pretty sure.. it may have needed two hands and a face on it but im not up for that sort of thing..
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The world's largest pocket watch is a massive 20-tonne monument located in the Familiengarten in Eberswalde, Germany, featuring a diameter of 4.70 meters.
Gonna need a check on the use of the word 'pocket'.
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If you ring Louise Haigh, she has a Free-Phone number
If you ring Louise Haigh, she has a Free-Phone number
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The Africans invented the plank for a loo.
The British decided to put a hole in it
The Africans invented the plank for a loo.
The British decided to put a hole in it
B made a huge mistake allowing you to learn how to read
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Wasps have a good point .....
Adult social wasps catch flies, chew them into a pulp, and feed them to their growing larvae back at the nest, as the larvae provide sugary secretions in return
Wasps have a good point .....
Adult social wasps catch flies, chew them into a pulp, and feed them to their growing larvae back at the nest, as the larvae provide sugary secretions in return
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"Amen Corner" refers to holes 11, 12, and 13 at the Augusta National Golf Club.
The name was coined in 1958 by Sports Illustrated writer Herbert Warren Wind.
He borrowed the phrase from an old jazz recording titled "Shouting in that Amen Corner," using it to capture the dramatic, make-or-break action during that year's Masters.
"Amen Corner" refers to holes 11, 12, and 13 at the Augusta National Golf Club.
The name was coined in 1958 by Sports Illustrated writer Herbert Warren Wind.
He borrowed the phrase from an old jazz recording titled "Shouting in that Amen Corner," using it to capture the dramatic, make-or-break action during that year's Masters.
TIL that the froggies owe us one on the Bayeux Tapestry.
Heinrich Himmler and the SS-led Ahnenerbe (a Nazi pseudo-historical research organization) coveted the 900-year-old masterpiece.
They viewed the Normans as Germanic Vikings and wanted the tapestry as an Aryan trophy to hang in Himmler's castle at Wewelsburg.
In June 1944, the tapestry was moved from rural hiding spots to the Louvre in Paris under German occupation.
On August 18, 1944, just days before the liberation of Paris, Himmler sent a coded radio message ordering SS forces to transfer the tapestry to Germany.
Codebreakers at Bletchley Park intercepted and decrypted this urgent signal.They tipped off the Allies, who relayed the warning to the French Resistance.
France, you're welcome.
Heinrich Himmler and the SS-led Ahnenerbe (a Nazi pseudo-historical research organization) coveted the 900-year-old masterpiece.
They viewed the Normans as Germanic Vikings and wanted the tapestry as an Aryan trophy to hang in Himmler's castle at Wewelsburg.
In June 1944, the tapestry was moved from rural hiding spots to the Louvre in Paris under German occupation.
On August 18, 1944, just days before the liberation of Paris, Himmler sent a coded radio message ordering SS forces to transfer the tapestry to Germany.
Codebreakers at Bletchley Park intercepted and decrypted this urgent signal.They tipped off the Allies, who relayed the warning to the French Resistance.
France, you're welcome.
They gave you french fries and woman with hairy armpits, i think they have more than paid their debt...
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Sniffer Dogs are full of shit ... that is all
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Why scrap metal is so popular:-
Why scrap metal is so popular:-
My ex brother in law (sisters husband…sadly died about 6 years ago) was one of about 50 people worldwide who used to trade in copper arbitrage between London and Chicago markets.
Made millions at it. I worked for him for about 6 months because he was bored with it. It was watching prices on a screen for hours until it hit a price mark - then you buy or sell accordingly if you can (because the other 49 people are trying to get the same lots) and it’s a mad scramble. Could watch the screens for two days before the price reaches where you need it to be, then in 30 seconds you make 30 grand. And back to waiting.
I was on a wage…paid in bundles of 50s. It ended when the guys at the trading house that were in charge of his account, got pulled for fraud relating to something else.
He was a top bloke - died of throat cancer with four kids the same ages as our four. They went to the ‘best specialists’ none of which did any good. Whenever I tried telling my sister about glucose and cancer etc, she’d get mad. She full on believes anything the tv, or doctors, or specialists say. She gets quite aggressive over it actually, even though she never listens to the opposite argument. Proper Dunning Kruger effect. About 200 people at his funeral.
Years ago me and a mate were tasked with getting the metal store sorted. We cut up various metals to make them lighter to throw into the back of the wagon.
Anyhoo, we got to 2 sheets of what we thought were stainless but couldn’t cut it with anything we had. Told our boss and he said just throw it in the wagon.
We eventually got it all sorted, took the wagon to the German scrappy who gave us 100 DM for the metal but a further 400 DM for the 2 sheets. Chuffed to fuck we went back and put it in the troop slush fund.
About 3 months later someone asked where the 2 sheets of titanium were.
Nobody owned up but we were shitting ourselves when the RMP did their investigation, luckily they’re so incompetent, they didn’t find anything thank fuck.
TIL - Astronauts have their personal drainage system
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