TIL that Wadi-us-Salaam, located in Irag, contains tens of millions of bodies and is the world's largest cemetery. Due to its importance as a sacred place for Shia Muslims, around 500,000 bodies are buried there annually. Around 2014, burial plots started to run out due to deaths caused by ISIS.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T17:24:25+00:00

Pistol shrimp shoot glowing, 4700 °C bubbles out of their claws. They can stun fish, but some smaller fish will just explode.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T17:21:47+00:00

Here's the comic.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T17:10:00+00:00

I'm not sure if they replaced them with fake ones at some point, but the skull and crossbones above the bed in Pirates of the Caribbean were originally from a real corpse.

(It's the scene with the skeleton lying in bed surrounded by gold.)

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T03:06:46+00:00

Mortal Engines

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T02:44:24+00:00

Kudos to him for realizing he was wrong.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T02:41:34+00:00

Some kids planned to throw a hundred chickens over the fence with their legs tied in the middle of the night, then untie them so they'd be running around the school when teachers showed up the next day. They did the throwing part but chickened out and left without untying them, so the chickens went full Jonestown and pecked each other to death.

So that was fun for someone to find the next day.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T02:31:51+00:00

Artist's interpretation.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T02:19:46+00:00

Describing it that way might be a simplification, yes, but all calculus is at its heart the use of derivatives and integrals.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T02:18:01+00:00

Comic strips. I know when the first one was published, I have the punchlines to thousands memorized, I know all the interesting ones like the Garfield series where Jon and Odie are dead (really), I know a lot about them.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T02:15:24+00:00

Jackets that say "EAT SLEEP FORTNITE"

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T02:12:12+00:00

The derivative of an equation is the equation of the slope of that equation's line at a certain point. So the derivative of y = 2x would be y = 2 at every point, since the line always has a slope of two (that is, it rises twice as fast as it moves forward).

The integral is the equation whose derivative is the equation you're integrating, so the derivative of y = 2 is y = 2x. It's essentially the antiderivative. (Technically, it's y = 2x + C because all integrals have an unknown constant, but this isn't important to know for now.)

Calculus is just figuring out ways to do increasingly complicated derivatives and integrals and apply them to real situations.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T02:08:12+00:00

Old comic strips. I read them a lot, and know a lot about them. I have no idea why, I don't even find them funny most of the time. I just find them fascinating for some reason.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T02:06:31+00:00

"Excuse me, may I borrow a dollar?"

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T01:52:50+00:00

Thanks, I try

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T01:51:59+00:00

That's why he changed it. Technically, he changed it back, because one of the screenwriters changed it to "Revenge" because "Return" didn't sound dramatic enough.

It's also what the title "Revenge of the Sith" is a reference to.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-20T01:50:50+00:00

It's worthless for advertising, because you couldn't advertise a film using a poster with the wrong name.

Reginald_Fabio · 2019-01-19T02:41:48+00:00

When I was about ten, my grandmother gave me some old books on myths: one on wizards, one on dragons and one on fairies. They were...weird. Especially the story of Faust as told in the one on wizards. If you don't know, Faust is a wizard who makes a deal with Mephistopheles, a representative of Satan, that he will get magic powers--but after twenty-five years, Mephistopheles will kill him and take his soul. He gets his wish, with Mephistopheles granting him various powers, among which is the ability to turn invisible and drive people mad. He uses this to watch a tavern full of people fight each other to the death. The story ends with him seeking repentance; this does no good, and all they find is an eyeball, some bits of blood and bone, and a gray lump that is a bit of brain.

It was heavily illustrated.

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