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The world is a big place with so many different landscapes, cultures, and wildlife, it’s quite astonishing to think about it. The sheer vastness of it all makes it impossible for one person to really know everything—there’s just so much going on everywhere at once.
That’s why it’s no surprise that we often stumble upon things and facts that aren’t familiar to us. Some are more curious than others, but all allow us to learn something new about the world around us.
So, do yourself a favor and scroll down to read through the most recent collection of mind-blowing facts from the “Unbelievable facts” Facebook page. They are sure to impress you and will remind you of how interesting life can be.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Better than fair. The tiger ATE him. If the poacher had killed the tiger he would have taken the pelt and left the rest for scavengers.
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Black Cat 2 years ago
All poachers deserve this, same as the arseholes who fuel this trade. Powdered rhino horn or tiger s*****m isn't going to make your micro d**k get bigger.
Living Example 2 years ago
I'm gonna start an "Arm the Tigers" campaign to discourage these dirtbags from persuing
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
See? We TOLD you soft can-openers are hard to train. Sometimes you get one you've no choice but to eat.
If you scroll through these facts and realize that the majority of them are well-known to you, you might have a good chance of excelling in a pub quiz. Or, even you could take it even further and try your hand at World Quizzing Championships.
The event has been going on for 20 years now, taking place in various countries all over the world. The participants that sit down to take the written quiz all do it simultaneously on the first Saturday of June. They take it in two parts, each of them lasting 1 hour.
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Panda Bear 2 years ago
He was given The Carnegie Medal which is the highest civilian honor in the US
Surenu 2 years ago
I remember that story. There was a successful fundraiser for his hospital bills...
Full Name 2 years ago
Jeez...He could have gone broke saving the lives of 5 children. That is so depressing.
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Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
"The pizza was hot, the toppings were generous, the crust was just the right balance between crunchy and chewy, and my kids surviving the fire was an unexpected bonus! 5 stars!"
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
I wonder how many "sidewalk counselors" would have done the same. I'm sure plenty will say they would, but any Big Mouth Bass can talk the talk. Let's see them walk the walk.
Sherman Von Gee 2 years ago
So basically the only decent person to ever live in Lafayette? Lol. What a badass
#3
Astrophile 2 years ago
People like this are exactly what this world needs right now
Load More Replies... Rob D 2 years ago
I'd be lying to tell you I really cared about anybody that could vacation in Dubai.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
There are beach wheelchairs available in some of the working class environments I go to.
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Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Cool, but every beach resort should have st least a Mobi-Mat. installati...fef8f1.jpg 
Monica Michelle 2 years ago
That is wonderful. Would love for more of this. I have such a hard time with access in my wheelchair
J Adams 2 years ago
In high end hotels which I presume the ritz-Carlton is, it’s the staffs job to go above and beyond to give guests the best possible experience, there have been many tv programs on the u.k on that subject where you see guests asking for weird, elaborate or expensive things and the staff making it happen
The topics you have to brush up on are extensive. They are:
- Culture; Architecture, Fine art, Museums, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, World cultures
- Entertainment; Ballet, Classical music, Film Music, Jazz & World Music, Opera, Pop music, Radio, Television, Theatre (Popular/Musicals)
- History; Civilizations, Current Affairs, Exploration, Famous People, History
- Lifestyle; Costume, Design, Fashion, Food & Drink, Handicrafts, Health & Fitness, Human Body, New Age beliefs, Products & Brands, Social Media, Tourism
- Media; Comic strips, Comic books, Graphic novels, Film, Language, Literature
- Sciences; Exact sciences (Chemistry, Physics etc.), Fauna, Flora, Social sciences
- Sport & Games; Games, Sports, Hobbies & Pastimes, Records & achievements (in context of genre)
- World; Cities, Human Geography Physical Geography, Inventions, Space, Technology, Transport
#4
Multa Nocte 2 years ago
Now THAT is a great story! What a good fellow! And good for her for reciprocating!
MommaBear 2 years ago
I posted a link to an update. He got a car, down payment on a home, reunited w his family, and hopes to start a house painting business.
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
Fair enough payback for such a good deed. For anyone reading this who thinks that homeless people are homeless because they want to be, or they’re lazy, etc: Not everyone down on their luck is a thief or a junkie, or has mental issues. Some of them are just down on their luck. They’ve experienced way too many setbacks; their landlords turned them out of their reasonably priced apartments because the landlord got greedy and wanted to refurbish the building and units, and raise the rent sky high. Many homeless people actually hold down full time jobs, but don’t make enough for rent, down payment, security deposit, and anything else a greedy landlord wants to fleece them for. They simply need a leg up to be successful once again—-and successful doesn’t necessarily mean money. It can mean once again being a member of the rest of society, gainfully employed, living in a house and not in the streets, safe, secure, on a better path. That’s successful a thousand times over. The best kind of successful.
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You don't need it 2 years ago
I've worked with the homeless a bit. Most of them are really decent people. All of them are human beings.
Savannah greenleaf 2 years ago
Just because you are in need does not make you a thief. Hard to find but decent people exist.
MommaBear 2 years ago
https://www.nspirement.com/2023/06/21/billy-ray-harris-honesty.html
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
There was a show on years ago about idiots who treated their wild animals like house pets until the wild animal acted like a wild animal and ate them. The craziest one was a man in Harlem who kept a tiger in his apartment. Let's just say the tiger was NOT Richard Parker.
Duckie Measles 2 years ago
I think I remember that. There was a guy with a pet polar bear that he kept in a backyard pool. I can't imagine that ended well either.
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Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
This sounds like a joke opening, "a bear, a lion and a tiger walk into a bar..."
Surenu 2 years ago
I was about to say, they finally have the chance to put "based on a true story" on a Disney film!
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The Random Merp 2 years ago
I've volunteered here! The sanctuary is closed now due to many hits (Covid, bird flu, and eventually legal trouble) and unfortunately two of the three are now passed. Was there when they were alive though and it was truly amazing to witness! They actually fell asleep laying next to each other, absolute trust.
Cara G 2 years ago
How lucky you are! What are their names? Can you tell us any stories about them? I have so many questions!!! ❤
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Ozymandias73 2 years ago
Sounds like a Disney movie. Minus the drug dealer part, but you know they'd Disneyfy the whole story.
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Athan Steenbock 2 years ago
Now, they say JW4, meaning john wick 4, after the movie John wick chapter 4
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Here are a couple of sample questions for you:
In many Eastern belief systems, it is an incarnation or representation of a deity or holy man. Younger people will probably be familiar with the word used to describe it, not from religion but from internet chat rooms. Which word?
Unlike most birds which hunt by sight or hearing, this bird has nostrils at the tip of its beak. It uses these to smell and find its food. What is this bird, which known for another reason to most of us?
In 1905, a patent clerk from Bern published a number of articles that changed the world. The year 1905 was later called his ‘annus mirabilis’. Who was this man?
(The answers are Avatar, kiwi, and Albert Einstein)
#7
Emma S 2 years ago
I'm English and even I was roused by his speech to the Welsh football team on A League of their own.
barn owls ️ 2 years ago
i love michael sheen so much!!! (how are my fellow good omens fans doing?)
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
it is indeed. and he's a real life angel too.
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Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
The best part is they don't have to limit themselves to real, extant animals. They could add extinct animals such as mammoths, smilodons, megatheria, glyptodonts, ground sloths - to say nothing of dinosaurs. Heck, they could include fantastic animals like gryphons, dragons, unicorns, heffalumps - you name it!
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Tabitha 2 years ago
So much better. I had a chance to go backstage at a Ringling Brothers Circus performance back in the mid-1980s. I stayed on the verge of tears seeing the animals. It was heartbreaking. They weren’t happy. They didn’t enjoy performing for people then going back to a tiny cage. I remember every single one of the whole line of elephants was swaying side to side. Elephants do that as a form of self-soothing when they’re upset, traumatized, unhappy. It’s making me upset and teary just remembering it. I have boycotted circuses ever since. But THIS I might go see, as long as there are NO live animals at all.
Cara G 2 years ago
I really enjoy reading your comments, Tabitha. I, too, went to a Ringling Bros circus as a child in the mid-1980s although I didn't go backstage. Knowing what goes on in that industry always makes me feel riddled with guilt for simply having been there even though I was just a child and had no choice in the matter. Your description of the elephants swaying together brought me to tears.
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Tiffany R 2 years ago
The state college I went to was less than 2000 per semester 12 or more semester hours. This included books that you can rent and not be forced to buy. I took 20 in one semester and still the rate is still less than 2000. So 16000 if you take 8 semesters... That would get 187 people bachelor's degrees. He better have funded 33 doctors.
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Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
Wait…. 3 million only paid for 33 people? Is the money gone now or is it ongoing?
imgonaarickrollyousohard 2 years ago
I'm guessing It would have easily paid for education before 2000 but wouldn't pay half an education in 2030
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I have read about this before. True low key hero to touch so many lives for the better.
Once you’ve refreshed your memory, all you need to do is sign up for the event and go take the quiz. That’s all! You don’t need to be a Grand Master level quizzer to earn the right to be there or anything. You don’t even need to go through any qualification rounds. You have as much of a chance to win it as any other person who signed up for it.
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Kimbowa 2 years ago
This is wonderful I hope it still exists but alas could become another victim of climate change.
2x4b523p 2 years ago
Not yet victim of climate change but fell victim to uncontrolled tourism.
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pep Ito 2 years ago
I understand that these were species endemic to the Seychelles and not introduced from other ecosystems.....
boredkoala 2 years ago
Good to know! The word "introduced" had me wondering....
Load More Replies... Surenu 2 years ago
Wait, you can just declare your property a national park? How does that work, what are the steps?
2x4b523p 2 years ago
Grimshaw didn’t have children so he gave the island back to Seychelles under the condition it will be declared national park and protected as such.
