Any shuffled deck of playing cards, believe it or not, has never before, in the history of our planet, been in that order.
How can we know that? It’s a simple mathematical fact. The order of cards is a gigantic number. It’s a number known by mathematicians as ‘52 factorial’, otherwise known as 52! or 52 shriek (52 x 51 x 50 x 49 and so on). And that number is big. It’s this big:
80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766, 975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000.
This number is so big that were you to imagine if every star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, each with a trillion people living on them, and each of these people had a trillion packs of cards, and somehow they managed to shuffle them all one thousand times a second, and they had been doing that since the Big Bang, they would only just now be starting to repeat shuffles.
So when you shuffle a deck of cards, you can say with all the mathematical certainty that is possible that the deck you shuffled has never been in that order before. It’s an absolute world first.
When someone is accusing me of lying, while i’m actually telling the truth, I unintentionally begin to act really suspicious, because I focus so much on appearing trustworthy.
I have an idealized version of myself in my mind and she’s really pissed off at my life choices
If Netflix or HBO made a “Harry Potter by the books” series (one chapter per episode) TONS of people would watch it.
Saying extreme tragedy brings one closer to God is the religious equivalent of Stockholm syndrome.
Under D&D rules, a dagger does 1d4 base damage. The average human has a Strength score of 10, adding no bonuses. Several of them, due to the military background of many, likely had strength or dexterity scores of 11-14. But only two or three, and quite a few would be frail with old age, sinking to 8-9 strength. All in all, we can only add a total of +1 damage per round from Brutus.
An estimate of sixty men were involved in Caesar’s actual murder. Not the wider conspiracy, but the stabbing.
Julius Caesar was a general, which is generally depicted as a 10th level fighter. Considering his above baseline constitution and dex, weakened by his probable history of malaria, epilepsy, and/or strokes (-1 dex modifier), and lack of armor at the time of the event, he would likely have something along the lines of AC 9 and 60 HP. The senators would likely hit him roughly 55% the time.
So the Roman senate had a damage-per-round of 66, more than enough to kill Caesar in one round even without factoring in surprise round advantage.
Now THESE are the kind of statistics I wanna see!
