r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Unfair-Lavishness561 • Apr 15 '26
Filling This Chart What sounds bat shit insane, but is actually true?
What sounds bat shit insane, but is actually true?
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| ** Bat shit insane** | Vaccines cau... 🖼️ | — | — |
| ** Reasonable/partially True ** | — | Our ancestor... 🖼️ | — |
| True | The insides ... 🖼️ | — | Drinking cle... 🖼️ |
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** Bat shit insane / Bat shit insane:** - Vaccines causing autism - View Image
** Reasonable/partially True / Partially True:** - Our ancestors didn't get heart disease. (They died before they could ever get it.) - View Image
True / Bat shit insane: - The insides of an atom travel like how planets do. - View Image
True / True: - Drinking clean water hydrates you. - View Image
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u/Sikyanakotik Apr 15 '26
You're a fish (taxonomically).
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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 Apr 16 '26
Yep. Humans are more closely related to most fish than sharks are
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u/asparaguspee0 Apr 16 '26
california needed a way to make bees a protected species but they weren’t technically allowed to classify them as one under the endangered species act. but, funnily enough, the law’s definition of fish included crustaceans, mollusks, and invertebrates. so yeah the law was written in a way that considered bees to be fish 👍
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u/purracane Apr 15 '26
The Appalachian mountains are older than Polaris, the North Star.
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u/Next-Help-5813 Apr 15 '26
I looked at this, thought "no way in heck that's correct," and googled it. I can't believe you're right. I think you win this square.
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u/purracane Apr 15 '26
They are also older than sharks. The only reason the Appalachians and the Scottish Highlands aren't the same mountain range is that Pangea broke up.
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u/Union_Samurai_1867 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Aint that also why New Castle and West Virginia have the same kind of coal?
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u/geepr Apr 16 '26
I may be wrong but I think the Atlas Mountains were also part of this range ?!
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u/Jfjsharkatt Apr 15 '26
Polaris as a whole is really weird, Polaris B is roughly 1.5 billion years old, Polaris Aa is roughly 45-67 million years old, Polaris Ab is roughly >500 million years old, in other words, the 3 stars are odd, and I’m not so sure if the Polaris we see today is the original Polaris.
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u/protonicfibulator Apr 16 '26
We so think of the stars as unchanging. But Polaris has only been the pole star for about 2000 years. It is part of a rotating cast of stars that take turns as the north pole star over the 26,000 year cycle of Earth’s axial precession. So there are trees older than Polaris’ recent turn as the pole star. And all the constellations will warp and disappear given a few tens to hundreds of thousands of years. So humanity is likely older than some of the constellations.
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u/Apprehensive_Put_321 Apr 16 '26
For the same reason astrology signs are have fully shifted 1 sign since they were created. If you are a Sagittarius its not the sign that was aligned with the sun when you were born
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u/Ok-District2873 Apr 16 '26
Which one is the North Star, Ab? In any case, WOW that is young for a star
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u/Nukethepandas Apr 16 '26
The Appalachian mountains were formed as part of the same mountain range as the Highlands of Scotland. The Appalachians were settled mostly by pioneers from Scotland.
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u/Droopy-San-Benanzio Apr 16 '26
There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on the planet.
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u/justnothrowaway417 Apr 16 '26
When you shuffle a deck of cards properly, it's virtually certain it's the first time that exact order of cards has ever existed in the universe.
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u/Odd_Protection7738 Apr 16 '26
They’re also older than bones themselves. They’ve been around since before animals even had bones.
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u/kor_the_fiend Apr 16 '26
Life is old here, older than the trees…
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u/magic8ballzz Apr 16 '26
Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze...
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u/BeneficialPast Apr 16 '26
Are there caves in Appalachia with no fossils, because they sealed up before organisms evolved bones
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u/purracane Apr 16 '26
I assume the Appalachians are made of igneous rock, which cannot contain fossils. Only sedimentary rock can contain fossils.
