SSTFWhat inaccurate historical factoid do you just go with?
Epicurus0319That Napoleon was short
MothraHe wasn’t short? 😨
He was short. But so was everyone else then.
OderusHe was 5’10" which at the time was considered ‘normal’.
*5’6”, which was actually a little above average.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex#:~:text=He….
Both 5’7" and 5’10’ are listed here but I see no 5’6".
1.67 Meters
I wonder why the height differs so much between sites?
Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial
Dude 5’ 10 is slightly above average for men today. wikipedia.org/…/Average_human_height_by_country
Napoleon was 5’ 6”, but again, average for the time. www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short#
As a 5’11 guy you’ve just made my day
That Ben Franklin said beer is proof that God loves us
Ben Franklin got so high he forgot to be president.
Ben Franklin banged so many whores even the French were impressed.
AdaCurrent flows from positive to negative
Hahahahaha…sob…
George Washington had wooden dentures.
I learned it from Day of the Tentacle and even if I know now that it isn’t true,it still pops into my mind everytime someone talks about him or dentures.
Also, Betsy Ross originally created a tentacle shaped flag, not a rectangular one.
Yeah, he had those wind up teeth instead
rmukHa. Ha. Ha.
- Oozo the Clown
i thought he had dentures made of slave teeth?
Day of the Tentacle
Time for a replay. Is there an android option nowadays?
Sort of.
There’s a ScummVM emulator on the playstore, so it’s possible to play the original on android if you can find the “rom” files.
I haven’t tried DOTT in particular, but last time I replayed a scumm game I quickly lost interest due to the outdated controls.
Thanks will try it
I’m gonna be that guy… but former English teacher here - By definition, factoids are inaccurate :) inaccuracies repeated so often that people ‘go with it’, that’s when they become factoids.
‘inaccurate factoid’ is an example of a tautology. Like naan bread, or armed gunman.
NewEnglandRedshirtC’mon dude. As a history teacher, I can tell you that it is definitely possible to fire a gun without arms.
MinnesotaGoddamI’m not even a gun dude and I’ve heard of those guns that shoot if you look at em funny. Hi points? I don’t remember.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
dannoffsIf you’re a former English teacher you should be aware that language changes and while “factoid” was originally coined to mean a made up fact, the term is currently mostly used to refer to small inconsequential facts.
daisy lazarusThat’s literally the most ironic thing I’ve read
Just FYI, factoid has been misused for long enough that it now has an official second, contradictory definition:
A briefly stated and usually trivial fact.
A gunman doesn’t cease to be a gunman if he’s disarmed. Though he can’t be a gunman if he wasn’t armed in the first place.
Most people have at least one arm, so aren’t all gunmen armed?
Wouldn’t it be a pleonasm? Tautology is more about the logic realm, specifically about repeating an argument or a statement as it they were different. Here “inaccurate factoid” is merely inaccurate vocabulary.
It’s more redundant than inaccurate.
Jewish slaves build the pyramids.
They were build by Egyptians, probably out of loyalty to the pharaohs.
Columbus reached the mainland on his third and fourth voyages.
On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America. He never got close to what is now the mainland of America.
South America is not “mainland of America”? What do you consider “mainland of America” if south America is not part of it?
NunchukMurica obviously, no other place exists
ReginaPhalangeMan, this one is infuriating for me, and I’m Jewish.
It’s like we based an entire religion out of this lie - every aspect of the old testament is riddled with exodus references.
Was Egyptian slavery of Jews not a thing at ALL?
The Babylonian exile on the other hand is attested. That was more like a royal hostage situation than slavery though, the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and took the nobility back with them.
No it was: archaeology.org/…/5627-jaffa-egypt-canaan-colony
For 3 centuries, bible said 4. That book is known for exaggeration.
did the Jews ever claim to have built the pyramids?
Spartans were a dominant military force. They were actually kind of a shitty military force who was really good at PR.
The Spartan Hegemony only lasted 30 years, and only because they kind of glory-hogged the aftermath of the Greco-Persian war after nearly losing the war due to their refusal to muster.
At Thermopylae 300 Spartans fought to the last man, along with 700 Athenians and more from other cities.
Yes that would be the PR campaign I am referencing.
Spartans were good at one kind of military unit, but that was it.
The Ying Yang summarizes the Big Bang, basically the universe wondered what it could be so first it was black and white and then the alterations of those states started showing up. You are the universe itself creating self awareness and providing more ways to answer the original question: “what could I be”?
Life is a lesson, you learn it when you’re through -Fred Durst
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
sadbehrI would like a word with the manager of the Universe please.
emptyotherTheres no manager anymore. His/hers last word before quitting: “We apologize for the inconvenience.”
justhachI like to believe that dinosaurs (especially stegosauruses) had lovely singing voices, because its nice and doesn’t hurt anybody.
how loud could their operas get? what range of octaves are possible with the range of species? could they beat box? were there ventriloquists?
Now I’m imagining a Tyrannosaurus Rex singing a bird song every morning.
gAlienLifeformBush did 9/11