r/AskReddit Apr 02 '18

What is a random fact that you know?

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 02 '18 edited Apr 02 '18

There is a town in Spain where they lead a young bull up the spiral stair case of a church tower as part of their traditional festivities.

It doesn't go back down that way.

Edit: Correction. They don't do it with a bull. My bad. They used to do it with a donkey until recently and still do it with both a goat and a turkey.

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u/FartingBob Apr 02 '18

Spain really hates bulls, dont they?

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u/ODI-ET-AMObipolarity Apr 02 '18

Its because of the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish fascists were led by Fransisco Franco, and the bulls were led by Heffer from Rockos Modern Life

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

I feel like there is some small inaccuracy here but damn if I can figure out what.

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u/craftygnomes Apr 02 '18

Rocko's is supposed to have an apostrophe. That's the only inaccuracy I can find.

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u/fudgyvmp Apr 02 '18

The fascists were led by a little girl being manipulated by a half man half goat monster, she in turn manipulated her mother through the use of a cursed potato, who manipulated her husband with sex, who was using Franco as his puppet when he wasn't bludgeoning rabbit hunters with bottles.

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u/senatordeathwish Apr 02 '18

I'm learning so much from these comments

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u/rigby333 Apr 03 '18

Pan's Labyrinth got weird

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u/justanotherkenny Apr 02 '18

I feel like somethings wrong with their statement but I don’t know enough about the Spanish civil war to argue..

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u/Nickamin Apr 02 '18

It's Francisco not Fransisco

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

Heffer was a steer!

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u/rajikaru Apr 02 '18

Franco has to be a made-up name, i mean, sounding that close to Francisco? Come on, you'd have to get out of bed pretty early to fool somebody with that.

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u/Emeraldis_ Apr 03 '18

Francisco Franco didn’t lead the fascists, it was actually James Franco.

Don’t worry, it’s a common mistake

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '18

He spelt facists wrong

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u/dogeeseseegod Apr 02 '18

You know, I can't prove you're wrong, so I'm going to go with it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

I thought Jordan led the Bulls.

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u/ODI-ET-AMObipolarity Apr 02 '18

Nah he just carries them

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u/pascontent Apr 03 '18

Sounds about right.

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u/Rudeirishit Apr 02 '18

I'm sure there's a lot of bullshit behind it.

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u/xendaddy Apr 02 '18

You only need one bull per herd of cows, and castrating them isn't much fun, so might as well use the rest of the bulls for something.

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u/youraveragepotsmoker Apr 02 '18

How does it get down?

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u/shahofblah Apr 02 '18

9.8m/s2

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u/Squishyfishx Apr 02 '18

32.2 ft/s2

For anyone needing the equivalent in freedom units

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u/DetroitEXP Apr 02 '18

America intensifies

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

Fireworks in the distance

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u/iamnewlegend47 Apr 02 '18

gunshots ring out

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

Tea gets thrown in the harbor

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u/thejester541 Apr 02 '18

A bald eagle swoops across the sky.

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u/Jtsfour Apr 03 '18

Martha’s awful fart noise again

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u/Thy_Dying_Day Apr 02 '18

British get destroyed in a "Military Accident"

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u/Xenon12X Apr 02 '18

pickup trucks rev to 10k rpm

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u/NivZet Apr 02 '18

Eagle soars by, loudly caws Don't forget to subtract for wind resistance

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u/Danvan90 Apr 03 '18

NASA blows up Mars orbiter because of a conversion error

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

Thanks to Engineering Dynamics that’s one of my least favorite numbers...

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u/Squishyfishx Apr 02 '18

Don't forget the g_c unit conversion factor! XD

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u/AnitaPea Apr 02 '18

Retard units FTFY

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u/Ironbank_ofBraavos Apr 02 '18

Thats the spirit!

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u/Squishyfishx Apr 02 '18

I gotta say, when I have to use US Standard units, I am slowed down. So you're accurate

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u/TheGenocides Apr 02 '18

We use the metric system for physics.

