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    MASSIVE IDEA: Bring woolly mammoth back to Canada's Arctic

    Legend has it that in 1951, at the Explorers Club in New York City, a group of diners sat at a table and ate Pacific spider crabs, bison steaks and slices of a 250,000-year-old woolly mammoth that had been defrosted from Alaskan glacial ice. The mammoth was supposedly discovered frozen in ice by...
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    Omnibus Afghanistan thread

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    Soccer 20/21

    Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, the world's best player, scored twice in his first match since returning to Manchester United after 12 years, during which time he's played for Real Madrid and Juventus, to help them beat Newcastle United 4-1 in the Premier League.
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    MASSIVE IDEA: Bring woolly mammoth back to Canada's Arctic

    The last mammoths inhabited Russia's Wrangel Island when the Great Pyramid at Giza was being built.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Londonbeat - "I've Been Thinking About You" (1990)
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    Happy 9/11

    Now they've just got to learn how to fly it and maybe refuel it on the way to a major Western landmark. There are some flight simulator apps you can download on PlayStore.
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    A story proving the existence of the soul

    Whatever religion you do or don't follow, there's definitely an afterlife. The evidence for it is overwhelming.
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    A story proving the existence of the soul

    There have been many documented accounts of OBEs throughout the ages. I remember the story of some person who temporarily died in hospital and found themselves floating above their physical body and saw some objects on top of a wardrobe that they couldn't possibly have seen had they not been so...
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    Note to Anti-Vaxxers

    Most of the world doesn't care. Covid isn't a big deal and should never have been. There are far more pressing things going on right now than a few people just having a bit of a cold. Have you seen what American lefties have done to Afghanistan?
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    Note to Anti-Vaxxers

    Is there still an epidemic? I've been going through life as normal and it's probably been about a month since I last even thought about Covid. I hardly think about it. Here in Britain it seems to have been largely forgotten about. The lockdowns are over, everything is back to normal and even...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    ABBA (2021) More new music from the Swedish pop band after 40 years who are second only to The Beatles. ABBA will be in concert in London in spring 2022.
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    Happy 9/11

    I was 20 and I came home from town that afternoon (the attacks started around 2pm our time) and came into the house to see my brother surfing the web on the PC in the dining room (I didn't use the internet then and didn't really know what it was and just wasn't interested). Our parents and...
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    Dinas Dinlle Iron Age hillfort is being lost to the sea

    Iron Age hillfort is being lost to the sea in Gwynedd BBC News 8th September 2021 Archaeologists have returned to the site of an ancient Welsh hillfort in a bid to uncover more of its secrets before being lost to the sea. Excavations in 2019 by a beach near Caernarfon revealed one of the...
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    Stunning meteor seen over southern England and Brittany

    Stunning images of a meteor lighting up the night sky over Southampton, England, have been caught on camera. The bright object was seen streaking over the city's docks at around 22:45 BST on Sunday evening. It’s reported the meteor landed in Morgat in Brittany, France.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    ABBA - "Don't Shut Me Down" (2021) Heading for UK No1.
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    What are you listening to right now?

    The Stranglers - "Golden Brown" (1982) The Stranglers - "This Song" (2021) The video stars former England footballer Stuart Pearce.
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    Elite Guinea army unit says it has toppled president

    Imagine naming a country after the old 21 shillings coin.
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    Where the word Aryan really came from.

    Yeah. Sure.
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    End the Lockdown

    That's the same Israel that has the world's best vaccination record.
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    End the Lockdown

    The end of day 534 of "Two Weeks To Flatten The Curve."