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RUNdoneDIDit t1_jd71zvs wrote
Reply to TIL that Al Pacino boycotted the 45th academy awards in 1973, because despite having more screen time than Marlon Brando, he was nominated for best supporting actor and not best actor. by VengefulMight
Does it not go by whoever gets top billing. Whoever is top on the list is the main actor and anyone underneath is supporting?
Mr_Mojo_Risin_83 t1_jd71ul2 wrote
Reply to comment by Saltmetoast in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone
every rainforest on earth would like to disagree
kudichangedlives t1_jd71u7w wrote
Reply to comment by sandyknuckles in TIL that mosquitos can be a nuisance for everyone but not for the people in Iceland. Simply because they don't exist there: by bringmeturtles
Dead man's switch
sandyknuckles t1_jd71t3z wrote
Reply to comment by kudichangedlives in TIL that mosquitos can be a nuisance for everyone but not for the people in Iceland. Simply because they don't exist there: by bringmeturtles
Your plan is to extort a country full of gentleman who look like The Mountain from Game of Thrones?
sandyknuckles t1_jd71pz4 wrote
Reply to comment by clarkrd in TIL that mosquitos can be a nuisance for everyone but not for the people in Iceland. Simply because they don't exist there: by bringmeturtles
Cultural erasure smh
Dawnawaken92 t1_jd7169g wrote
Reply to TIL that Deltora Quest, the Children's Fantasy Books by Australian Writer Emily Rodda, Has Its Own Anime, Which Started Airing 2 Years After the Series Ended, from 2007-2008, and has 13 Episodes of Original Content Not Found in the Books. It Even Spawned a Nintendo DS Game, Released Only in Japan. by PrecariouslyPeculiar
This was a really good series. The first series revolves around the stone that have to be recovered to reforge the Deltora Belt. Which banished the shadowlord back to the shadowland in the north. Each gem in the belt had magical abilities. And the evil guardian protecting it they had to defeat also was magic and Jack up in some. They were very like dark and fantastical book. The second series revolves around their quest to find the dragons of Deltora. And then the 3rd series has them actually going into the shadow lands to defeat the shadowlord or something. But the books have a very morbid dark magical the gathering kinda feel to it. Like one of the monster is this raptor shaped creature. It has like knives for fingers. And long straight sharp teeth fit into a rounded head only slits for what looks like nose holes. No visible eyes yet it can see. It talks in riddles and limericks and if you answer it wrong it bights off your fingers. Fantastic children's books. I fuckin loved them. Sadly I lost my book in a house fire.
Oh there are also plants that are just tunnel down into the ground, filled with teeth that want to swallow you. They are scarlet red and gorgeous. Very deceptive.
I had all the books as a kid. Sadly I had a house fire tho.
KikiFlowers t1_jd713g1 wrote
Reply to comment by flapperfapper in TIL that Laurel & Hardy and the Our Gang kids reshot each film for foreign audiences by phonetically reciting their lines in the foreign language by uncled0d0
It's the Little Rascals.
one_more_black_guy t1_jd70h4m wrote
Reply to TIL that Deltora Quest, the Children's Fantasy Books by Australian Writer Emily Rodda, Has Its Own Anime, Which Started Airing 2 Years After the Series Ended, from 2007-2008, and has 13 Episodes of Original Content Not Found in the Books. It Even Spawned a Nintendo DS Game, Released Only in Japan. by PrecariouslyPeculiar
That's awesome! Was an excellent series!
Crepuscular_Animal t1_jd70g45 wrote
Reply to comment by Xiaxs in TIL hair smells bad when burned because keratin needs large amounts of the sulfur-containing amino acid cysteine for polymer crosslinking, which give it it's rigid properties by Fantastic-Berry-737
So hair mainly consists of a protein called keratin. Keratin is made out of loooong molecules. These molecules are polymers, which means they are strings of similar, repeating elements - amino acids. One of these amino acids is cystein. Cystein in one strand is able to bind to cystein in another strand. This binding makes keratin stronger. So hair is keratin, and keratin contains a lot of cystein, and that's why it is so strong, and cystein contains sulfur. Sulfur smells bad when burned.
MarcusXL t1_jd6zx8q wrote
Reply to comment by kudichangedlives in TIL that Al Pacino boycotted the 45th academy awards in 1973, because despite having more screen time than Marlon Brando, he was nominated for best supporting actor and not best actor. by VengefulMight
There was no part 3.
This is how we are remembering it.
