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<p>North Korea's London embassy is in Acton/Gunnersbury and is thoroughly shit.<br><br><img src="http://i.imgur.com/CRy131x.jpg" alt="CRy131x.jpg"></p>
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<p>hmm...</p>
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<p><u>#244 <img src="http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_images/master/icon_share.png" title="The thread of learning something new every day: post #244" alt="icon_share.png"></u> <span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/index.php/user/18-tim/' title=""><span>Tim</span></a> Posted 15 January 2016 - 11:05 AM</span></p>
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<p><span><u>#245 <img src="http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_images/master/icon_share.png" title="The thread of learning something new every day: post #245" alt="icon_share.png"></u><span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/index.php/user/18-tim/' title=""><span>Tim</span></a></span>​ Posted Today, 02:54 PM</span></p> -
Judge Judy is the highest paid TV star earning $47 million per year. She only works 52 days per year, meaning she earns around $900,000 per workday.<br><br>
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<p>one of those annoying most amazing things popped up on my FB feed, but something intrigued me, so I clicked...not sure if true, seems legit, no doubt Ferners will let me know if fake, cos I really cant be arsed to check my sources! </p>
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<p>Did you know that between when we first learned about Pluto in 1930 and today, the dwarf planet has not managed to completely circumnavigate the sun once?</p>
<p>When the last mammoth finally died, the Great Pyramids were already 1,000 years <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://io9.gizmodo.com/5896262/the-last-mammoths-died-out-just-3600-years-agobut-they-should-have-survived'>old</a>.</p>
<p>And <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/06/30/cleopatra.suicide/'>Cleopatra</a> lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of those Great Pyramids.</p>
<p>The Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer in time to humans than it did to the stegosaurus.</p>
<p>In France, people were still being <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.wired.com/2007/09/dayintech-0910-2/'>executed</a>by guillotine when <i>Star Wars</i> first premiered in movie theaters?</p> -
<p>Wiki says mammoths probably died out around 1650BC. So, check 2.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth</a></p>
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<p>"<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> Most populations of the woolly mammoth in North America and Eurasia, as well as all the </span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_mammoth' title="Columbian mammoth">Columbian mammoths</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> (</span><i>M. columbi</i><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">) in North America, died out around the time of the last </span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation' title="Quaternary glaciation">glacial retreat</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">, as part of a </span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event' title="Quaternary extinction event">mass extinction</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> of </span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna' title="Pleistocene megafauna">megafauna</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> in northern Eurasia and the Americas. Until recently, the last woolly mammoths were generally assumed to have vanished from Europe and southern Siberia about 12,000 years ago, but new findings show some were still present there about 10,000 years ago. Slightly later, the woolly mammoths also disappeared from continental northern Siberia.</span><sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#cite_note-23'>[23]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> A small population survived on </span><a class="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul_Island,_Alaska" title="St. Paul Island, Alaska">St. Paul Island, Alaska</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">, up until 3750 BC,</span><sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#cite_note-livescience-2'>[2]</a></sup><sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#cite_note-24'>[24]</a></sup><sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#cite_note-25'>[25]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> and <strong>the small</strong></span><strong><sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#cite_note-26'>[26]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> mammoths of </span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island' title="Wrangel Island">Wrangel Island</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> survived until 1650 BC.</span></strong><sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#cite_note-27'>[27]</a></sup><sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#cite_note-28'>[28]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> Recent research of sediments in Alaska indicates mammoths survived on the American mainland until 10,000 years ago.</span><sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#cite_note-29'>[29]</a> "</sup></p> -
Pyramid construction time roughly suits the mammoth "fact".<br><br>
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pyramids-of-Giza'>https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pyramids-of-Giza</a><br><br>
ramids of Giza, Arabic AhrÄmÄt Al-JÄ«zah, Giza also spelled Gizeh, three 4th-dynasty (c. 2575–c. 2465 bce) pyramids erected on a rocky plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-JÄ«zah (Giza) in northern Egypt. -
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<p>one of those annoying most amazing things popped up on my FB feed, but something intrigued me, so I clicked...not sure if true, seems legit, no doubt Ferners will let me know if fake, cos I really cant be arsed to check my sources! </p>
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<p>Did you know that between when we first learned about Pluto in 1930 and today, the dwarf planet has not managed to completely circumnavigate the sun once?</p>
<p>When the last mammoth finally died, the Great Pyramids were already 1,000 years <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://io9.gizmodo.com/5896262/the-last-mammoths-died-out-just-3600-years-agobut-they-should-have-survived'>old</a>.</p>
<p>And <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/06/30/cleopatra.suicide/'>Cleopatra</a> lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of those Great Pyramids.</p>
<p>The Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer in time to humans than it did to the stegosaurus.</p>
<p><strong>In France, people were still being <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.wired.com/2007/09/dayintech-0910-2/'>executed</a>by guillotine when <i>Star Wars</i> first premiered in movie theaters?</strong></p>
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<p>Never knew that about the mammoths, thats interesting.</p>
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi</a> This guy was the last one guillotined apparently in september 1977 and Star Wars premiered in may the same year. </p> -
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T rex<br><br>
Fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, 68 to 66 million years ago.[2]<br><br>
Stegosaurus<br><br>
Their fossil bones have been found in rocks dated to the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian ages), between 155 and 150 million years ago, in the western United States and Portugal. <br><br>
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<p>Yep, many of the dinosaurs in Jurrasic Park would have been separated by millions of years, so messing with shit like will always end bad, yet the rich philanthropists never learn!</p>
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<p>Never knew that about the mammoths, thats interesting.</p>
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<p>Yeah that's pretty cool. Modern humans got the last of them it would seem.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:8px;">I know they were Bronto-burgers!</span></p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-a-canadians-mistake-70-years-ago-almost-botched-japans-surrender-document/article26201436/'>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-a-canadians-mistake-70-years-ago-almost-botched-japans-surrender-document/article26201436/</a></p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">Sept. 2 – known to history as VJ Day – marks 70 years since the signing on-board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay of Japan’s formal surrender. Under the watchful eye of the 31-star American flag that had accompanied Matthew Perry and his Black Ships into that same bay in 1853, the ceremony was brief and solemn as Allied and Japanese representatives signed the two copies of the instrument of surrender.<br><br>
Amidst the solemnity of the occasion, however, came an unusual historical footnote courtesy of the Canadian representative, Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave. When signing the Japanese copy, Col. Cosgrave – perhaps owing to blindness in one eye – placed his scrawl below the line reserved for the Canadian signature and instead signed on the line of the French representative. In the official timeline of the ceremony, a brief but noticeable delay appears after Col. Cosgrave’s signing – the French delegate no doubt perplexed as to where to place his signature.<br><br>
Each subsequent delegate eventually signed on the next available – if incorrect – line; the final delegate from New Zealand simply signing his name in a blank space underneath the others, his signature line having been commandeered by the Dutch.<br><br>
When the Japanese delegation protested – could they accept a botched surrender document? – Douglas MacArthur’s famously brusque chief of staff General Richard Sutherland scratched out the now-incorrect list of Allied delegates and handwrote the correct titles under each signature, adding his initials to each correction to forestall further protest. The Japanese were then dismissed from the USS Missouri with a short “Now it’s all fine†from Gen. Sutherland.<br><br>
It was a quirky end to an otherwise dark chapter of human history. Canada’s contribution to the historical blooper reel can be seen by the public at Japan’s Edo-Tokyo Museum, where the surrender document remains on display. The Allied copy of the document, it should be noted, was signed without incident.
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