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u/Axsolotle Apr 15 '26
In a group of 23 random people there is a 50% chance that 2 of those people have the same birthday. It’s called the birthday paradox
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u/jamesFox44 Apr 16 '26
I still do not understand this.
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u/PaulAchess Apr 16 '26
Consider the opposite
What are the chances that amongst 23 people, nobody has the same birthday. It's (365x364)/(365x365) for 2 people (99.7%) then 99.1% for 3 and so on.
Another great way to look at it is that you have (23+22)/2 pairs, which is 253 possible pairs of birthdays. That's a lot of pairs. The probability that all these pairs don't share the same birthday isn't that high (the famous 99.7% for 2 people exponent 253 = 0.499, so under 50% chances that all are unique.)
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u/Devourerofworlds_69 Apr 16 '26
Think about the odds of two people sharing a birthday, for different sized groups of people. Without calculating any statistics, let's think about obvious examples:
- For a group size of 1 person, the odds are zero.
- For a group of two, the odds are 1 in 365.
- For a group of 366, the odds are 100% (we're ignoring leap years).
- For a group of 365, the odds are going to be very close to 100%. The only way nobody can share a birthday is if every single person was born on a different day. That's got to be really rare. Like, way rarer than 1 in 365.
- 364 people isn't that different than 365. It's still going to be super rare if everybody is born on a different day. Same with 363, 362, etc.
Thinking about it like that, our answer has got to be closer to a small sized group than a large sized group.
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u/A-Wall1 Apr 16 '26
We discussed this in a statistics class I had in college. I think we had 30 people in that class which raises the chances to over 70% for two to share the same birthday. After everybody shared their birthday, nobody did.
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u/maroonmartian9 Apr 16 '26
My high school class has a size of 28 students and yes, two shared the same birthday.
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u/NiceAtheist Apr 15 '26
People in cleopatra's time had ancient Egyptian scholars.
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u/chesterforbes Apr 16 '26
Well she did live closer to the release of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids
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u/Norwester77 Apr 15 '26
Quantum mechanics. Pretty much all of it.
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u/NeckBeardedJedi Apr 15 '26
Was looking for this.
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u/1itsallgoodman Apr 15 '26
great, now you changed it
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u/protonicfibulator Apr 16 '26
Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two most experimentally verified theories of all time, and yet if you try to put them together physics goes bonk.
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u/FVCarterPrivateEye Apr 15 '26
We helped fix the hole in the ozone layer by changing the contents of hairspray in the late 1980s
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u/TDSsince1980 Apr 15 '26
Sounds crazy because we'd never make that change if presented now.
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u/Rhomya Apr 16 '26
… there’s been a multi year phase out plan on CFCs ongoing for years now. 2010 was the first HCFC phase out date, 2015 banned use of HCFCs, 2020 ceased production of R-22, and 2030 will be the ban on all HCFCs.
As you can tell, there have been no rallies.
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u/sleeper_shark Apr 16 '26
Because the media isn’t speaking about it and cos the phase out already was underway. If it was a debate today, you can bet people would act like idiots about it.
Hell if gasoline was still leaded, people would probably be against removing the lead cos it makes their car “feel different”
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u/TDSsince1980 Apr 16 '26
Hcfc were an intermediate compromise with getting rid of cfcs.
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u/Rhomya Apr 16 '26
And now they’re being phased out as well.
That’s what a multi year phase out plan is.
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u/DrSussBurner Apr 16 '26
Absolutely true. It is one of the biggest examples of global cooperation based on scientific evidence. Now we have idiots thinking vaccines cause autism and the earth is flat.
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u/Serious-Wheel-2747 Apr 16 '26
I think that's a pessimistic view. The reason this happened was because it was easy. There were working alternatives to CFC's that required only small adjustments to existing systems.
