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and did you know there are more life forms living on your skin, then there are people on the planet.
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and did you know there are more life forms living on your skin, then there are people on the planet.
This is the only link you will ever need. Go ahead and be a know it all.
This is the only link you will ever need. Go ahead and be a know it all.
Let's start with Russia. Next member can choose another and post it here.
Impress your friends of how much you know.
1. Russia is bigger than Pluto.
2. 77% of Russia is made up of Siberia.
3. Each Russian consumes 18 litres (4.8 US gal) of alcohol per year, doubling what experts consider dangerous.
4. In Russia there are 9 million more Women than men.
5. Russia & America are less than 4 km apart at the nearest point.
6. There are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths in Russia each year.
7. In Russia it's now Illegal to tell kids Gay People Exist.
8. A Russian woman in the 1700s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man.
9. In 1908 the Imperial Russian Olympic Team arrived in London 12 days too late for the games because they were not using the Gregorian calendar yet.
10. The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for just US$7.2 million in 1867.
11. Stalin didn't start learning Russian until he was 8. His mother tongue was Georgian.
12. The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown in Russia from 32,000-year-old seeds.
13. Japan and Russia still haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II due to the Kuril Islands dispute.
14. Gorbachev recorded an album of Russian romantic ballads in 2009.
15. Beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.
16. Foxes are domesticated like dogs by Russian scientists since 1959.
17. There was a "Beard Tax" in Russia, during Peter the Great's Reign, paid by anyone who had a beard.
18. There's a museum in Russia that hires cats to protect its artworks against rodents.
19. The word “vodka” comes from the Russian word “voda” that means “water”.
20. Lake Karachay in Russia is the most radioactive and polluted lake in the world.
21. 25% Russians die before reaching the age of 55, compared to just 1% in the U.S., and Vodka is to blame.
22. It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
23. It is believed Russia has at least 15 secret cities with their names, and locations unknown.
24. A third of all Russians believe the Sun revolves around the Earth.
25. Wealthy Russians hire fake ambulances to beat Moscow's traffic.
26. In Russia, during times of economic disparity or high inflation, teachers can be paid in Vodka.
27. 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water is in a single lake: Russia's Lake Baikal.
28. The first Russian child to receive the vaccine against smallpox was called "Vaccinov," given a pension and observed all his life.
29. The Russian mayor of Megion, west Siberia, banned excuses.
30. Russia's notorious murderer Vladimir Nikolayev ate some of his victim's body, then gave the rest of the meat to a friend, whose wife served it to his family thinking it was a kangaroo.
31. Apple Is Worth More Than The Entire Russian Stock Market.
32. Russia has over 8400 nuclear weapons, more than any other country.
33. In Canada, Mexico, India, Russia and Israel, bank notes have Braille-like markings on them for the blind.
34. In 1600, a volcano eruption in Peru caused a famine that killed about 2 million people in Russia.
35. Of all the countries that celebrate an independence day, 58 are independent of the UK, 26 of France, 21 of Russia and 21 of Spain.
36. Homosexuality and abortion were decriminalised in Russia under Lenin's leadership.
This is the only link you will ever need. Go ahead and be a know it all.
Let's start with Russia. Next member can choose another and post it here.
Impress your friends of how much you know.
1. Russia is bigger than Pluto.
2. 77% of Russia is made up of Siberia.
3. Each Russian consumes 18 litres (4.8 US gal) of alcohol per year, doubling what experts consider dangerous.
4. In Russia there are 9 million more Women than men.
5. Russia & America are less than 4 km apart at the nearest point.
6. There are over 500,000 alcohol-related deaths in Russia each year.
7. In Russia it's now Illegal to tell kids Gay People Exist.
8. A Russian woman in the 1700s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man.
9. In 1908 the Imperial Russian Olympic Team arrived in London 12 days too late for the games because they were not using the Gregorian calendar yet.
