http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_hollywood_shootout

Shootout heavily influenced by the movie Heat.

alright last one, but this is THE most interesting wiki article, I promise you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Weird.

other way around

only thing worth reading before me in this thread is nikola tesla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo's_fire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_animals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

heat was released in 95, robbery was in 97

The investigation of the shootout found that the perpetrators were heavily influenced[citation needed] by the Michael Mann film Heat which was released a few years earlier in 1995.

hmm ok, nevermind. my bad.

It is always about boobs with you guys.

(All four links were worse than any other post in this thread.)

I hate Wikipedia. It has the stupidest ****. Theres something to be said about the real thing. Paper. Dont really get the point of it and I cant stand other always talking about it like Twitter.

^^You prefer we pull out our or 1972 Encyclopedia Brittanica for fun facts? I also don't understand what you are saying as its not English.

Holy crap at the coconut crab. They weigh about 10 pounds but can lift up to 60 pounds? wtf? I know lighter animals can lift more times their body weight but 10 pounds is starting to be kind of a lot to be 6xing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

(artifact recovered from a c. 100 BC shipwreck that features engineering feats ~1500 years ahead of its time)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

(famous coded European book that has resisted 400 years of decoding attempts)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Batteries

(possible chemical batteries that predate the accepted invention of same by 1000 years)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bloop

(really really loud, scary-as-**** noise recorded from the ocean)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium

(ancient fennel relative believed to have been a powerful contraceptive, farmed to extinction by the Romans)

Very cool. Nature podcast talked about it some time ago. Apparently there's a book.

http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast...anscripts.html (30 Oct '08 + extra)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths should explain itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster