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35. The T-35 was a Soviet multi-turreted heavy tank of the interwar period and early Second World War that saw limited production and service with the Red Army. It was the only five-turreted heavy tank in the world to reach production but proved to be slow and mechanically unreliable.

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38, the number of the Hanley-Birches Head Circular. A run universally despised among us bus drivers because of its 20-minute round trip time. This of course means you end up EXACTLY 10 mins late, and can neither gain time, nor lose enough time to drop a trip. Plus the shift I used to do on the hateful bloody things did 13 trips in the morning, 14 in the afternoon.

 

Grrr!

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While touring in support of Chuck, Sum 41 played videos before their set which were deemed "unsuitable for children". In one video, Basketball Butcher, which was also included in some versions of Chuck, Steve and Cone play basketball and Cone beats Steve badly. Following the game Steve murders Cone and later dismembers and cooks him. In another video, 1-800-Justice, Cone and Steve are drug dealing brothers, while Dave and Deryck play under cover police officers. Steve shoots Deryck as Cone stabs Dave and they make their get away.

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Centuries back, the wealthy English were known for the "surprise" pie. This odd culinary creation was a main dish, and was brought to the banquet table with great fanfare. It was opened ceremoniously, and out of the pie leaped all sorts of live creatures: frogs, squirrels, terriers, foxes, and as the nursery rhyme claims, four-and-twenty blackbirds. At one grand party, a dueling dwarf reportedly popped out and cavorted on top of the banquet table. The serving of "surprise pies" was a gala affair for years, until Oliver Cromwell came into power. He banned the eating of pie in 1644, declaring it a pagan form of pleasure. For 16 years, pie-making and eating went underground. In 1660, the Restoration leaders lifted the ban on pie.

 

and you thought the vcra was silly.... :P

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Agent 47 (or "Mr. 47") is a fictional character and playable protagonist of the Hitman video game series. His name is derived from a barcode tattooed on the back of his head (640509-040147), the last two digits of which are 47. An assassin by trade, he normally works under aliases during his missions; examples include Tobias Rieper (a play on 'Grim Reaper'), Metzger (German for butcher), Flech Fisher, Julio, Byrd, Johnson, Jacob Leiter, and Dr. Cropes . 47 is voiced by David Bateson in the games and played by Timothy Olyphant in the live-action adaptation.

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EDIT:// DARN, RedScare beat me to it,

 

Fifty is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of two squares in two distinct ways: 50 = 1^2 + 7^2 = 5^2 + 5^2. It is also the sum of three squares, 50 = 3^2 + 4^2 + 5^2. It is a Harshad number.

 

It also happens to be one of the largest caliber bullets around: The .50 Browning Machine Gun (better known as 50 BMG) happens to be the caliber most associated with the anti-personnel, anti-light vehicle, anti-military-equipment/hardware, and EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) scoped rifle, the Barrett M82A1.

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