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VioletHunter 2 years ago
Why do schools organize such specific events in the first place? There is an almost 100% chance at least one child in a class will have an AWOL or dead father. Make it Breakfast with a parent instead.
Papa 2 years ago
My grandson's (6 years old) school is having "Donuts with Dudes" next month, for male role models in general instead of just fathers. His father (my son) and I both plan to attend.
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SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago
Anyone can be a father, but not many can truly be called daddy. Salutations, good sirs *salutes*
Thomas Zelenka 2 years ago
They could have made it a "Breakfast with parent" and no kid would have been uncomfortable?
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Not possible to make 'no one uncomfortable' anywhere there is true vulnerability. We need to focus on listening instead so we can then focus on folks being heard.
Load More Replies... Beryl Beck 2 years ago
Bored panda looking for stock images of kids without dads.. need I say more..
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
Sad that there are so many absent fathers who don't care about their kids.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Or maybe they're dead or working away or haven't been informed by the mothers/children?!
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
This message is meant for non-cat owners because had they asked cat owners, we could've told them and the study funds could've been applied elsewhere.
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
They also make the sounds they make purely for manipulative purposes in order to get humans to do what they want them to do
DarkViolet 2 years ago
I used to housesit (more like catsit) for a friend. For the first two days, I was awakened by the two feline inhabitants, loudly meowing outside of my bedroom door. That second morning I said to them, "Guys, look. You don't need to worry about getting fed. You'll eat before I do. But I need my sleep, and that meowing every morning outside of my bedroom door isn't necessary. Okay?" The very next morning, no meowing. But there were two cats, patiently waiting to be fed.
But, let’s be honest here. If one would have to bet on a possible winner, one will probably pick one of the names that tend to end up in the top 3 pretty much every year. One of them is Pat Gibson.
#13
Francine Oglethorpe 2 years ago
Jesus, I a 39 year old woman would have died like 20 minutes in
funkybluegirl 2 years ago
How/why did a 3 year old get stuck alone (aside from her amazing pup) in a forest?
Tabitha 2 years ago
Kids wander, and can get turned around, not recognize anything, and start trying to get back home, only to get even more lost. You never got lost at the mall or in a huge department store when you were little? Those are way smaller than the Siberian Forest, believe me. The best thing was that her dog followed her, kept her warm, and managed to get home to bring rescuers to her. If she were my daughter, the dog would live like royalty, first for faithfully keeping her alive, then for helping to bring her home.
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Frank Ropen 2 years ago
More of a coincidence, and the station was closed in March 2016 https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2016/01/11/the-train-station-and-the-high-school-girl-whats-the-truth/
Joseph Stillman 2 years ago
america, can you develop a conscious and stop thinking about yourself just for once
Candice Lewis 2 years ago
No way this would happen in the United States. They would have shut it down and made either cookie cutter houses or a strip mall.
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Verena 2 years ago (edited)
LOCAL shelter? Wasn't that the most logical place to check frequently and leave details about the dog and contact the first place?
pinkpie 2 years ago
They may have been displaced. The dog may not have been at the shelter the majority of the time he was missing. Etc.
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Alicia M 2 years ago
My lost dog story isn't as great but I had a dog slip out under the fence and was missing for over a month. This was in the 90s. I put an ad in the local paper. I got calls from all over town where people spotted her, some even saying they fed her. After coming home one night thinking I would never see her, there was a scratching at my back door. I opened it and there she was. She came back through the same hole she tunneled out of. She had been all over the town and found her way back. 😆 She was a really smart dog. He name was Lady.
Perfumista Perfumista 2 years ago
My guess is they checked right away, but the dog was not there yet. Lucky no one else had adopted him.
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Just Another Girl 2 years ago
Please microchip your pets and keep your contact information up to date with the company.
Pat Gibson is an Irishman who’s been dubbed one of the smartest people in the world. Back in 2004, he won “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and walked away with 1 million pounds. Since then, the software developer has been participating in numerous quizzing championships, scoring 7 gold, 11 silver, and 7 bronze medals over the years. At the moment, he is the number one ranked quizzer in the world.
#16
Adam Zad 2 years ago
A businessman was having an affair with his secretary. One night, after getting jiggy with her, he fell asleep. He woke up at 9 and panicked. He told her to go rub his shoes in the grass in her yard. She didn't understand, but did it, anyway. When he got home, his wife demanded to know where he had been. "I can't lie to you, dear," he said. "I'm having an affair with my secretary." She screamed "LIAR!! You've been GOLFING! I can see the grass stains on your shoes!"
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
HE wasn't having an affair, but I'm sure his Ranger class half-elf was having all kinds of sex!
TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago (edited)
I think his bard also layed some dragons .....Slayed, SLAYED some dragons
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There's a table in Genosha that still has the pencil scribblings of their original DnD campaigns.
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
Anyone wanna play dungeons and dragons for the next quadrillion years?
BabaBizzle 2 years ago
I hope he ditched the wife. She was not trusting of him and seemed to want to control him.
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
I think that is similar in Minneapolis, Minnesota where it drops to minus 50 degrees. Most of the downtown buildings are connected in some way so one does not have to go outside much.
LittleBirdTay 2 years ago
As a resident of Minneapolis, yes, it is similar:)
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
It's a real life example of a sci-fi concept called archology. Arcology, a portmanteau of "architecture" and "ecology",[2] is a field of creating architectural design principles for very densely populated and ecologically low-impact human habitats.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Unless you're visiting Toronto in the winter, don't use these tunnels. Toronto in the spring, summer, and fall is too pretty to miss.
Na Schi 2 years ago
Have seen something similar in Helsinki, Finland. Though I'm not sure how it compares with regard to size.
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Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
Many snowy cities have these. Rochester, MN has both underground and overground sheltered passageways. Wheelchair access, too.
Beryl Beck 2 years ago
Montreal has a crappy version they call the underground city. It is disappointing to say the least, much like the entire province of Quebec.
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Temporary Dork 2 years ago
I'm quite sure I was told when I was little in 1980 that our cat would probably live to be 17. He did, by the way.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Environment IS key, but our Slevin actually has *much* more peace being just outside, and I am fairly certain he would not have lived even almost this long if he was inside. To each his own, just like us. But Environment is always the key for all creatures.
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John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 2 years ago
Can be increased more if more people view them as pets and not something to throw outside every day.
Gibson is, of course, not the only shining star of the quiz world. Another big name in the quiz world is Kevin Ashman. He is a proud owner of 17 gold, 13 silver, and 3 bronze medals from the British, European, and World Championships. He might also be familiar to British quiz show enthusiasts as he’s been a champion of Mastermind and Brain of Britain. He’s also one of the panelists on the Eggheads game show.
#19
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
That's how it should be everywhere. If you think about it, most of the conflicts, hate and bad things overall happen since people still divide into "us" and "them" because of some nonsense invisible lines on the map.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
That's a very naive way of thinking though. Things like this table work for countries on similar economic and cultural levels but would be a catastrophe elsewhere.
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Martin Kaine 2 years ago
That table needs a lazy susan so everyone can share their homelands' best dishes.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
But without border walls how do they control the immigrants flooding across their borders? /sarcasm
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago (edited)
Well just shooting them in Morocco frontier( S-pain polítics.....motherf.....es). I wanna let clear that I m against that politic. But Spaniards are the hell racist .just in case if you don t understand my post.
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ADHORTATOR 2 years ago
God’s blessing on all nations, Who long and work for that bright day, When o’er earth’s habitations No war, no strife shall hold its sway; Who long to see That all men free No more shall foes, but neighbours be. National anthem of Slovenia
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SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Please, no. We don't need a pet crocodile trend.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Maybe the croc was waiting around for whoever shot him to come back.
Sanguinius 2 years ago
Pocho! There's pictures/videos of the man and crocodile swimming together, hugging, wrestling, etc. That animal truly had no intention of ever harming him. Pocho died after many years unfortunately, but the man is currently raising/training a new friendly crocodile.
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arthbach 2 years ago
In a similar vein, there's a restaurant in Tokyo that employs people with dementia, Restaurant of Mistaken Orders. All of the customers are fed, although they might not gets what they originally ordered.
Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
They also tried a restaurant staffed by blind people, Didn't See That Coming, but were forced to shut it down after burned customers complained.
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bill marsano 2 years ago
In Italian culture, Nonna is the kitchen goddess. The French have La Mere. In Lyons, which has had as many a 21 Michelin-starred restaurants, there are several "la mere" restaurants that really do serve food 'like mother used to make.'
Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago
Grandmas from around the world cooking??? I definitely want to be there!!
So, maybe the chances of winning against such prolific quizzers is not an easy task, but who says it’s impossible. Just read through this list, then go through our last one, and maybe you’ll have a chance too.
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Astrophile 2 years ago
I don’t think they meant that Shirley and Jenny were different species, they did say “two elephants” :) they were just mentioning that elephants can recognize members of other species.
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Amy Estes 2 years ago
Shirley was at the zoo in my hometown before going to the sanctuary. Her caretaker from the zoo went to visit her years later and she remembered him. They actually dedicated a statue to the two of them at the zoo, meant as a surprise for her caretaker, but he passed away right before it was completed. Shirley also had an injury from the circus she was in prior to our zoo that left one leg shorter than the other, and the sanctuary built special accommodations just for her. She also passed away recently.
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
More proof that an elephant never forgets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50z25um6b5A
Skp2MyLou 2 years ago (edited)
Had you looked up the facts, rather than condemning the sanctuary where these two elephants lived, you'd know their "captivity" is at a site in Tennessee that is over 3,000 acres and that they freely roam with other elephants. Given they were both treated so badly when they were "owned" by a circus, they both required extensive medical care, which they wouldn't have gotten had they been released to the wild. Doing things your way would have killed them almost instantly. Sending them to the sanctuary gave them many more years of living. And, no, the elephants weren't on display for anyone to view. They were given their best life and allowed to just be elephants. Instead of condemning something you didn't know anything about, do some research first.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
I keep trying to come up with another example besides driving and firearms but everything I can think of already has mandatory training. Cooking? Gonna need a Food Handlers Card. Heavy machinery? Gonna need a certification for that. Medicine and pharmacology? Oh, you need a whole degree for that. Meanwhile with guns, in most states all they ask is "cash or credit"?
