Trivia and shit that surprises you

[mormapope]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

The humanzee (Homo sapiens sapiens × Pan) (also known as the Chuman or Manpanzee) is a hypothetical chimpanzee/human hybrid. An unsuccessful attempt to breed such a hybrid was made by Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov in the 1920s. There have been occasional reports of human-chimpanzee hybridization, notably regarding a performing chimp named Oliver during the 1970s, but none of them have been confirmed. Similarly, the possibility of a chimpanzee–gorilla hybrid, known as koolakamba, also remains unsubstantiated.

[chronovore]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

The humanzee (Homo sapiens sapiens × Pan) (also known as the Chuman or Manpanzee) is a hypothetical chimpanzee/human hybrid. An unsuccessful attempt to breed such a hybrid was made by Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov in the 1920s. There have been occasional reports of human-chimpanzee hybridization, notably regarding a performing chimp named Oliver during the 1970s, but none of them have been confirmed. Similarly, the possibility of a chimpanzee–gorilla hybrid, known as koolakamba, also remains unsubstantiated.

Humanzees were a recent historical/RPG topic on Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, my favorite podcast. I didn't know about the Koolakamba though.

OT: Lincoln was a "Republican." More OT: Modern-day republicans deal in a lot of false-equivalency.

[mormapope]

The democrat and republican parties basically swapped descriptions and members at a certain point in history, wanna say late 19th century or early 20th century.

Another thing a lot of people don't know, Foo Fighters are essentially HIV/AIDS deniers.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/02/foo-fighters-hiv-deniers

[TVC15]

Another thing about the Foo Fighters that most people apparently don't know is that they never made good music.

[mormapope]

[benjipwns]

THE MYTH THE MYTH THE MYTH THE MYTH THE MYTH THE MYTH THE MYTH THE MYTH THE MYTH THE MYTH THE MYTH THE MYTH

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

squirrels cant find most of the nuts they stove away.

[Rufus]

I once saw half of a horror movie about a successful human-ape (gorilla or chimp, I forget) hybrid. The child grows up fairly normally, but come puberty he starts to get violent and murders people with his enhanced strength.

[chronovore]

The democrat and republican parties basically swapped descriptions and members at a certain point in history, wanna say late 19th century or early 20th century.

Another thing a lot of people don't know, Foo Fighters are essentially HIV/AIDS deniers.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/02/foo-fighters-hiv-deniers

Yeah, I've seen stuff on that for years now. They apparently even have people pass out literature at their shows, and Grohl has made questionable comments during interviews and even onstage. It all gets played down. 

[TVC15]

While working at a book and record store, the cashier next to me sold Dave Grohl a (Bore favorites) KISS box set in November 2001.

Note that KISS has made consistently better music than Foo Fighters. This is not an exaggeration.

[toku]

Everlong is a good song and many a solid amvs have been cut to it bless up stay positive white man

[Trent Dole]

This is AMAZING.
You'd think more of the bore would be down with the foo in light of this existing:

[benjipwns]

Tbh I had no idea that the Soviets suffered the most casualties in WWII by far. The Eastern Front barely got any attention in my high school history class. I took AP European History, but our syllabus stopped right before WWII, as we ran out of time. Until a few years ago I really thought the U.S. and Britain did most of the heavy lifting in that war.

The Soviets had a rather lax...shall we say...workplace safety policy, compared to the US and German forces.

The US produced an ungodly amount of resources, outside of maybe tanks and artillery which the Soviets would always focus on, compared to everyone else combined at times. Allied forces were mostly supplied by the US, probably even before Pearl Harbor.

[benjipwns]

According to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II

The US produced 37% of all planes and 48% of all bombers used during the war.

Used some kind of unfixed exploit to create way too many ships too.

[benjipwns]

Your first settler spawning on a separate high resource continent from everyone else.

[pilonv1]

Your first settler spawning on a separate high resource continent from everyone else.

This is what I was thinking. All the aluminiums

[Cerveza mas fina]

fun fact: soviets are scum bad the us didnt nuke them too when they had the nuclear advantage

[Cerveza mas fina]

Dunno how fast nuke production was then so dunno if so soviets could have been stopped at that point

maybe 1945?

[Cerveza mas fina]

I know, I mean us bomb production.

soviets where full steam then so us would have to act fast

[Atramental]

The Wild Chase depicts Wotan (Odin) on horseback leading a procession of the dead. It was completed about 1889, the year of Hitler's birth, and it has acquired a kind of semi-legendary status as the face of Wotan in the painting greatly resembles Hitler's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Stuck

 

[Kara]

According to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II

The US produced 37% of all planes and 48% of all bombers used during the war.

Used some kind of unfixed exploit to create way too many ships too.

You need to build lots of bombers and ships when your contributions to the war effort consist of: war crimes par avion, taking uninhabited islands, and being a secondhand shop for everyone else.

[tiesto]

Hitler has surviving relatives, living where else but Patchogue, Long Island

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/nyregion/three-quiet-brothers-on-long-island-all-of-them-related-to-hitler.html

[Brehvolution]

But enough about trump...