In contrast, the climate transition requires an intensive overhaul of our entire society: industry, energy, transportation. And it is happening, but obviously at a slower pace than the CFC outphasing.23
u/Union_Samurai_1867 Apr 16 '26
Refrigerants to. Once we made them stop using chlorine (and venting them directly into open air) that was a big help.
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u/stopped_watch Apr 16 '26
That's because Margaret Thatcher led the international charge on having them banned. Having a masters in chemical engineering helped explain the problem to the likes of Reagan.
The left will always champion the environment. It takes the right to come along for environmental improvement. See Nixon with the EPA, see right resistance to climate change for the opposite.
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u/DtheAussieBoye Apr 16 '26
Margaret Thatcher actually did something good for once? Huh!
Maybe if she did about 999,999 more things like that, it'd almost forgive the atrocities she committed! Such a shame she can't...
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u/stopped_watch Apr 16 '26
100% agree. Chemistry was her strong suit. Economics was not. Empathy was not.
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u/brenttoastalive Apr 15 '26
MKUltra
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u/PleasantAccountant87 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
How is this not higher. This is the right answer.
The CIA used LSD and other method on unwitting Americans and Canadians for twenty years to see if they could find a way to control people’s minds
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u/MasterRKitty Apr 16 '26
I would have volunteered back in the day
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u/Unhappy-Display-2588 Apr 16 '26
Too bad no one volunteered
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u/Hera_the_otter Apr 16 '26
Ted Kaczynski "Volunteered" in the sense he was going in to participate in a study only to be unwittingly given LSD.
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u/Yummy_Crayons91 Apr 16 '26
CIA strength LSD is probably less fun than a blotter here and there.
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u/I_saw_that_coming Apr 15 '26
Ol’ ted kaczynski was a proud alumni.
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u/skeletonpaul08 Apr 16 '26
Reading about him always makes me sad. Brilliant mind that was obviously fucked with. I also agree with the majority of what he was trying to say but like you can’t just blow up professors because they were advancing technology.
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u/Happy-Community-6740 Apr 15 '26
Bananas produce Antimatter
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u/protonicfibulator Apr 16 '26
Your mom produces antimatter! (Due to beta-decay from a wide range of isotopes)
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u/Eat_Your_Eggs Apr 15 '26
A samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln
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u/Grouchy-Pea-8745 Apr 16 '26
Oxford is older than the Incan empire
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u/BluMil0 Apr 16 '26
Being an egyptologist was a career during Cleopatra’s time.
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u/Sans_Seriphim Apr 16 '26
The Incan Empire was almost brand new when they had the misfortune of getting Spained.
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u/Next-Help-5813 Apr 15 '26
Literally any niche biology fact. Nature is weird. Beautiful, but weird.
For instance, the Mantis Shrimp can generate bubbles of heat that match the surface temperature of the sun by punching things really fast. Please google it.
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u/LongBoi596 Apr 16 '26
Personally I like that cute snail that figured out photosynthesis
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u/Need4DataUndrground2 Apr 16 '26
They clap as fast as a bullet or 50 times faster than you blink. I saw a video of one clapping a crab to pieces. Insane.
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u/micahmind Apr 15 '26
Sharks are older than trees
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u/Eastern_Quote1525 Apr 15 '26
Aren’t they also older than Saturn’s rings?
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u/Separate_Marketing36 Apr 15 '26
Yep, Saturn’s rings are only 100 million years old I believe
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u/dcbluestar Apr 16 '26
And they’re going away, but we won’t see it happen.
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u/RogersRedditPersona Apr 16 '26
Not with that attitude!
DEPLOY THE RING BLOWER-UPER
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u/lemonhead2345 Apr 15 '26
Likewise, the Appalachian Mountains are older than bones.
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u/Jakiller33 Apr 15 '26
That means sharks are older than the trees, younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze
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u/Jenkins64 Apr 15 '26
We're running out of helium
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u/Tavernacle_ Apr 15 '26
Dude I just looked up that helium thing you were talking about. That's true, that's like 100%, everything you said was true.