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Ka Se 2 years ago
It is mandatory in Austria too. And a lot of other European countries. I am surprised it is not mandatory in the USA.
Jennifer Ness 2 years ago
We have a shortage on compassion, empathy, and civility here that makes that unlikely.
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arthbach 2 years ago
First aid, and sign language should also be taught in schools. These are two incredibly useful skills and help the community so much,
Ronald 2 years ago
First aid would be really handy for kids to know in U.S. schools nowadays 😥
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Gabriele Alfredo Pini 2 years ago
In Italy is obligatory for many professions. I had to do it both as a teacher and as a fencing instructor.
Heffalump 2 years ago
I don't understand why I learned Latin at school, but not first aid. An hour a week for your last four years at school and you have enough practice that you not only know what to do, but you don't even have to think about it.
John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 2 years ago
School exists for academic skills. Your parents are there to teach you life skills
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Most Americans would ignore the person or pull out their phones and film it. I'm not proud to be an American.
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Kimbowa 2 years ago
It's great and good that she valued her home over money. But what is her surrounding area like now? I mean, was that concrete up just during the build? Does she have a yard? Her farmhouse isn't on the farm anymore.
HTakeover 2 years ago
Place looks totally different now and kinda sad. As she got older, the building superintendent basically took on the role of caretaker. She eventually died in 2008 and left the place to him. He later sold it to a businessman who was going to turn it into a quaint office but lost it to back taxes & such. It's been on the market a few times but thankfully nobody wants to knock it down since it has such history, folk status, and uniqueness attached.
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
the house in still there (1438 NW 46th St, Seattle, Washington) but it's uninhabited (she died in 2008)
I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Ballard-Up-house-attracts-no-bids-at-auction-6132517.php It shows what the house and property looked like in 2015. It appears to still be surrounded by the cement walls with businesses on either side but it doesn't look like a 5 story mall was built around it.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
NAIL HOUSE! I love nail house stories. There's one around the corner from where I live. It's an old house surrounded by condos. Thing is though nobody lives there. It was turned into a storefront for a business. It's actually a hair salon. So it looks like a NAIL HOUSE but it's actually a NAIL SALON!
Tabitha 2 years ago
Farmhouse. That house was in the country, surrounded by farmland, only 108 years before then. I can’t stop asking myself whether that is true progress, or just wanton destruction of nature in favor of concrete? Edith Macefield is a hero in my book. She may have ended up surrounded by concrete, and in the end the concrete probably won after she died, but she at least held her ground as king as she could. She’s the kind of person we should be building statues and memorials for.
JOHN DOE 2 years ago
I've been here. Never understood these people. She could have got a small fortune and not dealt with years of of construction and living in a prison like environment.
Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 2 years ago
She probably didn't want to give up her home, she was also 84 and moving would not be ideal.
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The Scout 2 years ago
50 Cent once did the opposite:he purchased every front row ticket for a Ja Rule concert and discarded them, so that his rival had to perform for empty rows.
Multa Nocte 2 years ago (edited)
Yeah, well Fiddy has a bit of a 'tude about Ja Rule. EDIT: Not to say that Ja Rule is a nice person, or anything. 🙂
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Ffaelan Condragh 2 years ago
Billy Joel also fired his entire band once, who had been writing and recording with him for years because they asked for more money.
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Inaccurate. He actually fired them one at a time, years apart. He had his reasons, some legitimate, some not. But he runs the show, so whatever he says, goes. That said, we had nosebleed seats at Long Beach Arena for one show, and one of his staff brought us down to 3rd row center.
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April Pickett 2 years ago
He would really rather perform for an enthusiastic audience willing to dance and participate in his songs.
Skeeter McClusky 2 years ago
This is partly true. In reality, he fills the front row with pretty girls so he has something to look at during the show.
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The Scout 2 years ago
An all femal crew might also drastically decrease the risk of a pregnancy occuring in space...
Cerise Hood 2 years ago
The world was thrilled with the announcement that the first mission to Mars would be an all female crew. One year later, the world was terrified when they all returned pregnant.
John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 2 years ago
No because in this case they make the same hours.
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RandomEpiBioPerson 2 years ago
This is the sort of sex-based focus I'm ok with. IDAF about what your gender is, tell me how you identify, and that's what I go with, and stuff being labeled as "for men" or "for women", I don't care. Give me utilizing scientifically verified information to increase the ability to further science, and I'm all for it.
Gregory Friberg 2 years ago
Averages consumption requirements are weight based. An all-short crew would accomplish the same thing
Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
And in a smaller space ship, needing a smaller launch vehicles, and less fuel.
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Scott Wilkins 2 years ago
Plus they'll remember EVERY SINGLE DETAIL Mission Control gets wrong and throw it back in their faces for decades...
Giles McArdell 2 years ago
I love that this spacesuit includes a magnetic LED light you can get from Poundland :D
Lord of the laserprinter. 2 years ago
I am getting all sorts of 1950ties “space vixens from Mars” themed ideas here.
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Jessica N 2 years ago (edited)
Another is Requiem for a Dream. The book is alternatively a little terse and rambley, the movie is stunning
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VioletHunter 2 years ago
Anyone who has read that book will understand that he had no idea what he was doing there either...
Christof Irran 2 years ago
The book could have really benefitted from a good editor. An editor not too shy about slashing at least 30% of unneeded verbosity and excess fat.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
He also wrote the script for "Superman" (the one with Christopher Reeve - there can be only one)!!
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Not being accurate makes this one even more unbelievable. Puzo wrote the screenplay along with Francis Ford Coppola, and possibly with contributions from others. Puzo wrote a good story, but a screenplay is a blueprint for making a movie of the story. Nobody with no idea what they're doing could produce a workable screenplay. That the opinion of a particular author is that it was the best screenplay ever is either glowing praise for Coppola's contribution or an appreciation of the story that ignores the reason a movie can't simply be made by using the original story.
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Cyndi Hafele 2 years ago
It's a good example of kindness, friendship and generosity.
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Poorly written. Did he give 14 friends a million dollars or did he give $1million to each of his 14 friends?
Disgruntled Pelican 2 years ago
He gave $1 million to each of his 14 friends.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
Becoming a success then paying back those who helped you when you were struggling, is such a wonderful thing Clooney did. We can all do it too. Even if you can’t give them a million bucks and pay their taxes, you can at least do what you can to let them know you haven’t forgotten them or what they did for you.
Jane Hower 2 years ago
A million dollars EACH, or a million split between the 14? Not sure which way is meant.
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
I thought it was a million each. But I wouldn't turn my nose up at 71K
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Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
Well that rule would knock out a sizeable chunk of the population.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
I must admit I've never heard of either of these movies but good for her. That's going to win me a prize at trivia night someday.
Kayleigh haigh 2 years ago
I have seen the blind side multiple times and reccomend watching it
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Howl's sleeping castle 2 years ago
watched 'All About Steve.' God, it was bad. Especially seeing Sandra Bullock in that character felt like a disrespect towards her.
Cydney Golden 2 years ago
I enjoyed All About Steve. Some movies are best not taken seriously and just watched for fun. Her character was annoying but in a good way and Bradley Cooper and the rest of the cast supportively funny. Blindside pretty good too despite the recent press about it.
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Black Cat 2 years ago
I've often wondered that. Maybe that also explains that lake which is teeming with jellyfish.
Chickens are fluffy 2 years ago
It's possible but rare. Because of how a jellyfish lifecycle works. There's only a tiny gap where they can be eaten without stinging
Load More Replies... Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
But why do I have frogs in my garden? None of my neighbours have ponds, the nearest river or pond is about 1/2 mile away, where the hell do they come from?
Irene Carlyle 2 years ago
this is so cool! when i read it, i immediately thought of the Carter Center and their triumph against guinne worm--...turns out.......!
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Cathy G 2 years ago
The manufacturer, Vestergaard, teamed up with The Carter Center, former President Jimmy Carter's foundation, to eliminate Guinea Worm Disease. The LifeStraw is a big part of that effort, which focuses on education and water filtration. You can get the disease by drinking unfiltered water. Since 1986, Infections have been reduced from 3.5'million a year to 53 cases in 2019.
GoldfishCrackers 2 years ago
These often go on sale right after Thanksgiving. Just a heads up. Great to have in an emergency preparedness kit!
Libstak 2 years ago
As a piece of survival gear I think it's an awesome must have.
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CharliAnn Olney 2 years ago
I have several of these. Backpack, car, camping gear, and a few other cubby holes.
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
It's not immediate, but water can also be made safe by pasteurizing it. Sometimes that can be as simple as leaving a bottle of water out in the sun, but you need to make sure it reaches at least 149ºF
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Jani Chayut 2 years ago
It was a rigged election. Someone peppered the ground.
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Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
Maybe they should try this in the House of Representatives. It would be an improvement on whatever system they're currently using.
afia kooma 2 years ago (edited)
Every system would be better then what they are using. In the first primary rounds they dance around rooms not big enough to hold them, and if people dont get bored and leave early, their vote may (or may not) be counted towards their elected candidate..
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TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
They are also the most effective hunter on the continent with a hunting success rate of 80%
lily jones 2 years ago
Wait, but what happens if a lower ranking dog sneezes, and then a top dog?
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Honcho Chorcoran 2 years ago
No they did the opposite - Mr. Burns blocked out the sun.
