29 Facts You Should Know!

Jan 26, 2016 9:15 PM

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I haven't ever seen a Condom in an issued survival gear I have received. I guess my unit just doesn't like me.

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The microprocessor one is wrong.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We have to have more bourbon than people, that's how we keep the world supplied with barrels of brown deliciousness.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#21 Take me back to Constantinople? No. You can't go back to Constantinople.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Isn't the Hitler one BS too? Aren't there "home movies" such as the one where he's telling Eva to film something pretty like herself ?

10 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 2

There's no sound in those movies. Some documentary series did a lip read and dubbed it

10 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

+1 for hathcock

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Ya actually because of him the marine corps has a sniper program now

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A fact is something that has really occurred or is actually the case.

10 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 8

You are my spirit animal

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

"Matt Groening can make a bunch of money by licensing Duff beer." FACT

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

#17. You don't get bed sores within 3 days.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

In truth, they were blisters from crawling. They resembled bed sores. But you are absolutely correct, not within 3 days.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Can we bring back the eugenics vote? I have serious questions about some people I work with.

10 years ago | Likes 110 Dislikes 28

Could you piss off with that social Darwinist bull shit. Fuck.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 8

Some of Imgur's front page presents a pretty compelling case for it

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

I have serious concerns about everyone in the cringe albums.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

Sure thing, Herr Hitler!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

NC was recently taken to court over their eugenics program. Seems like people can always make a case for something though.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

we have reverse eugenics now, we pay the people who shouldn't be having children to have children.

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 6

Ooh, I bet you are thinking about black people, amirite?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

He said "hand free money to people who shouldn't breed", and your mind went "He means black people.". Funny thing, that eh?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The problem lies in who gets to decide what traits are favorable. Eugenics are great, until it's your family members being sterilized.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

Some of my family members need to be sterilzed. Hmph.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It actually is super ineffective, you'd have to do it for a long time(2k years) for it to really work

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

No. First off it's evil, let's get that down first. Second, it's ineffective because a single vision cannot possibly best natural evolution.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

And it's ineffective because you can't get rid of a trait for a couple thousand years

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Eugenics is shit, inhumane and ineffective. End.

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

How about healthy and intelligent. I'd like to add good looking but that might be a tougher sell.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

I was pretty sure that hole in pen caps was for making annoying whistle noises

10 years ago | Likes 221 Dislikes 1

Some of the dumb assess that survived swallowing their pen caps only because they had chewed a hole in the back before hand.

10 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

Which coincidentally will keep you alive long enough for someone else to notice and tell you to stop making that god damn racket.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I thought the holes were for air, so the ink doesn't clot

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought the holes were for air, to make it easier to remove the cap from the pen.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The tick allergy is real but primates don't have the sugar so one could eat monkey and won't become allergic to themselves.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The Israeli seeds one reminds me of Mad Max.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And I would sail 500 miles...

10 years ago | Likes 55 Dislikes 1

Anda I would sail 500 more

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Just to be the man who fillets Scotland's cod

10 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

To ship it back to Scotland's door

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

DA DA DA

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DA DA DA DA

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

and i would sail 9,500 more

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Think about how many pens have been saved from suffocating. #PenLivesMatter

10 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 6

I thought wet couldn't say went Constantinople changed to Istanbul. It was nobody's business but the Turks.

10 years ago | Likes 139 Dislikes 8

Doo doo doo, doodoo doodoodoodoodoo.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Take me down to Constantinople, not to Istanbul but Constantinople..

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Sang that in my head to "Paradise City", then realize that was the wrong song.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But why did Constantinople get the works?

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

That's nobody's business but the turks

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Yeah, when the turks took Constantinople they changed it...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Went Constantinople. Came back Istanbul.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hey, even old New York was once New Amsterdam...

10 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way.

10 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

*Violin solo*

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Autocorrect was not kind to you there.

10 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 0

Know wet wasn't.

