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The SS Montgomery is a wrecked boat in the Thames that contains 1,400 tonnes of explosives, whose masts you can see at all states of the tide. They don't wanna touch it cause they tried that with the polish cargo ship Kielce in the english channel, which was buried deeper and had a fraction of the explosives of the SS Montgomery, and it exploded with a force equivalent to an earthquake, measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, left behind a 6m deep crater in the seabed and brought "panic and chaos" to the nearby city of Folkestone. They're pretty much just waiting for the thing to explode itself
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The airport in Porto (Portugal) is named after Francisco Sá Carneiro, prime minister of portugal for eleven months during 1980 until he died in a plane crash
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...the robin is relatively unafraid of people and is drawn to human activities involving digging, such as gardening, in order to look for earthworms and other food that has been freshly turned up."
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"Pigeon is a French word that derives from the Latin pīpiō, for a 'peeping' chick"
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"The macuahuitl was sharp enough to decapitate a man. According to an account by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, one of Hernán Cortés's conquistadors, it could even decapitate a horse"
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"Mallow" is a flower, which grows in marshes (and other damp areas) and that's where the word marshmallow comes from!
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Male european hares go into "March madness" during breeding season, where they also become active in the daytime"
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Fuck Tree
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Roman soldiers had this thing where "The more intricate the insignia and the higher up the boot went on the leg, the higher the rank of the soldier"
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Toilegami is a thing
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Learned the Peacock is the word for males and Peahen for females, makes sense!
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My girlfriend showed me this list of friendly fire incidents and it's a treasure trove. My favourites from this one are the incidents with the USS Thresher and Operation Wikinger
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Death caps are responsible for 90% of mushroom-related fatalities every year. The page also has a category with notable victims