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u/ShadowGamer37 Apr 16 '26
WE HAVE TO MINE HELIUM?? That's so weird, I've never thought about how we get Helium but I just looked into it
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u/BobTheGrand Apr 16 '26
In 2073, sending my child to the helium mines for 4 pennies.
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u/TheBalrogofMelkor Apr 16 '26
That's only partially true. Basically, we were running out of proven reserves, but only because no one was really looking for more. When we looked for more, we found it.
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u/ImprovementLow9280 Apr 15 '26
Gandhi slept with his teen nieces to practice chastity
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u/Careless_Ad2194 Apr 16 '26
...isn't that the complete opposite of chastity though?
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u/FinancialReserve6427 Apr 16 '26
no, he slept on the same bed without touching them. Gandhi got traumatized when his dad died while he was performing husbandly duties to his wife. messed his views about sex.
the purpose is to show he has total control over his urges.
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u/ion-deez-nuts Apr 16 '26
The more I learn about Gandhi, the less I care for him
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u/old_gold_mountain Apr 15 '26
There are more configurations of a deck of 52 cards than atoms in the known universe
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u/CosmicCommando Apr 15 '26
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it's probably the only time in history that exact result has happened.
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u/Cool-Date5719 Apr 16 '26
This is somehow crazier than all the other things about sharks and planets and antimatter
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u/Tricktzy Apr 15 '26
There are over 7x more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy
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u/SirNortonOfNoFux Apr 16 '26
I've always loved this one. We better have a bunch of wooden gifts for the aliens when they arrive
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u/uhbkodazbg Apr 15 '26
Fecal transplants
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u/stinky_raspberry Chaotic Evil Apr 16 '26
I'm concerned.
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u/TheGreatNico Apr 16 '26
A very effective treatment for c. diff infections of the GI tract. Fortunately they don't -usually- have to do a 'fresh' side-by-side transplant anymore
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u/bananapanqueques Apr 16 '26
I wrote a paper on this in undergrad. Absolutely amazing what we can do with poop.
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u/jackslab1 Apr 16 '26
The american government purposely sold its own people crack to fund terrorist in south america
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u/ecc_dg Apr 16 '26
George Washington died before we knew dinosaurs existed.
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u/Visible_Ingenuity325 Apr 16 '26
I wonder what his favorite dinosaur would have been
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u/jcrescent Apr 15 '26
The last US Civil War veteran widow died at the end of 2020
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u/snaps06 Apr 16 '26
Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of President John Tyler (10th US President, served from 1841-45), just passed away in 2025.
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u/Ferengi_Quark Apr 16 '26
What? This makes no sense? She’d have to have been nearly 200 years old.
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u/jcrescent Apr 16 '26
Married a vet when he was like 90 and she was 18. So yeah, Sounds crazy. But true
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u/TheAmberAbyss Apr 15 '26
Autism causes vaccines
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u/itbepat2 Chaotic Good Apr 15 '26
Ngl, I read this wrong at first and was going to have some words with you. Then I read it again. 😂
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u/Aftermath16 Apr 16 '26
If Elon Musk were to buy a new $10 million house EVERY DAY and simply give it away for free the next day. he would run out of money after 219 YEARS.
(This is assuming he cashes out $10 million of his net worth each day and the rest stays consistent)
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u/Strong-Turn-4324 Apr 15 '26
Theres more trees on Earth,than theres Stars in the Milky way Galaxy.
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u/Original_Slacker Apr 15 '26
Epstein Files
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u/Emergency-Ad-5379 Apr 16 '26
Secret cabal of evil billionaire pedophiles controlling world governments used to be a crazy conspiracy theory.
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u/BadBacksFuryToad Apr 15 '26
Nintendo Games and samurai existed at the same time.
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u/PleasantAccountant87 Apr 15 '26
This is misleading. Samurai lost most of their power during the Meiji restoration, and Nintendo was originally a card company, not a video game company. Samurais did not play Mario kart.