10. The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for just US$7.2 million in 1867.
11. Stalin didn't start learning Russian until he was 8. His mother tongue was Georgian.
12. The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown in Russia from 32,000-year-old seeds.
13. Japan and Russia still haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II due to the Kuril Islands dispute.
14. Gorbachev recorded an album of Russian romantic ballads in 2009.
15. Beer was not considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2013.
16. Foxes are domesticated like dogs by Russian scientists since 1959.
17. There was a "Beard Tax" in Russia, during Peter the Great's Reign, paid by anyone who had a beard.
18. There's a museum in Russia that hires cats to protect its artworks against rodents.
19. The word “vodka” comes from the Russian word “voda” that means “water”.
20. Lake Karachay in Russia is the most radioactive and polluted lake in the world.
21. 25% Russians die before reaching the age of 55, compared to just 1% in the U.S., and Vodka is to blame.
22. It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
23. It is believed Russia has at least 15 secret cities with their names, and locations unknown.
24. A third of all Russians believe the Sun revolves around the Earth.
25. Wealthy Russians hire fake ambulances to beat Moscow's traffic.
26. In Russia, during times of economic disparity or high inflation, teachers can be paid in Vodka.
27. 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water is in a single lake: Russia's Lake Baikal.
28. The first Russian child to receive the vaccine against smallpox was called "Vaccinov," given a pension and observed all his life.
29. The Russian mayor of Megion, west Siberia, banned excuses.
30. Russia's notorious murderer Vladimir Nikolayev ate some of his victim's body, then gave the rest of the meat to a friend, whose wife served it to his family thinking it was a kangaroo.
31. Apple Is Worth More Than The Entire Russian Stock Market.
32. Russia has over 8400 nuclear weapons, more than any other country.
33. In Canada, Mexico, India, Russia and Israel, bank notes have Braille-like markings on them for the blind.
34. In 1600, a volcano eruption in Peru caused a famine that killed about 2 million people in Russia.
35. Of all the countries that celebrate an independence day, 58 are independent of the UK, 26 of France, 21 of Russia and 21 of Spain.
36. Homosexuality and abortion were decriminalised in Russia under Lenin's leadership.
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Same sort of thread already started by white Lion
https://www.hubgfe.com/community/showthread.php?106745-A-few-things-you-may-not-know
https://www.hubgfe.com/community/showthread.php?106745-A-few-things-you-may-not-knowSulu will be gay in the next Star Trek and George Takei is pissed.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-takei-reacts-gay-sulu-909154
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-takei-reacts-gay-sulu-909154
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The clouds are shifting, and a new study suggests that's a worrisome thing for the planet. Satellite images collected between 1983 and 2009 show two trends: Clouds have been migrating away from the Equator toward the Earth's poles, and the tops of those clouds are reaching higher into the atmosphere, say the scientists behind the study in Nature.
Add it up and it amounts to what the calls "one of the most profound planetary changes yet to be caused by a warming climate." Clouds moving toward the poles means that dry zones in mid-latitude areas are expanding; clouds reaching higher means that a thicker cloud barrier has formed, one that traps heat radiation instead of letting it escape into space. The upshot is that both changes suggest clouds will worsen climate change instead of relieving it, reports the Christian Science Monitor.
"I guess what was surprising is that a lot of times we think of climate change as something that's going to occur in the future," one of the researchers tells NPR. "This is happening right now.
It's happened during my lifetime—it was a bit startling." Climate change models had predicted this kind of thing would happen, but clouds are notoriously difficult to study and predict, and this study seems to be the first confirmation of it. One gray area is how much of the shift is attributable to us humans and how much to two large volcanic eruptions that occurred during the time studied.
"This is a very good attempt to try and get a handle on this, but I don't think it's the final answer," says a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado. (See how clouds are hurting Greenland's ice sheet.)
Add it up and it amounts to what the calls "one of the most profound planetary changes yet to be caused by a warming climate." Clouds moving toward the poles means that dry zones in mid-latitude areas are expanding; clouds reaching higher means that a thicker cloud barrier has formed, one that traps heat radiation instead of letting it escape into space. The upshot is that both changes suggest clouds will worsen climate change instead of relieving it, reports the Christian Science Monitor.
"I guess what was surprising is that a lot of times we think of climate change as something that's going to occur in the future," one of the researchers tells NPR. "This is happening right now.
It's happened during my lifetime—it was a bit startling." Climate change models had predicted this kind of thing would happen, but clouds are notoriously difficult to study and predict, and this study seems to be the first confirmation of it. One gray area is how much of the shift is attributable to us humans and how much to two large volcanic eruptions that occurred during the time studied.
