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AnOminous said:
Pepto Bismol is radioactive. Its active ingredient is bismuth subsalicylate. The main isotope of bismuth, bismuth-209, used to be believed to be the heaviest stable isotope, but it turns out that it is actually a weakly radioactive alpha emitter. Since its half-life is over a billion times the estimated age of the universe, though, it can still be treated as stable for most practical purposes.
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Bananas are radioactive in a similar way

A banana equivalent dose is a term that came out of how bananas have a tiny amount of radioactive isotopes of potassium. That article also has an interesting chart attached, and then I noticed some silly bullshit in it, and scrolled down to find out that I had been XKCD'd. Dammit
 
In the old 1984 transformers, there was an autobot named Trailbreaker. He is a big fat camper truck known for being gregarious, a practical joker, a tactician and having a really powerful shield. The shield is so powerful he can withstand the heat from the sun.
What does this mean?
Well in nerd-speak, that piece of garbage star killer base from star wars the farts awakens uses power from the sun to fire off a massive wave of energy across the galaxy. If you outfit Trailbreaker with a massive power supply, he could take it and survive.
Also Trailbreaker is black.
This has been a part of your black and red robot history month.
 
Don't remember if I already said this, but red velvet cake is actually just light chocolate flavor with red dye.
 
The elves outfits in Elf (2003) were based of the elves outfits in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964).

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for some reason as of this post, there's been no widescreen home media release of the Blair witch project in the united states. all media even dvd's are in full screen. supposedly this is to stay true to the idea of the film being shot on a 90's video camera. Also The DVD's of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein (1994) are only available in a full screen transfer from the films vhs release but the blu ray is an hd transfer from the original negatives. Lastly if you watch the opening of the shining in full screen, you can actually see the shadow of the helicopter used to capture the footage. Which is actually unused footage filmed by Ridley Scott for the theatrical cut of Blade Runner)

bonus fact: The first audio commentary was featured on the Criterion Collection release of the original King Kong film, released on laserdisc in December 1984. Done by film historian Ronald Haver and his first words were: Hello, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Ronald Haver, and I'm here to do something which we feel is rather unique.
 
Sanic the hedgehog was initially designed to have a human girlfriend. She was blond, because you know how nips are, especially in the 80s and 90s. The problem is she has fecal short hair and if they went through with it, it would open the flood gate faster letting the world know what sick degenerate freaks they all are because they're tired of looking at their nip nagging wives.
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No really. I know this because of my learnings.

Die Hard 1 isn't what you think it's about. You have a german dude leading an multi-ethnic group of guys that looks surprisingly like the ethnic make up of one group in a certain war last century, but you didn't hear that from me.
I am only partially drunk.
 
Hey if you've ever wondered why Muslims are so butt hurt about booze and why drinking it is bad to them...well according to a historical account on the life of of muhammad. Muhammad was at a dinner with some guests who just so happened to enjoy the wine a little too much, got drunk, and began reciting verses from the Koran. (Incorrectly and with the slur getting wasted on date and grape wine will often do to someone) As a result of this muhammad banned the consumption of alcohol believing it made men become blasphemers and forget their faith.


So yeah haji abdual jafar can't let you crack open a six all because some idiots got hammered in front of the leader of the religion that took over the fertile crescent. That'd be like if Judas got plastered at the last supper and bragged about he planned on betraying Jesus Christ to Pontius Pilate.
 
to any young kiwis who couldn't catch the wubulus world of dr suess. if you've ever wondered why a heatless creature like the Grinch has max around...well according to an episode that was later adopted into an "unofficial" suess book. The Grinch keeps max around because max can reach an itch on his back that Grinch can't reach, even with his best gadgets and gizmos at hand the Grinch needs max to scratch his itchy back and can
 
Austrian Conscript 1915 said:
you can sneeze so hard that you break your ribcage
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The human muscles are actually stronger than the brain allows them to be, so if you are in an "altered" state where your brain isn't in complete control you can do things that normally would be impossible. The brain stops your muscles from doing things that could hurt your body. Your jaw is strong enough to chomp a finger off, but your brain won't let you. A sudden out of control sneeze can break your ribs, because the muscles between your ribs are stronger than the rib bones themselves. People high on various drugs can do weird shit like peeling their faces off. I once saw a male patient pull his Foleys catheter out before he came to completely (look it up and cringe) Adrenaline can make people do the craziest super human things. Also, this makes super strong zombies believeable because they should be in a weird, altered brain state.
 
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Swagstika said:
Your jaw is strong enough to chomp a finger off, but your brain won't let you.
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I remember hearing when I was younger that the amount of force needed to chomp a finger off is the same amount needed to bite into a carrot. It's one of those things I'm morbidly curious about but would never want to try because I like having fingers.
 
Something you might not have noticed about Gremlins: After the gremlins hatch, Mrs. Peltzer goes into the attic to investigate, the turntable starts playing 'Do You Hear what I Hear?''. When Mrs. Peltzer comes down to turn it off, there's gremlin handprints on the top of the stereo:

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Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
Something you might not have noticed about Gremlins: After the gremlins hatch, Mrs. Peltzer goes into the attic to investigate, the turntable starts playing 'Do You Hear what I Hear?''. When Mrs. Peltzer comes down to turn it off, there's gremlin handprints on the top of the stereo:

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another thing about Gremlins, its a pretty depressing Christmas movie what with the people getting foreclosed by mrs deagle who doesn't care, and pretty much everyone but the main characters being total jerks but keep in mind it could have been much darker.

there are several deleted scenes that show why deagle was foreclosing on everyone, apparently she and the bank Billy worked at were planning on running people out of their homes to develop a toxic waste dump on the land. and that's what was filmed but cut. The original script by director Joe Dante would have been a lot closer to his previous works like the howling. With the gremlins being straight up graphically murderous. Scenes never filmed included: Mrs. Peltzer's severed head getting thrown down the stairs, Barney the dog getting full on eaten by the gremlins, billy and kate going into a Mcdonald's only to find untouched food but signs of eaten people. In fact it's speculated the scene where Kate recounts the story about Christmas was originally filmed first, when the cast and crew believed the film was going to be much darker and more violent.
 
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