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Here’s a few who’ve come and gone:

Valentine Strasser was 25 (and 0.1 months) old when he seized power in Sierra Leone in 1992.

Muammar Gadhafi was 27.

And on the other end, when Malawi became independent in 1964, their Prime Minister was Hastings Banda, already 65 years old—he would continue to govern Malawi as dictator for thirty years.
Corrupt gerontocracy is a trait of third world planets, so Earth #1 ;)
 
A contemporary travel guide for Africa warned visitors to Malawi that women in miniskirts, men with long hair, and hippies would not be permitted into the country.
 
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Pope Lick Monster ????!!!

Spoiler Not trying to get a sloppy one on Papa :
The Pope Lick Monster (more commonly, colloquially, the Goat Man) is a legendary part-man, part-goat and part-sheep creature reported to live beneath a railroad trestle bridge over Pope Lick Creek, in the Fisherville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

I have to say, Loch Ness and the forests of the northwest US are quite big, I can see a cryptid there and not being found. But under a bridge? Can someone not just look?
 
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But crocodiles and alligators aren't really "land" predators. They aren't even as mobile in-land as a hippo.
Though google tells me that "some species have demonstrated land speed of up to 20 km/hour", although it adds that they can't keep up with humans for long.
 
We've passed 1000 posts, so @amadeus would theoretically be the person to make the next thread, but that was also over a week ago.
 
$100 trillion world economy

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Cats are some of the most disruptive species in NZ, up there with Australians. There have been calls to even outright ban them here – or at least euthanise the feral ones – since they kill so many native birds and animals. Of course, the idea of banning them entirely is not so popular since we are so dearly attached to them.
 
I wasn't aware that Ireland was super-populous back in the day.

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The vast majority of Irish people at the time lived on very small farms and ate boiled potatoes and milk for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Potatoes weren't very exciting but they grew well and are very nutritious so the population boomed in the 80 years or so before the famine.
 
The vast majority of Irish people at the time lived on small farms and ate boiled potatoes and milk for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Potatoes weren't very exciting but they grew well and are very nutritious so the population boomed in the 80 years or so before the famine.
There is another side to it though, as part of a globalised empire that had been supplying Great Britain with food for centuries they were still exporting food while people were starving. I am not the person to comment on the economics, but surely this has more to do with capitalism than culinary decisions.

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Spoiler More :

In History Ireland magazine (1997, issue 5, pp. 32-36), Christine Kinealy, a Great Hunger scholar, lecturer and Drew University professor, relates her findings: “Almost 4,000 vessels carried food from Ireland to the ports of Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool and London during 1847, when 400,000 Irish men, women and children died of starvation and related diseases. The food was shipped under military guard from the most famine-stricken parts of Ireland; Ballina, Ballyshannon, Bantry, Dingle, Killala, Kilrush, Limerick, Sligo, Tralee and Westport. A wide variety of commodities left Ireland during 1847, including peas, beans, onions, rabbits, salmon, oysters, herring, lard, honey, tongues, animal skins, rags, shoes, soap, glue and seed. The most shocking export figures concern butter. Butter was shipped in firkins, each one holding 9 gallons. In the first nine months of 1847, 56,557 firkins were exported from Ireland to Bristol, and 34,852 firkins were shipped to Liverpool. That works out to be 822,681 gallons of butter exported to England from Ireland during nine months of the worst year of the Famine.”

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There is another side to it though, as part of a globalised empire that had been supplying Great Britain with food for centuries they were still exporting food while people were starving. I am not the person to comment on the economics, but surely this has more to do with capitalism than culinary decisions.

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A modest proposal.
 
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