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Been playing a ton of tf2 so here are some facts about it:

The Scout uses an aluminum baseball bat but that is impossible because the first aluminum baseball bat wasn't made until the 70's, at least 2 years after tf2 takes place.

The Soldier is revealed in the comics to have the last name Doe which is a reference to a Jane Doe, an unidentified corpse.

In a comic the Pyro is revealed to only see Pyroland when fire is involved.

The Spy's disguise kit is based off a glitch in team fortress classic where players would occasionally spawn in the other team's color.

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Don't see either going well.

 

It was a genuine attempt to help while not being a dick to the best of my knowledge and ability. If people think I failed at either or both, then I apologise.

 

 

The world record for drinking a yard of ale is 5 seconds!

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Don't see either going well.

 

It was a genuine attempt to help while not being a dick to the best of my knowledge and ability. If people think I failed at either or both, then I apologise.

 

 

The world record for drinking a yard of ale is 5 seconds!

How do you measure liquid in a measurement used for distance?

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Thanks for the clarification.... I got really confused...

Yard of ale.

 

Many pubs/bars have one hanging up somewhere.

 

I've seen someone do a 'yard' of Guinness; it took 20 minutes to settle... and about 2 minutes to drink. A decent effort as the guy had about 8 pints of the stuff in him already and was standing on the bucket we had used to make the punch we drank at the BBQ.

 

 

To be pedandic, you can measure something in any dimentionally inconsistent manner, so long as the other dimensions are contextually obvious or previously stated ('weight' being a common one).

Eg. If the 'standard' cross sectional area of a volume is fixed, then you can refer to the total volume in terms of it's length/height.

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Tachyons are a theoretical type of particle that is constantly traveling faster than the speed of light. This makes their existence very hard to prove. (It's not that things cannot *travel* at the speed of light, only that things cannot *accelerate* {or decellerate} to the speed of light.)

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I can imagine half (if not all) of these facts have been stated already

 

 

Gaming

 

Pokémon was created due to Satoshi Tajiri's (the creator of Pokémon) interest in catching insects, this inspired him to create "Pocket monsters"

 

The original Pokémon green was called "Pocket monsters" though in earlier development it was called "Capsule monsters"

 

There was actually a Pokémon musical by the name of Pokémon live.

 

Mario was originally "Jumpman"

 

Pacman was originally "Puckman"

 

The first (known home videogame console ever was Odyssey

 

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Other facts

 

Shakespear created the word "bump"

 

Everybody's tongue print is unique

 

Barbie actually has a full name, being  Barbara Millicent Roberts

 

Banana's are berries but a strawberry is not

 

the name "Wendy" was actually created by J.M Barrie in Peter Pan

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The main reason why aircraft are not permitted to fly near volcanoes is because if engines inhale ash, combustion cycles melt the particulate and coat the interior of the engine in a gooey carbon-based glass, which can clog part movement and, if it freezes, cause serious mechanical damage. This was discovered for the first time in 1982 when a jumbo jet flew through an ash cloud at night, and seriously damaged all four of its engines as a result-- as well as sandblasting the pilot's windscreen, making it impossible to see outside.

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The original Xbox was so called because original prototype was basically a cut-down Dell PC with a custom version of Windows and called the "DirectX box". The name "Xbox" was also thought that consumers wouldn't like the name, but they were wrong.

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A flock of crows is known as a murder.
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
Dying is illegal in the Houses of Parliaments.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day.
Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift away from each other.
New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from across the world.
Anually over 2500 left-handed people are killed from using right-handed products.
Mel Blanc – the voice of Bugs Bunny – was allergic to carrots.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
It snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes on the 18th February 1979.
Slugs have 4 noses.
James Bond creator Ian Fleming also wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Hewlett-Packard’s name was decided in a coin toss.
Newborn white whales are black.
Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
None of the characters in Shakespear's plays smoke.
Allegedly, you can find out who "champ" is by reading the first letter of each sentence.

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No point of the continuous 48 states is north of any part of the UK mainland (Northwest Angle vs The Lizard).

London is ~270 miles north of Seattle.

 

This site is a lot of 'fun' for certain people.

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