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The moon is in the Diocese of Orlando.

Under the 1917 Code of Canon Law, newly discovered territory falls under the authority of the diocese where the expedition originated. Since Apollo 11 was launched from Cape Canaveral which is in the Diocese of Orlando, that means the moon is too.
 
The banana used for banana flavor has been extinct for decades. The last surviving specimens were used to synthize and artificial flavor one of the very first ones because it'd be easier to do than save the species as a whole.
Similarly anytime you eat something"vanilla flavored." Unless it says made with or 100% pure vanilla bean chances are what you're eating is made with low quality vanilla beans and the extract from a gland found in certain muselids (otters beavers muscrats minks) that is said to taste like vanilla flavor. I'm other words low quality vanilla bean and the musk from a weasels butt glands are in your pudding
 
Jasonfan89 said:
Similarly anytime you eat something"vanilla flavored." Unless it says made with or 100% pure vanilla bean chances are what you're eating is made with low quality vanilla beans and the extract from a gland found in certain muselids (otters beavers muscrats minks) that is said to taste like vanilla flavor. I'm other words low quality vanilla bean and the musk from a weasels butt glands are in your pudding
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Vanilla isn't extinct, though, just really expensive. The artificial flavor is vanillin and at least in the U.S., it has to be labelled as artificial. It's okay if vanilla isn't a primary flavor. The most highly regarded vanilla is Madagascar vanilla and if you're making something where it's important, like French vanilla flavored anything, you want 100% pure Madagascar vanilla. I wouldn't be surprised at all if much of that is fake, too, as there's usually a premium on it.

Vanilla is the second most expensive spice by weight. The most expensive is saffron, which is usually a multiple of the price of gold by weight.
 
Pac-Man was made with women in mind. That's one of the reasons it's about eating. Seriously.
Interview with developer of Pac-Man
Toru Iwatani said:
I was trying to come up with something to appeal to women and couples. When I imagined what women enjoy, the image of them eating cakes and desserts came to mind, so I used "eating" as a keyword. When I did research with this keyword I came across the image of a pizza with a slice taken out of it and had that eureka moment. So I based the Pac-Man character design on that shape.
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There are only 12 nations/sovereign entities around the world that currently still use hanging as a common method of execution. Most of these countries are located in or around the continent of Africa, with the remaining nations located in Asia.

Japan and Singapore are the only developed nations to still carry out hangings; Japan did so most recently in 2019 when a Chinese national was hanged for the murder of a family of four. Notably in 2018, Shoko Asahara, the founder and leader of Aum Shinrikyo, was hanged, as well as 12 of his followers. Hanging is Japan's only method of execution, and it is only employed in murder cases.

Some states in the United States still have hanging as a method of execution as well, BUT these states have other options and will only use hanging under special circumstances or if that's what the death row inmate chooses. Hanging in the U.S.A is uncommon so it is not included in the list. These states are Washington and and Delaware; New Hampshire had hanging as an execution method until they decided to abolish the death penalty in the 90s. Similarly, there are only 3 states that still have the firing squad (which is, IMO, the probably best method): Utah (the Mormons ain't fuckin' around), Mississippi, and Oklahoma.
 
A lot of ninja weapons were originally farm and kitchen tools. Nunchuks were originally based on a tool used to grind rice into flour, spades used to break up soil became hand held axes, even water jugs became a special type of boots that can in the right hands be used to walk across small bodies of water
 
The earliest documented gay couple in history are a pair of royal manicurists of the court of King Nyuserre Ini, sixth pharaoh of the fifth dynasty, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. However due to evidence suggesting one or both of them were married to women at some point on their lives it's believed by some they were at the very least in an open relationship and open with an attraction to each other
 
Speaking of Egypt, a mural that was donated to the British museum in the 19th century had one hieroglyph at the end covered by a small plate that gave info on said mural. It wasn't until the 1960s when the mural was being moved that the plate fell off and it was revealed that it had been covering up a large penis the glyph had been carved with over 3000 years prior
 
Jasonfan89 said:
A lot of ninja weapons were originally farm and kitchen tools. Nunchuks were originally based on a tool used to grind rice into flour, spades used to break up soil became hand held axes, even water jugs became a special type of boots that can in the right hands be used to walk across small bodies of water
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Nunchucks were not used by the ninja as they are a traditional Okinawan weapon and like other traditional Okinawan weapons and martial arts, such as the tonfa and karatedo, they were not introduced and popularized in the rest of Japan until the late 19th/early 20th century.
Also, since we're talking about ninjas, they were only referred to as such in the 20th century, historical ninja were called shinobi-no-mono or just shinobi. Ninja is just the classical Chinese reading of the characters for shinobi, and the art itself was called shinobijutsu.
Anyway, after the establishment of the Koga and Iga schools of ninjutsu, there became a clear distinction of two types of shinobi.
The first type who are much narrower in scope were samurai who were formally trained in Koga and Iga, they acted as mercenaries selling their services to any daimyo who required them.
The second type, who were much broader in scope, were any samurai, bandits or peasants who were partially trained in ninjutsu and led by an actual ninjutsu master from Iga or Koga as his assistants, as well as any samurai, bandit or peasant without formal training who were nonetheless hired to perform one or more jobs associated with the ninja as they possessed those particular skills. For example, one of the famous ninjas of the era, Fuma Kotaro, was most likely not a ninja in the narrow sense of the word, and records indicate that the Fuma were either bandits employed by the Hojo clan or a retainer family under the Hojo clan which specialized in guerilla warfare.
The only famous ninja of the era who was most likely actually formally trained in ninjutsu was Tokugawa Ieyasu's famous retainer Hattori Hanzo Masashige, also known as Hanzo the Demon.
Fuma Kotaro as mentioned earlier was not formally trained in ninjutsu, Ishikawa Goemon was just an outlaw, there is very little known from historical texts about Kato Danzo and nothing about all of the feats of ninjutsu he supposedly performed, Mochizuki Chiyome most likely never existed and the Ten Braves of Sanada were invented in a folktale.
 
