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** Oh yeah. This turboprop was fitted [[Up to Eleven|with an afterburner]].
* A 1991 [http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/14/weekinreview/headliners-all-in-the-voice.html news article] reported that a woman suffered epileptic seizures upon hearing the voice of ''Entertainment Tonight'' host Mary Hart. This was worked into an episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'', because it is [[Rule of Funny|funny]].
* An episode of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' featured the "digital" Pokemon, Porygon. The surreal nature of the episode resulted in a certain pattern of repetitive red and blue flashes which are known to cause epilepsy; [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/40269.stm 685 children were taken to hospitals] after complaining of blurred vision, headaches, dizziness and nausea, and some of them even had seizures, blindness, convulsions and unconsciousness. Laws now are on the books that animators can't have flashes that fast, and the episode is the reason health warnings in video games and before the beginning of anime remind the viewer to watch in a well lit room and keep back; many of the cases were due to the kids being glued to the TV and the lights turned down low.
** Some of these cases, especially the less-severe ones, may have been caused by mass hysteria after seeing a news report on the initial cases.
** Spoofed in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', when they went to Japan and saw the show "Battling Seizure Robots", which had the expected result.
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{{quote|The chemical literature has numerous examples of people who are at a loss for words when it comes to describing its smell, but their attempts are eloquent all the same. A few years ago, Gaussling at the Lamentations on Chemistry blog referred to it as “''The biggest stinker I have run across... Imagine 6 skunks wrapped in rubber innertubes and the whole thing is set ablaze. That might approach the metaphysical stench of this material.''”
«''The odor of diphenyl diselenide is extremely disagreeable but is not nearly so bad as that of selenophenol. [...] The odor of selenophenol is very penetrating, and is nauseating beyond description.''» }}
* [[Twitter]] completely [https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/twitter-stops-some-images-animating-to-protect-those-with-epilepsy/ shut down support for Animated PNG] images in 2019, as they were being abused to [https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/17/tech/epilepsy-strobe-twitter-attack-trnd/index.html send flashing images to photosensitive epilepsy patients].
** Not the first time these issues have arisen; John Rayne Rivello, 29, of Maryland was [https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/us/twitter-journalist-strobe-epilepsy/index.html criminally charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon] for [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38365859https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38365859 deliberately sending a blinking image] to Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald in 2016.
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