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Wow, That's Interesting

Lioedevon427

Very tired animator
I love this thread! It’s like those Instagram fact accounts but not a cancer upon the earth!
 

Lioedevon427

Very tired animator
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This is the flag of the Confederate States Revenue Service. I think we can all agree it is one of the most evil flags to ever exist with its unholy combination of racism and taxes.
I have another awful USA flag for you- while there may be nothing evil behind this flag, the state flag of Maryland is offensive in design
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Baron Tredegar

Master of Forgotten Lore

Lioedevon427

Very tired animator

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Duart Castle or Caisteal Dhubhairt in Scottish Gaelic is a castle on Isle of Mull

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The largest living organism on Earth

"Pando" is a colony of aspen-shaped poplar (USA, Utah). Scientists have determined that 47 thousand stems come from a single once living poplar. All 47 thousand stems have a single root system, and can be called a single organism, which weighs 6 thousand tons. Pando is 80 thousand years old, which makes it one of the main candidates for the title of the longest-living organism on the planet.
 

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A statue of a three-headed fire breathing dragon in Lipetsk region, Russia.

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Saudi Arabia will install solar-powered laser lights to help lost travelers find water.
 

Matt the Terrier

Woofs! Wiggles! Wins!
Season 12 of Thomas & Friends was going to be narrated by Pierce Brosnan, who had been brought in to be the narrator for the movie, "The Great Discovery". I believe his contract called for him to stay on for at least three more seasons, however he backed out after learning that HiT Entertainment was planning to go full CGI with the TV series.

It is believed Pierce recorded all of his line for Season 12, however we only have all of about one scene from an actual episode, showing us what it would have been like. We could potentially have lived in a time line where Thomas the Tank Engine was narrated by James Bond himself.

As a quick reminder, Alec Baldwin was the narrator for Seasons 5 and 6, and he is an absolute delight to listen to in Season 5. Season 6. . .eh, not so much. He was going thorugh a lot in the early 2000s (Magic Railroad failing, plus divorce), and his delivery for most of Season 6 feels like, "just gimme my paycheck so I can get out of here to go work on 30 Rock and Madagascar 2."
 

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An Egyptian man in present, sitting beside a 2000-year-old portrait of his ancestor, which looks astonishingly identical.

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Devils Horns sunrise captured in Qatar, during a partial eclipse during sunrise

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An open-air school in 1957, Netherlands. In the beginning of the 20th century a movement towards open air schools took place in Europe. Classes were taught in forests so that students would benefit physically and mentally from clean air and sunlight.
 

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Hiroo Onoda (middle), a Japanese soldier hid in the Philippines jungle for 29 years after WWII as he didn't believe that the war was over. Onoda spent 29 years hiding in the Philippines until his former commander travelled from Japan to formally relieve him from duty in 1974.
 

Fallowfox

Are we moomin, or are we dancer?
Rongorongo is an undecoded system of glyphs that might constitute written language from Easter Island.
Genuine writing has only been invented 3 or 4 times in history.
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