Today I learnt that the UK, France and/or Germany are in Eastern Europe.
At least we're not in Northern Africa
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TIL: Today I Learned
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At least we're not in Northern Africa
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GenMarshall
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Today (or rather on Sunday Night), I learned that the 2016 Presidential elections is just a three ring circus between a crook (Hillary) and a plutocrat (Trump). Still waiting on the issues guys, instead of sniping at each other.
Lohrenswald
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Trump might be a plutocrat but he's the dumbest plutocrat ever
Pathetic!
Pathetic!
Phrossack
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The American people don't want to hear about issues they neither understand nor care about. The American people demand blood and entertainment.
Synobun
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It's likely from a geopolitical standpoint. Trump's awful and he does have international dealings but it's as a second-rate businessman instead of an influential politician. The Clinton Foundation is a markedly different beast than the Trump brand.
Zkribbler
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You forget Paris Hilton.
Snerk
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Paris Hilton for prez.
timtofly
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She has more friends, to rob-bin hood for.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Stuff like that messes with my head. Once, I was walking around Angus, and I saw a Pictish carved stone from around 900AD, and a carved stone from around 1500BC, and it occurred to me that the neolithic stone was older to the people who carved the Pictish stone than the Pictish stone is to me, and I had to go and have a lie down.Today I learnt that the UK, France and/or Germany are in Eastern Europe.
Fun fact about the Pyramids - Cleopatra VII, paramour of Julius Caesar and last of the Ptolemid pharaohs, lived closer in history to us than to the Pyramids over which she ruled.
Snerk
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And like how my birth is closer to when man sent the first man to space than it is to present day. 
civvver
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I read on a cup at chipotle once that if you tattooed the entire history of earth on your arm from shoulder to your finger tip the period of human existence would be the teeniest tiniest sliver on the end of your finger nail.
Today I learned what labial adhesion is.
Today I learned what labial adhesion is.
Chukchi Husky
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There is something that David Attenborough said in one of his nature documentaries. If you compress the entirety of the history of life on Earth down to a single year, humans will only take up the last minute on New Years Eve.
The first fossils date back to 540 million years ago and the earliest traces of life to 3.7 billion years ago, whereas anatomically modern man dates back to just 200,000 years ago. There are 525,600 minutes in 365 days, so if we track from the Agricultural Revolution some 12,000 years ago, we come up with a denominator of roughly 308,000, so maybe a little over a minute or so if those are the points he chose.
Lohrenswald
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"History of earth" is like 4,5 milliard years
so going humans having lived 200 thousand years (I think hominids in general are older but w/e)
200000/4500000000=roughly 0,0045 %
so going humans having lived 200 thousand years (I think hominids in general are older but w/e)
200000/4500000000=roughly 0,0045 %
Chukchi mentioned life on Earth, rather than the age of the planet itself. Hominids are very much than older than 200,000 years, definitely, but I used the phrase anatomically modern man to describe the emergence of those humans who were physically indistinguishable from us.
Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
yea but civvver didn't
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