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I don’t eat pork anymore , but I find it amazing that animals have an instinct to swim . I jumped off a diving board at a lake one time and started floundering until a woman came out and touched my shoulder . I put my feet down and I could stand easily in the water . I guess I don’t have the swim gene
Oh, I know they are, I just find heartbreaking how cruel a death many, many, many have been inflicted over the years.
But back on topic, I wonder does their fatty tissue help them with buoyancy.
Pigs are smart and sociable . I used to pet them and they would rub up against my leg . There’s a thing about genetics that they can grow human organs or something . The fact that they can swim is mad . I would never have guessed that. I might get a pet one and hope there’s loads of truffles on the land .
And that's why they prefer to take a long swim.
I used to have 2 pigs that I raised , until the father loaded them in a trailer and them and me to a butcher . Poor old pinky and porky were hit over the head with an iron bar and knifed in the throat . Rip . Pork chops and bacon for weeks .
They must've crossed the road to get away from the chicken!
(I'm here all week)
I never knew pigs can swim . There’s an island in Bahamas where you can see them , though several tourists have reported being bit by the pigs . Several different possibilities of how they got there . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Beach
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I hate that they can't even get basic facts rights. He was 81 when he died not 70. He was 70 when he received his medal of honor.
Looks like one of the vehicles from Fury Road.
In 1975 De Niro was filming Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 in Italy. In prep for Taxi Driver, he’d finish shooting on a Friday in Rome, fly to New York, spend the weekend driving a cab (having obtained a license) then return to Italy to shoot the following week. This is his taxi licence. He wasn't unknown back then, he had won an Oscar in 1974 for The Godfather II. Probably impossible these days with Twitter and TikTok.
You have to wonder what else they had to cut from We Were Soldiers, I had no idea Too Tall did that. I should probably read the book.
And it would remain the only town bearing this name in the United States regardless.
One of the shortest telegraphs ever sent was ? by Victor Hugo asking about sales of his latest novel Les Misérables.
At the time the advance on it for eight years publishing rights would have bought 97Kg of gold.
The reply was even shorter !
Already in use as a historical name for the island now known as Iona.
The simple name of I would have been perfectly cromulent and would have saved them time and effort.
The folks of Ixonia wouldn't have been great at Countdown. You could have made a name before the 6th letter came out, whatever it was. And did they double up (some of) the letters they included, since there were two 'i's? 🤨
I'm gonna lose sleep over this...😄
How did the town of Ixonia, Wisconsin, get its name?
They put the letters of the alphabet on slips of paper and have young Mary Piper draw them until a name could be formed. As the result, "Ixonia" was the name given town 8 on January 21, 1846, and remains the only town bearing this name in the United States.
animal with the most names in the world
La Dolce Vita
The RTÉ show Operation: Transformation has never quite taken off internationally... but there have been Belgian and Welsh editions of the show, Let's Get Fit and Ffit Cymru, respectively.
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, who was executed aged 80 in 1747 at the Tower of London for high treason.
The execution was considered so significant by King George II that the monarch put up additional stands for the extra spectators who wished to witness the event. But one of these platforms is said to have collapsed moments before the execution, killing about nine people. Legend has it that this caused Fraser – nicknamed the Old Fox for his devious reputation – to laugh while the axe fell, coining the phrase “laughing his head off”.
The US government had a statement prepared in case Aldrin and Armstrong didn’t return safely from Appolo 11
https://www.archives.gov/files/presidential-libraries/events/centennials/nixon/images/exhibit/rn100-6-1-2.pdf
Switzerland hasn't an official capital. Bern acts as a de-facto capital.
There's a lot of guff about Christmas and other festivals at the same time. The rest is history podcast has a good recent episode on it.
