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i am looking respectfully

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which is definitely not an omen

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they're matching their atrocious facial hair: the stache and the sideburns with no beard. you know a marriage is going strong when you can be absolutely disgusting together lmao

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MY PRECIOUS BOYS

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idk man the nervous system makes me kinda nervous

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WONDER BAR (1934) | dir. Lloyd Bacon

“The other [scene that stands out above the rest] involved a handsome man, asking a dancing couple if he could cut in. The female partner, expecting his attention, agrees, only to see him dance with her male partner. Jolson then flaps his wrist and says, “Boys will be boys. Woo!”. This scene almost caused the Production Code to reject the film, and was featured in the opening scenes of the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (1996).”

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This interview was like 3 minutes and I got hours of joy from it

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not having a great day either, so sending hugs 🫂

nothing particulary ""fun"", but the first random thing that came to my brain was the fact that uhhhh in buddhism (pure land buddhism in particular, my source was from that) there are 8 hot and 8 cold hells, but apart from that each of these hells also have their own satellite little hells, so the number can go up to hundreds and thousands (i wrote a thesis on this, but i dont have it on me, so cant check specifics lmao)

Sorry to hear that - sending hugs back to you as well. 🫂 Thank you for the trivia - that's really fascinating, I never knew that! I'm definitely going to have to find out more. 😊 For my return trivia fact, I've decided to go for religious places, though this isn't about the afterlife itself. Westminster Abbey is one of London's most famous sights, and most people know it because it's a) where most of the country's important monarchy-related events take place (weddings, funerals, most recently the latest Coronation) and also b) where a lot of famous people end up being buried. But, when you look at it, it's kind of a patchwork. Especially the walls. They're richly decorated when you first enter but then all that detail kind of just... stops. That's because Henry III had decided to really make his mark on the cathedral through all this elaborate detail, but then ran out of money and promptly died. The project was then scrapped and only completed over a century later, except plain to save money. There's also a memorial to astronomer William Herschel, who discovered Uranus. It actually got its name after he was told he couldn't call it George (after the then-king).

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heard some of you like long-haired Jan

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Random trivia fact: On 19 February 1914, 5 year old Charlotte May Pierstorff is sent to her grandparents’ house through the post, because there is a 50 pound parcel weight limit and she weighs 48.5 pounds, and it's cheaper than buying a train ticket. Afterwards the US Postal Service changes its rules to prohibit the shipment of humans.

How have I never heard of this before?! This is totally the sort of thing my parents would have done with me some eighty years later, because why not save money and also everyone knows kids bounce and health and safety wasn't invented until at least the 2000s. (For legal reasons this is a joke and if in many years time you see any 5 year old child of mine being shipped off by post, no you didn't.) So for my fact in return, let's stick with transport. Everyone knows Tower Bridge, right? This one:

If an action movie is set in London, there's always a bit where a car jumps the bridge as it's opening. But this actually happened in real life, except with a bus.

It's 1952 and Albert Gunter is driving the 78 bus south to north over Tower Bridge. At this time, there's a manually operated bell to warn drivers when the bridge was about to open, but for some reason the bell operator misses their cue and there's no signal. All of a sudden, Albert sees the bridge is opening up ahead and realises it won't end well for his bus and, more importantly, the 20 people on board if he stays caught on the rising section. So he slams on the accelerator and not only clears the jump to the north side (which wasn't rising yet) but also manages to do so with only one injury, which was his own broken leg. His reasoning was that he'd driven a tank during the war and knew that could make the jump, so why not a bus? For all of this he got given £10 as a reward (still under £300 today).

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Supernova remnant Sh2-91 in Cygnus l Xavier Peillon

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I don’t care about it at all (I have carried its weight around like a rock on my chest since the very day it happened)

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It's turning into one of those days again.

So send me a random trivia fact in my asks to distract me from real life nonsense and I'll send one back!

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I understand the "I will die for you" ship dynamic, but what about the "I will not let you die, I will not let myself die- we will, at any cost, survive" kind of couple?