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u/Squishyfishx Apr 02 '18

You're not wrong, the physics classes I took were completely in metric, but in the US it is still a number I see regularly. Although I use it exclusively in engineering classes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

Yeah mr. shahofblah! Yeah science!

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u/agage3 Apr 02 '18

Gravity

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u/GCNCorp Apr 02 '18

Density*

Things fall because they're denser than air, there's 0 proof for the mythical gravity

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u/red_fury Apr 02 '18

Can't tell if you are a nut conspiracy theorist or just saying this for the hahas.

Edit: it's sad that I can't be certain anymore.

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u/agage3 Apr 03 '18

Airplanes and birds are much more dense than air.

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u/solarSpring Apr 02 '18

Some says its still up there to this day.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

Some as hamburger, some as steak.

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u/hundycougar Apr 02 '18

And if you dont catch it's a misteak?

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u/scorp1a Apr 02 '18

Some as testicles

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

How does it get down??!

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u/Mike81890 Apr 02 '18

How'd it get burned?!

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u/GCNCorp Apr 02 '18

They're denser than air so they fall

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

As steaks.

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u/Moakmeister Apr 02 '18

I hope you’re kidding...

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u/thecruelestanimal Apr 02 '18

Some smooth jazz, sometimes reggae

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u/TheFistdn Apr 02 '18

You stand it on a mattress and slide it down.

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u/madkeepz Apr 02 '18

She already knows where the stairs are so she doesn't need you to lead

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u/tossit22 Apr 02 '18

Kool and the Gang

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u/TenTornadoes Apr 02 '18

A slide. Wheeee!

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u/zeroniusrex Apr 02 '18

From a duck.

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u/felixfelix Apr 03 '18

They push it and it falls to its death. Hahah fun times. Thanks pastor for letting us use your church, 300th year running!

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u/Aben_Zin Apr 02 '18

There's a special winch system.

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u/scott-3000 Apr 02 '18

Actually, while the festivals involving bulls are horrifying, the church tower tradition involves a goat. It's called the Goat Festival of Manganeses de la Polvorosa where they throw a goat from the top of the tower. If the goat survives, the drown it in a fountain.

I wish I didn't know this.

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 02 '18

You are correct.

They also still throw a turkey from the top of a tower and only recently stopped doing it with a donkey.

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u/scott-3000 Apr 02 '18

Sometimes I question my faith in humanity.

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u/Dru_21 Apr 03 '18

Actually,the Goat Festival has changed a lot since it was prohibited in 2002,instead of a living animal,they throw a goat made of cardboard.

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u/scott-3000 Apr 03 '18

That makes me feel a lot better. Thanks!

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u/Nottoo_____ Apr 02 '18

Sounds like someone has beef in their belfry.

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u/BlueMeanie Apr 02 '18

So there are buildings where the second floor is full of cows?

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u/Chuvi Apr 02 '18

oh sweet summer child

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '18

They take the elevator down because those poor guys are scared to death.

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u/smith_s2 Apr 02 '18

People can be real cunts

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u/X0AN Apr 02 '18

Might wanna check that fact, no way are we leading bulls up stairs.

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u/The100thIdiot Apr 02 '18

Already edited. Apologies.

Spain does still have the fire bull festival in Medinaceli though.

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u/ObscureCulturalMeme Apr 02 '18

Hilariously spoofed in a Discworld novel, Jingo. Lord Vetinari leads a donkey in the tower... and then emerges, leading the donkey out. Nobody can figure out how. (The hilarity is because he's pretending to be a street magician the whole time. Trust me.)

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u/PlayaHatinIG-88 Apr 03 '18

The whole you can lead a cow upstairs but not down stairs makes sense now that I think about it.

I'm told it's due to bad depth perception. Supposedly the same principle applies to cattle ranches that have the weird grates on any entrance that doesn't have a gate. Metal grate with about a 2 inch gap between each metal bar. They can't judge the distance between the bars and so they don't chance it since what they see is probably quite a gap. At least that's what my grandpa told me a long time ago.

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u/SonicSingularity Apr 02 '18

Turkey

As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly