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Trick question based on misleading use of punctuation. It's "five factorial", 5x4x3x2x1=120, not "five (emphasized)". IIRC, the inciting tweet used "5!.", the "redundant" period giving away the trick.

It's about whether or not one is watching the slit, hence the bit about misunderstanding superpositions in the quantum eraser. Functionally speaking, photons are particles but of such small size and low energy that superposition produces a dominantly wavelike behavior.

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Other highlights of the Mediterranean misdirect, Operation Mincemeat: Determining that the disinformation was received by the exact placement of a hair in the file Specifically predicting the Spanish would relay the information to the Axis Properly filling out all on-person paperwork for the...

You sure it's not the misdirect in the Mediterranean that had the disinformation held to even after the real plan leaked because Hitler thought the real plan was nuts?

This is accidentally a multi-layer joke because several of these fish look hideous specifically because they're pulled from the lightless depths, warping them with depressurization. Which is a serviceable metaphor for impenetrable niche subcultures that are entirely genuinely better off staying...

I suppose "familiarized" would be the better word thinking about it again, but the point is that a lot of the "uncanniness" wiring is based on what you've seen previously, so any discernable "foreign" detail is liable to end up feeling "weird". Seriously, take a glance at Traditional Chinese...

No, that's just Undoctored Asian Youth, we don't get to see them often enough to be acclimated so they're extremely uncanny.

This burns the OCD. Literally shaking in despair. Other two were good jokes, but this is too far, man!

Fun fact, since it was amphibious most of it was naval artillery. There were some very unfortunate Germans who had to artillery duel the USS Texas. Sure, BB-35 was from 1911, but those were still 14 inch guns!

"Moral Guardians" and sketchy assholes who use their vigor against it to reduce suspicion about their own would have inevitably forced it eventually, no matter how few and far between the cases are. Most of the cases that have come out are "particularly well-developed 16 year old says she's just...

Hell, they did build things extremely similar to modern architecture! No, really, modern single-family housing is structurally almost unchanged from some truly ancient wooden support schemes, but instead of sticks, straw, and copious amounts of dirt and oxshit, we fill the gaps between wood...

Granted, they'd probably still be recorded as "illiterate" because the statistics behind that surround Latin, and architecture is one of the chief candidates for translation into vernacular to end up with the bulk of "highly educated" masons not actually be able to read the original source...

It does because, for one, the IRL character designers don't have much frame of reference for that sort of thing, for another it places the historic development of such things as very painfully specific in its breakdown, for a third it implies that one has to have very extensive development of...

Specific near-perfectly-fitting late-renaissance suits maybe, but in general they actually did reduce flexibility because human joint structures are very hard to account for fully while also decently covering the joint. Many suits of plate give up on coverage for the thigs and under the...