Jasonfan89 said:
A lot of ninja weapons were originally farm and kitchen tools. Nunchuks were originally based on a tool used to grind rice into flour, spades used to break up soil became hand held axes, even water jugs became a special type of boots that can in the right hands be used to walk across small bodies of water
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i've always wondered if the jap serfs could kill their masters by becoming ninjas how come the niggers couldn't think of that in the americas?

how many nigga ninjas does it take to kill one white man? apparently more than 1000.
 
Takeshi takano aka beat takeshi deliberately designed the famicom game takeshi's challenge to be cryptic and difficult. As a way to prove that people who play video games (Japan had an adult player base even back then moreso than the the us one years later) have too much time on their hands and waste it figuring out benal and inane things. Iircc there's even a hidden message that flat out insults the player if they let the game sit idle after the credits.
 
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Hanzo the Demon
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This is an important clarification, because the name "Hattori Hanzo" was passed down from father to son in the leadership of the clan. There are records of at least 7 Hattori Hanzos, but the most iconic is Hanzo the Demon, which was said to be a brilliant strategist, a fearsome fighter and a master of infiltration.
 
Malagor the dank omen said:
This is an important clarification, because the name "Hattori Hanzo" was passed down from father to son in the leadership of the clan. There are records of at least 7 Hattori Hanzos, but the most iconic is Hanzo the Demon, which was said to be a brilliant strategist, a fearsome fighter and a master of infiltration.
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Yup, and the Hattori line is also kind of jumbled up iirc, sometimes you see the most famous Hanzo's name be Masashige and sometimes it's Masanari, though I think it's more likely that it's the former because Masanari was his son and it's not common for sons to have the same name as the father. Hanzo the Demon was the second Hanzo, there are a few clans which had the head assume a shared name when they become the head of the family. The other most famous example is the shared name Kojuro for the Katakura clan head, though nowadays when it's mentioned it's always in order to refer to the most famous head of the family, Katakura Kagetsuna, who was the strategist and loyal retainer of Date Masamune and his father Terumune, but most of his famous exploits come from serving Masamune. He is often nicknamed Kojuro the Wise to differentiate from his son Shigenaga, the second Kojuro, who is famously known as Kojuro the Demon.
 
yoshitsune said:
Yup, and the Hattori line is also kind of jumbled up iirc, sometimes you see the most famous Hanzo's name be Masashige and sometimes it's Masanari, though I think it's more likely that it's the former because Masanari was his son and it's not common for sons to have the same name as the father. Hanzo the Demon was the second Hanzo, there are a few clans which had the head assume a shared name when they become the head of the family. The other most famous example is the shared name Kojuro for the Katakura clan head, though nowadays when it's mentioned it's always in order to refer to the most famous head of the family, Katakura Kagetsuna, who was the strategist and loyal retainer of Date Masamune and his father Terumune, but most of his famous exploits come from serving Masamune. He is often nicknamed Kojuro the Wise to differentiate from his son Shigenaga, the second Kojuro, who is famously known as Kojuro the Demon.
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Also, since we are talking about ninja there are some other interesting tidbits of interesting information about them.
The common belief that Ninja were so dexterous and fast that they could catch a sword with their bare hands was a myth that was probably propagated due to their use of climbing claws. Many ninja that carried out infiltration missions carried these tools in order to climb castle walls or houses and in combat, since these tools prevented them from using a sword, they used them to their advantage in order to disarm their opponent with ease. This practise created the myth among the samurai that Ninjas trained in such a rigorous way that they could catch a sword with their bare hands and not get hurt.
As well, there is the common belief that they would banish in plain sight. This was due to a hilarious cultural factor in Japan. In kabuki theatre, there were men in charge of changing stage props during the act that were dressed in a specific way. The people of japan were already conditioned to outright ignore these people by their easily recognizable attire, making them technically invisible. This was another practise that ninjas took up and used to their advantage and sometimes when they needed to avoid detection, aside from disguising themselves as farmers, travellers or courtesans, they would use this trick to be "invisible" to their enemies.
 
Forgetful Gynn said:
Speaking of Vanillin: Lignin, which is present in all wood-based paper, is closely related to vanillin. As it breaks down, the lignin grants old books that faint and addictive vanilla scent.
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Speaking of chemicals found in trees, the resin of most pine trees can be converted to turpentine, which can be used in everything from soaps to paint thinners to disinfectants, by a simple process of distillation. Just get some copper pots and some tubing, and your new settlement in the middle of the wide, wild west could get some of the useful stuff.

Except for the Jeffrey Pine of the California mountains. Its resin includes a high proportion of heptane. Heptane is like the octane included in your auto fuel, only with one less carbon. And so, in the aftermath the Gold Rush in 1849, there were a number of mysterious and spectacular explosions at mining sites in the California mountains, as miners attempted to boil what amounted to low-quality gasoline.
 
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