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Posted December 06, 2015
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tinyE:
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Antimateria: Robert Patrick knows better.
Huh? Yeah, his brother is Filter, but what does that have to do with Dutch trance music, Seinfeld, or the solar system?
Posted December 06, 2015
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Antimateria: Robert Patrick knows better.
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tinyE: Huh? Yeah, his brother is Filter, but what does that have to do with Dutch trance music, Seinfeld, or the solar system?
Plenty?

Also those were different things.. Von buuren was dancing everybodys ass off and Ropert Patrick was making a good voice acting in the dig (fourth time).. It's a hard game! Damnit! fucking puzzles
Posted December 06, 2015
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Kronoor: The english language doesn't have a specific version of the swedish word Lagom.
SWEEEEEEDEN <3
Posted December 07, 2015
Fact: this actually happened.



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Summary/Spoiler: Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, was a co-pilot on a commercial flight in 1947. One of the engines stopped working, causing another to overheat. The plane crashed in the Syrian desert. Mr. Roddenberry, with 2 broken ribs, ran back inside the burning plane and started pulling survivors out. The survivors split in to 2 groups in the morning and went looking for any kind of help. Roddenberry's group found a village with a radio. They were able to get help to themselves and the other group. 22 people survived.

Mr. Roddenberry resigned from Pam Am and decided to start writing. He would eventually write Star Trek.
Posted December 07, 2015
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tinyE: Are you insinuating that if I had a blind test, set up several different kinds of hair in a row and set fire to them, that someone could tell what each part of the body each sample came from? :P
Absolutely! If we blindfold you and set fire to the hair on your ass, you'd be able to tell that your ass hair is on fire and not, say, the hair on your arm. And if we set fire to your nose hair, you'd be able to smell that, too.

For a couple seconds, anyway.
Posted December 07, 2015
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tinyE: Are you insinuating that if I had a blind test, set up several different kinds of hair in a row and set fire to them, that someone could tell what each part of the body each sample came from? :P
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HereForTheBeer: Absolutely! If we blindfold you and set fire to the hair on your ass, you'd be able to tell that your ass hair is on fire and not, say, the hair on your arm. And if we set fire to your nose hair, you'd be able to smell that, too.

For a couple seconds, anyway.
Actually that brings up another question.

If we blindfolded someone, stood him next to ten friends of his, and then set fire to one of their asses, would he be able to tell which friend it was from the smell?
Posted December 07, 2015
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tinyE: If we blindfolded someone, stood him next to ten friends of his, and then set fire to one of their asses, would he be able to tell which friend it was from the smell?
....you are unbelievable hahahaha! By the way, how the hair of a donkey smell? XD
Posted December 07, 2015
I'm playing Persona 3 FES (I beat the 4 last year) and the fun fact is that the year 2009 (the game is based in that year) has the same calendar laoyout than 2015. And I'm in December too ^^

In SMT Persona games you play day by day. A complete high-school calendar.
Posted December 07, 2015
Interesting mathematical fact: Sometimes, even if a problem has nothing to do with imaginary numbers (that is, square roots of negative numbers), introducing them can actually make the problem easier to solve.
Posted December 07, 2015
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dtgreene: Interesting mathematical fact: Sometimes, even if a problem has nothing to do with imaginary numbers (that is, square roots of negative numbers), introducing them can actually make the problem easier to solve.
much easier if you skip the middle man and go straight for an imaginary solution.
Posted December 07, 2015
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tinyE: Martin Van Buren was the first President of the United States born in the United States.
Interesting. I had no idea.
Was he a character in the cancelled Fallout 3 game?
Posted December 07, 2015
A bear served alongside Polish forces at the Battle of Monte Cassino

Shame that never showed up in Medal of Honor.
Posted December 07, 2015
GoG doesnt have a spoiler forum code/tag.
Posted December 07, 2015
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doccarnby: A bear served alongside Polish forces at the Battle of Monte Cassino

Shame that never showed up in Medal of Honor.
Your army should take an example and use bears in battle too. After all you are in the country that has the constitutional right to arm bears!
Posted December 07, 2015
Since it's nearly Xmas:

The date of Jesus' birth (if he existed at all) isn't really known. From the 4th century on it was promoted to place his birthdate at the 25th of December, so that like most the "heathen" sun gods he would have been conceived around Easter (when the light defeats darkness) and born on the winter solstice. The final decision that "this is the official date" wasn't made until some convent in the 9th century (where also the "official" parts of the New Testament and were decided upon - there were a lot of varying and contradicting versions, including some where Jesus survived and lived with Mary Magdalene in Ireland or India).

Earliest traces of Xmas traditions are from around 10.000 BCE, about the same age as "Easter" traditions. The tree is supposed to be a Germanic tradition (although it could be even older, since the Germans are a mixed tribe of Aryan conquerors who came from the direction of India and previous natives, which is also reflected in their pantheon).

Santa Claus in his roots is the "wild man of the woods" (also an aspect of Odin/Wotan, probably aquired from much older myths) who in the deepest darkness goes from house to house and looks into people's hearts and rewards or punished them accordingly.
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