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RE: General "Did you Know?"s - ZpaceJ0ck0 - 05-05-2017
Do you recognize this man?
![[Image: Mansa_Musa_I_482288733.jpg]](http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/files/Images1/Mansa_Musa_I_482288733.jpg)
No? Well, the man you are seeing right now is called 'Mansa Musa I of Mali', he ruled the Malian Empire which covered (among others) modern day Ghana, Timbuktu and Mali in West Africa. However, he is better know for being the richest man who ever lived.
How rich was this son of a gun? Glad you asked. Some have calculated his total net worth in modern dollars to be 400 billion dollars! When he went on the Hajj pilgrimage (he was a Muslim) he ended up giving out so much gold in Egypt and Arabia, that it caused hyperinflation that gold became next to worthless for the next decade! Yup, dude was so rich he destabilized an entire economy.
Sources:
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/25-richest-people-lived-inflation-adjusted/#!/
http://www.businessinsider.com/mansa-musa-the-richest-person-in-history-2016-2
http://www.eachoneteachone.org.uk/mansa-musa-i-of-mali-the-richest-person-in-history/
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - SERIOUSLY THOUGH - 05-05-2017
^ This should totally be a thing.
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RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CLXcool - 05-09-2017
Here's some interesting film trivia. Did you know? In the first part of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. There is a montage of photographs of actual gangsters in the montage.That particular scene was produced by George Lucas, as a way of thanks for Francis. George's first film was American Graffiti, was produced by Francis(and he later helped fund the project when nobody else would). George produced this scene as a way of saying thanks for Francis, although, he requested to not be credited when the film was finished.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CosmykTheDolfyn - 05-12-2017
The band Nine Inch Nails found themselves in the middle of an FBI investigation right at the start of their career in 1989.
In recording their first music video "Down In It", they had attached a camera to helium balloons to try to get an overhead shot of a scene that was meant to look like lead man Trent Reznor was being sacrificed. However, it worked a little better than planned, and the camera just kind of... flew away before they got a hold of it again.
What was more impressive was the camera was found in working condition over 200 miles away from where they recorded the video in a corn field by a farmer. He assumed the footage was of a real murder/sacrifice, and promptly turned over the footage to police, who in turn opened an investigation with the FBI trying to find this new and deadly cult (they figured it had to be a religious killing). It was eventually discovered that it was simply the lost video camera for shooting a music video of a then unknown heavy metal band.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - CLXcool - 05-12-2017
Another godfather themed trivia.
Did you know? After the third part of the godfather film was finished, Paramount was considering making a 4th film of the Corleone family. After he was finished with the third film. Coppola didn't have any idea where it could've gone if they even decided to went with the idea with the 4th film of the Godfather film. Talks for bringing the project back were talked around 2003-2005(sometime after Marlin Brando's death). Leonardo DiCaprio was considered to play the role as young Sonny. They actually made a book based off of the purposed idea of a said sequel(which would've taken place in the 1930s). A lawsuit went on for awhile between the Puzo estate and Paramount, which had paramount trying to adapt the book while the puzo estate was against it. Paramount won the case, but as of now. It seems paramount decided to let the idea of a new godfather film 'sleep with de fishes' so to speak.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - ZpaceJ0ck0 - 05-28-2017
After the War, pilot Nobuo Fujita grew remorseful for his mission, the only attacks by plane on the mainland US. He decided to do something about it.
He sent $1,000 as a donation for children's books about Japan to the library of the town he had bombed "so that there wouldn't be another war between the United States and Japan,'' Nancy Brendlinger, the Mayor of Brookings, said.
This generosity inspired the town to pay $3,000 to fly Fujita, who had piloted two different bombing raids on their town, weeks apart, to Oregon in 1962. He did not bring his family sword as an intended gift, but as an instrument of suicide as he expected to be insulted and pelted by eggs and such.
He later returned the favor by paying for several local Oregonians to visit Japan, and he made several more trips to Bookings before he died of lung cancer in 1997. During one trip, he planted trees in the forest he bombed "mark the spot where he dropped the bombs."
On his death bed, the town of Brookings recognized him as an honorary citizen.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/03/world/nobuo-fujita-85-is-dead-only-foe-to-bomb-america.html
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - RepentantSky - 06-03-2017
Naruto Shippuden, which ran from 2007 to 2017 had a total of 500 episodes. Of those, 244 of them were filler, making about 44 percent of the series filler. The original Naruto series, which ran from 2002 to 2007 and had a total of 89 episodes of it's 220 as fillers. That means it not only had over 100 less episodes of filler, but it's total amount of filler is about 40.4 percent. The total amount of these fillers is 333 episodes, which is in total, 39 more episodes than Dragonball Z and by a mere number of 1, more than twice the amount of fillers Bleach had.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - ZpaceJ0ck0 - 06-06-2017
Special effects specialist and costume designer Julian Chekley holds the record for "Most functional gadgets on a cos-play suit", having a total of 23 gadgets designed for his Batman suit.
Now the dude only needs to build the batmobile, obtain a small loan of a billion dollars™ and become the master of all Martial Arts in existence (btw, tthe Chinese invented over 100 of those) so that he can became an acuratte, real life version of Batman.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - ZpaceJ0ck0 - 06-11-2017
Mexico's Pedro Lascuráin holds the world record for the shortest presidency in the history of the world, lasting less than an hour (between 15 to 45 minutes, to be exact).
Why his presidency lasted for such a small amount of time? Well, basically, under the 1857 Constitution of Mexico, the vice-president, the attorney general, the foreign secretary and then the interior secretary stood next in line to the presidency. As well as Madero, Huerta had ousted Vice-President José María Pino Suárez and Attorney General Adolfo Valles Baca, so, to give the coup d'état some appearance of legality, he had Lascuráin, as foreign secretary, assume the presidency, appoint him as his interior secretary – making Huerta next in line to the presidency – and then resign. The presidency thus passed to Huerta. In other words: The presidency of Lascuráin was nothing but a tactical step in Huerta’s plans to become the president of Mexico.
Source:
https://tcmam.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/the-worlds-briefest-presidency/ (the only one I could find in English)
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - retrolinkx - 06-20-2017
Not really trivia worthy, but I would like to mention it here.
We all know the Space Harrier theme right?
Well I somehow found out it has a slight resemblance to an opening to a fucking old British TV show called "Blake's 7" at around 53 seconds.
It's just a small 5-6 second sound clip, but it's so damn similar it's hard to tell if it was intentional or just a coincidence.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - ZpaceJ0ck0 - 06-23-2017
Paskitani soldier Irfan Mehsoon just won the world record for the "Most two finger push ups in one minute carrying a 40 lb pack".
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Psychospacecow - 06-25-2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cummings
Winnie The Pooh is Pete is Bill Clinton is The Tasmanian Devil is Tigger.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - ZpaceJ0ck0 - 06-25-2017
(06-25-2017, 12:12 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cummings
Winnie The Pooh is Pete is Bill Clinton is The Tasmanian Devil is Tigger.
I don't know man. Isn't this just voice actor information? That's like saying Nolan North has been both Deadpool and Nathan Drake. Or that Edson Matus has voiced Red Hood (Injustice 2) and Philip J. Fry (Futurama; season 5 and onwards). Or that Daisuke Nakikawa has been both Hisoka Morow and Giorno Giovanna.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - Psychospacecow - 06-25-2017
Well, its general info, and I find characters with shared actors interesting.
RE: General "Did you Know?"s - ZpaceJ0ck0 - 06-25-2017
(06-25-2017, 03:53 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: Well, its general info, and I find characters with shared actors interesting.
Fair enough, I guess.