Antiquities are the Third most trafficked items in the World .
I presume drugs and people are 1 & 2

That is stolen and looted objects and artworks etc
carried or transported across borders.

The worst aspect of this trade , is that it very often finances terrorist and illegal activities.

Amongst the most saught after items come from areas like Syria and Iraq and surrounding areas ,
looted and supplied by outfits like ISIS ,
meaning :

Anyone or organization buying those items
is contributing to
financing things like the beheading of people
and other atrocities.

That is a rather sobering thaught when you visit places like museums and anywhere with such displays.

 

The Windy City nickname has nothing to do with Chicago’s weather. Chicago’s nickname was coined by 19th-century journalists who were referring to the fact that its residents were “windbags” and “full of hot air.”

 

Chilly Habanero,has nothing to do with Havana.It is just a commercial name.The cuban aborigines did not eat with chilly,those were the people of today's mexican territory.
By the way,cuban cousine, it is more spanish and chinese,and african,that indian.
The natives were decimated,in total some 300 000, by the end of the XVI century,and replaced by african slaves and poor spanish farmers from Canary Islands,Galicia and other regions.
That is why,they cook completely different as you might expect.

 

Also,a cooked milk cream,under Havana Name,is also made in Argentina.Again,nothing to do with the capital of Cuba...Only cigars have their original names,if not faked

 

Crows can recognize human faces and remember them for their entire lives and pass down this knowledge to future generations. They've also been known to leave gifts for humans.

 

Uranus was first named George. When William Herschel first discovered the planet in 1781, the English astronomer named it the Georgium Sidus (the Georgian Planet) in honor of King George III. I wonder if someone higher up had a different opinion of King George III and changed the name? I’m sure there are a lot of jokes out there about this.

 

The Rolling Stones to release a new album very soon ,
the first since Charlie's passing ,
and the album includes two numbers with Charlie,
recorded before he died.

Also contributions from Paul McCartney
and Elton John
& ?

Looking forward to it

Quite an amazing record really , now being just over 60 years since thier first recording in mid '63
with keif n mick being there from the start , as was Charlie.
Who would have ever believed after thier
19th nervous breakdown ,
they'd still be rock'n on today
clearly no
sympathy for the devil

so long since Marianne Faithfull sat and watched as tears go by

 

The “?!” Punctuation mark has a term. It is called an interrobang and was invented during the 1960s. This combination of punctuation made it easy for advertisements to express emotional questions. The interrobang originally looked like both marks were overlapped (‽).

 

There is only one bird in the history of the world that can fly backwards: the hummingbird.

 

The official origin story for the Guinness Book of World Records, the annual book that catalogs all of human achievement, is that it was used to settle an argument over whether the golden plover or the red grouse is the fastest game bird in Europe. (It's the plover). One of the people arguing, Sir Hugh Beaver, the Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, noted that the answer was hard to find in reference books. So he started one to settle these kinds of trivial arguments and the Guinness Book of World Records was born in 1955.

 

Try the WF,the What Files,on YouTube,with Hacklefish and JJ,those are interesting videos

 

The latest Bugatti W16 (16 cylinder) car engine currently produces
1,850 hp
about 800 more than the original

the Veron tyres cost $30,000 a set
(The Fastest production car in the World)

 

Social attitudes are very interesting.

When a guy fucks lots of women, he's a player.

When a girl fucks lots of men, she's a slut, unworthy of respect.

 

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page played tambourine on the Kinks' single 'You Really Got Me.' Jimmy DID NOT play the guitar solo - Dave Davies did.

Dave said, "Every time I do an interview, people ask me about 'You Really Got Me. ' So maybe somebody can correct Wikipedia so people won't keep asking me."

Drummer Mick Avory also confirmed that the guitar solo was played by Dave Davies and not Jimmy Page in an interview with AllMusic in 2023.

 

The word "moose" comes from an Algonquin (Native American Tribe) word meaning "twig eater.

 

Imagine a world where Lego mini-figures come to life!
Well, if these tiny, colourful characters were humans, they’d have the biggest population on Earth!
That’s even bigger than China which currently has the biggest population in the world.

 

1. Sunsets only exist because Earth’s atmosphere acts as a prism for light. In scientific terms, it’s called “scattering”.
   a) Molecules and particles in the atmosphere (which are more numerous at sunset) scatter short-wavelength violet and blue light away from your eyes, so we can see the other colors on the spectrum, like yellow and orange.
   

 

Lil Fat Kim's train is so old and outdated
(and heavy)
it can only travel at about 50kph (30mp)

Everything is bullet and bomb proof ,
even between compartments
like if he goes to a toilet , it is protect from the next room/compartment by armour plating.
It also has armoured wagons that carry armoured cars he uses anywhere he stops .

That's why he is only just meeting The Russian Thug now , because he's out east , close enough to Korea.

as it's over 8,000km to Moscow ,
that would be more than 160 hours of non stop travel ,
if the train could make it ,
so two weeks traveling to gat there and back.

Anyone know where T rump is tight now ?
or is he missing , somewhere in eastern Russia with his best buddies
(maybe grabbing some Russian snatch to)

 

Denver may be called 'The Mile-High City', but at an elevation of 5,314 feet above sea level, Albuquerque NM is the highest metropolitan city in the US.

So there, bitches!