Load More Replies... Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago
Ask MTG to help! Maybe those Jewish Space Lasers can be of some use! LOL!
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
"Honey Badger don't give a F***" From that viral video from 15 years ago.
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afia kooma 2 years ago
They can die for two hours with no breath or heartbeat, then jump up, shake it of and go eat the venomous snake that "killed" it.
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
here is the best part" their tactic for fending off male lions is to run between their legs and bite the lions' testicles...don't know why more animals don't use this technique
Bookworm 2 years ago
They chase the lions away. Ever seen video of a tiny weasel killing a rabbit? Honey badgers are really souped-up weasels, same as wolverines.
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Kimbowa 2 years ago
I don't know about the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution but it's better than slamming clothes against rocks.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
That's not how washing worked. You needed to scrub it over a washing board over and over again.
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Khavrinen 2 years ago
My Grandmother told me that when she was a girl ( in the 1920s ), and she had to do the laundry for her family because her mother's arthritis was so crippling she couldn't do it, her Father told her they didn't need to replace their washing machine when it broke, because she could just do it by hand, it was no big deal. A few months later, she caught scarlet fever, and her Father ended up having to do the laundry himself a couple of times, and all of a sudden they had a shiny new washing machine, for some reason...
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
We didn't have one at all, then in 1966 my mother had to spend weeks in hospital, and when she came home, there was a washing machine... No more kicking laundry around in the bath and wringing by hand
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Having used a washboard and then upgraded to a ringer washer in Venezuela during the 70's I wholeheartedly believe this to be true.
Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
going to vacation in rural Portugal in the 80's and having used a washboard too, i can relate and fully agree :D
Load More Replies... Shelby Moonheart 2 years ago
I heard a recording from a great aunt to described what it would take to do laundry. It literally took ALL day. She had to draw the water from the well, heat it on a wood stove, wash and rinse the clothes, and hang them out to dry. She said it was a great thing when she finally got a washing machine.
Jaya 2 years ago (edited)
I once read a really long news paper article that stated that this isn't true: in the first decade or so it apparently didn't help women's liberation at all, women would spend the same amount of time on housework, they just spent extra time on other housework tasks instead of on washing clothes. Only after society started gaining a different mindset about the role of women, did they start spending less time on housework. I have no idea which one is true by the way.
Phred 2 years ago
And Lilian Gilbreth, wife and partner of motion-study pioneer Frank Gilbreth, came up with the idea of installing a pump in a washing machine to drain the dirty water after the cycle. This was the 1920/30s when women weren't welcome in the world of engineering so she worked her way into the field via "women's work." She did, too.
Starry starry night 2 years ago
My great granny had to stay back from school every wash day to help her mum with the massive task. It’s the job that literally never ends unless you get rich or die trying, definitely a life changing invention.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
Ah, but in medieval times, the plebeians only washed clothes twice a year. We wash a ginormous amount of clothes these days (and have an enourmous amount.)
Kevin Ber 2 years ago
I'm going to have to say there were three inventions during the industrial revolution that were better. 1) Electricity, yeah I know, it's kinda obvious 2) standardized indoor plumbing 3) Electric Brush Motor..... stainless steel, aluminum and zinc coating technology are also important inventions.......
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Anon822209 2 years ago
Yeah, except that they left him. Not the other way around.
Load More Replies... Sherman Von Gee 2 years ago
Yeah that's because they all had contracts & were selected to be his wife by Scientology & the second that they were allowed to divorce him, per their contract they did. Even though all of them had the choice of staying w/ him. This isn't a theory. This is actually real.
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
34 being the age when most women have finally had enough, and decide they’re not going to put up with b******t anymore, especially from the men they’re involved with in various ways (SOs, relatives, bosses, coworkers, friends, passersby, you name it). Once you’ve spent more than half your life being told to smile, to lose or gain weight, that you’re too pretty or not pretty enough, that you can’t do this or that because you’re a girl, putting up with all kinds of damned scary harassment from men who think they’re entitled because you’re there passing by, even if you’re not even trying to entice them at that moment—-walking down the street minding our own business, at work when we’re just trying to do our jobs the best we can so we continue being able to pay rent and bills, at home when our SOs decide to b***h about something not being done when they can damned well do it themselves. Hell the list goes on forever. By the time a woman is in her thirties, unless she’s a princess who has lived her whole life in a protected bubble, every woman has had e-f*****g-nough of it, and will not put up with it anymore.
Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
It took me until my forties, but I got there in the end.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
Born 11 years apart from each other and grew to be 11 inches taller than Tom.
Katrina Nixon 2 years ago
When I see him all I think about is his weird couch jumping on Oprah.
Abbi Covet Rouse 2 years ago
I always think of the Family Guy scene “you can’t catch me gay thoughts”
Load More Replies... Amanda Hunter 2 years ago
If you've been divorced three times, there's something wrong with you.
Michelle 2 years ago
And all of them we happy as s**t to be free of his pyschotic short weirdo narcissistic probably abusive butt I mean Nicole kidman literally has a picture of her skipping out of divorce court and Katie Holmes looked like a hostage in every picture taken in her time as his wife don't know much about Mimi Rodgers but she left him as well SOOOOOOO....yeah I don't see the appeal...Don't care if he's a good actor if your a c**p human being I won't watch your c**p....
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The Scout 2 years ago
Unfortunately there is always that insufferable a??hole who uses this emergency lane to overtake the traffic jam and crash hadfrist into the accident site...
Brittany Copeland 2 years ago
I've seen that play out several ways. My favorite is when a handful of truckers team up to make a barrier to stop that from happening, and when they get close to the accident the ones in the closed lane will be allowed to merge in front of the one in the open. Or when instant karma ensues and cops nab them. I've even seen cops cordon them off to wait until traffic is all clear before letting them go!
Load More Replies... Riley Quinn 2 years ago
I'm trying as hard as I can to imagine this level of cooperation among US drivers. Nope, I can't picture it. We have motorists who habitually won't move over for ambulances and fire trucks.
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
When I was learning to drive (in the US), that was part of what we were taught. You always move over as much as you can to let emergency vehicle pass, as long as it’s safe to do so. An example of unsafe would be a very narrow and twisting mountain road with lots of blind curves and no turnouts to pull into. In that circumstance, you just keep driving until you get somewhere it’s safe to pull over and you immediately do that. No need to cause yet another accident trying to let emergency vehicles pass. So I cannot understand how people who also had to go through driver training could ever block an ambulance or fire truck. What if, one day in the future, the ambulance they’re in, or the fire truck coming to their burning house to rescue them and their loved ones then put the fire out, is being blocked by an a*****e just like them? How would that make them feel? They’d probably feel kind of dead if that happened. Then again, not everyone thinks things like that through, and just focus on themselves and their own needs instead, f**k everyone else. Right? Or am I just a textbook over thinker?
John George 2 years ago
Would never fly in the USA. Some drivers would ignore the law to start with, others would think THEY deserve to use that lane.
Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago
In the US, it's customary to block all access by being a total d**k! Downvote me but you know how it is!! We haz RIGHTS!!
April Pickett 2 years ago
I once saw a car on fire on a multilane going into D.C. I passed the fire truck about 1/4 mile later with no way to get to the vehicle. The cars had even blocked the side lane used for emergencies. We need that law here in the U.S.
smolcattoqueen 2 years ago
It's obligatory that you have to pull over when you hear a siren behind you or when the lamp is green, don't move at all when you hear and see that there's an emergency vehicle. But unfortunately there are drivers (and pedestrians) which don't do it. Once I was in a bus stop when I heard a siren. There were 2 cars in front of me and one of them pulled over. The other one drove away and both the premature ambulance and the pulled-over car honked because of that a**hole. I even saw the pulled-over driver's gestures which obviously said that "wtf are you doing, man?". Other times I was with now-my-ex bf and we heard a siren. There was a fire truck. The lamp next to the zebra just turned green and my a**hole bf wanted to cross the road because it was green for us and "the firetruck is far from us". I didn't want to go, but he grabbed my arm and forced to cross the road with him. The other people who were next to us, didn't move at all because of the firetruck.
smolcattoqueen 2 years ago
Sorry for my English, I learnt British English. (I'm from Hungary)
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MontanaMariner 2 years ago
Why do people on BP feel the need to explain their edit? I'd guess that a VERY small number of people here care.
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pfeils wife 2 years ago
She is a gem... she is VERY generous with her money and I like hearing about all the good she does with the money she earns.
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VioletHunter 2 years ago
Whoever wrote this seems to assume for absolutely no reason that everyone wakes up before their alarm clock goes off...
Clown fish 2 years ago
Most people do. I wake up 30mins before mine every day and I even wake up at the same time when I don't have an alarm set.
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I’m glad my body does this as for some reason the alarm plays at different volumes even though they’re set at a low volume
Black Cat 2 years ago
This is good, it's always a rude awakening to be woken by the alarm. I've grown to absolutely HATE the sound of my alarm.
PandaGoPanda 2 years ago
There are various sleep tracking apps that you can set so the alarm wakes you at a high point in your sleep rhythm.
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Howl's sleeping castle 2 years ago
I don't agree. It's a common occurrence for me to wake up before someone calls me. It happens at random times, so there's no way my body is anticipating it. It doesn't happen every time, but more often than I think it's a coincidence.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
Work itself means shock and stress, not the firetruckin' alarm going off...
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Luke Branwen 2 years ago
In the world of finance, the human life is worthless unless it produces money for the top 1%.
Sandella 2 years ago
I work in a bank and amen to that. Most employees are just trying to make sure the customer gets a good experience while the majority of us aren't paid much to make sure costs are kept down and that the shareholders are kept happy and rich..sigh.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 2 years ago
In the world of people, anyone at the top of a finance company is called a "scumbag".
Michael Largey 2 years ago
In the normal world, a deadbeat is someone who doesn't pay off their debts.
