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<p>I did not know of the Trades Hall bombing.</p>
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<p>Also, it turns out that Neil Roberts may not have been NZ's first/only suicide bomber:</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/terrorism-and-counter-terrorism/page-1'>http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/terrorism-and-counter-terrorism/page-1</a></p>
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<p>I missed this in the news at the time,<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayed_Mohammed_Abdullah_Ali'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayed_Mohammed_Abdullah_Ali</a></p>
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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> -
From Wiki...<br><br>
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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