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    #302
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Red Kev wrote: »
    Slavery was officially abolished in Mauritania in 1980.
    It wasn't made illegal until 2007 :eek:

    The first prosecution was in 2011
    In January 2011, Oumoulmoumnine Mint Bakar Vall was sentenced to six months in prison for enslaving two young girls, according to news reports.

    There are people in prison there for longer terms for campaigning against slavery.


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    #303
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Skylinehead wrote: »
    90% of rocket weight is fuel needed to get 5% of the rocket into orbit.
    Next time you open a beer or soft drink can ponder on that.

    It's the same ratio, except the rocket has engines and turbopumps and insulation because liquid oxygen is very cold.


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    #304
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Mister Vain wrote: »
    A man in Afghanistan farted in front of his family, and out of disgust left the house for 20 years.

    In John Aubrey's Brief Lives is the story of the Earl of Oxford, who bowed deeply to the first Queen Elizabeth and accidentally farted. Overcome with shame he vanished from court and spent seven years travelling. On his hesitant return, the queen greeted him with: "My Lord, I had forgott the Fart."


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    #305
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Squall Leonhart wrote: »
    Cash lost in 'em

    is an anagram of

    Slot machines

    Im writin that one down chief,cheers!


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    #306
    Mouseslayer17
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭Mouseslayer17


    Warm water freezes quicker than cold
    Mindblown


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    #307
    cabledude
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭cabledude


    The most widely used (and highest earning in dollar terms) bio pharmaceutical drugs are manufactured using cells from the ovaries of Chinese hamsters. CHO (Chinese Hamster Ovary) cells are the best producing cell lines known to biologics and in dollar terms 5 out of the top 6 biologic medicines are developed from CHO. This is a very specific and complicated process which makes it extremely expensive.


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    #308
    Red Kev
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    It wasn't made illegal until 2007 :eek:

    The first prosecution was in 2011

    There are people in prison there for longer terms for campaigning against slavery.

    There are still a lot of indentured slaves there and many who simply work all their lives for food accommodation and health care. I spent a lot of time there in the 2000's. The whole country is essentially run by 12 clans.

    Corruption doesn't exist as we know it; it's totally engrained in life, it's a part of the fabric of their society. Hard to understand until you actually live there.


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    #309
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    The time difference between the Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex is larger than the time difference between Tyrannosaurus Rex and you


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    #310
    youngblood
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    maudgonner wrote: »
    In the middle ages rhubarb was imported to Europe from Asia and was more expensive than spices such as saffron and even opium.

    There is a Rhubarb triangle (9 sq miles) in West Yorkshire in England which is world famous for growing forced rhubarb and produces 90% of the worlds winter forced rhubard. In 2010 Yorkshire Forced Rhubard was given Protected Designation of Origin status similar to Champagne, Parma ham etc

    Its forced so much, in their darkened sheds, you can hear it grow, it grows that fast.

    Before the Yorkshire Triangle, most rhubarb came from China. In 1839, the imperial Chinese commissioner Lin Zexu wrote a letter to Queen Victoria warning that, unless the British stopped supplying opium to China, he would cut off rhubarb supplies to Britain, killing everyone through mass constipation.

    It seems that the Queen never had the letter translated, and so remained unaware of the danger.


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    cabledude
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭cabledude


    youngblood wrote: »
    There is a Rhubarb triangle (9 sq miles) in West Yorkshire in England which is world famous for growing forced rhubarb and produces 90% of the worlds winter forced rhubard. In 2010 Yorkshire Forced Rhubard was given Protected Designation of Origin status similar to Champagne, Parma ham etc

    Its forced so much, in their darkened sheds, you can hear it grow, it grows that fast.

    Before the Yorkshire Triangle, most rhubarb came from China. In 1839, the imperial Chinese commissioner Lin Zexu wrote a letter to Queen Victoria warning that, unless the British stopped supplying opium to China, he would cut off rhubarb supplies to Britain, killing everyone through mass constipation.

    It seems that the Queen never had the letter translated, and so remained unaware of the danger.
    I'd love a slice of rhubarb tart and a cup of tea right about now.


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    #312
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    Little known fact.
    Every one in 53 of the Pillars in the world famous Giant's Causeway is carved into the shape of a penis.


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    #313
    job seeker
    Registered Users Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭job seeker


    A tomato is a fruit, not a veg..

    Am I doing it right?


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    #314
    Peregrinus
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    Mouseslayer17 wrote: »
    Warm water freezes quicker than cold
    Mindblown
    I bet you didn't know that this is false.