Hans Georg 2 years ago
That is normal behavior in Germany. The whole construct of credit cards is absurd, when you can directly pay from your bank account.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
I feel the same way. The only way a credit card could be useful for the customer is when you desperately need to finance something NOW that you could only afford next month otherwise. Like a new washing machine perhaps.
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Linda R 2 years ago
I don't know about being a "deadbeat", but I know my credit score (US) shows "accounts not paid as agreed". Since I'm never late (set up on monthly draft for nearly everything), I asked a banker about it. She said it was because I paid loans early, including not keeping a balance on my credit card.
Skp2MyLou 2 years ago
I don't know why posted this one but I worked for a credit card company for over two years and paying in full each month is encouraged and welcome.
AnkleByter 2 years ago
It's posted because the people higher up in that company you worked for know that people who do not pay off the card every month (thereby gaining interest) make them more money in the long run. YOU, as someone lower on the rungs are told it's encouraged and welcomed, and to tell customers that. Those above you know, it's not, because they'll make less from the peons below them that choose to.
Load More Replies... Papa 2 years ago
I use a debit card, and don't have a credit card. I wonder what they'd call me?
Howl's sleeping castle 2 years ago
Its me. I am a deadbeat. Learned my lesson very early in my life. Never again.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Yeah, well I wear my deadbeat crown with pride, but the satisfaction of not giving these squeevy bastards one penny more soothes my heart.
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Bookworm 2 years ago
It's not, actually! One of the projected benefits of autonomous vehicles is that they will be able to travel faster and more efficiently for this exact reason. In this scenario, all the cars are linked together in a network that keeps them moving in perfect coordination with each other.
Load More Replies... Khavrinen 2 years ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: every single accident I've ever been in ( 2 as driver, 2 as passenger ) would not have happened if someone hadn't been following too closely. It never ceases to amaze me how many, many people are willing to literally *risk their lives* for the sake of getting to their destination TWO OR THREE SECONDS sooner.
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
That could work if only the a*****e in front, who is basically the unofficial pace car, is actually doing the speed limit and not holding everyone else up by being a slowpoke. A MUCH better solution is to go back to the system of trains and street cars—-many of which were electric, btw—-we had before the auto industry decided it was time everybody had at least one car, if not many. Yeah, that was a campaign of infrastructure destruction run by one industry, whose greed managed to totally f**k everything up, including the entire environment, with their pollution-causing products. Oh, and then there’s the issue of the leaded gasoline cars used to run on. Anyone born before leaded gasoline was taken off the market will have traces of that lead on their lungs, simply because they breathed in and out. I’m 62, so part of that group, and it pisses me off that this was done without my consent, or even my knowledge, as I only learned about it less than ten years ago. So the Big Three automakers can all go f**k the selves, in my opinion.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
When I lived in Manhattan, I'd ride my motorcycle home from work along 10th/Amsterdam Avenue (same street, the name changes when it crosses 59th St). I would turn onto 10th from West 43rd St. and not hit a red light all the way to 121st. At a steady 25 mph, I would never use my brakes either. Every night I saw taxis hit their brakes as they approached a red light, only for the light to turn green, at which point they'd speed up, which meant that they would brake for the next red light, so they were speeding up and slowing down all the way up Manhattan while I just putt-putted along at 25. These were people who drove for a living
VioletHunter 2 years ago
That's why it will become illegal to drive a car at some point after self-driving cars are truly self-driving and safe. The computer will make much better decisions than most of us dumb humans.
Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago
Ever see the 405 in LA at 6 AM? (It's called the 405 because it moves at 4 or 5 miles an hour!) Or the Schuylkill Expressway in Philly at 6 AM??? (The "Sure-kill" expressway!)
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
"What is this? A McDonalds for ANTS?" To paraphrase Derek Zoolander.
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Khavrinen 2 years ago
Of course they're valuable! There are thousands of important uses for industrial diamonds. As gemstones, however...
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Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
Air, food, and water are the most valuable things in the world. To Hell with jewels!
Philly Bob Squires 2 years ago
I'd rather a beautiful Amythest! And I do think true Rubys and Emeralds are WAY more valuable!
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
South African DeBeers diamond company coined the phrase "Diamonds Are Forever".
bill marsano 2 years ago
Pure white diamonds fetch the highest prices because they are rare--a tiny percentage of the diamonds mind annually. Most diamonds are dark in color and were/are used in makimg abrasive 'sandpaper,' although the public's credulousness has made a market of sorts for jewelry made with 'champagne' and 'chocolate' diamonds--junk stones that would otherwise have gone 'straight to sandpaper.'
GFSTaylor 2 years ago
Blue John is even rarer. It's a form of banded fluorite. Similar minerals can be found in a few places elsewhere in the world, but the distictive, uneven blue/purple and white/yellow bands of Blue John are only found in a small part of the Peak District in Derbyshire, UK.
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Multa Nocte 2 years ago
Don't mention where it is because some idiot will come along and cut it down, like they did to that one in the UK recently. 😟
Surenu 2 years ago
I guess they wouldn't understand the gravity of the situation
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Andy Frobig 2 years ago
They have to take very good care of it, because if it ever dies, everything on earth will go flying off into space
Scott Rackley 2 years ago
I have never heard of any apple tree reaching any where near this age
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Contrary to popular belief, an apple didn't land on Newton's head. He observed apples falling off the tree, and that is how he got his idea.
Cj Churchall-McKenzie 2 years ago
just a shame the whole story is made up according to tv show Qi
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
To see the world in a grain of sand. Without that one tree we'd still basically be flinging poo at each other. Just such a massive leap in human understanding from something so mundane.
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Omima mimi miki 2 years ago
my kids don't know what that means so this weekend I7m going to invite them to go anting ;)
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Anting theories abound as stated in this article: https://www.birds.com/blog/anting-behavior-in-birds/#:~:text=Anting%20can%20take%20on%20different,to%20climb%20up%20onto%20them.
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Trish 2 years ago
Ah, the old 'ricocheted off an armadillo' defense. Seriously though, I hope she's okay.
RagDollLali 2 years ago
74 year old woman, and she ended up being hospitalized with "non life threatening injuries". What's really messed up is the sheriff publicly recommending a shotgun next time, because he reckoned it was less likely to ricochet like that 🙄
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Sherman Von Gee 2 years ago
lol. Sounds to me like he just shot his mother on law & blamed an armadillo!
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TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
It can be dated back to a woman that lived at the european side of the black sea and was caused by the bottleneck the last ice age created within the gene pool. Blue eyes are an indicator of a low/ - inactive OCA2 gene sequence (determines the amount of melanin in our iris)
Bremusa4u 2 years ago
My grandmother's had the most beautiful blue eys. I could never get tired of gazing at them, especially when I was a child. Please understand that I grew up on the mountains side of Puerto Rico, where most people are brown eyes. Growing up, and up to before moving to USA, I've only seen three people with blue eyes, ny grandmother and two of her brothers.
Rebecca Joan 2 years ago
So wouldn’t that mean that I am as well even though my sister is the one with blue eyes? We’d share a common ancestor too.
Robert Benson 2 years ago
But you might not have any genes from that ancestor.
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Lev Borovoi 2 years ago
Also we are all descended from Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam. They were not a couple. Didn't even live at the same time.
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Thomas Olsen 2 years ago
It´s in Timanfaya national park Lanzarote, the island is literally a lava rock to begin with
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MissMePhoenix 2 years ago
This is my fav post on this thread based purely on your comment 🤣
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Rob D 2 years ago
The idea of needing a church to approve a divorce makes my skin freaking crawl. Separate church and state. Or better yet, just do away with church.
pfeils wife 2 years ago
start taxing them proper and they may go away on their own.
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UpupaEpops 2 years ago
This hasn't been done in at least a century. Back in the day as dating wasn't exactly the norm and divorce was considered a sin, people often wanted a divorce just because. It would have greatly impacted the life of the woman as she wouldn't have legally owned property and unless she was from an ultra-wealthy family, it is unlikely she would have been seen as a good party for a second marriage. So they made them share everything while they would also benefit from marriage counselling from the pastor. If however there were credible allegations of physical abuse, they were not made to enter the room.
E. S. Drendl 2 years ago
Maybe in modern times people just leave town to get a divorce? If you're incompatible, who wants to spend time together in close quarters?
Xandra 2 years ago
This hasn't been done in centuries, divorce is a legal matter, it doesn't involve the church (except for priests getting divorced, I think they need some kind of church approval)
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Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
Wait for read about Vlad the impaler......hahahahah
Load More Replies... MontanaMariner 2 years ago (edited)
Sounds like a fun set up for the family game "Murder/Suicide."
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Astrophile 2 years ago
Idk, I almost never rewatch shows but recently started rewatching “The Terror” with my friend. I’d forgotten a lot of details and found it really enjoyable 😊 if enjoying your time is a waste of time, I’ll gladly plead guilty haha
Load More Replies... Shark Lady 2 years ago
This is why I watch so many shark documentaries over and over. I find it helps with my anxiety when I'm not able to calm myself down enough to sleep.
Hans Georg 2 years ago
Na. Most movies nowadays are so predictable that they get boring very fast.
Catherine Maven 2 years ago
Does this explain why I have watched Young Frankenstein 47 times (literally, honestly, 47 times - so far!)?
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
I'm guessing this is at least of the reason why I infinitely re-read all my favorite books, and why I prefer book series to one-offs.
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Richard Michael 2 years ago
I first noticed him not wearing all the gold when I was suffering from insomnia and saw him in an infomercial. I assumed he stopped wearing the gold because he was broke and had to sell it. Why else would he be doing infomercials?
Crescent 3 2 years ago
He also once explained his wearing of gold chains as a statement of freedom and progress. He said that his ancestors here in the US were kept in chains of iron, he wanted to show that their sacrifice was not in vain because his chains were now gold.
