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The Odessa catacomb system stretches out for over 1500 miles in a riddle of confusion... good luck finding your way out if you cheerfully stroll in on a cloud of intoxicated curiosity and spin around a couple times and forget which opening exactly you stepped out of like one poor girl managed and ended up decomposing before she was found.

a USB stick contains technology more sophisticated than all the computers used to put a man on the moon.

Bruce Willis’s iconic line from Die Hard wasn’t in the script. “Yippee-ki-yay, motherf***er!” was actually just something Willis said to try and make the crew laugh, and he "never thought it was going to be allowed to stay in the film.”

I just found this cool thing, from Engel's Principles of Communism, describing how to handle various kinds of socialists. We don't call these folks socialists now, but we still have them around under another name. It's spooky that this 100 year old definition still has legs. Social change is slow, if it happens at all. lol

Like myself, Freddie Mercury really loved cats. He had a vest with portraits of his cats painted on it, wrote songs about some of them, and had albums dedicated to not only his favorite cats, but to “all the cat lovers across the universe.”

0.1 amps across the heart can kill you...

I have been trying to wire mine for a while now

The Sailor Moon Hungarian dub typically had over ten phrases for each attack. This is due to the fact that Hungarian isn't related to English at all, some words could not translate, and they took attack names from the French dub.

There are thousands of idioms that exist in basically the same form across different languages, but no one is entirely sure how or why they became so widespread. To ‘get on someone’s nerves’ and to 'shed crocodile tears’ are each used in at least 45 European languages, with the latter also appearing in Arabic, Swahili, Persian, Chinese, Mongolian and more.

A kilobyte has 1024 bytes, not 1000.

Andy Murray's full name is (Sir) Andrew Barron Murray.

Roger Federer has no middle name.

Rafael's full name is Rafael Nadal Parera.

Denis' is Denis Olegovich Istomin.

fiat chrysler has denied responsibility for the freak accident in which actor anton yelchin was killed, when his jeep grand cherokee, a vehicle produced by the manufacturer, suddenly changed gears while parked on an incline, striking and pinning him to a fence at his house, killing him in under a minute.

An emolument is not some freaky lotion. Regrettable.

I was entitled to them as a notary, and disappointed when I learned that it was just ordinary payment for doing my job.

the gene in λ bacteriophages usually contains a complementary 12 nucleotide, single stranded "overhang" on both 3' ends of the DNA which contain a free hydroxyl group. this is to allow the DNA to join together in a circular, plasmidlike shape.

Sarcasm is banned in North Korea. In August of 2016, officials repeatedly warned all citizens that they are strictly forbidden from making sarcastic comments about the country’s leadership, and that ‘hostile actions’ would be taken to correct such behavior.

Alan Greenspan was a close associate of Ayn Rand, and stood by her after most of her disciples and friends had abandoned her.

Denis Istomin is coached by his mother, Klaudiya Istomina.

His uncle, Mikhail, is a professional cellist.

There is a fourteen year difference in age between Denis and his brother, Anton. Denis is thirty years old and Anton is sixteen.