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Conrad Heyer was the earliest-born person to be photographed. The article says there are others who are claimed to be even older who were also photographed around that time, but Conrad was the only one to have his birth date verified.
 
Leisure Suit Larry was meant to be a closed trilogy, but thanks to commercial success, Sierra On-Line pressed the series' writer Al Lowe to pen a story for another one. Allegedly Larry 4 was a finished product, but Lowe was so angry about it, he shrugged the mountains of dollars Sierra threw at him and they scrapped it all out of respect for him.

LSL 5's plot is based on the unreleased fourth installment, with the running joke of Larry and Patti having amnesia about the events of LSL 4.

Al Lowe, while talking about Softporn Adventure, said that Ken Williams was a great programmer but his writing was incel-tier. Having played Softporn Adventure, I have to agree.
 
Koi are basically the fish equivalent of dogs. They recognize faces, recognize voices, respond to their names, can be taught to preform simple tricks, and like to be petted. Some even like to be held so long as they are still in water. They are extremely social creatures, and will get attached enough to their owners, and other animals for them to actively get sad if they are separated from either of them for an extended period of time.

They can also live for over 200 years.
 
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If you were randomly born somewhere and sometime in the universe, chances seem to be you'd be born among a "stone age" hunters/gatherer people, living on a Titan-like world, with a red dwarf sun, at least billions of light years away, and eons in the future. As the Wikipedia Titan article claims, you'd likely breathe in hydrogen, metabolize it with acetylene instead of glucose, and exhale methane instead of carbon dioxide. Liquid methane or ethane would be "water," water ice the "rock."
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An update: I read somewhere that such life on a Titan-like world would likely metabolize too slowly, and be unlikely. Also, such worlds can still have a narrow "habitable zone" like Earth-like worlds.

So now I think the most common kind of intelligent life could be subglacial aquatic life, like Europa could have. Such worlds could easily be sun-less - deep in interstellar space - because all they need to keep liquid water under the ice is some kind of geological activity. Yet it could suck living in a dark, cold ocean under an ice crust. I hear intelligent life on such worlds could naturally be be octopus-like.

And of course, being ice covered ocean worlds, it's unlikely actual civilizations could develop in them.
 
John Carmack acquired his first Apple II computer by burglaring a school because his parents didn't want to buy him one. After he got caught, psychologist diagnosed him as a sociopathic brain on legs with "no empathy towards other humans".

Hearsay, but allegedly John Carmack was so salty about his parents not buying him an Apple that he autistically rubbed that salt into their wounds by buying them a Ferrari.
 
Due to a harmless byproduct of how they're created, if you chew Wintergreen Life Savers in the dark with your mouth open, they create visible sparks. Many hard candies can do this, Wintergreen Life Savers just do it especially well.
 
kuniqsX said:
John Carmack acquired his first Apple II computer by burglaring a school because his parents didn't want to buy him one. After he got caught, psychologist diagnosed him as a sociopathic brain on legs with "no empathy towards other humans".

Hearsay, but allegedly John Carmack was so salty about his parents not buying him an Apple that he autistically rubbed that salt into their wounds by buying them a Ferrari.
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Don't forget how he tried to steal the computer. He had created thermite to burn through the windows to get into the school. Unfortunately, a fat accomplice got stuck and triggered the alarm, leading to all of them getting arrested.

Also the reason the psychiatrist diagnosed him as a sociopath was because he asked Carmack if he were to do it again and Carmack responded that he would if he wasn't caught. Carmack later defended himself saying that he specified that he'd do it again if he didn't get caught, not that he'd do it again period.

Carmack's a strange and fascinating individual.
 
Most Cypress and Cedar trees (including virtually all Arborvitaes) contain the same chemical irritants found in Poison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac, but in lower concentrations. They will still cause rashes and lesions if you get exposed, and can be exceedingly dangerous if you're dumb enough to burn one.
 
horrorfan89 said:
Part of the reason female fertility can suffer complications after just the 20s. Is because generations of having women married and pregnant often before they reached age 20. Which was common among many cultures (not just Islamic ones) caused the human body to naturally adapt the female system to reach its peak at such a young age. Since the age of men was rarely if ever taken into consideration men didn't develop this evolutionary biology
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Makes even less sense the second time I see this. There was a 500+ word rant here about evolution with Dawkins' disembodied head screaming in the background, but then I realized what I was doing. I'm just going to say that historically, very early marriages & pregnancies were common only in nobility as means for producing heirs and political alliances ASAP.

Related fact: for the 99% of their time on Earth, humans barely survived to their 30s or produced children past that age, which is the major reason why your body starts malfunctioning past 30 because there was and still is natural selection against longevity. Such people appear by blind idiot genetical lottery, pretty much.

For any event with a 1 in N chance of happening, there is a 63-64% chance it will happen at least once if the check happens exactly N times. Doesn't matter how big N is, as long as the chance of happening is >0% and there are N tries. Probability is fucking magic, dude.

Mathematical constants change, veeeery slowly but I remember reading about some brainiacs with extremely accurate measuring equipment who noted that the value of π was shifting, a tiny bit but still...
 
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Mathematical constants change, veeeery slowly but I remember reading about some brainiacs with extremely accurate measuring equipment who noted that the value of π was shifting, a tiny bit but still...
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No, mathematical constants do not change. The value of pi in a euclidean geometry is the same as it ever was. However, local spacetime curvature is changing - very little and very slowly - as a result of several cosmological phenomena.
 
In 18th century England, there were several government attempts to regulate and cut down on gin production. Many distillers in London circumvented these laws by selling their gin under a different name, such as "Ladies' Delight," "Cuckold's Delight," or the exceptionally lazy "Parliament Gin."
 
Japanese guys have a kind of ritual in their young adult time where they put on their best clothes, congregate on a busy sidewalk and catcall every girl in hearing range. Allegedly the rate of success is ~1/10.
 
Much like English-speaking countries greet each other with "Break a leg" or something similar to wish good luck and success in the show, in Brazil, theater actors greet each other with "Lots of shit for you" prior to a performance.

The shit part harkens back to the 18th Century when most people used horse-drawn carriages to move around. As you know, horses defecate anywhere at any time they feel like, even as they move. The logic is that if there's lots of shit, it means lots of horses, ergo lots of people coming to the theater to watch the performance.
 
No one is quite sure what the Confederate rebel yell sound like. There were almost no recording devices back then and what did exist were really primitive. Some say it sound like an Indian yell why others said it sound like a cougar or a screaming rabbit. Even some of the tough Unions soldiers were scared of the yell and described it as hellish. Some audio clips of veterans years later yelling it exist but some question how accurate they are. How is started is also unknown.
 
The Hoba meteorite is the largest intact bolide on Earth. It's surprisingly big too!

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No one is quite sure what the Confederate rebel yell sound like. There were almost no recording devices back then and what did exist were really primitive. Some say it sound like an Indian yell why others said it sound like a cougar or a screaming rabbit. Even some of the tough Unions soldiers were scared of the yell and described it as hellish. Some audio clips of veterans years later yelling it exist but some question how accurate they are. How is started is also unknown.
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Here is a recording. the interesting part starts at about 2:40.

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