• SSTFOP
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      271 year ago

      You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

    • @NewEnglandRedshirt
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      171 year ago

      C’mon dude. As a history teacher, I can tell you that it is definitely possible to fire a gun without arms.

      • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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        I’m not even a gun dude and I’ve heard of those guns that shoot if you look at em funny. Hi points? I don’t remember.

    • @[email protected]
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      If you’re a former English teacher you should be aware that language changes and while “factoid” was originally coined to mean a made up fact, the term is currently mostly used to refer to small inconsequential facts.

      • daisy lazarus
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        41 year ago

        That’s literally the most ironic thing I’ve read

    • @scutiger
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      A gunman doesn’t cease to be a gunman if he’s disarmed. Though he can’t be a gunman if he wasn’t armed in the first place.

    • @[email protected]
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      Wouldn’t it be a pleonasm? Tautology is more about the logic realm, specifically about repeating an argument or a statement as it they were different. Here “inaccurate factoid” is merely inaccurate vocabulary.

  • justhach
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    I like to believe that dinosaurs (especially stegosauruses) had lovely singing voices, because its nice and doesn’t hurt anybody.

    • @Num10ck
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      31 year ago

      how loud could their operas get? what range of octaves are possible with the range of species? could they beat box? were there ventriloquists?

      • justhach
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        1. three 2) yes 3) only in Portuguese 4) only in Portuguese
  • @SCB
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    291 year ago

    Spartans were a dominant military force. They were actually kind of a shitty military force who was really good at PR.

    The Spartan Hegemony only lasted 30 years, and only because they kind of glory-hogged the aftermath of the Greco-Persian war after nearly losing the war due to their refusal to muster.

    • @[email protected]
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      At Thermopylae 300 Spartans fought to the last man, along with 700 Athenians and more from other cities.

      • @SCB
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        121 year ago

        Yes that would be the PR campaign I am referencing.

    • HobbitFoot
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      Spartans were good at one kind of military unit, but that was it.

  • @[email protected]
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    George Washington had wooden dentures.

    I learned it from Day of the Tentacle and even if I know now that it isn’t true,it still pops into my mind everytime someone talks about him or dentures.

    • @Nahlej
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      Also, Betsy Ross originally created a tentacle shaped flag, not a rectangular one.

    • @Num10ck
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      31 year ago

      i thought he had dentures made of slave teeth?

    • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts
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      Day of the Tentacle

      Time for a replay. Is there an android option nowadays?

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        Sort of.

        There’s a ScummVM emulator on the playstore, so it’s possible to play the original on android if you can find the “rom” files.

        I haven’t tried DOTT in particular, but last time I replayed a scumm game I quickly lost interest due to the outdated controls.

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          Thanks will try it

          By the way, got the rom from https://www.romspedia.com/roms/scummvm/day-of-the-tentacle/download

          Game started, not tested yet but all looks ok

          (To anyone else trying to do this, get Scummvm app from playstore. Get the Rom file from web link above (mind the spammy adverts). You’ll need something like Rar app to unzip the file. Make a games folder on your phone, make a DayOfTheTentacle inside it and unzip the file there. Then open scummvm and “add new folder” and navigate to the DayOfTheTentacle folder and select that. Scummvm should detect the game so then you should see a game called "tentacle* you can start)

  • @Geekocracy
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    231 year ago

    That Ben Franklin said beer is proof that God loves us

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    Padeira de Aljubarrota killed 7 Castillians by cooking them in her bakery’s oven in 1385.

    Brites de Almeida das born in 1350 with 6 fingers in each hand, a though lady, could easily kill a man with her hands (and did it a few times), was kidnapped and enslaved in Northern Africa, managed to escape with her bare hands, helped out 2 other Portuguese guys to escape, stole a boat, sailed back with the guys, had a prob with one of them, killed him. Tried to establish herself in a honest way, but crime and murder were always coming her way somehow, ended up moving towns and disguise herself as a man. Met and older lady friend, a baker, that wanted to maker her an honest person. They lived happily as a couple. Older lady dies, she inherits the bakery. Castille tries to occupy Portugal, big battle, Portugal is outnumbered but manages to have a spectacular win. Some castillans are running around and looting. She lures 7 into her bakery, cooks them alive in her oven. Forever a national hero and legend.

    Nothing of this is proven, including the Castillans she killed (which is the factoid that made her a hero) but there’re even songs about her and whenever Portugal plays against Spain in football you’ll see some people dressed as a baker on the stadium.

    A lesbian serial-killer who escapsed enslavement to kill Castillans in one of the most important battles of our history? To me nothing can be truer than this, independently of what you can prove or not.

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    • Jewish slaves build the pyramids.

    They were build by Egyptians, probably out of loyalty to the pharaohs.

    • Columbus discovered America.

    He never reached the mainland. He didn’t go any further then the Caribbean Islands.

    • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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      21 year ago

      I’m gonna have to figure out how to get the Kubrick moon landing joke to segue into this or vice versa

  • @Deestan
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    121 year ago

    Albert Einstein did badly at school

  • @Whimsical
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    111 year ago

    “Poor artists imitate, great ones steal”

    I have no idea who actually coined this, but I heard once that it was Mark Twain. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t, but it sounds like something he’d say and attaching his name to it actually helps convey the message and its tone, so fuck it, Mark Twain said that.

  • Match!!
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    Hobby Lobby hired ISIS to steal the Epic of Gilgamesh

  • Ada
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    Current flows from positive to negative

  • BrerChicken
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    61 year ago

    The thing about the Pythagorean Theorem and having to cut your tongue out to join the cult that teaches you, so that you can’t just blab it all over town. I teach physics and I love to play it up!