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SmotheredHope said:
During the "GREAT ASS!" scene in Heat, Al Pacino had improvised that bit-the script originally called for the line to be delivered in a normal tone and volume, but they had done multiple takes of the scene and Pacino was growing irritated, so he delivered the line in the bombastic way he did and the look of surprise on Hank Azaria's face was genuine.
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Easily the worst scene in the movie, too. Pacino is so fucking overrated
 
horrorfan89 said:
The snake that gets cut up by a machete wasn't just some random snake they found in the woods. It was a pet that belonged to a crew member who didn't know they planned on killing it.
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That's utterly fucking horrible.
 
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Fun fact: The first costumed super hero to appear in a comic strip was the Phantom, who made his debut in February of 1936. Comic books were originally thought to have originated in the early 20th Century, but recent discoveries indicate that they actually were around in the Victorian era.

And now a fun fact about myself: I'm not a doctor, and I don't own a hat of any kind. I'm a fraud.
 
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Hey you know that episode of Futurama where they struggled to find a microwave oven in 1947? While the first commercial microwave ovens weren't widely available until 1967 the microwave as a cooking implement was first tested at a Boston restaurant in 1947, and a prototype had been field rested by the us navy as a means of quickly preparing meals since 1945 just after WW2.
 
During the early 90s, the children's book, The Education of Little Tree was lauded by readers, and critics alike for being a wonderfully insightful, and incredibly "progressive" autobiographic tale of a child growing up with his Cherokee grandparents. It was so beloved that Oprah even put it on her booklist, and it stayed there until 2007.

Now, you're probably wondering if this book is so great, then why have you never heard of it?

That's because it was a hoax.

Meaning, The Education of Little Tree was not an autobiography, or even biography of a real person.

It was a fictional story made up entirely by Asa Earl Carter, an incredibly violent literal Ku Klux Klan member who was the leader of the chapter that was responsible for the infamously horrific Judge Edward Aaron assault, was also once wanted for attempted murder, and who, along with another man, wrote the famous "Segregation today! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" speech for George Wallace.

The strangest part is no one knows why Carter wrote the book as he died of heart failure after getting into a fistfight with his own son before anyone could ask him.

Some say that he had been reformed and that his book was his way of apologizing for his past. Others have pointed out that due to the book's heavy reliance on stereotypes, widely inaccurate portrayal of Cherokee customs, and massive downplaying of the hardships real Native Americans face, and the extremely racist behavior he continued to exhibit even after the book was written suggest otherwise, and that the book was just written for money. A small group thinks it might've been a bit of both.

Another theory takes into account that during his life Carter claimed to have Cherokee ancestry, and that this, along with the other three mentioned theories are the reason he wrote the book, but because he died without ever telling anyone the real truth, we'll probably never actually know for sure.

What is known for sure, though, is that despite Oprah finding out about Carter's past as early 1994, the bitch still kept it on her booklist until two-thousand-fucking seven.
 
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Sri Lanka was ruled from the 15th to the 19th century by the Kingdom of Kandy.

War of the Jenkins' Ear was officially fough over maiming a mariner namer Robert Jenkins seven years ago. Jenkins actually brough his ear pickled in a jar to the British Parliament for that. Probably drank the solution all the time and refilled it when needed.
 
In 1942 Osbert Sitwell told George Orwell that in the event of a Nazi invasion the Home Guard had orders to shoot all artists. Orwell observed that in Cornwall that might be no bad thing
 
So much for the "one gene one protein" they taught in high school. The Dscam gene in fruitfly can generate, via alternative splicing, potentially 38016 forms of a protein, and it was shown that a great majority of these forms are actually produced. Dscam stands for "Down syndrome cell-adhesion molecule", a hint of its role in human brain development. This protein is expressed in neurons, and each neuron might bear a different form of the protein. Neuronal dendrites will not cross-wire with dendrites bearing the same form of the protein, ensuring that the same neuron cannot cross-wire with itself.
 
In economics, the Cantillon effect describes the effect that an increase in the money supply ( net lending ) is not automatically distributed evenly across all areas of an economy, but in stages, whereby some areas (in particular the banking sector, other state-related companies, the business sector and politically favored groups) benefit first, while the rest of the economy follows later or does not benefit from money creation at all. Losers in the process of creating money are those with whom the money does not end up, but who nevertheless have to pay the prices that have risen due to the inflation caused by the creation of credit .

The effect was named after Richard Cantillon , who describes it as follows in his “Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General”, first published in 1755, although today the increase in money usually no longer comes from mines, but from the central banks and thus initially in favor of the Financial sector:

“If the increase in cash proceeds from gold or silver mines located in a state, the owners of these mines, the entrepreneurs, the smelters, the refiners and generally all those who work there will in any case their expenses according to their profits increase. They will consume more meat and more wine or beer in their households than they used to, they will get used to wearing better clothes and nicer lingerie, better furnished houses, and other more exquisite comforts in life. They will therefore give employment to some artisans who previously did not have so much work and who will now increase their expenses for the same reason; All these increases in expenditure on meat, wine, wool, etc. necessarily reduce the proportion of the other inhabitants of the state who initially do not share in the riches of the mines in question. The haggling in the market or the demand for meat, wine, wool, etc., which is stronger than usual, will in any case drive up their prices. These high prices will cause the tenants to use more land to produce these things in another year; these same tenants will benefit from this increase in prices and, like the others, will increase the expenses of their families. Those who will suffer from this inflation and increased consumption will therefore first be the landowners during the term of their leases, then their servants and all workers or employees with fixed salaries who receive their families from it. All of these will have to cut their spending in accordance with the new consumption, and this will force a large number of them to leave the state to seek their fortune elsewhere. The owners will lay off many of them and it will happen that the rest of them will ask for a wage increase in order to be able to live as they were used to. This is roughly the way in which a considerable increase in the money from mines increases consumption and, while decreasing the population, results in greater spending by those who remain behind. "
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- Richard Cantillon : Treatise on the Nature of Commerce in General; sixth chapter of the second part
 
DrJonesHat said:
Fun fact: The first costumed super hero to appear in a comic strip was the Phantom, who made his debut in February of 1936. Comic books were originally thought to have originated in the early 20th Century, but recent discoveries indicate that they actually were around in the Victorian era.
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Another fun fact is that if you see an adult in Sweden reading The Phantom he will most likely sit in a police car, up front, in uniform. We don't know why that is.

Another real fun fact is that Phantom stories have been written and drawn for Scandinavia for many, many years. The audience was most likely young boys that found the cops discarded Phantom magazines in trash cans.

All of this is 75% true. It is a meme that cops love the phantom.
 
The Phantom is also incredibly popular in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. A family member observed a small riot of about 200 PNG nationals once who lost their shit and threatened to burn down a distribution center when the weekly Phantom delivery failed to arrive.

Fact tax: the US federal minimum wage in 1964 was $1.25. The melt value (silver content) of five 1964 quarters is currently around $18. In terms of actual, real, non-fiat value, minimum wage in the US has actually gone backwards in the last 55 years. It’s why the obscenely mega-rich are buying land, yachts and trips to space; at least those things aren’t worthless to them like money is.
 
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Some of the extras in Goodfellas were real mobsters-Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote the book upon which the film is based, said they supplied Warner Bros. with fake Social Security numbers and he wasn't sure how they received their payments.
 
George Washing and Harry Truman in Paupa New Guinea. HOLY SHIT SHIT THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE GEORGE IS SCREAMING ABOUT AHHH. Must get the yacht in space man immediatly. "Indeed. This provides more value than mere cold hard cash." George says as he goes to get on the yacht. Away we go.
 
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