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Nuke_the_whales , to til in TIL: Joe Fontana the character from Law and Order is named for Tom Fontana the writer of Law and Order.

Most uninteresting thread in this community.

Most tv show characters are named after writers

BleatingZombie , to til in TIL that the original Bozo the Clown(1946) Pinto Colvig, had a son, Vance Colvig Jr., who landed the job of Bozo in the first local TV station to franchise the character in 1959.

Can somebody smarter than me explain why he’s a “Jr” if he has a different name than his father? Can you be a jr if you’re named after a grandfather or an uncle?

Nougat ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinto_Colvig

Vance DeBar Colvig Sr. (September 11, 1892 – October 3, 1967), known professionally as Pinto Colvig, ...

Rhynoplaz , to til in TIL There is a subgenre of porn called Zombie Porn.

Rule 34! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Chocrates , to til in TIL that despite homosexual activity being punishable by death in the country, Iran allows gender reassignment surgery, and performs more of them than any country except Thailand.

Trans folks are not always homosexual…

delirious_owl , to til in TIL the American Military’s C-5 Galaxy is nicknamed FRED by aircrews for “Fucking Ridiculous Economic (or) Environmental Disaster”. Due to the C-5 using large amounts of fuel, maintenance, reliability
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I mean doesn’t it have a cargo belly of a football field?

jimmydoreisalefty , to til in TIL that Edgar Allan Poe became a writer after a failed military career. He enlisted in the US Army in 1827. He failed as a cadet at West Point, and declared his intention to become a writer.
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Thanks for sharing!

Although he claimed that he was 22 years old, he was actually 18.

Poe served for two years, attaining the rank of Sergeant Major for Artillery, the highest rank that a non-commissioned officer could achieve. He then sought to end his five-year enlistment early.

Poe revealed his real name and his actual circumstances to his commanding officer, Lieutenant Howard, who promised to allow Poe to be honorably discharged if he reconciled with Allan.

Perhaps softened by his wife’s death, Allan agreed to support Poe’s desire to receive an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.[26]

Poe was finally discharged on April 15, 1829, after securing a replacement to finish his enlistment.

Poe traveled to West Point and matriculated as a cadet on July 1, 1830.[32] In October 1830, Allan married his second wife Louisa Patterson.[33] This marriage and the bitter quarrels with Poe over children born to Allan out of extramarital affairs led to the foster father finally disowning Poe.[34] Poe then decided to leave West Point by intentionally getting court-martialed. On February 8, 1831, he was tried for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders for refusing to attend formations, classes, and church. Knowing he would be found guilty, Poe pleaded not guilty to the charges in order to induce dismissal.[35]

DMBFFF , to til in TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood
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Hydra_Fk , to til in TIL that in January 2014, a seven-year-old girl named Charlotte Benjamin wrote a letter to Lego, pointing out the lack of female characters compared to male ones.

What about minions or smurfs?

BruceTwarzen ,

There is one female smurf and that has to be enough for all of them.

acockworkorange ,

Smurfette Perri

Hydra_Fk ,

1 seems to be a lack of female smurfs.

Imhotep , to games in Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds

I’m testing it in VR, the modder did an amazing job. Unfortunately my GPU absolutely blows with VR games (Intel Arc A770)

quafeinum ,
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What headset do you use? I thought getting a a770 meant no VR for me… wish it would render Celeste properly lol

Imhotep ,

Lenovo Explorer. I don’t play VR games really, but it’s fun when my little nephews visit (the A770 handles simple games like Beat Saber well). Outer Wilds in VR seemed like a good time to dust of the headset but it’s a bit too stuttery. I didn’t look for any type of fix or optimization though.

But if you’re serious about VR gaming Intel Arc is not a good idea for now. However on /r/intelarc some report good results, saying it varies from game to game.

octopus_ink , to til in TIL Circuit City created a proprietary disposable type of DVD called a DIVX that was viewable for only 48 hours after initial viewing unless an additional fee was paid. Which led to bankruptcy

Some of us remember when this happened, and most folks either ignored or actively hated the idea.

The PA divx player became a recurring character I thought, I’m surprised searching their site only comes up with three comics.

www.penny-arcade.com/archive/search?tag=86&sort=o…

The first one (IIRC and according to the search)

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Balthazar , to til in TIL each pawn in chess had a specific name/profession based on its starting position on the board

I thought the one on white’s far right was named “'Arry the H pawn”.

Kanda ,

Now he’s Arry the farmhand who works for the castle

JimSamtanko , to til in TIL about the "Dilberito," a vegetarian wrap concocted by Dilbert creator Scott Adams to tie into his comic strip. The product was a colossal failure,

Dilbert creator Scott Adams…. colossal failure.

Got it.

HubertManne , to til in TIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around today

I was not even using gopher until 92 and did not use a graphical interface to the internet until at least 96 but maybe 97 or 98.

maquise , to til in TIL during the 2010 Commonwealth Games small monkeys roamed the Delhi streets and couldn't be removed because of religious reasons. So instead a larger species of monkey (The Colobinae) was brought in

“There once was a lady who swallowed a fly…”

Blakerboy777 , to til in TIL that Germany created synthetic butter from coal during WW2. It was described as nutritious and of agreeable taste.

I wonder if the concept of “plastip” in Future Boy Conan came from this. They recycle it into food, weapons, and fuel.

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