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[Cthulhu]

A film negative of the Shroud of Turin displays a full-color image.

The first epic game franchise was called Swordquest, and included a comic series that contained clues for a contest.  The winners of the contest would then race to complete the fourth game and the winner would receive a jeweled crown.  However, the video game market crashed, the fourth game was never released, and the third game is exceedingly rare.

The first adventure game was called Adventure, and also contained the first easter egg.

The oldest known sufferer of Coffin Siris syndrome is 16 years old, less than four feet tall, and lives in Ohio, attending Little Miami High School.  (Assuming he's still alive, I transfered a few years ago and haven't seen him since.)

[ February 14, 2008: Message edited by: Muffles ]

[ February 14, 2008: Message edited by: Muffles ]

[Puzzlemaker]

The Atari game ET was overproduced and a huge bomb, costing atari millions and is one of the main reasons they went bankrupt.  Huge amounts of the game cartridges are buried in a landfill in new mexico.

[Cthulhu]

There is an upper-atmospheric anomaly in the southern United States that magnifies and refracts light passing through it, causing the stars at night to be big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas.

[Armok]

Life is in a word, suicide.

There are over 6300 different species of ants.

[Kagus]

Scientists are refining procedures that will allow them to generate human sperm inside of pig testicles.  This is intended to aid couples who are having difficulty with impregnation, since pigs generate (and release) several times more sperm than humans.

I'm hoping there are a few steps in between "pig testicle" and "impregnation".

[Cthulhu]

Scientists have reverse engineered the smallpox virus, causing it to attack cancer cells.  However, they are wary of using it out of fear of creating a supervirus.

[Mzbundifund]

Some jellyfish and sea anemones are the same species, at different stages in its life cycle.

[KrunkSplein]

quote:Originally posted by Mzbundifund:
<STRONG>Some jellyfish and sea anemones are the same species, at different stages in its life cycle.</STRONG>

That is awesome.

[Cthulhu]

Called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, or Mad Cow Disease, can be transmitted through improperly butchered meat and causes symptoms similar to that of classic zombie viruses(shuffling, groaning, delirium etc.)

[Nite/m4re]

So, Toady implemented 3 reqs at today release?

[Toady One]

321/571 or whoever the numbers were were duplicates, so I got a 2 for 1 there (the archer trainee bug).  I don't remember what the other req was, but I don't think it was important.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Couldn't you name it 38b or something? We'll get confused now because this version also ends in 38a like the last.

[Tahin]

I guess we'll have to refer to it as 176.38a. Awesome.

[Armok]

quote:Originally posted by Mzbundifund:
<STRONG>Some jellyfish and sea anemones are the same species, at different stages in its life cycle.</STRONG>

This is not true, however all jellyfish have a polyp "larva" stage, that indeed LOOK quite a bit like a anemone. However they are not anemones.

Cnidaria is indeed a very interesting phylum.

[Zaratustra]

Microwaving a golfball makes it go 20% further.

The three musketeers were not musketeers at all, but actually unemployed auto mechanics.

The pelagic cannibal carp is so called because it feeds exclusively on members of its own species.

Goldfish become invisible under ultra-violet light.

The Guinness Book of Records refuses to accept submissions for "World's largest country" on the grounds that attempts at such a record are inherently dangerous.