And on that note… The woolly mammoth still roamed the earth while the pyramids were being built.-
The last woolly mammoths died as late as 1650 B.C. on Russia’s Wrangle Island ([from what scientists can tell, anyway]— most populations of woolly mammoths disappeared long ago during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene periods, but some still survived on islands in Alaska and Russia).
By this time, the Egyptian Empire was already extremely advanced and building pyramids. In fact, the Great Pyramid of Giza had existed for 1,000 years by the time the last woolly mammoth died.
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The story goes that Lustig got the idea when he read an article about how the Eiffel Tower was rusting, and the high cost of its maintenance and repairs. Since the tower [was only supposed to stand for 20 years], some Parisians were saying it should be taken down entirely.
Not one to miss an opportunity, Lustig devised a plan to convince the city’s biggest scrap-metal dealers that he was a government director charged with the discreet task of selling off the Eiffel Tower’s scrap metal. He rented limousines and gave tours of the landmark, and insinuated not only that this was very hush-hush government business, but that he could be bribed into accepting the winning bid.
One dealer was convinced, and paid Lustig $20,000 in cash plus an additional $50,000 to make sure his was the winning bid. Once he had the money, Lustig raced off to Austria to lay low while the story broke — but it never did since the dealer was too embarrassed to report Lustig’s scam.
If you tried a new variety of apple every day, it would take more than 20 years to try them all.
If you’re the kind of person who appreciates variety and would love to taste-test a new type of apple every day of the week, then you’re in for a decades-long endeavor. It would take you more than 20 years to try each of the [7,500 varieties of apples in the world].
Hello, just sent a b-tag request. Returning Boomy 234/Tree 229/Bear 228 (comfortable playing in that order) after a few months away. 3/10 H SoD when I stopped playing. Looking to get back into the swing of things and get caught up. Have played many classes since I began back in BC and have focused on AotC on just about every tier since I began raiding in Wrath. Logs are old but linked below. I can be reached via b-tag at Combat#11136 or discord at Combat#3836.
A Noble Prize winner was given a lifetime supply of beer piped directly into his house.
In 1922, when Danish physicist Niels Bohr won the Nobel Prize, the Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen, Denmark, decided to give him a house. But it wasn’t just any house—it was located right next to the brewery and had a pipe that brought beer directly into the residence.
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.
The Loganair flight between the two Scottish islands of Westray and Papa Westray lasts just 57 seconds. At a distance of 1.7 miles, it’s the [shortest commercial flight] in the world. However, because the trip is made via one of two eight-seater planes, the exact time of the journey could take a bit longer if there are strong winds. Loganair claims it takes less than a minute “in a favourable wind”
The coast of France has had “Garfield” phones washing ashore since the 1980s.
In the 1980s, phones in the shape of [Garfield], the cartoon cat, began washing up on the Iroise coast in the Brittany region of France—but nobody knew where they were coming from. Then, 35 years into the mystery, a local farmer named René Morvan revealed that a container ship carrying the feline phones had been hit by a storm and ended up in a nearby secluded sea cave. “You had to really know the area well,” he told [Franceinfo] “We found a container aground in a fissure. It was open. Many of the things were gone, but there was a stock of phones.”
You might soon be able to compost yourself in the U.S.
When you pass away, you could choose to have your body buried or cremated. But soon, there may be another option: composting. In April 2019, a bill was passed in the state of Washington to make a legal option.
The process can turn a human body into compost within weeks by giving “the natural process of decomposition a gentle boost,” according to [IFL Science] “Bodies are put in a temperature-controlled rotating vessel along with some woodchips, straw, and gases. After the process is completed, a cubic yard of soil per person is left, which loved ones can then take home to grow a tree or a plant from if they so wish.”
Alfred Nobel was inspired to start the Nobel Prize when he read his own obituary in a newspaper that ran it by mistake? Nobel didn’t like the headline, “The Merchant of Death is Dead,” a reference to the fact that he invented dynamite, so he found a new legacy for himself.
Inventor of vaccines and pasteurization, Louis Pasteur was the head of the science program at a French school during the mid 1800’s. He once told students that anyone caught smoking would be expelled. Seventy-three of the school’s 80 students resigned.
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