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There is this bird that is described to smell like tangerines. It's called an auklet.

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Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost said:
Likewise to boost something usually meant to shoplift. A Fence is someone who will sell stolen goods. Bunko isn't used much anymore outside of law enforcement, but essentially is gambling and games that the mark can't win. And a confidence game, although shortened to con game, still means the same thing.
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"Mark" has an interesting history as well. Carnies would sneakily mark a persons clothes with a bit of coal or chalk to signal that an individual was a sucker, when other carnies saw a marked person they knew that they had to get that person into their ring toss booth or whatever scam/game they were running.
 
The phrase "To go postal" was coined after several mass shootings orchestrated by several disgruntled post office employees during the 70s in United States.
 
Malagor the dank omen said:
The phrase "To go postal" was coined after several mass shootings orchestrated by several disgruntled post office employees during the 70s in United States.
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Obviously the Postal series was named after this, especially since the first game had the Postal Dude, well, go postal and start killing people.

However, not long after Postal 1 came out, the U.S. Postal Service sued Running With Scissors over its name. The case was ultimately dismissed with prejudice.
 
In the film Soylent Green, one of the main charchters dies in this scene.
However, when they were filming that scene, the actor who play Sol, Edward G Robinson was dying of cancer ( he would die only 12 days after the film finished it production). Only he and Charlton Heaston knew that he was dying. Those tears you see on Charlton face? Those are real, real tears for his friend
 
Remove Goat said:
This wiki exists
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That's kind of fun I guess... but I notice that they don't have a comment section for weirdo sperg wars, but www.wikifeet.com does! They got kicked off Wikia at some point, I think, and I found them through another now-nuked spergbox: the comment/discussion section on actors/actresses' IMDB pages, there was a battle raging over Kristen Ritter's feet(Jessica Jones/Breaking Bad) that linked to wikifeet as proof.

Fun fact: Kristen Ritter has really long toes and foot-pervs are split on if that is good or not.
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(picture courtesy of wikifeet where the argument it still going)

Weirdo A said:
She should be arrested for exposing those hideous things in public.
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Weirdo B said:
I'd like to play patty cake with Ms Ritter's feet. Maybe thumb wrestle her big toe. They ain't perfect, but they've got my attention.
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
That's kind of fun I guess... but I notice that they don't have a comment section for weirdo sperg wars, but www.wikifeet.com does! They got kicked off Wikia at some point, I think, and I found them through another now-nuked spergbox: the comment/discussion section on actors/actresses' IMDB pages, there was a battle raging over Kristen Ritter's feet(Jessica Jones/Breaking Bad) that linked to wikifeet as proof.

Fun fact: Kristen Ritter has really long toes and foot-pervs are split on if that is good or not.
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(picture courtesy of wikifeet where the argument it still going)
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I was going to raise you a wiki of anime feet but it's just a blogspot blog
 
Foltest said:
In the film Soylent Green, one of the main charchters dies in this scene.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bshz1reMTVYHowever, when they were filming that scene, the actor who play Sol, Edward G Robinson was dying of cancer ( he would die only 12 days after the film finished it production). Only he and Charlton Heaston knew that he was dying. Those tears you see on Charlton face? Those are real, real tears for his friend
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Probably some of you know about this scene in the film Apocalypse Now:
This scene was filmed during Martin's Sheen 38th birthday. That day Coppola let Martin get completely shit faced in his hotel room and Sheen gave his consent to being filmed while having a complete breakdown while he was drunk. He broke his hand when he punched the mirror and the film crew was very worried about him to the point that they wanted to stop filming, but Coppola told them to keep going.
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
Before any of the fetish wikis existed, there was a 'Smoker's List' on Usenet that listed movie scenes with women smoking, broken down by actress.
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IMDB had the same humble origins and looking at Wikipedia it was funnier than I remember it being.
History before website
IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled "Those Eyes", about actresses with beautiful eyes. Others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an "Actors List", while Dave Knight began a "Directors List", and Andy Krieg took over "THE LIST" from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the "Actress List". Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, but soon retired people were added, so Needham started what was then (but did not remain) a separate "Dead Actors/Actresses List". Steve Hammond started collecting and merging character names for both the actors and actresses lists. When these achieved popularity, they were merged back into the lists themselves. The goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible.