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Giles McArdell 2 years ago
I found this really difficult to believe as I thought they would be "alien" cells from another organism and would also be blocked by the placenta, but a quick search shows it is true, just incredible!
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
the child is 50% mom....it's the same concept as getting a donated organ from a close relative...
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Kimbowa 2 years ago
Reminds me of that parable where a religious man is caught in a flood and asks God to please save him. He turns down rescue attempts in good faith that God will come to his aid. Instead he drowns and in heaven asks God why he didn't save him God said I sent two boats and a helicopter what did you want me to do? - note: I didn't write this too well and it seems to have lost some of its impact in the translation. Sorry. Lol.
Rob D 2 years ago
Challenge to all people of faith. Alone, put yourself in a drowning situation and pray for God to rescue you. Tell me how that works. Same for sitting in front of an empty plate and praying for food. Or to take disease away without medical intervention. Science guys. Embrace science. There is no god.
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Trish 2 years ago
It...doesn't sound like he was lost, if he had the ability to call for help.
Jaya 2 years ago
Is this the one about the guy who didn't realize other people thought he was lost? Because that guy was technically lost, he did lose the path, but he knew he could just walk back a bit and find the right path again so he wasn't scared at all. But it was already late so he decided to just sleep outside and continue the next morning. And he didn't know that if you say you'll be back at the cabin before dark but don't show up, you're considered 'missing' and people will start looking for you.
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Kimbowa 2 years ago
This is incredible. It may be TMI, but when I was pregnant, I had a dream that I was having my baby. I woke up having contractions and delivered my son that day. I think the body communicates with the mind.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Of course it does. It's why I dream about water when I'm dehydrated. And I'm almost always dehydrated in the morning.
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Jaya 2 years ago
Could have been coincidence: how many people have dreamed about having a disease, got it checked out and turned out to be fine? I am happy that this made them find it in time though. I absolutely love him as an actor, and he seems like a really nice person, I would have hated if he had died from it.
Katy McMouse 2 years ago
I tend to get migraines in the early morning hours (usually between 2-3 am). It never fails that I know before I wake up, that one is starting. It's kind of like dreaming, I guess, but I know that I'm not dreaming and that if I wake up, I'm going to have to deal with it, so I try to stay asleep. It's hard to explain but it's been happening since I can remember.
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JoTheLizard(she/they) 2 years ago
I love the muffled sound of screams from under the snow❤️
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Rizzo 2 years ago
I was there with my wife about a month ago. It's fantastic. My wife immediately wanted to stay. I told her that she would have to get rid of most her stuff because of the relatively small living quarters. She pretended that it would be no problem for her. ;) In the beginning, the inhabitants must have been catholic, citizens of Augsburg and pray three times a day. Interesting fact: Mozart's great-grandfather was very poor and lived there. If he wouldn't have got the help back then, there would have been no Magic Flute, no Nachtmusik and no wedding for the figaro. ;)
The Scout 2 years ago (edited)
At the time those houses were built, they used "Taler". It just got updated whenever the currency was changed. It should be 1€ now.
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The Scout 2 years ago
I remember. My first thought when entering was "what kind of cult have I walked in here?" Another reason might have been that many of their business practices especially in concern to unions and worker's rights were illegal in Germany, leading to a lot of lawsuits (Germany has very strict laws to protect worker's rights, and the unions are traditionally very strong).
CP 2 years ago
You would think a huge corporation would do market research to see what the locals liked.
Caro Caro 2 years ago
Exactly. The laws, regulations, Unions, habits etc. Which just proves that Walmart is stupid.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
Also they tried to undercut the prices of other store chains and the government said no
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HTakeover 2 years ago
Taken from someone on Reddit who answered this very question: About 10 years ago I was on an archeological dig in northern Israel where we uncovered two sealed earthenware jars full of pre-Hellenistic honey (about 2200 years old). My dig leader told us the same thing, and then offered us the opportunity to taste it. Only a few people dared, me being one. It tasted like honey." [[There's more to the story about how a later lab report showed the honey was used as a preservative for a particular sacrifice but can't fit it here]]
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Bored&InSchool 2 years ago
grandma's still here to keep giving the young ones "little" snacks. ;)
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
That shark might have been alive when Shakespeare was still around.
HTakeover 2 years ago
That's true of fish but that method doesn't work for sharks because it relies on calcium deposits in fish bones that sharks don't have. So for the Greenland sharks they measured the number of layers of protein in the lenses of their eyes combined with carbon dating and other things like specific types of radiation released by humans. It was a catch & release situation though I'm sure they tell stories of their alien abduction.
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Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
It was 1992. $23,000 was actually enough to buy something.
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KombatBunni 2 years ago
I got to meet him at a pop culture convention here in Melbourne Australia many years ago. He was outside having a smoke and I just happened to look over and saw him, just about died on the spot as he’s one of my favourite actors. We said hi and he asked if I’d like a handshake, but because he was in a closed off area, we did a kind of “air” handshake instead. Crazy and hilarious and I absolutely went full OMG fan girl afterward, best experience ever :D
Ent Hugger 2 years ago
i met him once at a horror movie convention in the states! super nice guy!! definitely fan girl-ed HARD that day, got to meet lots of my other horror heroes as well :)
Load More Replies... Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
using an inflation calculator give $50,457.21 in 2023 (still not enough for me :D )
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Since when are "moves" or technique an intellectual property? Did Billy Ray Cyrus copyright the Achy Breaky? Did Marty Feldman Trademark his eyes? I don't want to live in a world where things like that can be bought and traded like commodities.
Sean Sean 2 years ago
Why do you think athletes create their own signature "moves" like the "Dab". Its so when a video game is made they can get royalties from the developer putting the move into their game.
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ROSESARERED 2 years ago
That one 2 weeks ago woke me up, and ee had one almost at the same time 2 years ago...thankfully no one hurt, and the house is still standing
Load More Replies... Deta Rossiter 2 years ago
why does it want to get away from Africa so fast! We did nothing wrong to Australia!
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Not running away from Africa, It's heading TOWARD Hawaii. In a hundred million years or so Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii are going to have an EPIC party.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
I'm now imagining a time lapse video of Earth over millions of years as Pangaea forms, breaks apart, reforms slightly differently, breaks apart again... Like a geological game of ping pong.
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Kimbowa 2 years ago
Adorable. But how close is it to the nearest land? And well, with climate change it's future may be dim.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
I wonder whether they left enough room for a flooded basement. Or a soggy foundation.
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Multa Nocte 2 years ago
There is a reason for this . . . The polar bears just need extra food.
Kimbowa 2 years ago
Being in the US, it's good to know. Escape could be imminent if democracy loses.
Giulia Fortunati 2 years ago
But you have to always carry a gun with you in case of a bear attack!
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Black Cat 2 years ago
Great question, if you can't this would be the drawback.
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Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
In order to even apply for one of the "residences," you have to be able to prove that your net worth is over $5,000,000.
Just-4-2day 2 years ago
https://aboardtheworld.com/press-kit/frequently-asked-questions/ I did not find any answers to "Can you have pets onboard".
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The Scout 2 years ago
Having a strong social security system, universal healthcare, low crime, free education and a strong middle class will do that...
Kimbowa 2 years ago
Amen. The whole world should work like this - sensible and lasting.
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The Finnish people that I know as satisfied with their life, they aren't trying to get something else out of life. They do good things, love their families, and work hard. It's more about the society, not the social security system.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
There is this Finnish comedian, Ismo Leikola, and he claims to be totally baffled by this. He says that he and any and all Finns he knows are completely unable to comprehend the concept "Happy" and that it is more likely that all his fellow Finns just lied through their teeth when surveyed re: this. But then again, he is a comedian...
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Rita Benkő 2 years ago
Who filed a complaint against the Mysterious Cleaning Fairy with a Bill?
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Multa Nocte 2 years ago (edited)
Well, did she marry him? Edit: OK, I looked it up and she married him. 💐
TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago (edited)
Wild guess, doing it in japanese probably would have taken a lot longer - 結婚して下さい。 (Don't know if that is entirely correct)
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Petra Schaap 2 years ago
well, cant blame him, apparently the train was on his way to Rostock Germany, thats a pretty long journey.
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I keep telling something like this to my mum whenever she says that every non vegetarian is cruel
Neil Wilson 2 years ago
I know that the smell of cut grass is actually a chemical released to warn other plants.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
but... what are the other plants supposed to do? Run away?
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
The Secret Life Of Plants wrote about this stuff years ago. I thought it was all debunked!
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kathryn stretton 2 years ago
My favourite is when he changed his clothes on the beach. Soo funny.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Rowan Atkinson is the most talented physical comedian alive today. He's a modern day Peter Sellars. His other work is awesome as well. Black Adder. Not the 9-o'clock News. Johnny English. The man is brilliant.
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PandaGoPanda 2 years ago (edited)
Pretty good especially considering where he started. He's 11 now and is still in a wheelchair but according to a recent interview with his mum enjoys life and his favourite subjects are history (especially Egypt), maths, languages and chemistry .
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TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
To get better shots on film, fake ones are quite obvious on close up. As director I would make equipment tests before every scene mandatory
Load More Replies... PandaGoPanda 2 years ago
How could he pick a real knife by mistake? Surely someone was tasked to keep them separate.
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Kimbowa 2 years ago (edited)
It's like the "Doomsday Seed Vault" in Norway. It's a building almost exactly like this, but it stores seeds and is a secure back up facility for all the seeds for global crops in case of an apocalyptic event. Check it out on Wikipedia. Edit: typo
VioletHunter 2 years ago
The Doomsday Vault actually protects something useful though. No one will need a cookie recipe in a post-apocalyptic world because everyone will be too busy growing grain, veggies and fruit to avoid starvation.
