Fun facts!

[Tahoma]

If you've ever seen those videos of someone brushing their fingers down the teeth of a comb in front of a cat, making it dry heave, that's actually a seizure.
The Feline Audiogenic Reflex Seizure (FARS) is also known as "Tom and Jerry syndrome" and is typically found in old cats, and has multiple forms, including the classic fall down and shake seizure. The one that just makes their tongues spaz out happens 95% of the time, however.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Richard Jacques, the guy who composed Sonic R's music, has also worked on Mass Effect.

To put it another way, the guy who composed this

helped make this.

 

[A Grey Cat]

The tank used in the movie fury was the first time a real ww2 era tiger tank had been used on film since 1950 and using one of the last tiger tanks in working order.

 

[Goofy Logic]

On manual typewriters, letters and symbols were excluded to reduce the complexity. Instead, letters were substituted, or combined. For example, there is no "1" key. instead the "l" key was simultaneously used as a letter and number, and an exclamation point was done by combining an apostrophe and a period.

Toyota makes cars and trucks. You may have even heard they make forklifts. But, did you know they make sewing machines and textile equipment?

 

[A Grey Cat]

In memory of dyanne throne aka Ilsa she wolf of the as who passed away recently here's this tibit.


The movie was filmed on the set of the then cancelled ww2 dramcom Hogan's heroes. Because the show was cancelled and the set was due for demolition (so it couldn't be used by irl neo Nazis) the film crew was given extra money for explosives and permission to blow it up.

 

[Puck]

George Lucas named the cantina music in Star Wars "jizz."

 

[Captain Hastings Official]

George Lucas named the cantina music in Star Wars "jizz."

As well he should, because that's what "jazz" used to mean, too.

 

[Dissapointed Grandma]

George Lucas named the cantina music in Star Wars "jizz."

 

[snailslime]

that's funny, considering the fact that many incels are star wars fans

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Since the Oscars were a couple nights ago, here’s some interesting facts about this years Oscars.

• Parasite became the first film since Marty (1955) and third overall, the first being The Lost Weekend (1945), to win both the Oscar for Best Picture and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
• Parasite became the first film since Slumdog Millionaire and twelfth overall to win Best Picture without any acting nominations.
• The Joker joins Vito Corleone as the only roles in movie history to have two Oscar winning portrayals. Marlon Brando won Best Actor and Robert De Niro won Best Supporting Actor; Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor and Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor.
• The Irishman became the forth film to lose all ten of its nominations, joining Gangs of New York, True Grit (2010), and American Hustle.
• Avengers: Endgame is the first highest grossing film of all time to not win a Oscar.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Ironically vaping pens were originally invented as a means to help quit smoking. The water was originally flavorless and contained does of nicotine that gradually got smaller as time progressed as a way to vvean the body off without going through withdrawal symptoms.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Ironically vaping pens were originally invented as a means to help quit smoking. The water was originally flavorless and contained does of nicotine that gradually got smaller as time progressed as a way to vvean the body off without going through withdrawal symptoms.

And now we have fifth and sixth graders with nicotine addiction.

 

[Count groudon]

And now we have fifth and sixth graders with nicotine addiction.

There’s a 15 year old in my town who had his lungs straight up collapse a few months ago because he was obsessed with vaping.

I guess when you turn a treatment for addiction into a fad like that it’s to be expected. People are so fucking stupid anymore.

 

[TiggerNits]

Toyota makes cars and trucks. You may have even heard they make forklifts. But, did you know they make sewing machines and textile equipment?

Samsung build's F-15s in Korea. Their turbines are considered to be the most reliable of their type.

Mitsubishi still builds fighters, the Japanese F-2 is an American F-16 with larger wings and meant to perform an anti-shipping role.

The Lycoming O-233 and the VW beetle motors of the 50s to 70s have extremely similar operational outputs and parameters which has let to light aircraft having their engines swapped to make repairs and service less expensive. This was a major point in the founding of the Experimental Aircraft Association, (the EAA) a flying club that builds and modifies aircraft

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

There’s a 15 year old in my town who had his lungs straight up collapse a few months ago because he was obsessed with vaping.

I guess when you turn a treatment for addiction into a fad like that it’s to be expected. People are so fucking stupid anymore.

My mother works a job at my old high school and like 60% of seventh grade-12th grade vapes.

 

[Count groudon]

My mother works a job at my old high school and like 60% of seventh grade-12th grade vapes.

I remember when I was in high school some of the trailer trash kids were into vaping and everybody made fun of them for it. It’s so weird how things just pull a 180 like that, isn’t it?

I mean, even crocs are making a comeback for fuck’s sake.

 

[Pissmaster]

International waters begins at 200 nautical miles from land, or 230.15 miles / 370.4km.

So what happens to places like the Gulf of Mexico? Well, it actually has two donut holes worth of international waters, on the maritime boundaries of the USA, Mexico, and on the eastern one, Cuba.


There are two donut holes that are entirely surrounded by a single nation:

Russia has one



and Japan has one

 

[lurk_moar]

Red blood cells had nuclei and lose it before leaving the bone marrow.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Fanta was invented by the German division off the coca cola company cut off from the US parent offices by ww2. It was invented as a replacement beverage since the trade embargo against Germany cut off the supplies to make coca cola.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

9 out of 10 participants enjoy gangrape.