Anton Yelchin’s parents were going to compete in the 1972 Olympics (figure skating) for the USSR but were banned becaused they were Jewish.
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View →New ‘Metal Gear’ game announced!
‘Hideo Kojima popped up at Microsoft’s keynote, and announced that the Metal Gear Solid franchise is coming to Xbox 360 with an all-new title.
This game is called “Metal Gear Rising”, is a completely-new title, and rather than starring Solid Snake, will star Raiden.”
(via:kotaku)
Food Companies Don't Want You to Know
… that Your Food Can Legally Contain Maggots.
Sure, the FDA limits the amount of rodent droppings and other appetite killers in your food, but unfortunately that limit isn’t zero. The regulations below aren’t harmful to your health—but we can’t promise that the thought of them won’t make you sick.
Canned pineapples can contain up to: 20 percent positive mold tests
Canned tomatoes can contain up to: 5 fly eggs and 1 maggot per 500 grams
Frozen broccoli can contain up to: 60 mites per 100 grams
Ground cinnamon can contain up to: 400 insect fragments and 11 rodent hairs per 50 grams
Peanut butter can contain up to: 30 insect gragments or 1 rodent hair per 100 grams
Popcorn can contain up to: 20 gnawed grains or 2 rodent hairs per pound
Potato chips can contain up to: 6 percent rotten chips
View →On Oct. 15, 1910, the airship America took off from Atlantic City in a bid to cross the Atlantic. The six crewmembers took along a cat, Kiddo, for luck.
The frightened tabby was still underfoot when chief engineer Melvin Vaniman tried to send a historic wireless message back to shore. So officially the first radio communication ever made from an airship in flight was:
“Roy, come and get this goddamn cat.”
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Donald Knuth is so revered among computer scientists that they won’t cash his checks.
Knuth offers a standard reward of $2.56 (one “hexadecimal dollar”) to the first finder of each error in his published books. Since 1981 he has written more than $20,000 in checks, but most of the recipients have simply framed them as points of pride.
View →On True Blood the wig that Arlene wears is the same one worn by Gwenyth Paltrow as Pepper Potts in Iron Man.
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In Japan, seasons 2 and 3 of the American version of So You Think You Can Dance have aired as American Dance Idol.
View →Margaret Mitchell took 10 years to write Gone With the Wind, and it was in her will to burn her notes when she died, which her husband did.
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