"This is a very good attempt to try and get a handle on this, but I don't think it's the final answer," says a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado. (See how clouds are hurting Greenland's ice sheet.)
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Honor killings and being married off to the drunkest abuser are only some of Pakistan’s shitty issues with the treatment of women. Laws defending abusing women disguised as religious legislation almost guarantees a backwards country, remains backwards as fuck.
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“Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), a constitutional body responsible for ensuring no legislature in the country is repugnant to Islam, has drawn up a 163-point bill listing women’s rights, as well as actions it deems non-permissible for women.
The group recently declared it is permissible for a man to ‘lightly beat’ his wife ‘if needed’.
The CII bill was presented last month, in response to the Protection of Women Against Violence bill (PWAV) 2016, which was passed in the Punjab Assembly earlier this year and is aimed at providing relief to women facing domestic abuse.”
From
“Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), a constitutional body responsible for ensuring no legislature in the country is repugnant to Islam, has drawn up a 163-point bill listing women’s rights, as well as actions it deems non-permissible for women.
The group recently declared it is permissible for a man to ‘lightly beat’ his wife ‘if needed’.
The CII bill was presented last month, in response to the Protection of Women Against Violence bill (PWAV) 2016, which was passed in the Punjab Assembly earlier this year and is aimed at providing relief to women facing domestic abuse.”
The Gambia and Tanzania have banned child marriage, with tough penalties for those who breach the rulings.
Gambia's President Yayha Jammeh announced that anyone marrying a girl below 18 would be jailed for up to 20 years.
In Tanzania, the high court imposed a landmark ruling outlawing marriage under the age of 18 for boys and girls.
Some 30% of underage girls are married in The Gambia, while in Tanzania the rate is 37%.
Africa Live: More on this and other news stories
Before the Tanzania ruling, girls as young as 14 could marry with parental consent, while it was 18 for boys.
The BBC's Tulanana Bohela in Dar es Salaam says this is a big win for child rights groups and activists, who will now have an easier time rescuing girls from child marriage.
The case was brought by lobby group Msichana Initiative.
Gambia's President speaking at the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations at the end of Ramadan, said parents and imams who perform the ceremonies would also face prison.
"If you want to know whether what I am saying is true or not, try it tomorrow and see," he warned.
Women's rights campaigners have welcomed the ban, however some say that it would be better to engage with local communities to try to change attitudes towards child marriage instead of threatening families with prison sentences,
"I don't think locking parents up is the answer... it could lead to a major backlash and sabotage the ban," Isatou Jeng of the women's rights organisation Girls Agenda told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from the Gambian capital, Banjul.
In December last year, Mr Jammeh also outlawed female genital mutilation (FGM), with a prison sentence of up to three years for those that ignored the ban.
He said the practice had no place in Islam or in modern society.
Three-quarters of women in the mostly Muslim country have had the procedure, according to Unicef.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36746174
Gambia's President Yayha Jammeh announced that anyone marrying a girl below 18 would be jailed for up to 20 years.
In Tanzania, the high court imposed a landmark ruling outlawing marriage under the age of 18 for boys and girls.
Some 30% of underage girls are married in The Gambia, while in Tanzania the rate is 37%.
Africa Live: More on this and other news stories
Before the Tanzania ruling, girls as young as 14 could marry with parental consent, while it was 18 for boys.
The BBC's Tulanana Bohela in Dar es Salaam says this is a big win for child rights groups and activists, who will now have an easier time rescuing girls from child marriage.
The case was brought by lobby group Msichana Initiative.
Gambia's President speaking at the Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations at the end of Ramadan, said parents and imams who perform the ceremonies would also face prison.
"If you want to know whether what I am saying is true or not, try it tomorrow and see," he warned.
Women's rights campaigners have welcomed the ban, however some say that it would be better to engage with local communities to try to change attitudes towards child marriage instead of threatening families with prison sentences,
"I don't think locking parents up is the answer... it could lead to a major backlash and sabotage the ban," Isatou Jeng of the women's rights organisation Girls Agenda told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from the Gambian capital, Banjul.
In December last year, Mr Jammeh also outlawed female genital mutilation (FGM), with a prison sentence of up to three years for those that ignored the ban.
He said the practice had no place in Islam or in modern society.
Three-quarters of women in the mostly Muslim country have had the procedure, according to Unicef.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36746174
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