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Here are two random facts. One I found out very recently, maybe a week ago. It's this: Charles Manson's swastika tattoo is not the inverted one the Nazis used, but the Hindu one. I always thought it was the Nazi one, thinking about it though, if he did it himself in the mirror is it possible he fucked up? 😂

Second one I've known before most of you were born, BUT I wasn't sure it was real. I was looking up capital punishment (what countries are still cool) and was reminded that in China the family pays for the bullet.

"""Historically, and in some documented cases, the Chinese government has billed the families of executed prisoners for the cost of the bullet used in the execution, a practice sometimes referred to as a "bullet fee"."""

I find it a little funny, I also think capital punishment is the right thing in some cases, if you killed more than one person, execute that piece of shit. Evidence/confession needs to be there though, otherwise you can't do it.
 
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Hindenburg, the reason passenger airships are no longer a thing, I thought maybe it would have to be insanely huge to lift with helium, turns out.

"Although the airship was designed for safe, non-flammable helium, Germany was forced to use hydrogen because the United States held a global monopoly and banned its export under the Helium Control Act of 1925."
 
"The scrolling machine code and assembly listings flashing on screen during the T-800's point-of-view (Terminator vision) scenes came directly from issues of Nibble Magazine from August and September of 1984."

I found this out right now, for about 30 years I thought it was an Atari 2600 game you saw the listings of (some game that was about skiing), it's an Apple II listing. Same processor of course. The Terminator runs on a MOS 6502 (just like Bender in Futurama).
 
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"The scrolling machine code and assembly listings flashing on screen during the T-800's point-of-view (Terminator vision) scenes came directly from issues of Nibble Magazine from August and September of 1984."

I found this out right now, for about 30 years I thought it was an Atari 2600 game you saw the listings of (some game that was about skiing), it's an Apple II listing. Same processor of course. The Terminator runs on a MOS 6502 (just like Bender in Futurama).

Good old MOS 6502.
 
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