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I thought Istabul meant something like the taken city

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Dr. Evil "facts"

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The Vasa was recently the subject of a Get Fuzzy series of comic strips. Satchel made a replica of the Vasa.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I've a bottle of duff beer in my house! Pretty sure they marketed it for at least a while a few years back

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

In 2007 when the Simpsons movie was in theaters.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hundreds burned to death by terrorists, and you comment on pen caps?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#27 of course it's cheap the fish can just swim alongside the boat and take up no space. :) Also what does 'filet' mean?

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If that seed could germinate all those years later, then the plant wasn't actually extinct.

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That would make it a Lazarus taxon, wouldn't it?

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The plant is no longer extinct. Extinction is based on population level.

10 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

You are technically correct.

10 years ago | Likes 84 Dislikes 3

Kind of correct the best

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

The best kind of correct

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 7

The correct kind of best.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

.tcerroc fo dnik tseb ehT

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Correct the best of kind

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The best kind of correct.

10 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 5

It's a Western Date from North Africa according to NatGeo. We have no record of it ever going extinct. These are worthless click garbage.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Also, if I do drugs, I can get someone to pay me to get sterilized? A lot of wives are gonna be talking with their husbands.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Meant to say "so..."

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can confirm we do not receive condoms in the military.

10 years ago | Likes 476 Dislikes 13

Well they now hand condoms out like LORs in tech school.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can confirm that I was given condoms on the military. What branch?

10 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

I never received any. Now it burns when I pee

10 years ago | Likes 139 Dislikes 0

Me love you long time

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just goto the doctor and get some doxy. Clears you right up!

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I literally told my buddies to do this when I was in. They gave them to us to prevent malaria in Iraq and obviously none of us used them.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think it was a doxy that caused the problem in the first place.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

std presumably?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

Can confirm they ARE in the sru-16/p survival kit. I pack parachutes and survival kits. They are literally labeled as "water bag"

10 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

Further confirmation: http://www.equipped.org/sru-16p_kit.htm

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You should've joined the Navy.

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

My best friend stole 500 condoms from when he returned from Iraq. We lotioned them up and put them on a friends car during an ice storm.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Condom thing is true for Army Jumpers at any rate.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can confirm you're not military. We're positively drowning in them.

10 years ago | Likes 55 Dislikes 3

Must be all the water they hold....

10 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Ah I see what you did there.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It did specify it as part of a paratrooper kit.

10 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 0

As a paratrooper, this is nonsense.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Fair enough. Maybe it used to be a thing and isn't anymore?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's what I believe, the army had a bunch of cool knick knacks back then. Like a clicker that only paratroopers had to link up with others

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was going to say that condom thing is bullshit.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

There is a condom in the sru-16/p parachute survival kit. Source: i pack parachutes and survival kits for the military 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

2/2 the slip of paper listing contents of the kit says "water bag"

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I remember seeing individual condom baskets at medical like civilians have candy baskets for kids.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can also confirm it says "parachute pack" in the post. So unless you're special forces or pathfinders....

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or just a 5 jump chump like thousands of maroon beret wearing airborne Qual soldiers/Marines lol

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure airborne dont usually jump behind enemy lines too often anymore like say the aforementioned pathfinders or airforce spec ops

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because I was attached to the 182nd in both of my tours of Iraq. And everyone went in on foot.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fair enough but when I got my wings as an aforementioned 5 jump chump we went with full combat loads, no condoms lol maybe down range differ

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The Vasa thing is not a fact, but a theory they came up with since the ship is assymetrical. Not the other way around.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

As always when this gets reposted. Too many cannons, not enough ballast, disproportionate - too thin and too high, etc...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Indeed!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Charity gives addicts $300 to get sterilized? I'm sure they took the money and went right to the "Doctor"

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 8

They give them the money after they undergo the sterilization.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

If you have 35 min you should listen to this podcast on it: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/is-it-legal-to-sterilize-addicts/

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No he means they take the money and then go buy drugs

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yes, but at least they aren't doing it while pregnant.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure it's saying they get sterilized, then get 300$ for whatever they want... Not just given 300 dollars to use for sterilization.

