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3 unusual facts about centipede


Atari 5200

Atari Inc. released the Pro-Line Trak-Ball controller for the system, which was used primarily for gaming titles such as Centipede or Missile Command.

Time Bandit

Some worlds incorporate elements of text adventure games, and most contain gameplay references to other popular games of the time, such as Pac-Man and Centipede.

Video game remake

After Atari's demise, Hasbro continued the tradition, with 3D remakes of Pong, Centipede, and Asteroids.


Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line

These three stations demonstrated a change of design priorities straying away from Stalinist architecture to the new minimalism centipede designs supported under Nikita Khrushchev's leadership.

Click beetle

Other subterranean creatures such as the leatherjacket grub of crane flies which have no legs, and geophilid centipedes, which may have over two hundred, are sometimes confounded with the six-legged wireworms.

Ethmostigmus rubripes

There has been at least one reported death from the related centipede species Scolopendra subspinipes in which a young girl was bitten and died.

Eupolybothrus cavernicolus

It has been dubbed the cyber-centipede as it is the first eukaryotic species for which, in addition to the traditional morphological description, scientists have provided a transcriptomic profile, DNA barcoding data, detailed anatomical X-ray microtomography (micro-CT), and a movie of the living specimen.

Eupolybothrus cavernicolus is a species of centipede so far only found in two caves near the village of Kistanje, in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia.

Feminist Improvising Group

The Feminist Improvising Group (FIG) was founded in London in 1977 by Scottish vocalist Maggie Nicols from Centipede and English bassoonist/composer Lindsay Cooper from Henry Cow.

Gary Windo

In the early 1970s, his career grew as he founded his own group, the Gary Windo Quartet, and worked with Brotherhood of Breath, Centipede, Matching Mole, The Running Man, Carla Bley and Nick Mason.

Giant centipede

Ethmostigmus rubripes, a large centipede found in Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Indonesia, Southeast Asia and China.

Latham's Snipe

Latham's Snipe is an omnivorous species that feeds on seeds and other plant material (mainly from species in families such as Cyperaceae, Poaceae, Juncaceae, Polygonaceae, Ranunculaceae and Fabaceae), and on invertebrates including insects (mainly flies and beetles), earthworms, spiders and occasionally molluscs, isopods and centipedes.

Saint Helena earwig

It is possibly extinct due to habitat loss as well as predation by introduced rodents and an introduced centipede (Scolopendra morsitans).

Stigmatogaster subterranea

Stigmatogaster subterranea is a species of centipede in the family Himantariidae that can be found in Central Europe, Ireland, Newfoundland, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom.

The Radiators from Space

The song "Television Screen", as covered by Centipede on the Roof, became title theme to the comedy TV series The Blizzard of Odd (2001–05).

Tom Six

In the United Kingdom, the BBFC declined to issue an 18 certificate for The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), highlighting the antagonist's "total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture, and murder of his naked victims".

Tony Ross

He has also illustrated the Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger, the Dr. Xargle series by Jeanne Willis, and the Harry The Poisonous Centipede series by Lynne Reid Banks.


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