Fun facts!

[A Grey Cat]

The hills have eyes 2 (the 80s version actually directed by wes craven) began production in 1983 but was shut down by the producers and shelved, it was later brought back into production because of the success of a nightmare on elm St a year later in the hopes of cashing in on elm St's success but Craven couldn't go back and reshoot anything to finish the movie so it had to be padded out with flashbacks using stock footage from the original hills have eyes, and thankfully an ending had already been filmed. The film was only released theatrically in Italy and wasn't released in the US until 1985...on video and direct to cable TV.


It remains the only one of his films Wes Craven openly disowned.

 

[ApatheticViewer]

Diet Coke is objectively the best soda

 

[LargeChoonger]

Komodo dragons are actually venomous. The bacteria in their mouths has very little to do with their deadly bite

 

[McMitch]

Diet Coke is objectively the best soda

That’s a weird way to spell Dr. Pepper.

 

[A Grey Cat]

The intellectuals are almost always the first to be purged when Socialism/communism becomes the dominant system in a country. The quality of life in socialist countries sharply declines in less than five years following a supposed "boom period." Socialist countries have had higher rates of depression and suicide than capitalist or non partizan countries.

 

[Coldgrip]

That’s a weird way to spell Dr. Pepper.

And that's an even weirder way to spell beer.

 

[cactus]

And that's an even weirder way to spell beer.

Beer is a soda now?

 

[Coldgrip]

Cat's purring may actually help increase bone density in humans. Something to do with the frequency of their purrs.

Beer is a soda now?

I thought we were talking about carbonated beverages in general.

Which beer is still better.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

In the early 20th century Moxie was more popular than Coca-Cola.

 

[A Grey Cat]

In the early 20th century Moxie was more popular than Coca-Cola.

Moxie was the inspiration for vim! In the fallout 4 dlc far habor. The rivalry between the vim and nuka cola company mirroring the brief real life rivalry between the two.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

Moxie was the inspiration for vim! In the fallout 4 dlc far habor. The rivalry between the vim and nuka cola company mirroring the brief real life rivalry between the two.

Interesting, personally I love Moxie it's still around as a regional brand in New England, but the bitter aftertaste is what makes or breaks it for most people. You either love it or hate it, no in-between. Mrs. Skeltal hates Moxie with a passion because of the aftertaste.

Some more fun facts:

The upper mantle is made of peridot (olivine). It, clino- and orthopyroxene, and spinel-structure minerals form an ultramafic rock called peridotite.

The core-mantle boundary (called d'' (pronounced "dee double prime")) is the graveyard of old oceanic crust after it undergoes subduction. The so called "slab graveyard" can be seen with seismic imaging techniques.

Most countertop material marketed as "granite" isn't actually granite. If you ever see a "black granite" countertop it is most likely gabbro, the phaneritic intrusive variety of basalt.

There is a mine in New York state at Gore Mountain that produces garnet abrasive. The garnets extracted there can be the size of baseballs.

 

[Imposteroak]

Komodo dragons are actually venomous. The bacteria in their mouths has very little to do with their deadly bite

This debate is actually still ongoing, and there are some scientists that doubt the venom plays a big role in the way komodo dragons hunt. Komodo dragons when they are hunting do seem to try and take down prey immediately and dont let it go on purpose, they are just as likely to rip somethings throat out before any venom takes effect. The ones that do escape seem to just die from the trauma from the initial attack. Komodo dragons eat carrion mostly so they can just find it later and go to town.

 

[Goofy Logic]

In the early 1900s before electricity was widespread, lighting was done with oil (kerosene) lamps. Some of the fancier lighting was done with "hollow-wire lighting", where your house is plumbed with thin tubing connecting to a gasoline tank, which was then pumped up to pump the gas to mantle lights throughout the building. You essentially turned your house into a giant Coleman Lantern.

