The character Dr. Strangelove did not appear in the book upon which the movie was based. The book, Red Alert, was not a black comedy but a serious thriller.
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Russian fun — Do Russians ever have fun? Well, they don’t have a word for it.
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Where is Frankenstein? Yes, it’s a where. It’s a town in Poland now known as Zabkowice Slaskie. It was established after the Mongol invasions in the 13th century. A plague in the 16th century killed about a third of its inhabitants.
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Aristophanes of Byzantium is someone to whom we all owe a debt In fact writing would look like this but for him He’s the guy who invented the period
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Chlorine Trifluoride is the most dangerous substance. It reacts explosively with water, it ignites glass on contact and sets fire to asbestos. After it burns it turns into chlorine gas and hydrofluoric acid.
How dangerous is it? The Nazis thought about using it as a weapon but didn’t because it was too dangerous.
It doesn’t get any more dangerous than that.
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Most dangerous substance
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Maurice de Saxe, who became Marshal General of France, could bend a horseshoe with one hand.
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Margaret Sanger, the racist who founded Planned Parenthood, has the earliest passport photo — at least earliest passport photo that has been found. It was a issued in pseudonym of Bertha L. Watson.
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The great mathematician Pythagoras believed eating beans was bad. Real bad. Some say he even believed one shouldn’t enter a a bean field. Others, of course, contend beans are good for your heart.
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Reading, Pa. was once a major automobile manufacturing center. It was where Charles Duryea’s Buggyaut was made.