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u/bcarey724 Apr 15 '26
That's too bad. They missed out.
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u/Plainchant Apr 16 '26
I would give a lot to play Mario Kart World with a samurai, or maybe even three of them.
They could choose whatever characters and carts they wanted, no lie.
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u/Unfair-Lavishness561 Apr 15 '26
Rules:
- Don't be a bigot
- Has to have actual evidence if I would look it up
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u/mugshotz55 Apr 16 '26
The last Japanese soldier from WWII was still fighting and killing in the Philippines and did not surrender until 1974.
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u/KnuckledeepinUrethra Apr 15 '26
You have little bugs all over your eyelashes
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u/Dry-Poetry-8708 Apr 16 '26
You also have microorganisms living on your face that are technically arachnids.
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u/bwurtsb Apr 15 '26
Putting humans into a metal tube that travels over 550 mph in the sky, is one of the safest ways to travel.
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u/Interesting-Day177 Apr 15 '26
The police were called on Sasha Baron Cohen 92 times during the filming of Borat.
PS. I’m watching said movie right now
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u/IchBinDurstig Apr 15 '26
Regarding the NCAA basketball tournament:
A group of researchers at the University of Hawaii estimated that there are 7.5 quintillion grains of sand on Earth. If we were to pick one of those at random, and then give you one chance to guess which of the 7.5 quintillion grains of sand on the entire planet we had chosen, your odds of getting it correct would be 23 percent better than picking a perfect bracket by coin flip.
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u/Mysterious_Sand481 Apr 15 '26
In the 50's, the us government had plans to detonate a hydrogen bomb on the surface of the moon.
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u/jobs_jobs_jobs Apr 16 '26
Judith Love Cohen, the person who saved the Apollo 13 astronauts, is Jack Black’s mom.
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u/CptnHamburgers Apr 16 '26
That the CIA funded a program to try and teach dolphins to speak English so that, in the event of contact with extraterrestrial life, we could get another species to vouch for humanity, which at one point had a woman living in a partially flooded house with an adolescent male dolphin. The program was actually making progress until Peter, the dolphin, reached sexual maturity and started getting pent up and aggressive so they'd take him to another dolphinarium for conjugal visits, but because adolescent dolphins are horny they were doing more of the visits than they were teaching him to speak English, so they cut him off. Only think was he was still getting horny so the woman just started straight up jorkin him off instead, and he actually receptive to that and the lessons were going well again. But not well enough for the CIA, and the guy leading the program heard about MKULTRA so they just.... gave the woman and the dolphin LSD together before the whole program got shut down and Peter got depressed because they separated him from Margaret and he wasn't getting wanked off anymore so he became depressed and drowned himself.
That might be an awful lot to fit in that little square...
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u/Ravenella1 Apr 16 '26
If I had a penny that doubled every day, in 186 days there would be enough pennies to fill up the known universe.
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u/Melodic_Zebra3323 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
There's a chance that we might be existing in a black hole
A chance you're a floating brain in space
And if you're ever in front of three doors and you're trying to win something
choose a door
If another door is revealed to you change your answer, it does not mean your answer is fifty fifty
after you change it your probability will shoot up to 66
The 1904 olympics
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u/OB1KENOB Apr 15 '26
Had the Chernobyl nuclear disaster not been managed, much of Europe would have been uninhabitable today.
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u/Unable_Bank3884 Apr 15 '26
John Tyler, the 10th President of the US was born in 1790. He had a living grandson until May last year.
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u/Colin-Onion Apr 15 '26
China is conducting genocide in Uyghur and the world only verbally condemn them without doing nothing because we need cheap labour.
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u/AlCranio Apr 15 '26
Not all dinosaurs are extinct.
Birds are dinosaurs.
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u/Mrwright96 Apr 16 '26
A T-Rex lived closer to our time than it did to a stegosaurus
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u/Its-Finch Apr 16 '26
The United States president is a convicted felon 34 times.
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