Post obscure facts about any subject.

[pegasuswarrior]

Sept 13, 2014 11:19:36 GMT -5 @nothankyou said:

An early crack at bringing Spider-Man to the big screen in the 80s would've involved Peter turning into a mutated spider freak and taking on a gauntlet of other monsters created by a mad scientist. Stan Lee gave this project the axe when he learned about the filmmakers' "vision," and Spidey's motion picture debut would linger in development hell until 2002. *

* Of course, there was Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge, but that was just the series finale of the Amazing Spider-Man tv show dolled up for theaters.

That was Cannon Films, the Israeli duo who were at the head of Masters of the Universe (which defied He-Man canon) and the bad Captain America and Superman IV and Alan Quatermain (Indiana Jones ripoff). The reason Spider-Man was "envisioned" that way was because the head guy really had no idea what Spider-Man was, but he was told he was popular. The company was an assembly line of movie production, all of them notoriously bad.

#Lifeforce

[ERON]

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

Lenny Kravitz's mom played Helen Willis on The Jeffersons.

The notions of vampires turning to dust in the sunlight and werewolves changing during the full moon were invented by the movies and are not present in folklore. Similarly, in folklore, silver bullets - or any silver weapon - were thought to be lethal to vampires, witches, and other supernatural beings, not just werewolves. The specific association of silver bullets with werewolves is pure Hollywood.

Superman's first archnemesis was the Ultra-Humanite, a bald mad scientist. Lex Luthor originally had hair and was a master criminal rather than a mad scientist. At some point, an artist got the two characters confused, and that's how we got Lex Luthor as a bald mad scientist. The Ultra-Humanite was largely forgotten for decades, and when he was finally revived, he was completely redesigned to look nothing like his original appearance.

No one was burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials.

[Sephiroth]

The end of the dark ages and beginning of the Enlightenment in Europe roughly coincided with the introduction of coffee from the Middle East and Africa. This has lead some historians to theorize that the sudden intellectual awakening of Europe may have been in no small part because suddenly there was a beverage other than beer and wine available, and hence people were not walking around drunk and hung over 24/7.

[Ryushinku]

Not only is it scientifically possible to prove that a bumblebee can fly, it's always been possible to prove a bumblebee can fly.

The myth that science couldn't prove it was rumoured to originate with an incorrect formula applied many decades ago, some say at a dinner party of all things, and like the whole 'humans use just 10% of their brain' thing it's just oddly clung onto life as an urban myth without actually being ever maintained.

Iron Maidens didn't exist in the Middle Ages either; they, certainly the originals anyway, were constructed together from different older objects in the 18th century for historical exhibitions.

[CeilingFan]

Texas is bigger than any of the following countries :

United Kingdom

France

Spain

Germany

Italy

Japan

South Korea

[The Lach is very tired]

The Blue Whale is the largest animal to ever have existed on Earth yet it is unable to swallow an object the size of your fist.

The Kangaroo & Emu were chosen to feature on the Australian Coat of Arms partly because neither animal is physically able to take backward step.

[Deleted]

The Rock has in fact made people submit to his much-maligned version of the Sharpshooter. For example, Hulk Hogan tapped out to it at Wrestlemania X8. However, the referee was knocked out and unable to declare The Rock winner via submission.

[Sephiroth]

The character Professor Moriarty, often depicted as the arch-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, actually only appeared in one story. Arthur Conan Doyle had decided he wanted to end the popular Homes series and move on to other writing projects, and had decided to kill the character off to endure he would never be pressured to write more Holmes stories. Fearing a fan backlash, he decided to have the great detective go out in a blaze of glory by having him die in the process of taking down the greatest criminal mastermind to ever live. The plan didn't work; fans were outraged and Conan Doyle had to ressurect Sherlock Holmes a few years later.

[Hit Girl]

Britain is the only country that has ever captured Washington DC during a war with America.