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You'd be mistaken if you thought Colorado was a square. The state is in fact a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.
 
The Antarctic Icefish (Family Channichthyidae) are the only vertebrate that do not produce the oxygen-carrying blood pigment hemoglobin.

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Picture shows the blood of an Icefish (right) and the blood of a closely-related fish.
 
The nightmare before christmas was at one point going to be released as the in house Disney animated movie for 1993 since lion king was pushed back to 1994 but due to Disney at the time finding nightmare "too dark." It was instead released under the touchstone label and 1993 is one of the few years since 1986 to not have an in house Disney animated film (part of the animated release lineup starting with snow white in 1937)

Also had nightmare been part of the cannon it would have been the first and only stop motion animated movie in the cannon
 
horrorfan89 said:
The nightmare before christmas was at one point going to be released as the in house Disney animated movie for 1993 since lion king was pushed back to 1994 but due to Disney at the time finding nightmare "too dark." It was instead released under the touchstone label and 1993 is one of the few years since 1986 to not have an in house Disney animated film (part of the animated release lineup starting with snow white in 1937)

Also had nightmare been part of the cannon it would have been the first and only stop motion animated movie in the cannon
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I thought James and the Giant Peach was released under Disney though?
 
cactus said:
I thought James and the Giant Peach was released under Disney though?
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It was released under the walt disney pictures and some studio Henry selick started after Nightmare forget the name at the moment but think of it like how they used touchstone and hollywood pictures studios as shell companies to release movies they wouldn't normally make.


Like I said before he up and left katzenburg suggested even tried to get nightmare released as the animated in house film of 93 but once he was gone and Eisner took the reigns he wanted nightmare published under touchstone because he found it "too dark" to bear the walt disney pictures name. It wasn't until after he was gone was the film rereleased Walt Disney pictures like originally intended.


Bonus fact: despite sharing the same name Micheal Eisner and Will Eisner are not related
 
Apperntly, there were talks of having a sequel to gladiator. A script was written by Nick Cave and it is among the most batshit ever written.
In the sequel, Maximus would have fought the roman god and would become like a highlander who fought in the crusades, vietnam and more. Crowe and Scott was on board doing it but it studio was against it.
 
Foltest said:
Apperntly, there were talks of having a sequel to gladiator. A script was written by Nick Cave and it is among the most batshit ever written.
In the sequel, Maximus would have fought the roman god and would become like a highlander who fought in the crusades, vietnam and more. Crowe and Scott was on board doing it but it studio was against it.
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So, God of War but with less button mashing. Neat
 
Despite being an iconic image of popular culture, there's almost no evidence to suggest the ancient egyptians believed in mummies coming back to life.


On a funnier note, in the mummy. (1999) Due to a wardrobe malfunction, actor Omid Djalili's penis is briefly visable.
 
Peter Venkman in the Ghostbuster movies is a turbo cuck whose only talent is being a smart ass.
He didn't get to bone ugly ass dana in the first movie, but the little awkward jew did.
In between movies he pushes away dana and she bones another guy, gets pregnant and then in the second movie he wants to take care of "my wife's kid" if they get together.
And the little jew gets a chick wearing a red hair wig representing [REDACTED BY MOLOCH].
Peter is beta with a smart mouth and that's it. He's in perfect company with egon and ray.
 
Wraith said:
Peter Venkman in the Ghostbuster movies is a turbo cuck whose only talent is being a smart ass.
He didn't get to bone ugly ass dana in the first movie, but the little awkward jew did.
In between movies he pushes away dana and she bones another guy, gets pregnant and then in the second movie he wants to take care of "my wife's kid" if they get together.
And the little jew gets a chick wearing a red hair wig representing [REDACTED BY MOLOCH].
Peter is beta with a smart mouth and that's it. He's in perfect company with egon and ray.
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This isn't fun or a fact.
 
cactus said:
I thought pachinko was banned in Japan now?
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Only if you're using it to gamble for money. Japan has some weird laws.
If you see a pachinko parlour, its either illegally operating, or exploiting a loophole in the law. Basically, when you play, your "prize" are tokens. When you're done, you get to take them with you as you leave. Fortunately enough, there just so happens to be a totally-not-affiliated shop just next door that will buy the tokens off of you.

Speaking of Nihon stuff...
Toyota was originally called Toyoda, after the founder Kiichiro Toyoda. However, once they started gaining traction, they decided to change the name to Toyota, because writing that word used eight pen strokes, rather than ten (eight is a lucky number in Japan). Plus, they felt that the visual appearance of the changed name gave off an impression of speed, since "ta" is a core syllable, while "da" is not.

The second logo is where they made the name change.
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One of the theoretically shortest games of all time is Castlevanis Harmony of Dissonance. It can be completed in 22 seconds:

 
Despite common belief, snakes don't dislocate their jaws to swallow prey. The key is that their lower mandible is not one continuous jawline like with most other animals. It's instead split into two halves which are connected where the chin would be by an elastic band of tissue. This allows both for flexible extension to fit larger meals, and the ability to manipulate either side of the lower jaws independently so that they can hinge back and forth to work their way over the prey.
 
According to james Gunn (before the infamy) he originally meant for the zombies in the remake of dawn of the dead to be supernatural in nature and not viral. Which would explain why they're able to run and seem somewhat more intelligent than the classic Romero zombie's.

Bonus facts this chopper seen at the start of Dawn of the dead 2004
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Is based on the same chopper used by the news crew in the 1978 version of dawn of the dead.


Oh and you know that news footage in the beggining of the movie? It's all real footage of actual riots and war. Only the zombie footage being fake, obviously.
 
District 9 is banned in Nigeria because the government felt the film portrayed Nigerians as gangsters and cannibals.

They are.
 
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