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Ah, thank you.

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#1 while we were debt free our country went through one of the nastiest recessions, turns out we need debt

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Mistaking correlation with causation is one of the most basic of intellectual sins. For rebuke, England also went into recession in 1837

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The voters will never allow a country to have a positive balance sheet.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Do we need almost $19 billion worth of debt though

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What's important is ratio to GDP. Guy with $100k/yr income and $100k (non-mortgage) debt: trouble. $10mil/yr and $100k debt: no worries.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

trillion* and...as long as taxes stay the same we do, cutting is what jackson did but it bites you in the ass if you go too far

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Jackson and every President before him outside of wartime. Debt reduction (and extinction) was a wildly popular policy in the 19th century

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I see, I can't believe I made that typo haha

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What is it as a percent of GDP?

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http://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html This says it is around 73% if I'm not misreading it

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You are. It's 100%.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

More probably, the causation runs the other way: The short debt freedom lasted only as long as it did because a dip into recession 1:

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Every time we've tried to pay our debt it ends in recession or ends up bad for the economy. FDR actually tried to cut back and it hurt us

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

A bit oversimplified. Paying debt through revenue increases during times of expansion (ie Clinton in the 90s) is actually often beneficial.

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We spent the entire 19th century paying down our debt. Eisenhower paid down the debt. That's like saying the poison causes the chalice

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debt either sits in the public hands or in private hands, when govt pays off debt it shifts into the hands of businesses = economy suffers

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necessitated further government borrowing 2

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If I'm not mistaken the firebombing of the African American community was carried out by police officers

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Also in America we do the same thing with our chicken that they do with cod in Ireland

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Scotland. Hamburger go back to school.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

You're thinking of the Philadelphia bombing of the M.O.V.E/John Afrika building.

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

O shit, you are completely right. Thank you for the clarification.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

O shit, you are completely right. Thank you for the clarification.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yup. Good ole Philly. "The City that bombed itself.".

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Can people stop assuming that everyone is American?

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Only one of this exact post seems to assume American readers, and that's the condom one by refering to the U.S. Military as The Armed Forces

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Places mentioned: US, Israel, Germany, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Vietnam, Finland, Sweden, Scotland, China, Istanbul, Brazil

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No

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Aren't we though?

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Not that this complaint has anything to do with the post, but you do realize this is a US website with a large American userbase, right?

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.com = American domain name.

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The ones that matter are.

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Thank you

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Who's what now?

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Soon...

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lmfao

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Typical American comment.

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 4

FOREST SWASTIKAS

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*flashbacks to Heute ist mein Tag and YTMND*

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Solid band name

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They were in East Germany. No-fly-zone so they were discovered only after reunification

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HIEL PHOTOSYNTHESIS

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*Heil

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The Duff one isn't true. I was given some Duff brand beer as a Christmas present.

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They also sell Duff brand beer at the new Simpsons section at Universal Studios Florida.

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I also have two bottles of Duff at home.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They tasted like shit, though...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, you can even buy them in Germany, at least in big markets.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

was? wo???

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Weiß nicht ob es das immer noch gibt, aber Real+Rewe hatten es auf jeden Fall ne Zeit lang. Das hier: http://goo.gl/MMvkIq War aber schwach

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No you weren't. It's a soda energy drink. I have some.

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OooOoo criss-cross!

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no they did do a Duff beer promotional in Australia about a year ago IIRC

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with alcohol of course

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There are knock offs and real licensed duff. But its not available in the U.S. except at universal studios duff brewery.

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Can confirm this. A friend found "Duff" branded knock-off beer in the Czech Republic.

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I've seen it here in Denmark. And in Germany as well.

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We have it in Norway aswell

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I'm British, I know what Beer tastes like.

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