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During Liechtenstein’s last military engagement in 1886, they sent their standing army of eighty men, in which eighty one returned. The extra one being a new Italian “friend”.
Muhammad is the most common name in the world.
The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
"Mad Jack" Churchill was credited to have the last recorded longbow kill during wartime, reportedly killing a Nazi solider in 1940. He was also famous for wielding a Scottish broadsword in battle
A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scorpions, and locusts.
Since all UK passports are in the name of the queen, she has no passport. Instead she just declares herself to be the queen and is let through.
Roman's would brush their teeth with Urine.
Maldives has the highest divorce rate in the world, with roughly 11 divorces per 1000 people per year
Strangely enough the number of people who drowned by falling into a swimming-pool correlates with the number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in every year
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
During a speech Teddy Roosevelt was shot, but continued to give his speech. He only decided to go to the hospital after finishing said speech.
The Battle of Karánsebes resulted in a decisive defeat for the Austrian army, by the hands of the Austrian army. The army had been comprised of troops from different nations and many did not speak the same language, and due to a friendly fire incident the Austrian forces attacked each other not knowing who the enemy was.
Australia declared war against emu's and lost. It is now known as the Great Emu War
Ravens are intelligent enough to leave hard-shelled nuts on roads where they know cars will pass by. The cars crack the nuts shells, and the ravens get to eat. This is one of the closest examples we get to avian tool use.
A 15cm tall Blue ringed Octopus has enough poison in him to kill 25 adults in a few minutes
-40 degree is the same in both Celsius and Fahrenheit.
>>4522866
Sorry but
Sayori, the artist of >>4526409 has tried to remove that image from the internet after getting married since the character is supposed to be her.
>>4526396
I never got that
> Illustrations of Muhammad are totally banned!
> Naming your kids after Muhammad is totally okay!
>>4532858
Pictures aren't technically banned. It's idolatry of the pictures being frowned upon.Additionally if you look at judaism you aren't supposed to be using pictures of God and holy men for worship as that's considered idolatry.
Eg Christianity often has people praying to saints and if you look into the background the saints in many instances simply took the place of pagan gods so it's really just paganism in disguise.
Mohammed spazzing out about this was one of the first public moments of Islam being formed so naturally one wouldn't want to repeat the exact same problem and end up with people worshipping Muhammad statues instead of God. Satirical depictions of mohammed causing a problem has more to do with the fact that you're insulting the progenitor of a religion , anyone that follows his teachings by default, and usually the religion itself while you're doing so. Plus the whole fact that western civilization kinda installed the crazy people exiled to the dessert for being crazy by the rest of the muslim world into positions of power over the muslim world.
Technically we don't even have depictions of Jesus. What we have is the idealized (greek) image of a philosopher (first seen about 100 AD ) because the same original religious idea behind not depicting muhammed applies to Jesus as well.
Naming your kids Muhammed is perfectly fine because you are not dropping them on a pedestal and worshipping them as an incarnation of (or a) God.
I'm honestly a little confused at how you even came to that conclusion. Do you think all Latinos are blasphemers because of all the people they have named Jesus?
>>4532914
Not him, but sharing a name dilutes the name's impact. When you think of jesus, you're suppose to think of the son of god, not that dirty hobo down the street.
>>4532914
You're repeating legalist stances within the religions, but not the ground truth of the religions themselves.
Walk up to most Christians in the American South, and they will insist to you that Jesus IS that wavy haired blue eyed Caucasian image. That's literally how they picture him. They have no concept of the idea that it's not him, it's an idealized Greek portrait; when he rises again, THAT's the guy they expect to give them a lift to heaven. Same with the other depictions of Jesus for Christians in other cultures. The priests may have that original religious idea, but certainly not the people, be they Catholic or Calvinists.
Well, maybe Calvinists, they're weird.
Same deal with Muhammed. Walk up to a Muslim in the streets of Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, or Turkey, and they will almost certainly insist that no images at ALL of Muhammad are allowed. No nuance, no quibbling about satire, all images period. If they bring in idolatry, then all images are banned because they're all potential idols. Several surveys were done about this back in the aughts.
And yes, naming kids after a dude is by default putting that dude on a pedestal. No one names their kid Adolf unless they're a white supremacist - no Japanese names their kid Mikado because they want them to carry on running the grocery store. Alexander didn't name stuff after himself and schools aren't named after Washington because they were ordinary guys. Naming something after someone is a form of idolizing them, whether or not the idolators realize it. Yes, that goes for people who name their kids Jesus, too. Even the most devout unknowingly break or give themselves passes on breaking religious laws, from shrimp to clothes, to naming their kids.
Unless they're Calvinists, they're weird.
Spain's first dictator, Primo de Rivera, abdicated in early 1930. Six yeara of peace and 3 of war later, Francisco Franco became Spain's second dictator.
I find this thread both arousing AND educational
>>4533959
Yea... Actually want more.
I hope this isn't too common of knowledge.
You can make a geometric form with one face and one edge using a rectangular strip of paper. You twist one end of the strip 180 degrees, and connect it to the other end.
>>4526417
In Mexico too
>>4535034
>>4535048
You are bad at giving names for things, like keratin and mobius.
>>4526409
>bdsm, stocking, perfect body dimensions, the combination od red and black und a fact about my country
I salute to You Anon!