OT: Things we find freaking neat but no place to post

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They sit at my bar and put bread in my jar and say 'MAAAN WHAT ARE YOU DOIN HERE?'

 

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-In 1965, a Senate subcommittee predicted that by 2000, Americans would be working 20 hours a week and taking over seven weeks of vacation each year.

-The first VCR, developed by the Ampex Corporation in 1956, weighed nearly 1,500 lbs. It took another 15 years before a commercially viable product hit the scene.

-Billiards was once a lawn game played outdoors, which is why today’s pool tables have a green felt cover.

-The vibrator was invented by a physician to treat women who suffered from "hysteria."

-Saddam Hussein was awarded the key to the city of Detroit in 1980.

-In 1983, a tiny fleck of paint off an earlier spacecraft hit the windshield of the orbiting space shuttle Challenger at 20,000 mph, causing a crater to form in its windshield.

 

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Did you know that the inspiration behind the movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street" was due to the strange deaths of around 130 Southeast Asian refugees, who cried out in their sleep, and then died?

Apparently Wes Craven read about this in the LA Times, and got the idea to make the movie.

Since April, 1983, at least 130 Southeast Asian refugees have left this world in essentially the same way. They cried out in their sleep. And then they died.

Medical authorities call this Asian Death Syndrome. The refugees have various names for it, one of them being Night Terror.

Medical Experts Seek Clues to 'Nightmare Deaths' That Strike Male Asian Refugees - Los Angeles Times

 

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-In 1965, a Senate subcommittee predicted that by 2000, Americans would be working 20 hours a week and taking over seven weeks of vacation each year.

-The first VCR, developed by the Ampex Corporation in 1956, weighed nearly 1,500 lbs. It took another 15 years before a commercially viable product hit the scene.

-Billiards was once a lawn game played outdoors, which is why today’s pool tables have a green felt cover.

-The vibrator was invented by a physician to treat women who suffered from "hysteria."

-Saddam Hussein was awarded the key to the city of Detroit in 1980.

-In 1983, a tiny fleck of paint off an earlier spacecraft hit the windshield of the orbiting space shuttle Challenger at 20,000 mph, causing a crater to form in its windshield.

That's why you never invite a vampire into your home.

 

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That's why you never invite a vampire into your home.

 

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Heil Honey I'm Home!, a British show about the escapades of Hitler, Eva Braun, and their Jewish neighbors, was canceled after one episode in 1990.


They did Nazi see that coming.

 

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Heil Honey I'm Home!, a British show about the escapades of Hitler, Eva Braun, and their Jewish neighbors, was canceled after one episode in 1990.


They did Nazi see that coming.

Know that I found and posted that while at work, if I am discovered doing it there will be heil to pay.

 

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That honestly looks like a sketch you would have seen on SNL back in the late 70's, early 80's.

Good to see that playing Hitler didn't ruin the career of Neil McCaul.

 

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In the 1920s, several groups lobbied for a calendar with 13 months, each with four weeks. The new month would have come between June and July. And to reach 365 days, the plan was to add "January 0."

Lousy Smuly weather!

 

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[dare2be]

As discussed in the Malaysian Airlines thread, this is definitive proof that society is getting more and more barbaric. Can you imagine just how much worse those kids are going to treat their own kids and fellow humans?

 

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Hey guys! Oprah is doing stuff with Starbucks!

 

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The delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention spent much of their time getting drunk. One surviving document is a bill for a party on September 15th, 1787, two days before the signing of the Constitution. Items on the bill were: 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 8 bottles of cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch. All of this for only 55 people.

 

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During a 1956 speech for his campaign of de-Stalinization, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was asked by an unseen audience member why, as an advisor to the dictator, he had never stopped Stalin from committing his atrocities. Khrushchev immediately lashed out, “Who said that?” The room grew quiet. Khrushchev repeated his query to more silence, waited a beat, and then said, “Well, now you understand why.”

 

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The delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention spent much of their time getting drunk. One surviving document is a bill for a party on September 15th, 1787, two days before the signing of the Constitution. Items on the bill were: 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 8 bottles of cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch. All of this for only 55 people.

And 200 years later people argue over what they meant when they chose a certain word over any other similar word.

THEY WERE HAMMERED

 

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And 200 years later people argue over what they meant when they chose a certain word over any other similar word.

THEY WERE HAMMERED

And syphilis ridden. Probably from a colonial pizza parlor.

 

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Family Feud sparks revolt at grocery store chain

 

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[mattola]

The delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention spent much of their time getting drunk. One surviving document is a bill for a party on September 15th, 1787, two days before the signing of the Constitution. Items on the bill were: 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 8 bottles of cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch. All of this for only 55 people.

And 200 years later people argue over what they meant when they chose a certain word over any other similar word.

THEY WERE HAMMERED

so they really meant this then?

 

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