Load More Replies... Scott Wilkins 2 years ago
I don't mean to sound insensitive to Oreo lovers but in the event of an asteroid impact are our cookie choices really going to be a high priority?
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
Haha. Just brings to mind the the quest for the last twinkle in the movie Zombieland. Plus if I've learned anything in the last 3.5 years it's that people in serious global situations have really stupid priorities so honestly I wouldn't put it past humanity.
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Jaya 2 years ago
Wait, so 3 times a human beat a horse in a marathon? Did these humans have superpowers? Or did they use some old, cripple horse? How does a human run faster than a horse?
TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
A horse needs regular breaks while we humans are endurance hunters from a biological perspective - we aren't fast but we can run over longer distances
Load More Replies... MaximumKarmaSaint 2 years ago
I want to see a very fast runner in Juggernaut-like armor versus a heavily weighed down shire in one of these races.
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Honcho Chorcoran 2 years ago
When the water wars start, expect the United States (or what's left of it by then) to invade. Right wing pundits in the US like Tucker Carlson are already talking about it, so don't think this is a paranoid delusion. I really wish it were.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Russia can't conquer Ukraine. Really think the US could conquer Canada?
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James Marciniak 2 years ago
The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb, burning since 1901, and almost never turned off. It is located at 4550 East Avenue, Livermore, California, and maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department. Due to its longevity, the bulb has been noted by The Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Wintermute 2 years ago
And to think, every lightbulb in the world could do the same and better, but the light bulb industry pioneered the practice of planned obsolescence, and now we just landfill them by the millions.
Paweł Duda 2 years ago
Complete b******t. That lamp is working at reduced power (only 5W) as night light, and every lightbulb with that much low power would work as long, possibly more as tungsten is more durable than carbon. Planned obsolescence is a fact for some companies, but light bulbs dying earlier (shorter filaments dying sooner at more power) makes them more brighter and more efficient at providing light. Believing that every lightbulb will work as long without stating other facts is naive and untrue.
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Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
they're all dehumanising terms though. they''re all people.
Spittnimage 2 years ago
A hobo is homeless by choice and rides in empty freight cars of trains around the country is what I heard as a kid.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
"So if you wanna join me for a while/Just grab your hat, come travel light/That's hobo style..."
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afia kooma 2 years ago
Every time i miss something like this i check the weather, hoping it was cloudy 😂
Shark Lady 2 years ago
I using miss these things because it's cloudy, the joys of living in the UK.
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smolcattoqueen 2 years ago
Every f-ing time when there's a beautiful phenomenon on the sky, here the sky is always cloudy. I only can see it from the posts on the internet. P.S. I want to change my name, because there's no nomen est omen for me (I'm Victoria and I'm full of bad luck).
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Richard Ross 2 years ago
Every time I leave a space between me and the car in front. Another 2 cars jump into it. 🤔
Bookworm 2 years ago
He would have needed a bunch of decompression stops on the way up
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Crescent 3 2 years ago
Not trying to destroy anyone's childhood, but it puts Marlin's desperate search for Nemo in a whole new light.
TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
Can't wait for Disney's remake for "modern audiences" of this movie after they're done with Bambi...
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Any species where everyone starts out as a male is begging to be called clown-something.
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Der Kommissar 2 years ago
Reykjavik has heated sidewalks in winter that melt snow. It has pipes underground that use water from hot springs.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
One of the cities I used to live in used geothermal heat to melt all the snow in the downtown area.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
It must be more than just water, otherwise they'd just be replacing snow, which provides some traction, with ice, which provides none.
TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
I mean I'm no expert in thermodynamics, but doesn't hot water freeze faster than cold water? (Mpemba effect)
Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
I came up with this idea on my own years ago! I figured that the reason it hadn't been done yet was because the warm water would freeze and be just as hazardous or more so! Japan FTW!
Jani Chayut 2 years ago
Growing up in NY we had a heated driveway to melt the snow/ice. One summer a workman accidentally turned it in and the resulting $1000 bill (in the '80s) caused my gramps to cut the wires permanently.
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The Scout 2 years ago
In the middle ages, european pubs and inns had a similar perpetual stew. The pot of stew was just constanly held near boling point, so that no germs or otherwise harmful organisms could develop. Instead of making a new batch, new ingredients were added whenever necessary,. While sounding strage, it was probably safe to eat.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
I doubt they kept it at near boiling throughout the night. But even so, food doesn't spoil that quickly in cold climates. There's practically no risk to leaving it out over night.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Sort of like sourdough bread. You keep your starter alive by feeding it every night so you can use it to proof your bread the next day.
Jinx (she/her) 2 years ago
i'm just imagining a sentient blob of dough in a bowl making little sounds every time you open the fridge door... thanks for the laugh!
Load More Replies... Catherine Maven 2 years ago
When I was a stay-at-home mom, I had a perpetual soup called "kitchen sink soup" always on the go. I would add all leftovers from the meal (and I mean ANY leftovers that were edible!) to the previous days' soup, adding onion, flavoring and noodles or rice if necessary (but kept it in the fridge overnight).
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Multa Nocte 2 years ago
And now we need a list of the 100,000 things they did that WEREN'T the same.
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Astrophile 2 years ago
Some consider it litter, some see it as leaving historical relics on a barren world for future civilizations to find. I mean you could call the pyramids litter if you stretched hard enough.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Sadly, the radiation has probably bleached it blank by now. The moon is a harsh mistress.
Crescent 3 2 years ago
I came to say this. Without a filtering atmosphere, the sun's radiation probably obliterated the image decades ago.
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TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
The most attractive colour to wear is red though, as the primal part of our brains associate it with errected genitals (God is psychology fun)
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
And USA does not even have one high speed train. The Amtrak system is chronically underfunded and poorly maintained. Thanks all you foresighted Republicans.
Richard Michael 2 years ago
If it doesn't make the insanely rich insanely richer, the GOP wants nothing to do with it.
Load More Replies... SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago
One check on my bucket list: Ride the shinkansen at least once. I didn't manage it the first time I was in Japan but I am prepping in anticipation of journey to Japan pt 2.
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Menacing Duck 2 years ago
A moment of silence for the people who DID go on that flight, and the others
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
If he drank less, we'd have no Family Guy
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Trish 2 years ago
"Just 150,000" I work for a billion dollar a year company, and would love that salary.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
Well, but he didn't know for how long those 150,000 needed to last him. He might have never landed a role again that paid that well.
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Tamra 2 years ago
He made $15 million and $20 million for the second and third Thor movies, respectively.
ThatG 2 years ago
Those figures are for the 3rd (Ragnarok) and 4th (Love and Thunder). It’s estimated that he made between $2-3 million for the 2nd Thor movie.
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keyboardtek 2 years ago (edited)
Not as bad as the millions the actors from Friends make.
Load More Replies... Andy Frobig 2 years ago
It took years of collective bargaining to reach this point. Superstar baseball players routinely had to take winter jobs at least as late as the 1950s. Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers, probably one of the five greatest catchers who ever played, owned and operated a liquor store while he was still an active player
AnkleByter 2 years ago
It shouldn't have ever reached this point. There is no reason why they should be paid so much, or receive free healthcare while not actually doing the "job". If you want a seasonal job (and the healthcare that goes with it) in just about any other industry, you need other forms of income for the off season. There's no reason why athletes shouldn't be held to the same standards as most other people. There are far better uses for all the money they are given, and definitely industries where it would be appreciated far more (because those industries are far more deserving, imo anyway).
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KDS 2 years ago
Her mother was born in 1991 and she chose an embryo that was frozen in 1992 in order to have a child.
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Emma S 2 years ago (edited)
How do accidentally swallow an airpod in your sleep and not realise?
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
I think the answer might be really silly but something some people can really relate to. An oral fixation. He was probably putting the airpod in his mouth or chewing on it whilst dozing off and accidentally swallowed it like that.
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SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago
I was wondering if they would ever change the 'uco' in Wauconda to 'ka' instead. Okay nevermind, I'm getting out now... XP
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Sleepy children love Moon 2 years ago
her village received what? it literally just says "..in the 2016 Rio Olympics, her village received"
PandaGoPanda 2 years ago
...electricity. Her family had been unable to see her win due to no electricity of facilities, and her father issued a please via a journalist to the President to get electricity to their village so he could see his daughter win in future. Nine days later electric lines were run to the village.
KLL 2 years ago
Oh this has said, "her village received electricity." Approximately 3 hours ago....weird it's not there anymore.
Graham Chapman (He/He) 2 years ago (edited)
what??? a tin of Tuna? a can of beans? an ornamental snow globe?
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Toby Flenderson 2 years ago
going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing the averages are thus since fathers almost never die during childbirth.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
I've never met a father who survived childbirth though, so it makes you wonder
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the single largest factor in determining whether you will end up in a senior care facility is whether you have a daughter...if you do, you are more than likely not to end up in a facility; if not, then you have a 1 in 5 or higher chance....number of male children, age, race, socioeconomic status, insurance, etc. have little effect on your odds
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Kelly Scott 2 years ago
They'll probably recruit the passengers to cook and clean.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
IIRC it's for heavy cargo not passengers. Note the lack of windows.
Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
The best they could do was "The Flying Bum?" Why not just call it the "Big White A$$?"
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Jaya 2 years ago
Everyone is always complaining about the 1%, but nobody ever thinks about the fact that a lot of us who visit websites like this, are part of the 10% who have waaaaaaaay more than the other 90%.
Astrophile 2 years ago (edited)
Me! I’m often fairly broke and have to budget hard to afford my lifestyle, but I still have/can afford my own apartment by myself and take a trip (on an airplane) at least once a year. I can afford to house/feed/spoil two cats. I have full access to running clean hot/cold water, I have laundry in my house, I have internet and a TV, I can afford to heat my home in the winter, and even when I’m at my brokest, there’s always rice and frozen veggies to eat. I am significantly better off than a lot of people and often have to remind myself!
