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Weird Facts II
Posted Sat, 11/07/2009 - 13:39 — __Rex__Time for some weird facts again 
Did you know that....
Hugo Boss designed the uniforms for the Schultzstaffel also known as the SS ?
The cocoa for Nestle Quick aka Nesquik is provided with the help of child slaves? Nestle still hasn't done much about this issue
You know Chiquita Bananas? Back in 1951 when they were calling themselves United Fruit Company they teamed up with the CIA to bring down the democratically elected leader of Guatemala because they didn't like the deal he offered them for their land
That the horned lizards have an interesting defense mechanism? They shoot blood out of their eyes. They do this by constricting the blood flow to the head and building up pressure in the small vessels inside their eyes. At the right moment, they will forcibly rupture those vessels and propel a jet of blood up to five feet away.
That Vesna Vulovic a Serbian stewardess survived having her airplane blown up and falling 33,000 feet. And not only did she survive but she went back to being a stewardess again
Prescott Bush yes the grandfather of W was involved in a failed attempt at a conspiracy aimed at staging a military coup against FDR?
That for 40 or so minutes per day that you're effectively blind due to Saccadic Masking and you don't even notice
The falling sensation and sudden jolt you sometimes feel just as you're falling asleep is scientifically named hypnagogic myoclonic twitch
That in one of the early versions of Sleeping Beauty the Prince doesn't go for a kiss but rather something more......x rated? Yes while she was asleep
That you can make water explode by super heating it beyond it's boiling point without getting it to boil? However this is quite dangerous so don't do it . Seriously don't do it
That Project A119 was a project who's goal was to nuke the Moon?
That Operation Northwoods was a plan to commit domestic terrorism and pin it on Cuba to justify an attack? Thankfully Kennedy stopped it
That the combination of greed and incompetence can cause quite a disaster as more then 1.5 million of people left without homes learned when a dilling company drilled into a fault line and caused a massive mud volcano that is still erupting to this very day
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That the badass Velociraptors from Jurassic part were the size of a turkeys in real life?
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I have heard of the CIA secretly taking down dictatorships and such, but never heard of them conspiring to help a company like Nestle...
Dude you mean W's grandfather tried to overthrow the great FDR.
Weird or not so weird fact about water:
You don't need to heat water to boil it
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From what I understand the fact that the head of the CIA had served on the board of trustees of United Fruit helped
More like a vague plan to try it since it never got anywhere. From what I understand the so called Business Plot was pretty much a failure on every level as in never made it to the stages of an actual plan. But then again who knows with conspiracies
Water is so awesome
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
...and it's the only compound on earth that is less dense in a solid state than in a liquid state.