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In 1986, Corinna Hofmann traveled with her fiancé to Kenya. Here she met a warrior from the Maasai tribe and fell in love with him. After that, she broke up with her fiancé and moved to live in the desert with еру warrior.

In Kenya, she opened a grocery store and gave birth to a daughter. Over the years, her husband became unreasonably jealous of her, and she decided to return to Switzerland with her daughter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinne_

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In 1995, the Taliban captured the crew of Russian transport plane.

After a year of captivity, the pilots convinced the Taliban that the plane required maintenance. The Taliban had no specialists and allowed the captives to work on the plane. They took a chance and flew it home.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Air

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@lostinwiki кто старое помянет, тому глаз вон

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At the beginning of the 20th century, castles came back to China.

Emigrants from China started coming back with money. And at this time, there were a lot of gangs in China.

For defense against bandits without artillery, the old principles of castles worked well.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaolou

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Lemmings do not throw themselves off cliffs following a crowd.

They are not gregarious, pack or social animals, they move each on their own and do not follow leaders.

The false idea was propagated by Disney’s movie “White Wilderness”.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming

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The Westar-6 satellite went into space twice.

In February 1984, it was launched by the shuttle. But its engine failed.

In November, the shuttle took it back, and in 1990 it was carried by a Chinese rocket (they were still allowed to carry U.S. cargo).

ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51A

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A list of famous people who officially don’t have a last name.

Can you imagine how difficult it is for them to use modern sites where there are two required inputs in sign-up forms?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

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People want to create a time zone for the moon. Why? Because of the effect of gravity on time.

On the Moon gravity is less and time flows faster. Only by 0.02 seconds per year, but enough for a lunar radio telescope.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeep

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List of incidents of space debris falling to Earth.

For example, on March 8 of this year, a piece of battery that had been jettisoned from the ISS crashed into a man’s home in Florida.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

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DNS-over-Wikipedia.

There are sites that fight censorship and constantly change their address. The Pirate Bay or Sci-Hub, for example.

This app will allow you to enter an address like sci-hub.idk, and it gets the last domain from Wikipedia.

github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over

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The famous Smirnoff vodka was founded by a former slave.

Peter Smirnoff was born a slave peasant in Russian Empire, at 26 he got his freedom, at 29 he opened a small wine shop in Moscow.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ar

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In 1973, one of the longest eclipses was to occur.

But that wasn’t enough for the scientists. They used a prototype Concorde and fly along the shadow of the Moon.

They ended up observing the eclipse for 74 minutes—10 times longer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_ec

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Countries are not just changing their time because of daylight saving time.

In Morocco, the time zone changes for Ramadan.

During this month, Muslims are not allowed to eat or drink during the day. The time change makes it easy to fast.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight

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Progressive chess is a chess variant in which players play progressively longer series of moves.

The game starts with White making one move, then Black makes two consecutive moves, White replies with three and so on.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress

labria

@lostinwiki what’s this set? Reverse image search fails me

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Atomic chess is a chess variant where all captures result in an “explosion” through which the capturing piece, captured piece, and all surrounding pieces of both colors other than pawns are removed from play.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_c

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There are fewer people who have discovered a comet than those who have been to space.

While comets are now often discovered by amateurs—some analyze open images from scientific telescopes, some do it through their telescope.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

Even the first interstellar comet (which came to us from another star) was discovered by an amateur astronomer from Crimea using homemade telescopes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadiy

There are fewer people who have discovered a comet than those who have been to space.

While comets are now often discovered by amateurs—some analyze open images from scientific telescopes, some do it through their telescope.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

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Despite the fact that Everest has already been conquered, there are still many mountains on Earth where people have not been able to climb (because the difficulty depends not only on the height).

The list of the highest unclimbed mountains.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_

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The oceans have been studied worse than space. And here’s a good example.

Deep-sea squid, 12 meters long (!). For the first time they were found in full form (before that only parts) only in 1988.

Now there are only isolated cases of meeting with them.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfin_s

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Boeing 747 crash in Amsterdam in 1992 - the plane had 2 engines fall off (!) and crashed into a house in the city.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Fl

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Hell icons are alleged icons with images of Devil hidden the painted layer. Also, the image of saints could include horns hidden under the paint.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_ico

Black Book video game has not only the very correct image of old Russian Empire but also an episode about Hell icons

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bo

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