The Fun Fact Thread

Majora's Mask was originally going to be called Majula's Mask. Nintendo changed this for an unknown reason.
The old man who says, "I AM ERROR." In Zelda II was intended to say I AM ERROL, but due to the poor translation between the NES and their code, it replaced the L with an R.

Originally Posted by xoɹǝpnpɐpןǝz

Majora's Mask was originally going to be called Majula's Mask. Nintendo changed this for an unknown reason.
The old man who says, "I AM ERROR." In Zelda II was intended to say I AM ERROL, but due to the poor translation between the NES and their code, it replaced the L with an R.

Strangely, a lot of words (or maybe just names, I can't remember) in Japanese that have the R in the middle of the name tend to have a bit of an L emphasis in the R sound, as I had found from hearing the names Kira (from Death Note) and Miria (from Claymore).

Originally Posted by xoɹǝpnpɐpןǝz

Majora's Mask was originally going to be called Majula's Mask. Nintendo changed this for an unknown reason.
The old man who says, "I AM ERROR." In Zelda II was intended to say I AM ERROL, but due to the poor translation between the NES and their code, it replaced the L with an R.

Awesome. If it wasn't for one tiny mistake, there would be one less meme.

Originally Posted by Kami Tsurugi

Strangely, a lot of words (or maybe just names, I can't remember) in Japanese that have the R in the middle of the name tend to have a bit of an L emphasis in the R sound, as I had found from hearing the names Kira (from Death Note) and Miria (from Claymore).

If I remember correctly, some Rs are a mix of L and R in Japanese. Of course, I don't remember correctly.

I remember my sister telling me this, but I'm not sure if it's true, but I have seen some evidence from my cat. If you drop two cats from ten and twenty feet, the higher cat has a higher chance of landing without hurting itself. (The cat has more time in the air to get in the correct landing position.) And if you do, you're just plain mean to cats. D:

Originally Posted by trimph forks

The Internet was originally created to be a resource for learning.

Fail.
The internet was originally created by the CIA for efficient intelligence transmission between distant locations. It was later repurposed for commercial use, and finally became used by every day people.

Did you know that Australia contains three of the six most toxic animals smaller than your shoe?

Originally Posted by ZeldaMaster#1#1

If I remember correctly, some Rs are a mix of L and R in Japanese. Of course, I don't remember correctly.

Indeed: the Japanese fold many lateral phones into a single phoneme, and so don't naturally distinguish between "r" and "l" sounds. English has similar quirks: our "p" and especially "k" phonemes extend over sounds that are clearly distinct to other cultures.

Some fun recent trivia: although bee-societies are often touted as perfectly cooperative "hive minds", certain species actually inhabit a police-state. In a particular Brazilians species, female worker bees may elect to forgo their usual duties and reproduce; a "contagious" behavior, especially common in children of a superseded queen, that extends the worker's lifetime threefold and checks the influence of the current queen, weakening the hive with time. More loyal workers "police" the problem by eating the seditious eggs.

SMB3 was a play.

In my neighbor Tortorro, the girl and the mom are dead. The big creature is allegedly a death god.

Originally Posted by Captain Ivan

Did you know that Australia contains three of the six most toxic animals smaller than your shoe?

Yes, yes I did. :D

Originally Posted by ZeldaMaster#1#1

If I remember correctly, some Rs are a mix of L and R in Japanese. Of course, I don't remember correctly.

Also B & V.

(So if "believe it" was actually what Naruto said in Japan, it would be indistinguishable from "veribe it". What he says in Japan is instead Dattebayo, which roughly translates to "and that's how it is". I think.)

Originally Posted by Notsil

• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Wouldn't that be a centisecond?

Originally Posted by Shmehzzie can

Wouldn't that be a centisecond?

Yes. The "jiffy" thing is a myth.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

Aside from copy-pasted facts.... A Barbie doll is predicted to take 100,000 years to fully decompose.

You crap a lot in a life time.

i bet u guys didnt know. that i am the internet

Originally Posted by [Cartoon]--Link

i bet u guys didnt know. that i am the internet

why even post

Originally Posted by Valhelm

SMB3 was a play.

In my neighbor Tortorro, the girl and the mom are dead. The big creature is allegedly a death god.

What is SMB3?

That is not true. Totoro doesn't do jack crack and the mother returns healed and happy.

These are all just copy pastes, and they could be inaccurate.

Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel.

The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.

When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.

Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.

A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.

The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies.

China banned the pigtail in 1911 as it was seen as a symbol of feudalism.

Sliced bread was patented by a jeweler, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912.

Before it was stopped by the British, it was the not uncommon for women in some areas of India to choose to be burnt alive on their husband's funeral pyre.

Before the Second World War, it was considered a sacrilege to even touch an Emperor of Japan.

An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles.

The Anglo-Saxons believed Friday to be such an unlucky day that they ritually slaughtered any child unfortunate enough to be born on that day.

During the eighteenth century, laws had to be brought in to curb the seemingly insatiable appetite for gin amongst the poor. Their annual intake was as much as five million gallons.

Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups

Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor.

The British did not release the body of Napoleon Bonaparte to the French until twenty days after his death.

John Glenn, the American who first orbited the Earth, was showered with 3,529 tonnes of ticker tape when he got back.

Native American Indians used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees subsequent to the birth. Hence such strange names as Sitting Bull and Running Water.

Catherine the First of Russia, made a rule that no man was allowed to get drunk at one of her parties before nine o'clock.

While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.

The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Neptune, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random.

Custer was the youngest General in US history, he was promoted at the age of 23.

Between the two World Wars, France was controlled by forty different governments.

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.

Originally Posted by efo

What is SMB3?

Super Mario Brothers 3.

Originally Posted by Efo

That is not true. Totoro doesn't do jack crack and the mother returns healed and happy.

Meh, that's just what I heard. My mind was blown, also.
People have said, also, that the catbus is transport for the dead, a ferry to the other world, ie, in the end, they're in the afterlife.

This too will blow your mind.

Originally Posted by Sabbo

ROFL i love Spoiler shirt.

It's impossible for you to lick your elbow.

Pigs can actually have a 30 minute orgasm.

Coffee makes you poo.

California is literally located on one of the largest (if not the largest) fault lines in North America. (San Andreas)

Emperor Caligula often dressed in women's clothing.

Gargoyles were placed on cathedrals to ward off evil spirits, and also to double as ornamental rain gutters.

The vikings originally discovered the New World nearly a milennium before Columbus.

Philidelphia, PA was orginally the captiol of America.

Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream is actually Vermont based.

Morphine and many other now-illegal subtances could be purchased over the counter in drug stores in the 1800s.

Coca-Cola originally had cocaine in it. (or atleast a form of it)

Florina is having difficulties spelling in her old age. D:

Margarine is supposedly almost plastic—only off my one molecule—as according to the internet and my brother's teacher.

Well margarine is made with vegetable oil, and plastic is made with petroleum. So I doubt it's anything to be concerned about.