Smurrayinchester

Did you know...

from my favourite edits

... that blue tits will peel wallpaper while searching for insects?
... that you are more likely to die on or near your birthday than at other times?
... that Kasongo Ilunga, DRC Minister for Foreign Trade in 2007, probably didn't exist?
... that Canford Cliffs was home to a controversial branch of HSBC that only served the rich?
... that Sheffield was once known as the People's Republic of South Yorkshire?
... that the Colorado River didn't flow into the ocean for 16 years?
... that the Westminster system of government can work without any political parties?
... that Tommy Wiseau compares himself to James Dean, Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams?
... that one person in every ten on the island of Pingelap is totally colour-blind?
... that T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Amy Lowell were all found in an anarchist Bomb Shop?
... that funeral trains once operated in many major cities?
... that Fanny Murray was the mistress of the inventor of the sandwich, once ate a £20 note between two pieces of bread, and was famous for being famous in the 18th century?
... that Hugh Franklin once beat Winston Churchill with a whip to protest police brutality at a suffragette march?
... that his sister Alice Franklin was honoured by the government for telling unmarried women to leave the country, but also enjoyed making fun of married women?
... that British Rail patented the design of a nuclear-powered flying saucer?
... that the Cheshire West and Chester Council election, 2015 was the only one that year where Labour Party won a Tory council?
... that the German government intends to pardon and compensate all gay men convicted under Paragraph 175?
... that the British government did the same thing?
... that post-truth politics has existed since at least the 17th-century pamphlet wars?
... that a dog is for life, not just for Christmas?
... that the structure of the pentaquark is still unknown?
... that successful British minor parties include Scottish Senior Citizens, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, and Health Concern?
... that "Throw shoe! Bugger invaded Iraq! (6,4)" defines George Bush?
... that open and closed is replacing left and right in politics?
... that against a telling remark, an effective riposte is difficult?
... that a dining club based in a horse stable was the single biggest donor to Tory candidates in marginal seats?
... that printed calendars in the Ottoman Empire used five different date formats simultaneously?
... that Schwesta Ewa was stranded in West Berlin while attempting to flee Poland and became a prostitute, and then a successful rapper, but was arrested for pimping her own fans?
... that Quantum Experiments at Space Scale can beam unbreakable codes from China to Austria - but only when it's not in direct sunlight?

Some of my pictures

Belgian police helicopter
Freedom Monument, Riga
Caterpillar 777s at Shotton Mine
Pickmere Telescope (part of MERLIN)
Allar Raja, Estonian Olympic rower
Eurasian jay
Belgian farmhouse, Diegem
Morgon, Brantingtorget
MS Romantika at sunrise
Flag of Tokyo
Northumberlandia
Uncanny valley
Cyalume reactions (i.e., glowsticks)

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