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In this thread you post a comment that people would find interesting and unique. Then you could reply to another comment already up or just post another interesting fact.

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Translated from Latin to English magna means great so therefore General Grevous's infamous magnaguards would translate into great guards.

Today’s clowns have white faces because the first clowns centuries ago would kill children that didn’t laugh by grinding up their bones. During this process the clown's face would become white with bone dust. Eventually, clowns were forced to stop killing children, but the implied inducement to laugh that the white face represented remains.

Sincerely,

I'm Batman.

I'm Batman.

Launch wasn't prominently featured in Dragonball Z because Akira Toriyama forgot about her.

Racecar spelled backwards is still Racecar

Deathstroke was originally called "The Terminator".

Black Panther was the first black superhero.

@tifalockhart: I liked Launch

Yellow is a color.

Magenta doesn't technically exist.

Barry Allen is the savior of comics and initiated the Silver Age.

lol at "wasn't prominently featured" she made like one cameo the in the entire anime during the Buu saga....how the heck does he just forget about her?

Fun fact for you, a lot of people think the Mustang was named after the horse. It was actually named after the P-51 Mustang.

- That's a plane.

In 2014 alone, Batman will have his 75th anniversary, Wolverine will have his 40th anniversary, Daredevil will have his 50th anniversary, and Marvel will have their 75th anniversary.

Here's John Byrne's wikiquote profile.

Grab a drink.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Byrne

You cannot create a new colour unless you are on drugs.

Don't do drugs kids!

Will Smith was offered the role of Neo in the Matrix, but he turned it down.

The man who created the Zeta's (major Mexican drug group), was a high ranking soldier.

Heard that on AMC movie news

I think I'm gonna die of Liver Poisoning.

The dot on top of a lowercase i is known as a tittle.

Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Chameleons don't really change their colour to match their surroundings.

Really? I thought it was Falcon.

@matteopg:

Falcon was the first African America superhero when he debuted in 1969, but in Black Panther was the first black (Having ancestry from West Africa) superhero to ever appear in comics when he debuted in the pages of the Fantastic Four in 1966.

You can spell "Typewriter" just by using the keys on the first row.

The word "shower" can be an anagram for "whores."

@wolverine08: thank! Knowledge is power!

"Coca-Cola deliberately designed tab clear to fail, in order to tarnish the public's perception of Pepsi's rival clear soda and ultimately sink both products."

This is wrong Falcon was the actual first black Super hero.

@wolverine08: Scratch that, he was the first African-American hero, Panther is just African hence the mistake here.

Schizophrenics apparently have a harder time recognizing their own voices from what I've read.

@jokergeist: ...lol.

Well these all all pretty interesting guys keep them coming. I actually didn't know like half of these.

Did you know the word "contradiction" derived after a battler when two warriors clashed with one holding a shield and the other a sword when both broke on impact

@russellmania77: interesting. Very interesting.

I am 15.

My birthday was November 3rd.

Did you know Optimus Prime was once a records clerk named Orion Pax? He became Optimus Prime after the Autobot High Council promoted him sensing the nobility in him.

(This info is for the aligned continuity, other continuities have different origins)

Cromophobia is the fear of colors

Power Rangers uses footage from a Japanese show called Super Sentai and has been around about twenty years longer.

The Declaration of Independence was written on paper made from marijuana leaves.

Megatron named himself after one of the 13 primes (created by primus), Megatronus (the fallen). He shorted his name after he left the pits of Kaon.

(This info is for the aligned continuity, other continuities have different origins)

@joewell: Coulrophobia is the fear of clowns.

@norrinboltagonprime21: wow actually i didn't know any of that. *scribbles it into notebook*

Mulan helped launch Christina Aguilera's singing career.