By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17, 1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, and thus the database that would become the IMDb was born.[5] At the time, it was known as the "rec.arts.movies movie database".
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Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
Before any of the fetish wikis existed, there was a 'Smoker's List' on Usenet that listed movie scenes with women smoking, broken down by actress.
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several years ago i was poking around the internet looking for trivia about a short film i saw in the eighties called Summer's End, a nice little film about a girl who doesn't want to give up her tom-boy ways of playing baseball and playing with frogs to put on a dress like her mom wants her to. it's set in the fifties maybe. a lot of the kids wear overalls, and i stumbled across a website that listed movie scenes with children wearing overalls. i wondered for a little while why someone would assemble such a weird thing, and then the penny dropped--yeah, sometimes i'm naive--and i realized the thing had been assembled by a pedo with an overall fetish. yeesh.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
IMDB had the same humble origins and looking at Wikipedia it was funnier than I remember it being.
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You used to be able to access it by email and it had a complex search syntax with Booleans and regular expressions. It was actually more useful then than it is now.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
IMDB had the same humble origins and looking at Wikipedia it was funnier than I remember it being.
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How long do you think it'll be before people start being amazed to learn that the dread Kiwi Farms, scourge of the information superhighways and feared slayer of poor oppressed transsexuals everywhere, started out as a forum for documenting the life of a single autistic Virginian?
 
Fun fact: If you can smell the chlorine, there's not enough in the pool water.
Also, your tablets are trichlor while your shock is usually calcium hypochloride. If you have a chlorinator rather than the tablets inside a skimmer basket and accidentally pour shock into the skimmer, it can react with the tablets and cause the chlorinator to burst from the pressure created from the reaction. While the shock is what sanitizes your pool, the tablets release an amount of stabilizer as well as chlorine to help the water hold chemicals between your weekly shocking session. The algaecide is usually a polymer of oxyethelyne oxythylene or zinc sulfate. While the former only coats the walls and prevents algae from attaching to the surfaces, the latter does a bit of double duty and will help kill the algae as well as preventing it from attaching to a surface and becoming protected from your dose of shock as more algae layers over it. A lot of the time, the reason people get ear infections and rashes from pool water is because there is too much stabilizer in the water. Just because the tablets have dissolved does not mean that the pool needs more. Too much stabilizer can cause a white cloud to form within the water as it becomes unable to hold particles of the chemicals being added. Green clouds are signs of algae. Brown is usually dead algae and will poof into a cloud of spores when attempting to brush off surfaces. Aside from chlorine-based systems, a salt system can function by pumping water past electric panels that break apart the salt in the water into microbubbles of chlorine by running a current through it. While less initial maintenance, salt systems corrode pumps and another expensive things around the pool. Another important factor is calcium. Without enough in the water, the water will sap the colors from swimwear and cause liners to shrink, resulting in wrinkles and possible leaks. Baking soda is used to increase the alkalinity of the water and once within acceptable range, allows testing to read for the pH level of the water.
This has been random pool facts.
 
In 2004 if Barry Bonds never swung his bat because he didn't have one, he would have had a .608 on-base percentage. .608 is just .001 under what he actually had that year. Also, both of these would have been the highest OBP in baseball history.

 
Horses cannot vomit due to their neck. Because of this, intestinal and digestive issues that would otherwise be simple or at least easier to treat become fatal. There are other factors that go into "colic" (a broad term used to describe intestinal issues affecting a horse). It is estimated to kill around 30% of horses between the ages of 1 and 20.
 
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