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    #315
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Mister Vain wrote: »

    A man in Afghanistan farted in front of his family, and out of disgust left the house for 20 years.

    Who left the house? The man or his family? I don't understand.


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    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Plus, their genealogy is reliably and comprehensively recorded for many generations back, which makes them ideal subjects for genetic studies.
    Except that the recording was a bit iffy as DNA testing is now proving.


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    #317
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Mister Vain wrote: »

    A man in Afghanistan farted in front of his family, and out of disgust left the house for 20 years.

    The 'oul Afghani Guinness must be some potent stuff if the fart lingered in a room for 20 years.


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    #318
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Plus, their genealogy is reliably and comprehensively recorded for many generations back, which makes them ideal subjects for genetic studies.
    Wasn't there a survey of Cohen's with similar results that showed most carried similar genes ?

    Cynics pointed out that Cohen is a name common with high status Jewish rabbis so it could just mean that if the women cheated then it wasn't with the lower classes.


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    #319
    magentis
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    youngblood wrote: »
    There is a Rhubarb triangle (9 sq miles) in West Yorkshire in England which is world famous for growing forced rhubarb and produces 90% of the worlds winter forced rhubard. In 2010 Yorkshire Forced Rhubard was given Protected Designation of Origin status similar to Champagne, Parma ham etc

    Its forced so much, in their darkened sheds, you can hear it grow, it grows that fast.

    Before the Yorkshire Triangle, most rhubarb came from China. In 1839, the imperial Chinese commissioner Lin Zexu wrote a letter to Queen Victoria warning that, unless the British stopped supplying opium to China, he would cut off rhubarb supplies to Britain, killing everyone through mass constipation.

    It seems that the Queen never had the letter translated, and so remained unaware of the danger.

    The area of Edinburgh that is fabulously well populated with titty bars is called the pubic triangle.


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    #320
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    scamalert wrote: »
    meetings in japan are usually held while standing up :) - was told that,while it seems strange one,but given culture wouldn't be surprised since imagine saves time and down to business there.

    The gentlemen who meet to sell benzos also tend to stand whilst conducting business.I wonder did they pick it up from the Japanese, or vice versa?


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    #321
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    Bats are the only mammals that can fly


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    #322
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Cartouche wrote: »
    Bats are the only mammals that can fly

    You've clearly never let go while swinging a cat.


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    #323
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    Richard Branson can fly.


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    #324
    jacksie66
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    #325
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Cartouche wrote: »
    Bats are the only mammals that can fly

    R. Kelly believes he can fly and indeed touch the sky. I read somewhere that he thinks about it every night and day, he spreads his wings and fly away.


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    #326
    Mr. FoggPatches
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Mr. FoggPatches


    Wibbs wrote: »
    "gluaistean" is more recent, literally "fast thing" IIRC. "Car" was an old Celtic language word the Romans nicked, a word to describe a wheeled vehicle that would have been present in Celtic language Ireland that far back.

    EDIT I just clicked the link you posted to support your idea and it seems you didn't actually read it? :confused:

    "The word "car" is believed to originate from the Latin word carrus or carrum ("wheeled vehicle"), or the Middle English word carre (meaning two-wheel cart, from Old North French). In turn, these originated from the Gaulish word karros (a Gallic chariot). The Gaulish language was a branch of the Brythoic language which also used the word Karr; the Brythonig language evolved into Welsh (and Gaelic) where 'Car llusg' (a drag cart or sledge) and 'car rhyfel' (war chariot) still survive" Emphasis mine.

    John le carre's real name is john the two wheeled cart.


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    #327
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    If someone gave you a euro every day since jesus was born you wouldnt be close to being a millionaire yet


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    #328
    Kat1170
    Registered Users Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kat1170


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    If someone gave you a euro every day since jesus was born you wouldnt be close to being a millionaire yet

    €735,840 give or take a few yoyo's. Near enough. You can make my cheque payable to Cash ;)


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    #329
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Kat1170 wrote: »
    €735,840 give or take a few yoyo's. Near enough. You can make my cheque payable to Cash ;)

    You can add the guts of €2000 to that, as he was born around 6bc


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    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    On August 15, 1977, a strong narrowband radio signal was received by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope, in the United States, then assigned to a SETI project. The signal appeared to come from the constellation Sagittarius and bore the expected hallmarks of alien origin


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    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Cartouche wrote: »
    On August 15, 1977, a strong narrowband radio signal was received by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope, in the United States, then assigned to a SETI project. The signal appeared to come from the constellation Sagittarius and bore the expected hallmarks of alien origin

    WOW!


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