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Mozart had a pet starling, and when it died he arranged for a full funeral and burial, and composed a poem in memory of his bird, which he read at the service.
There’s an episode of Doctor Who called The Doctor’s Daughter where the 10th Doctor, played by David Tennant, gets a daughter through some cloning machine shenanigans, played by Georgia Moffett. Georgia Moffett is the IRL daughter of Peter Davison, who played the 5th Doctor, meaning the Doctor’s daughter played the Doctor’s daughter. Moreover, Tennant and Moffet eventually got married and have a daughter, who is also an actor, Olive Tennant. So the Doctor’s daughter played the Doctor’s daughter and also has a daughter with the Doctor. Also the 5th Doctor is the 10th Doctor’s IRL step-father. I really hope Olive Tennant eventually plays the Doctor too, just to make it even more complicated.
Also Georgia Moffett’s mum is Sandra Dickinson who played Trillian in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and her other kid is Ty Tennant who was the young Aegon Targaryen in House of the Dragon, meaning Christmas dinner at their house has a better lineup that most comic-cons.
the 10th Doctor, played by David Tennant
Georgia Moffett is the IRL daughter of Peter Davison, who played the 5th Doctor
Tennant and Moffet eventually got married
Also the 5th Doctor is the 10th Doctor’s IRL step-father
Isn’t the 5th Doctor the 10th Doctor’s IRL father in law (not stepfather)? Or did I get lost in this labyrinth and miss something?
I was always miffed that she never came back later on.
Outerbridge Crossing, connecting Staten Island, NY to Perth Amboy, NJ, is named after the first chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge.
Java 7 timer stops working when the clock goes backwards during DST on windows but not on Linux due to differences in how they handle the change in time.
Windows stores local time, doesn’t it? It’s been a while since I dual booted but I remember it being a pain.
Yes. This is knowledge from circa 2012 so not sure what the case is any more.
General rule regarding time in programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Barnacles have the largest penis size to body ratio of any animal.
Orion’s Belt is made up of three, or ten, stars, depending on how you count them.
We look up at Orion with the naked eye and see his belt as three “stars”: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. Alnitak, the left hand one, is a triple star system, Mintaka on the right, is a six-star system. Only the middle one, Alnilam, is a single star.
Out of all of them, only one, Mintaka B, is smaller than our Sun.
Armadillos are the main cause of the spread of leprosy in the southeastern United States.
For one hour each year, the clocks in part of Florida and part of Oregon have the same time.
Sharks have been around the galaxy - twice.
And prairie dogs are vectors for bubonic plague in the southwestern US! Park rangers try to vaccinate them with dosed treats they leave near the burrows.
I lived 15 years in Bay County, FL, which is the easternmost county in Central Time in Florida on the Gulf Coast. Weird enough that the county border is the time zone border, but a couple of miles inland it actually splits Gulf County in two - part of the county is in Eastern time and part is in Central.
Okay what’s that one about sharks?
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Just as the Earth rotates around the Sun, the Sun rotates around the center of the galaxy. […] this means we take around 230 million years […] to complete an orbit around the galactic center of the Milky Way. […] sharks, which evolved around 450 million years ago, have hitched a lift on our planet around the galaxy twice. To put it another more flattering way, they are around two galactic years old.
The amazing thing about that is, sharks didn’t even mention it. No bragging or trying to get special status. They are just so chill about it.
Directors Cut Sharknado.
It’s mostly padding after the first hundred million years.
I don’t remember how long sharks have existed, but they’re one of the older animals out there. So the implication is that sharked existed while the solar system orbited the centre of the galaxy twice. I didn’t think the earth had been around twice, I thought it was once-and-a-bit, but I’m too lazy to look it up - but that’s what the’re saying.
specifically holocephali, aka chimera and thier relatives back in ancient times, they just convergently evolved to look like elasmobranchs, they were the dominant cartilaginous fish at the time, before fleeing to the deep sea(where most the chimaeras live now). stethacanthus, helicoprion were all holocephali relatives.
I Dream of Jeanie, Barbara Eden was married to Kang the Klingon in Star Trek.
The Tacoma Dome is the world’s largest wooden dome
The Superior Dome is the largest wooden dome by diameter.
But Tacoma is taller and has greater volume.
Oxford got its name just the way it sounds. It’s located at a shallow spot in the river that was suitable for cattle to cross.
3 guesses for Cambridge!
A fellow named Cam built a bridge?
The three random ones that comes into my mind:
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In Rhythm Heaven on Nintendo DS, if you get a “okay” rating in a remix, you get a comment saying “Hmm…” in UK version. If you are on US version, this changes to “Hm…” for some reason.
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The information that tells the server what site you were on before visiting their website in HTTP is called “referer”, and not “referrer”.
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In StarCraft, the sound for selecting Greater Spire and Defiler Mound are most likely swapped around as a mistake.
Oh, speaking of weird spellings. The first letter of NATO alphabet is spelled “Alfa” not “Alpha”.
For people who want to know why - it makes the pronunciation less ambiguous for non-English speakers, since the NATO Alphabet was developed for use by English, French, and Spanish speakers.
All these years I’ve been pronouncing it wrong as alp-ha? Curses!
Oh neat, I did not know why myself, but this makes total sense.
For similar reasons they insist on 3 is “tree” and 5 is “fife.”
Hmmm…
That is very good random trivia, thank you!
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Wombats absolutely love chocolate biscuits. They will trample anyone foolish enough to come between them and a source of chocolatey bicscuitry.
Their main way to fight back against predators is to do a squat lift. Their leg muscles are so strong they literally crush the skulls of dingoes against the ceiling of their burrow.
Yet another reason to love those weird cube-shitting creatures 😄🥰
They are pretty cute tho.
OP similar to yours Chuck Blazer, the guy at the heart of the FIFA scandal leading up to the 2022 World Cup, died of cancer and left a Manhattan apartment worth millions to his 19 cats.
Atlanta Georgie is further west than Detroit Michigan.
Alaska is the US’s Western and Eastern most state. When you overlay Alaska onto the lower 48 states, Alaska stretches from Seattle Washington to Miami Florida.
During WW1 there were 12 battles of the Isonzo River and pretty much all of them ended in a tie.
A hard hat diver in the UK oil filed by the name of Chris Lemon was diving at 330 feet, when an accident snapped his umbilical hose. That caused him to lose his breathing mixture.
He survived for 35 minutes with no oxygen.
It is certainly longer, with the maximum time estimates at 48 minutes. What makes that debatable is how long he nursed his back up tank. He knew he was going to pass out and drift with the currents, so he attached himself to the oil rig.
Talk about being cool under pressure!
He had no ill mental or physical effects of the event and later resumed his duties as a deep sea diver.
If it ever happened to you that after looking from a certain angle to a bright light you sneeze, that’s because you confused your body!
Our brain uses the trigeminal nerve #or several functions, and it goes through all our face so, sometimes, when looking at a bright light, it will get excited and the brain will think that the stimulous means “I need to sneeze” triggering a sneeze when your nose is actually fine.
It’s called Photic sneeze reflex. I experience that when leaving home on a sunny day.
Heavy Barrel 1CC, takes the exact same duration as a full play-through of Ride the Lightning, on an auto-reverse Walkman.
Two raccoons can pass each other through the typical anus.
I’m sorry, what?
Two racoons one anus.
wake up babe, new folk-punk band name just dropped
But who are they passing to?
