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Good news, everybody!
Fuck you, Sweden.
RIP
DrMardini
*immune to atherosclerotic disease...there are many other ways to get a stroke or heart disease.
oracle9999
I feel like the Kubrick/Kurosawa one is hipster poetic justice He'd been given that allowance of time all his life and it bit him in the end
Parius
I'd also spontaneously lose my ability to swim if Margot Robbie offered to teach me.
happenedtomeonce
I'll have the Kaisar salad please
Woodmn
All I got from it was "a wank a day keeps prostate cancer at bay"...
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
This has taken me hours. My txt looks to far apart now.
GeneralWho
Oh good, it's not just me. Spacing looks so weird.
icannotthinkofanyrationalname
#7 Is a photo of a mid '70s IH Farmall 544 tractor, built in the USA. Gasoline powered tractors were quite common through the 1900s.
iguessihaveto
You CAN get the whole I have a dream speech for free. Go to the library.
bluesun68
I really need a new hobby.
FurburgerMooseknuckle
Fucking right?? Jesus.
MrBananaBeak
"facts"
OneNeoEon
technically anything that can be proven objectively true or false is a fact.
popejubal
The potato thing is obviously false. If the average potato now has 100% less Vitamin A, then it would have 0 now. It has 4 IU, so false.
NotThatOneTheOtherOne
Mis-worded: basically, it has half what it once had. A better wording might have been "once had 100% more"?
calenlass
Wells Fargo can suck a bag of dicks. Jesus
Counterfit
I've never heard a good thing about them. Everything is always a scam of some sort.
calenlass
Adult male rhinos past breeding age will also rape females to death, so culling is actually very beneficial in every sense.
Kateness
Who eats an 18 year old hotdog anyway?
DoorTempleArch
Badass lesbians everywhere!!!
DrDoucheBag
Does your publisher know you release your book online for free?
oceanskysforever
If you managed to read about a third of the way through, I've been to Houshi, one of the oldest inns in Japan (over 1400 years old)! Happy!
JunkMonk
is it expensive?
oceanskysforever
We caught it on a cheaper night (rates with Jse inns fluctuate often). It was about $120/person, usually like $400 for inns like that!
Tonanamous
Hummer sales fell 95% by 2010... because they stopped selling them in 2009.
aPokal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummer Defunct 2010. Last produced May 2010. Honestly always felt like a concept car more established brands
aPokal
would learn from.
moofunk
So, a chance meeting on a golf course, between a doctor and a restaurant owner means my mother is alive today.
chiefrunswithscissors
I feel like we would have still called them red heads even if the "Orange head" option was available
dannishadow
Yeah, "orange head" just doesn't roll off of the tongue quite as well.
tackyusername
I just figured it was because it rhymed
Yanov
For the one about the monk "erasing" a work by Archimedes: we have actually been able, through various highly expensive scientific methods
Yanov
to recover the original text. There's a Ted Talk on it.
OneNeoEon
I assumed that is how they figured out how it used to be the Basis of Calculus.
Yanov
Well, I only skimmed it.
Meatspinner
NotThatOneTheOtherOne
[throws finger guns at Dre] "OHHHHH!!!" [high-fives everybody]
WhyCantIStopArguingWithInternetTrolls
As an Australian who just bought a house, I now considering moving to France..
BobTheBogus
They are probably talking about some tiny ruin, that would then require millions in renovation costs.
H2O52
Yep, castles are on sales but prepare your wallet for renovation. Some do renovate them, however and it is awesome !
aPokal
If it falls under heritage protection, it's even required by law and severely limits what and how you can do. There were cases in germany.
Agent
Come on Nicholas cage, was he naked or was he wearing a leather coat? Get your facts straight.
NuclearBoxcutter
I was looking for this comment.
OneNeoEon
I took it to mean either the guy was like a flasher, or the leather coat did little to hide his nudity.
Squanch
Gasoline Tractors were not rare. Diesel tractors only started to become popular in the 1960s.
