General "Did you Know?"s

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"Decisive Battle" the sound heard everytime an Angel appears in every EVA episode.



Is actually based off this

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

A little funny trivia about a famous song: Cars by Gary Numan.


The song notched a very unusual achievement for Gary Numan, as the one song charted in the UK top 20 IN THREE SEPERATE DECADES:
The song hit number 1 on the UK Singles chart upon it's initial release in 1979.
Gary Numan released a remix of the song 8 years later in 1987, where managed to notch the 16th spot on the UK Singles chart.
In 1996, the song was featured heavily in an ad campaign by Carling Premier Beer, which ended up pushing the song all the way up to number 17 on the singles chart.

Also, the song's lyrics were inspired by a real incident. One day at a traffic light, people in front of Gary Numan got out of their cars started screaming at him, telling him to exit his vehicle. Numan responded by locking the doors and driving on the pavement to pass by them. Recalling the incident, he was reminded that your car can feel like your own little bubble, separate from the outside world where you can be safe. This was the inspiration for lyrics.

Even though it's an electronic song, it feels very different musically than almost any other chart topping pop song. This is due to it's unique composition. The song lacks a chorus, and it's purely instrumental from 1:30 on. The song is also based entirely around tritones, a group of chord arrangements nicknamed The Devil's Triad. They go against normal chord progressions and sound slightly off as a result, and this effect has been used in TV shows of a supernatural nature for years, including the themes to The Twilight Zone and The Munsters. However, to have a song meant for radio consumption built around is highly unusual.

[Psychospacecow]

http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/SPYRAL

Otacon's a yugioh card now.

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

Vladimir Putin was granted ninth-degree black belt in 2013, by World Taekwondo Federation— which means he exceeds Chuck Norris (eighth-degree) in badassery.

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Parasyte was almost a Studio Ghibli production in the 1990’s. Before Madhouse’s 2014 adaptation, Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki revealed that both he and Hayao Miyazaki wanted to adapt the manga under Ghibli. The only thing that stopped them was the fact the adaptation rights at the time were owned by U.S. film company New Line Cinema.

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Get your reading glasses on and hear the tale of how an 80's AI developed a completely novel strategy to curbstomp a bunch of nerds so hard they had to change the rules of the game.

http://aliciapatterson.org/stories/euris...nd-its-own

tl;dr

An AI wins a game called "Traveller" in 1981 which was a fleet fighting game in space. You build you fleet to fight other fleets and are limited by a budget. Guy builds an AI to run millions of tests to work out what was the best fleet to build with the money you have. Eventually learns having 100+ ships with the perfect amount of defense would best all the other ships, and even had a fail safe in the form of a small lifeboat that would damage other ships and not be damaged itself since enemy ships could not hit something that small. It even had the smarts to build another ship that would counter enemy "lifeboats" if the enemy attempted to copy it's strategy.

AI wins the tournament, tournament guys change rules to counter him, wins the next tournament and then is politely asked not to compete again or they will cancel all other tournaments.

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Some schools in Shenyang, China have banned the Death Note manga after some of their students started to tease friends and teachers by altering a notebook to resemble a Death Note and writing their names in them. The newspaper Shenyang Night Report called Death Note "poison, creating wicked hearts." One major Chinese newspaper felt that the ban is an overreaction and is inappropriate.

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[CLXcool]

I'm putting a spoiler on this in case nobody saw the movie. Its some trivia on the ghostbusters reboot. Did you know?

Spoiler

In the third act of the movie. The ghostbusters logo appears in motion for a few seconds. Unlike most of the movie, which used CGI for the ghosts. The few seconds of the logo's appearance was animated with traditional animation before the form grew into a giant CG ghost

[CLXcool]

Remember two years ago I had some interesting infomation about the cartoon Red Hot Riding Hood being censored? I found a book that gave a better explanation about the uncut version of the cartoon, as well as debunking some myths that were going around about the cartoon. After reading this interesting bit of trivia. I now want to see the uncut version of Red Hot Riding Hood. Tex was NOT kidding when he said the soldiers got a huge laugh out of it.

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Remember two years ago I had some interesting infomation about the cartoon Red Hot Riding Hood being censored? I found a book that gave a better explanation about the uncut version of the cartoon, as well as debunking some myths that were going around about the cartoon. After reading this interesting bit of trivia. I now want to see the uncut version of Red Hot Riding Hood. Tex was NOT kidding when he said the soldiers got a huge laugh out of it.

Damn, now that's some info that needs to be spread.

[CLXcool]

Remember two years ago I had some interesting infomation about the cartoon Red Hot Riding Hood being censored? I found a book that gave a better explanation about the uncut version of the cartoon, as well as debunking some myths that were going around about the cartoon. After reading this interesting bit of trivia. I now want to see the uncut version of Red Hot Riding Hood. Tex was NOT kidding when he said the soldiers got a huge laugh out of it.

Damn, now that's some info that needs to be spread.

I know! I now want to see this. Especially where Red is holding a gun to wolfie's back forcing the marriage.

[Hexadecimal*]

I have no idea where it went, and I'd be shocked if I didn't still have it somewhere, but I have a book about Tex Avery that has Red Hot Riding Hood on the cover. There were a lot of images on the inside along with info, so I kind of wonder there would be any goodies about the uncut version.

Gosh... I don't even remember seeing it when I packed for the move, though... Where on earth would I have put it? ><

[CLXcool]

I have no idea where it went, and I'd be shocked if I didn't still have it somewhere, but I have a book about Tex Avery that has Red Hot Riding Hood on the cover. There were a lot of images on the inside along with info, so I kind of wonder there would be any goodies about the uncut version.

Gosh... I don't even remember seeing it when I packed for the move, though... Where on earth would I have put it? ><

Hex if you can find that book and share the images about that I'd be so happy.

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I have no idea where it went, and I'd be shocked if I didn't still have it somewhere, but I have a book about Tex Avery that has Red Hot Riding Hood on the cover. There were a lot of images on the inside along with info, so I kind of wonder there would be any goodies about the uncut version.

Gosh... I don't even remember seeing it when I packed for the move, though... Where on earth would I have put it? ><

Hex if you can find that book and share the images about that I'd be so happy.

I'll try, and sorry if it ends up being a dud. It just seemed like the sort of book that might have some good info.

Here it is if you want it yourself: https://www.amazon.com/Tex-Avery-Mgm-Yea...=Tex+Avery

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Did you know? That author Rahl Dahl hated the 70s adaptation of Charlie and the chocolate factory? Rahl originally wrote a screenplay for the film based off of his book, however, he failed to meet the deadline for the studio(Paramount) his screenplay was given to someone else to finish on the deadline. Rahl also disliked Gene Wilder's acting as Wonka, saying that Rahl would've preferred actor Spike Millgian to play as Wonka over Gene. Rahl later wrote a second story called Charlie and the glass elevator, but unlike the first story. It never got adapted into a film since he made it very clear he wanted nobody to make it into a film. However. Elements of Glass elevator are seen in the 2005 film Charlie and the chocolate factory.