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* The [[wikipedia:Tueller Drill|Tueller Drill]] is about the average distance at which someone with a '''holstered''' gun can successfully draw and shoot before an assailant with a melee weapon can reach him, and by corollary, the distance at or below which a melee assailant can close to land an attack before said would-be gunman can make his. Somewhere along the line, it somehow (d)evolved into the notion of a melee attacker being able to invert [[Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight]] at a distance below that; given that there is still a high likelihood of being able to complete the draw-and-shoot despite injury and that [[No Range Like Point-Blank Range|a gunshot will still do at least as much damage up close]], this is not the case. It definitely does not say anything about trying to close with an active shooter, but from the way the story has mutated, one could be forgiven for thinking it did. |
* The [[wikipedia:Tueller Drill|Tueller Drill]] is about the average distance at which someone with a '''holstered''' gun can successfully draw and shoot before an assailant with a melee weapon can reach him, and by corollary, the distance at or below which a melee assailant can close to land an attack before said would-be gunman can make his. Somewhere along the line, it somehow (d)evolved into the notion of a melee attacker being able to invert [[Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight]] at a distance below that; given that there is still a high likelihood of being able to complete the draw-and-shoot despite injury and that [[No Range Like Point-Blank Range|a gunshot will still do at least as much damage up close]], this is not the case. It definitely does not say anything about trying to close with an active shooter, but from the way the story has mutated, one could be forgiven for thinking it did. |
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* King Tutankhamun's golden burial mask (you know, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of_Tutankhamun this thing]) is one of the most famous and iconic artifacts pertaining to ancient Egypt, but it is also one the media tends to get wrong. Quick, what is on the mask’s forehead? A cobra, right? Well, right! But there is also a vulture next to the cobra, something that, 99% of the time, isn’t there when the mask is depicted in the media. Kind of odd for something so famous. |
* King Tutankhamun's golden burial mask (you know, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of_Tutankhamun this thing]) is one of the most famous and iconic artifacts pertaining to ancient Egypt, but it is also one the media tends to get wrong. Quick, what is on the mask’s forehead? A cobra, right? Well, right! But there is also a vulture next to the cobra, something that, 99% of the time, isn’t there when the mask is depicted in the media. Kind of odd for something so famous. |
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* Most claim that the flush toilet was invented by a plumber named [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Thomas_Crapper Thomas Crapper], his name being an [[Ironic Echo]] of the device he invented. Truth be told, he can't even take credit for the word "crap", which was being used well before he was born. The flush toilet was actually invented in 1590 by [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/John_Harington_(writer) Sir John Harington] (a godson of Queen Elizabeth I, by the way) but it was a noisy and unsanitary device (due to a lack of sewers) that didn't catch on until around 1880. |
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