Fun fact: Axton, AKA, that one character from Borderlands 2 who isn’t the cool ninja with a sword, is one of the few characters in recent gaming history to be openly bisexual, and part of the reason why is due to a a genuine error made while programming the game.
The Crab That’s Too Scary to be Delicious
These days fisherman have a rather sizeable hard on for fish that can be caught sustainably since it helps the environment and gives them the ability to earn potentially infinite money. Over in the UK though there’s one creature fisherman can’t seem to sell, spider crabs.
The Penguins in ‘Happy Feet’ Were All Mo-Capped by a Professional Tap Dancer
Happy Feet is a 2006 movie inexplicably written and directed by the same guy who wrote and directed Mad Max: Fury Road. In a nutshell it’s about a tiny penguin who learns to express himself through the power of dance and for some reason the animators felt that they absolutely had to use an actual professional tap dancer to mo-cap the whole thing.
That time a guy mastered judo, for Charizard
Back when Pokemon cards were a thing in the 90’s you probably heard a lot of stories about kids getting beaten up by bullies wanting to steal their best and rarest cards, like more dickish and efficient members of Team Rocket. When this happened to Ashley McKenzie he decided the best response would be to master the art of judo to beat the shit out of the kid who stole it.
Moon Landing Hoax Theories Can All be Debunked by the Original Photos
The moon landing hoax, or the idea that NASA and the American government somehow faked the Moon landing, is one of the most pervasive conspiracy theories ever coined. Which is kind of stupid when you think about it because virtually all of the theories people like to spout can be debunked by doing nothing more than looking at the original photos NASA released to the public 50 fucking years ago.