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 2 years ago
You mean those airborn metal tubes where one time they wanted to use duct tape to hold the door closed?
Michael Largey 2 years ago
In Europe, the distances are relatively short, and there are excellent and affordable land transportation networks.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
affordable? Flying is wayyyyy cheaper than trains. Esp when you need to go to the UK. I prefer trains, still, but i dont have endless money.
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Anon822209 2 years ago
They would know. And they would force the father to remove the tombstone or face legal action. They've done it before, to a daycare that had characters painted on the walls. Disney is SUPER strict about copyright infringement.
Load More Replies... Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Don't get me started on how they f####d up the Star Wars universe--
Load More Replies... Jaya 2 years ago
I think lots of people might want to use Disney characters on children's tombstones because there are so many kids who are crazy about a Disney character, and Disney might be afraid that people will start associating Disney with sadness and grief. I'm not saying I agree by the way, but I think that might be their reasoning.
Load More Replies... CP 2 years ago
Never ask for permission before. Ask for forgiveness after. I would love to see the headlines if Disney sued. Besides they allow their characters to be used at schools and daycares all over the world for free advertising.
AnkleByter 2 years ago
Disney has sued tons of people, and even in cases where things never escalated to the court, Disney has gone after countless people over the years (businesses, families, individuals). They will happily do so whenever they can, for whatever reason they desire, without impunity and not giving two shits who it may negatively impact. Honestly, they're a pretty s****y company overall. There have been a lot of headlines about disney suing this family, that family, this person, that person. Disney doesn't give a rat's left nut, they seem to assume they are forever untouchable.
Load More Replies... Scott Wilkins 2 years ago
If I had a dime for every disappointing thing Disney has done the last few years...
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Mimi La Souris 2 years ago (edited)
close enought, a port, a big house in the middle, on road, some farms, a cimetery... google maps it, it's... empty :)
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Power puff scientist 2 years ago
because its brain is not just in its head but over the whole body so cutting of the head is not removing the entire brain
Kimbowa 2 years ago
Humans miss out on some of the great biological abilities of other living things.
TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago (edited)
We are developed enough to basically rule the planet, to be fair (even though we don't do a good job)
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imjustexisting 2 years ago
wait but I'm femaIe, 4'11" and extremeIy aggressive IoI-
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 2 years ago
Probably because they got pushed around and bullied as a kid and had to learn to fight back.
Kelly Scott 2 years ago
Or, as Len Deighton put it, violent and aggressive people are born shorter lest they take over the world.
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
And small dogs yip and yap like crazy, but big dogs are like, "chill, bro".
Sherman Von Gee 2 years ago
Yeah.. that checks out. Ever called a short dude a "short king" ..... 0-500 in a millisecond....
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Jeremy Bolanos 2 years ago
At least Friends didn't have to explain random coffee cups and bottled water.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
that's insane. even more so when you factor in the difference in WHEN it was filmed.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
The dragons were more realistic than two people paying for that one huge apartment
KDS 2 years ago
Well in the series finale Chandler said because of rent control it was a frigging steal.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
The sky. The water was there but it existed as steam. Atmospheric pressure was crazy high during the Hadean. 27 atmospheres high. The Earth at the time was a molten rock in a giant steam cloud. Eventually things cooled off and all that steam condensed to rain. Literally the Mother of all Rain Storms.
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Honcho Chorcoran 2 years ago
They formed from comet and meteorite collisions and then from chemical reactions from volcanic eruptions on the new proto Earth.
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Sherman Von Gee 2 years ago
This has nothing to do w/ her at all. Shes a beautiful young woman. But I love how we treat being beautiful like it's some achievement we worked so hard for. lol. It's wild. Yet..... natural beauty takes literally no work. No skill. No time. No commitment. No talent. Nothing. Society is so weird.
Andrei Iepure 2 years ago
Sadly, there's no such thing as free money. Congrats to her, hope she has a good life.
day light 2 years ago
isn't that just a change in lighting? just to clarify, I think people should be the color they naturally are and this is a genuine question
Load More Replies... Fun Fan 2 years ago
It's just professional make up, hair dressing, different angle and lighting.
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Honcho Chorcoran 2 years ago
No he really did it to park in disabled parking spots. Not even kidding.
Load More Replies... Honcho Chorcoran 2 years ago
He did it to park in disabled parking lot spaces, since there's a provision allowing for unregistered cars to park in disabled spots while waiting for their permits. Not even kidding - he did this just to be an entitled a*****e.
day light 2 years ago
yiiiikes. it's already hard enough to actually get parking as a disabled person
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
He never acknowledged having a daughter. Why should he acknowledge having a car?
Khavrinen 2 years ago (edited)
Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope have all passed away. In a world with no Jobs, no Cash, and no Hope, we're just praying that Kevin Bacon stays healthy...
Michael Largey 2 years ago
If you rent a car, it arrives with license plates - plates put on it by the company that owns the car and rented it to you.
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Katrina Nixon 2 years ago
His passing is just so incredibly heartbreaking 💔
Load More Replies... Catherine Maven 2 years ago
And YET you chose to show a pic of the show that DIDN'T show David Schwimmer!! :(
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Wintermute 2 years ago
Yeah, if Nike's stock tanked he's have had zilch. He took the safe bet, which has allowed him to live with a quality of life unheard of for HIV/AIDS sufferers. I'm sure he doesn't regret much.
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The Scout 2 years ago
This is due to France being the only country that still has its "colonies", although the call them oversea departments by now (strangely except New Caledonia, that remains a colony up to date). Oversea departments are Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guayana, Réunion and Mayotte. There also are the "Collectivité d’outre-mer" terretories that have part autonomy but still belong to France, like French Polynesia and Saint-Martin, and part of antarctica ("Terre Adélie").
Malak 2 years ago
I think there is also the US, UK, Netherlands, Denmark etc which have oversea territories
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
It's still one hour less or more in each time zone, the amount of timezones doesn't play a role
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ThatG 2 years ago
“The term "pH" was first described by Danish biochemist Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen in 1909. pH is an abbreviation for "power of hydrogen" where "p" is short for the German word for power, potenz and H is the element symbol for hydrogen. The H is capitalized because it is standard to capitalize element symbols. The abbreviation also works in French, with pouvoir hydrogen translating as "the power of hydrogen".”
Noyfb noyfb 2 years ago
Doesn’t it mean “power” because it’s the logarithm base 10 of the hydrogen ion concentration?
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Jaya 2 years ago
It's an art piece. It's called Zeitpyramide (Time Pyramid). It was made to celebrate that the town existed for 1200 years. That's quite an abstract thing, that we don't really think about. So he wanted to make an art piece that makes you feel how long 1200 years really is. So this piece takes 1200 years to create, 1 block every 10 years. I love this art piece, it really makes you aware of how long 1200 year is. It's so interesting to me, because you can start this, but you have no idea whether they're still going to continu placing these blocks in a 100 years when none of us are around anymore. Will they still be doing it in 500 years? Think of how different the world will be by that time, will anyone still care about some plan from 500 years ago? How about in 1200 years? Will they still remember the concept of this pyramid? Will this place on earth even still exist? Will humans still exist or has everything died? So fascinating.
Load More Replies... Catherine Maven 2 years ago
In comparison, The Great Pyramid of Giza took 20 to 27 years to build (accounts vary).
Honcho Chorcoran 2 years ago
It was indeed installed at 15:06 local time on September 9, 2023.
TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
And in typical german manner it probably will get delayed by A LOT and will cost 20 times the amount that was usually stated
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Kerry M 2 years ago
Or did they stand and block an entire aisle with their trolleys while they talked? 😄
Load More Replies... Katrina Nixon 2 years ago
Poor guy didn't get the real experience of a Wal-Mart filled with legit Wal-Mart weirdos.
Multa Nocte 2 years ago
What a sick person and what a group of schmucks to go along with this.
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Ian whaples 2 years ago
steve Wozniak made the computer what it is today, he was a brilliant programmer and IC tech. he deserved the #1
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Deta Rossiter 2 years ago
maybe they bought it twice, as it was such a good deal?
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Marek Yanchurak 2 years ago
"50 ‘Unbelievable Facts’ To Help You Ace Trivia Night (New Pics)" None of these will be questions at a pub trivia night.
Anička 2 years ago
Enough with the political potshots. It's not going to convince the people they're directed at. We can admire the fast train in Japan without being reminded the trains in America suck. If someone asks, sure, but no one's asking 😬
day light 2 years ago
it is nice to be able to admire things, but it's also good to share the reason why we can't have these things. yes, there's some people that pointlessly drag politics into it, and just insult people they don't like, I won't deny that, but I think it's for the better that those that ruined public transport in the US get called out for it and shamed eternally for such a thing
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Will Arnold 2 years ago
I only made it through #4, but this is stupid and useless. Try harder.
Power puff scientist 2 years ago
so many of these facts have been posted here soooo many times. just a bunch of bp rehash again.
Marek Yanchurak 2 years ago
"50 ‘Unbelievable Facts’ To Help You Ace Trivia Night (New Pics)" None of these will be questions at a pub trivia night.
Anička 2 years ago
Enough with the political potshots. It's not going to convince the people they're directed at. We can admire the fast train in Japan without being reminded the trains in America suck. If someone asks, sure, but no one's asking 😬
day light 2 years ago
it is nice to be able to admire things, but it's also good to share the reason why we can't have these things. yes, there's some people that pointlessly drag politics into it, and just insult people they don't like, I won't deny that, but I think it's for the better that those that ruined public transport in the US get called out for it and shamed eternally for such a thing
Load More Replies... Will Arnold 2 years ago
I only made it through #4, but this is stupid and useless. Try harder.
Power puff scientist 2 years ago
so many of these facts have been posted here soooo many times. just a bunch of bp rehash again.
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