yore, to make dyes they would have to use objects in nature that were naturally that color, and out of every color on the spectrum purple was the most difficult color to find in the wild. Because of this, the price for purple cloth was fucking ginormous so the only people who could afford to wear it were royals, nobles, and generally important people.

I’ve also heard that kings would allow certain knights that they were particularly fond of to wear purple as a means of showing that they were a very respected member of the military to intimidate enemy troops, but I’m not entirely certain this is true.
 
And the way purple dye was extracted from Murex snails is quite gruesome too:
 
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Thomas 'Old Tom' Parr was an English peasant who supposedly died at the age of 152 years, born in 1483 and died in 1635. His gravestone inscription reads:

THO: PARR OF YE COUNTY OF SALLOP. BORNE
IN AD: 1483. HE LIVED IN YE REIGNES OF TEN
PRINCES VIZ: K.ED.4. K.ED.5. K.RICH.3.
K.HEN.7. K.HEN.8. K.EDW.6. Q.MA. Q.ELIZ. K.JA. & K. CHARLES. AGED 152 YEARES.
& WAS BURYED HERE NOVEMB. 15. 1635.
 
Whenever Rhinos fight for dominance, they usually piss on each other in between bouts of head butting.
 
Rabbits don't usually dig burrows, preferring to use the abandoned homes of other creatures, but when there is digging to be done, it is almost always the female's job.
 
Back when the Space Shuttle was in development, one of the planned mission for the Shuttle was for it to go to Skylab and raise it's orbit. Once the orbit is raised, the Shuttle would've refurbished Skylab. If it wasn't for the Solar Maximum, the International Space Station wouldn't exist and the Americans would be stuck with an Apollo-era space station.
 
Cedric_Eff said:
Back when the Space Shuttle was in development, one of the planned mission for the Shuttle was for it to go to Skylab and raise it's orbit. Once the orbit is raised, the Shuttle would've refurbished Skylab. If it wasn't for the Solar Maximum, the International Space Station wouldn't exist and the Americans would be stuck with an Apollo-era space station.
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The Space Shuttle was also built with a specification by the military to be able to reach polar orbits (very useful for spy satellites and stuff like that, but very inefficient to achieve), however said ability was never used even just once throughout the Space Shuttle fleet's entire service.
 
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