TheHouseofOne t1_jd6zt90 wrote
Reply to comment by Forsaken_Toe_3101 in TIL that Deltora Quest, the Children's Fantasy Books by Australian Writer Emily Rodda, Has Its Own Anime, Which Started Airing 2 Years After the Series Ended, from 2007-2008, and has 13 Episodes of Original Content Not Found in the Books. It Even Spawned a Nintendo DS Game, Released Only in Japan. by PrecariouslyPeculiar
Yeah man, I love Slayer.
kudichangedlives t1_jd6zh7u wrote
Reply to comment by VengefulMight in TIL that Al Pacino boycotted the 45th academy awards in 1973, because despite having more screen time than Marlon Brando, he was nominated for best supporting actor and not best actor. by VengefulMight
Ya, only Goodfellas and Scarface exist, not the Irishman
kudichangedlives t1_jd6zbwx wrote
Reply to TIL that mosquitos can be a nuisance for everyone but not for the people in Iceland. Simply because they don't exist there: by bringmeturtles
Are you saying that you could probably extort the entire country of Iceland with a U-Haul and some mosquitos?
ebikr t1_jd6zb4n wrote
Reply to comment by InfluenceDear9975 in TIL that Al Pacino boycotted the 45th academy awards in 1973, because despite having more screen time than Marlon Brando, he was nominated for best supporting actor and not best actor. by VengefulMight
Shame they couldn’t be more mature about it like a couple of good fellas.
VengefulMight OP t1_jd6z9jk wrote
Reply to comment by kudichangedlives in TIL that Al Pacino boycotted the 45th academy awards in 1973, because despite having more screen time than Marlon Brando, he was nominated for best supporting actor and not best actor. by VengefulMight
Only the first two of those films need be acknowledged.
VengefulMight OP t1_jd6z8aa wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that Al Pacino boycotted the 45th academy awards in 1973, because despite having more screen time than Marlon Brando, he was nominated for best supporting actor and not best actor. by VengefulMight
Both for The Godfather. Brando won but refused to accept the award and sent someone to lecture the audience about Native Americans instead.
Forsaken_Toe_3101 t1_jd6z73i wrote
Reply to comment by noeinan in TIL that Deltora Quest, the Children's Fantasy Books by Australian Writer Emily Rodda, Has Its Own Anime, Which Started Airing 2 Years After the Series Ended, from 2007-2008, and has 13 Episodes of Original Content Not Found in the Books. It Even Spawned a Nintendo DS Game, Released Only in Japan. by PrecariouslyPeculiar
Well, they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...or maybe the animators were just huge Slayers fans.
kudichangedlives t1_jd6z5vt wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that Al Pacino boycotted the 45th academy awards in 1973, because despite having more screen time than Marlon Brando, he was nominated for best supporting actor and not best actor. by VengefulMight
Classic mob movie, the first part of 3, I'm sure you'd recognize the title
windythought34 t1_jd6yuyf wrote
Boogzcorp t1_jd6yrjp wrote
Reply to comment by SeanG909 in TIL the term "death row" comes from an assassination attempt on FDR. The shooter Giuseppe Zangara was sentenced to death, but there was already a convict awaiting execution, and FL law forbade them from sharing cells. A second cell was built, turning the "death cell" into the first "death row." by AdmiralAkbar1
What do you mean paradoxically?
Dude was 1.68m
He was tiny...
noeinan t1_jd6ynhj wrote
Reply to TIL that Deltora Quest, the Children's Fantasy Books by Australian Writer Emily Rodda, Has Its Own Anime, Which Started Airing 2 Years After the Series Ended, from 2007-2008, and has 13 Episodes of Original Content Not Found in the Books. It Even Spawned a Nintendo DS Game, Released Only in Japan. by PrecariouslyPeculiar
Why does this look so similar to Slayers to me
Hewn-U t1_jd6xv0o wrote
Reply to comment by _Silly_Wizard_ in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone
So you’re saying It’s above the environment?
OorPancake t1_jd6xku8 wrote
Reply to comment by HomeAl0ne in TIL that mosquitos can be a nuisance for everyone but not for the people in Iceland. Simply because they don't exist there: by bringmeturtles
That's true, but according to the Iceland Monitor they've had a problem since 2015.
I was surprised myself that they weren't seen as a problem before. (Maybe a different not so bitey species?)
-edit- That's what it is, the native species are non biting midges.
McRaige t1_jd7214w wrote
Reply to comment by oceanduciel in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone
We do not get enough average annual rain in most parts of Oregon to be a temperate rainforest by about 10 inches. And even without that, the wooded, foresty areas that everyone thinks of when thinking of oregon are on the northwestern coastal areas. The rest of the state is varying states of grasslands and dessert, and while less poplated, is the larger portion of the state by far.