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Mr. ShadowCreek said:
The Detroit Lions have only won one playoff game in 62 years. This win came in 1992.

The Seattle Mariners haven't been to the playoffs since 2001.

The Arizona Cardinals have
gone 72 years since winning a Championship. This is the longest in all North American sports.
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The new York jets have only been to (and won) one Superbowl the 3rd one in 1969 against the Baltimore Colts
 
In addition to dark themes that the rest of LEGO was mortified by, such as enslavement, suicidal sacrifice, and the betrayal and genocide of a species, Bionicle lore also had its own nigger word:
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Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
The deadliest maritime disaster in American history was the explosion of the Sultana on April 27, 1865. The Sultana was a Mississippi riverboat that was transporting liberated Union prisoners of war back from southern POW camps like Cahaba in Alabama and Andersonville in Georgia. The officer in charge of the operation was corrupt and took a large bribe from the boat's owners to book passage for as many prisoners as he could fit onto the boat. The Sultana had a maximum capacity of 376 passengers, but 2,137 prisoners were loaded in Vicksburg, Mississipi for a trip up the river to St. Louis. The boat was so overcrowded that the decks were starting to bow inwards, and had to be braced with large planks. At 2:00 AM on the morning of the 27th, three of the boat's four steam boilers exploded due to faulty maintenance, unleashing a massive cloud of steam that cooked many of the passengers alive and quickly reduced the boat to a burning wreck. To make matters worse, the water in the river was spring snowmelt from up north and deadly cold. Many of the prisoners jumped into the river and died of hypothermia before being rescued. The total number of dead is unknown, but estimates range from 1,168 to 1,547.
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Oh Helen had a steamboat
The steamboat had a bell
When Helen went to Heaven
The steamboat went to Hell
 
Despite finding about 100+ of these things in excavation sites:
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No one has found out what the true purpose of the Roman Dodecahedron is. Some theories range from it being a candlestick holder up to some sort of measuring device.
 
Every animal noise - notable exceptions being birds imitating speech and cetacean noises - may pretty much just mean "hey".

(just like in that Far Side comic with the dog translator)

Cantercoin said:
No one has found out what the true purpose of the Roman Dodecahedron is.
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Maybe they're just decorative?
 
ToroidalBoat said:
(just like in that Far Side comic with the dog translator)
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I liked this purely for the Far Side reference.

Speaking of Far Side, the comic actually helped with certain names in scientific circles. The most amusing one to me is the Thagomizer, which is the spiked tail of a stegosaurus. Prior to the comic, there was no real name for the tail.

And of course I'd be remiss if I didn't share the influential cartoon.
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In Israeli elementary schools students are forbidden to use a traditional plus sign (+) as it looks too much like a Christian cross, they use this symbol instead: ﬩

On Ellis island, Jewish immigrants who were illiterate were asked to sign entry-forms with an "X," they refused since they thought an "X" was too similar to a Christian cross, and instead signed with a circle. The Yiddish word for "circle" is kikel, so the immigration inspectors eventually began referring to them as "kikels," which was eventually shorted to "kike."
 
For years many statutes and other visual representations of the ancient Egyptians had missing noses and lips because the Muslim government of Egypt deliberately vandalized them. They damaged ears noses and in some cases buttocks of statues in particular because these features clearly showed the Egyptians as being African black. Something the Arabs refused to accept
 
Jasonfan89 said:
For years many statutes and other visual representations of the ancient Egyptians had missing noses and lips because the Muslim government of Egypt deliberately vandalized them. They damaged ears noses and in some cases buttocks of statues in particular because these features clearly showed the Egyptians as being African black. Something the Arabs refused to accept
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Lol, no. Blacks aren't capable of civilization.
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Jasonfan89 said:
For years many statutes and other visual representations of the ancient Egyptians had missing noses and lips because the Muslim government of Egypt deliberately vandalized them. They damaged ears noses and in some cases buttocks of statues in particular because these features clearly showed the Egyptians as being African black. Something the Arabs refused to accept
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That be some kangz shit.
 
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