"[R]oughly two-thirds of U.S. $100 bills — which make up more than 80 percent of the value of currency in circulation — are held by foreigners." (link)

(September 5, 2024 at 2:03 pm)brewer Wrote:

(September 5, 2024 at 1:16 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Life was so boring before television that homeowners invited friends over to tour their bathrooms and see their designer pink toilet seats.

Just a large image

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Does pink make camouflaging blood easier?

No.

Geena Davis is six feet tall.

Several estates in London have metal fence railings that are actually repurposed WWII medical stretchers used by the Home Guard during the Blitz.



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(September 15, 2024 at 5:03 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Several estates in London have metal fence railings that are actually repurposed WWII medical stretchers used by the Home Guard during the Blitz.



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And some posts used to be canons

Verónica Duque teaches the third grade with the swimsuit that has mapped out the internal organs of the human body.

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In 2005, the security film, Scotchshield placed a glass box filled with $3 million in cash at a bus stop in Vancouver, Canada, and issued a simple challenge: break the glass and keep the money.



People of all ages and backgrounds attempted to shatter the seemingly indestructible glass. From punches and kicks to using tools and even a sledgehammer, but no one managed to break it.

If you go to an Indonesian schoolroom and ask the kids to draw some scene with natural features, it will invariably look something like this:



Some features may vary, but there will invariably be:

1. Rice paddies or something representing them, like a cluster of V-shapes on one side of...
   
2. A Road stretching towards...
   
3. A pair of mountains (usually believed to be Mounts Sumbing and Sindoro in Central Java), called gunung kembar, and in the space between them...
   
4. The sun, which never seems to rise above the two mountains.
   

Rapper MF DOOM would frequently put on concerts… and, as an homage to his comic book namesake (either that or due to green card issues), would frequently put out concerts with other people pretending to be him, known as Doombots. This pissed off the audiences, but, frankly, it fits with the character. Hell, given that I recently went to see Lynyrd Skynyrd live, with ZERO members from the classic era (unless you count Ricky Medlocke, who played drums before the band’s first album), one wonders if fans might warm up to the idea now.

(September 17, 2024 at 10:37 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: In 2005, the security film, Scotchshield placed a glass box filled with $3 million in cash at a bus stop in Vancouver, Canada, and issued a simple challenge: break the glass and keep the money.



People of all ages and backgrounds attempted to shatter the seemingly indestructible glass. From punches and kicks to using tools and even a sledgehammer, but no one managed to break it.

Did a little additional research on that particular stunt. It only lasted for a single day, not because the glass broke, but because they determined that the metal surrounding it was losing its structural integrity from all the banging. Yes, the glass was more resilient than the metal. 

More disappointing, however, is that only about $500 of that $3 million was real.

(September 17, 2024 at 10:37 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Verónica Duque teaches the third grade with the swimsuit that has mapped out the internal organs of the human body.

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In 2005, the security film, Scotchshield placed a glass box filled with $3 million in cash at a bus stop in Vancouver, Canada, and issued a simple challenge: break the glass and keep the money.



People of all ages and backgrounds attempted to shatter the seemingly indestructible glass. From punches and kicks to using tools and even a sledgehammer, but no one managed to break it.

It turns out that Scotchshield wasn’t as confident in their product as you might think - the case only contained $500 in actual cash.https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/3m-three...cash-stunt

Quote:[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]Stacks of money were placed inside the glass case to fill up more than half of the volume with what convincingly looked like $3 million of cash. However, in reality, as it was later shared, only $500 of real money was inside the case, and the remainder was fake money. The real money was placed on top.

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