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Who is a real-life person you think would be worthy of wielding Thor’s hammer?

by QuestionGuy August 19, 2022, 1:07 pm

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TIL Armie Hammer’s great grandfather Armand Hammer tried to buy Arm & Hammer because was tired of being asked about it

by whatilearned August 10, 2022, 8:50 pm

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TIL That Armie Hammer, heir to his great-grandfather Armand Hammer’s business empire, (including a partial ownership of Arm and Hammer) was outed as a cannibal. His rehab was paid for by RDJ, and now he sells timeshares in the Caymen islands.

by whatilearned July 17, 2022, 5:17 am

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TIL Baseball player Al “The Hebrew Hammer” Rosen was an amateur boxer and known for challenging anyone who insulted his heritage, or used anti-Semitic slurs, to fight. His stated preferred method for dealing with anti-Semitism was to ‘Flatten them’.

by whatilearned July 7, 2022, 4:14 pm

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TIL that the surgeon August Bier tested on his own assistant a form of anesthesia consisting of injecting cocaine directly into the spine, and to check how effective it was, he stuck a needle in his leg, hit him in the shins with a hammer, ripped off his pubic hair and even squeezed his testicles.

by whatilearned July 5, 2022, 12:37 pm

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TIL in the movie Misery, when Kathy Bates ‘hobbles’ James Caan with a sledge hammer, the scene was deliberately downgraded. She was supposed to chop off his foot with an axe, then cauterize the wound with a propane torch.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 6:23 am

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TIL of John Marshal, who held a castle against King Stephen during the Anarchy in 1152. When the King threatened to kill his son, Marshal replied defiantly, “I have the anvils and the hammer to forge still better sons.”

by whatilearned June 5, 2022, 1:48 am

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The Hog Rider is a fast ground troop with medium hit points, low damage, and the ability to jump over enemy Walls. He is unlocked at level 2 Dark Barracks. The Hog Rider (person) is a bare-chested dark-skinned man holding a hammer. He has a Mohawk, wears a brown leather loincloth, a red belt, and a

by CopyPastaArchive April 30, 2022, 3:28 pm

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TIL Oakland A’s baseball player Reggie Jackson gave a 13 year old club house assistant named Stanley Kirk Burrell the nickname “Hammer” who later became MC Hammer.

by whatilearned April 11, 2022, 6:08 am

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TIL about the LeMat revolver, a twin-barreled, Confederate States of America-produced, 9-shot, .42 or .36-caliber revolver. Its secondary barrel could fire a 20-gauge shotgun shell. Its firing hammer had a built-in lever designed to select which barrel would fire when the trigger was pulled.

by whatilearned March 7, 2022, 12:32 am

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TIL The Big Ben’s unique tone is because the bell had cracked in 1859, barely two months after its inauguration. The bell is since oriented in such a way the hammer doesn’t strike the ‘crack’

by whatilearned March 1, 2022, 2:57 pm

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TIL Jim Gordon, founding member of Derek & The Dominoes, prolific studio drummer (Beach Boys, Byrds, C,S & N, Elvis, Nilsson, Stone Poneys, Tom Petty, Ronstadt, Lennon, Harrison, and more) developed schizophrenia, and beat his 72 year old mother to death with a hammer and knife. He is still in jail.

by whatilearned February 27, 2022, 8:18 pm

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