A similar system used calcium carbide to produce acetylene, which was then piped around to torches around the house. These didn't need mantles as they produces a very bright flame, but any welder can tell you that acetylene gets explosive if a leak happens.

Speaking of lantern mantles, up until the 1980s, the mantles used Thorium salts to produce incandescent light. Newer mantles use Yittrium at the sacrifice of no being as resilient or bright.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Marlboro cigarettes were initially marketed to women as a ladies brand with a distinct red filter that wouldn't smudge with lipstick. The marketing changed because the female exclusive advertising wasn't producing the sales numbers Philip Morris had hoped for.


Similarly Dodge had a car produced from 1955 to 1956 called the la femme

It was marketed for being compact and easy to handle with a purse built into the seats it was discontinued in a year and sold poorly

 

[Muzzilicious]

A toilet flushes like about 1.5 gallons every time you go potty...a pelican's beak can hold 3 gallons...

 

[Doctor Placebo]

As of 2020 all the men involved with the creation of Batman and the Joker including future artist on the comics dick sprang passed away. With Stan Lee's death there's now no famous creator from the gold or silver age of comics left alive.


Before it became synonymous with the spider man comics daily bugle was a common name for newspapers in comic books because no actual publication would allow their name and likeness to be used by comic publishers, who newspapers saw as an "inferior tabloid". At the time


Many comics from the gold and silver age are so rare and valuable because during wartimes paper recycling drives often received comic books more than any other periodical for recycling.

That explains why the Daily Bugle is the name of the paper in the white supremacist New World Order Comix. It doesn't explain why the main character's girlfriend is named Lois Lane however. It's pretty wild to be reading a comic where characters talk about how 'groids need to get back in the trees and see common mainstream comic book names being dropped.

The intellectuals are almost always the first to be purged when Socialism/communism becomes the dominant system in a country. The quality of life in socialist countries sharply declines in less than five years following a supposed "boom period." Socialist countries have had higher rates of depression and suicide than capitalist or non partizan countries.

The Soviet Union and many countries that followed their lead were also spectacularly restrictive towards artists and the type of art that was allowed. Abstract art was banned in the USSR and futurists couldn't get work. The Cuban government under Fidel banned punk rock. Remember that next time you listen to western communist or socialist artists like Rage Against the Machine.

Marlboro cigarettes were initially marketed to women as a ladies brand with a distinct red filter that wouldn't smudge with lipstick. The marketing changed because the female exclusive advertising wasn't producing the sales numbers Philip Morris had hoped for.


Similarly Dodge had a car produced from 1955 to 1956 called the la femme

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It was marketed for being compact and easy to handle with a purse built into the seats it was discontinued in a yetanf sold poorly

That's a sexy looking car though. 50's cars were so stylish.

 

[A Grey Cat]

A toilet flushes like about 1.5 gallons every time you go potty...a pelican's beak can hold 3 gallons...

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The Flintstones were originally sponsored by Winston cigarettes, and even had special commercials made for them. The only reason they stopped was because of Wilma's pregnancy in the second season.

 

[Lurkism]

The human rectum can stretch up to 9 inches without tearing. A raccoon can squeeze into holes as tight as 4 inches, Meaning you can take almost two full raccoons up your ass!

 

[A Grey Cat]

John Wayne died of cancer but the jury is out wether he contacted it from years of smoking or if it was due to the filming of the conquerer. A biopic about Genghis Khan that was filmed downwind from a nuclear weapon testing site and a former testing site that was considered "safe and habitable." Everyone who worked on the set of the film contracted and has died of cancer.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Luc Besson, the director of The Fifth Element who is credited with having co-written it with Robert Kamen, actually wrote the first screenplay when he was 16. He imagined the world the film exists in, and a story vaguely resembling the finished product, to cure his boredom.

So I know this an old olld post but on a similar note...


The creator of the cartoon Network show mighty magiswords created the characters and the world when he was a senior in high school and it took 20 years for it to become a show. Also the original concept was much darker and more mature, almost like an adult swim version of he man.