SuperDelux
I have a Ford 8n with a gasoline flathead. Also that picture is an international harvester.
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsTheBabyAteMyDingo
My '56 Ferguson TA20 is gasolin, so yeah.
krapmyself
21 times a month, eh? What is this? Fucking amateur hour???
CarlosSpicyweiner
TIL: I will never get Prostate Cancer
Miladog
I count that shit as my daily workout!!!
AnythingMuchShorter
I know right? That's not even once a day
SergeantPeppersLonelyHeart
Woah I read it 21 times a day
krapmyself
I think I read an article about some guy doing that for valentine's day. He died from it.
januskincaid
SithariChaos
Either too expensive or it will hurt someone's profits
JunkMonk
Maybe global warming isn't that big of an issue yet, and once it becomes one humanity will develop a solution (perhaps using this plant)
M1ndstorms
Or maybe it can only grow in select climates, or a mix of both
DammitTodd
Get after it
SomeGeographer
They require a lot of water and can be pretty invasive. They can help with carbon but at the expense of an entire ecosystem.
ThisGuy0
If it was real? Because people who like selling a product tend to also like crushing competition, through any means. See the zinc and penny
hEEbtHejEWish
Holy crap, I read all of them. Took forever!
Sinus23
Two days for me. Fell asleep in the middle.
DeanDean777
It definitely did. I thought I reached the end and then they just kept coming. Worth it though.
g1fc0mm3nts
Man I spent 30 minutes on this. So worth it
ProbablyDrunkAgain
Learned some new useless information today to impress the other happy hour barflys.
housev1l
Took me even longer as there was a bunch of stuff I wanted to read more on.
DrSleepyPhZzz
Same, like the guys who lost their airline pass, or the lawsuit against Pepsi which the guy totally lost :(
housev1l
Yeah. I pretty much had this page open next to Wikipedia for an entire day further reading.
idonthaveanyideawhatthehelliamtalkingabout
i started when it was 5 hours old, was finishing now :D
idonthaveanyideawhatthehelliamtalkingabout
yeah about the airline pass i didn't read up on that, are the numbers true ? that is like 1.5 flights per day or something like that
MGM93
The LOTR one is wrong. Just off the top of my head, in TTT when Rohan is pillaged, the mother speaks to her two children, a boy and girl
OneNeoEon
I thought it was referring to those specific three characters...
NotThatOneTheOtherOne
I think they're referencing the Bechdel Test, which requires that two significant female characters talk about something *other* than a man.
LettucePrime
Yes. Three unnamed extras, two of them female, share an exchange.
MGM93
I'm sorry, were they in the film or not? There was no distinction in the original picture.
LettucePrime
They used the word "characters." The mother helping her children flee to Edoras is a plot device for all the attention 2T gives it.
HOOMANGUY
#1 Is not something people should cheer for. The guy might have caused the plane crash but it was not on purpose. But he is just a murderer
PinkShnack
I cry nearly everytime I hear this song about the story, nothing kickass about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuLnw22DI5o
kindsoberandfullydressed
Yeah that terrified me. "Felt was responsible." What PROOF did he have of anything before he just went and fucking murdered a guy???
scrim4
Yeah, @OP and Kickassfacts are just fucking cunts.
chrisdafish
I agree you're just causing a greater grief to a family and I believe if you cared about them you wouldn't want people to go through that
Sprixxen
That one's not so much of a kickass, but a wtf fact. Not all of these facts are happy. Just random information.
ThatDudeFromWisconsin
FUN FACT: Schwarzenegger is doing a movie about this incident and is starring as Kaloyev. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/478_(film)
HOOMANGUY
Oh, Oh! Let me guess! They'll rewrite the aircontroler into an armed terrorist that crashed the planes on purpose! Right? RIGHT?
rymle
That is NOT a fun fact. As an air traffic controller I find it sick and repulsive.
JunkMonk
Switzerland's justice system is so progressive. So much better than ours /s
upsidedownyhead
Having visited CF, I can say it's bloody delightful. Their prisons must be lovely.
accountabyss
The court ruled "reduced responsibility" due to Kaloyev's own pain/suffering. It empathized with murder. In an air crash documentary, (1/2)
accountabyss
He stated no regrets and said it was not revenge. He was not avenging for insult or injury, the murder was punishment.
Felderburg
Who's cheering?
HOOMANGUY
It's called Kickass-Facts. Which implies the thing you are reading to be positive.
authorialowl
I disagree.I don’t think whoever wrote these thought they were all kickass.Like the 14 year old who was killed and dismembered?Not kickass
Bennings
To be fair, the "homeless man stabbing" one is pretty clearly negative.
BilldeGrasseHawkingTheArchaeologist
Not necessarily. Id say Kickass would infer more that theyre interesting than positive. Take the neutral facts like the one about the tactor
BilldeGrasseHawkingTheArchaeologist
That doesn't carry any positive or negative undertones. Just an interesting fact
HeinrichHiTheSSGuy
i once had the chance to become an air traffic controller. it´s 6000 euro / month here in austria. I declined because of the stress
Oooldfart
I was told once that the controllers at O'Hare are put out to pasture after one year of service because of the stress.
DirtySneakyDoubleCrossingCunnivinMuthafucka
We need more people like you. I'd probably do a job that would kill me for that much and I ain't proud ouf it.
HeinrichHiTheSSGuy
well I declined because I know a person who has this job and he is a human wreck. and no money is worth the life of 400 people
DirtySneakyDoubleCrossingCunnivinMuthafucka
Oh for sure, it's a crazy responsibility. I guess you should be trained mentally and psychologically to be fit for the job
brathis
Thank you! Yes, holy crap, please read the report, people! There were thorough investigations, civil as well as criminal. 1/?
brathis
They concluded that the air traffic controller was not to blame, but that the main cause of the accident were 2/?
brathis
"managerial incompetence and systems failures". Some Skyguide (Swiss ATC company) were also convicted of involuntary manslaughter. 3/?
brathis
I live very close to where the collision took place so this case is quite personal to me. The way in which Kalojew is portrayed as a hero 4/
Ciffer
The air traffic controller was manning two stations because his buddy was napping and told one plane to do the
brathis
Is just absolutely disgusting to me. Please read for yourself if you're interested, the English wikipedia offers quite a good summary. 5/5
SometimesIKnowStuff
Yeah, wtf is up with that? Was it proven that the air traffic controller had some deliberate part in it, or?
OntarioTory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision
shootsandleaves
Does it matter? Since when does guilt mean that we can go commit vigilante murder?
TheSacrificialButter
He's guilty, sure. I get why he did it, and I can see why though. It's family.
madcore
Marvel has one series totally based on that idea
Weentit
Well, anyone can commit murder, whether you want the responsibility of the repercussions is the dilemma.
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shootsandleaves
Nah, sorry. We have due process of law for a reason. You don't get to take that into your own hands, no matter how understandable it is.
piggystylez
so the family of the ATC would be totally justified in going and murdering kaloyev, right? right?
ShouTuckersGhost
It makes it more understandable, but it *does not* justify it in the slightest
NERDRAGEohacat
Major procedural screwups. Passenger plane and DHL plane were on a collision course, both had automated warning systems that told the pilots
NERDRAGEohacat
to go up/down to avoid collision, air traffic controller was manning two stations because his buddy was napping and told one plane to do the
InfernoTerra
Did he murder the guy working or the guy napping?
NERDRAGEohacat
Nielsen, the guy who was working. Sad story, that, both Nielsen and Kaloyev (lost his wife and both kids) weren't mentally sound. Kaloyev
NERDRAGEohacat
opposite, but didn't say anything to the other plane, so instead of avoiding a collision they smacked right into each other. Passenger plane
NERDRAGEohacat
had a lot of children in it because of a school trip, which is why so many families supported Kaloyev after he was released.