There was worldwide outcry when the Notre Dame cathedral was on fire. Why is there not the same level of outrage for the fires destroying the #AmazonRainforest?
In the 1940s, a group of Oxford writers and academics would gather every week to listen to new chapters of J.R.R. Tolkien's ‘The Lord of the Rings’. English professor Hugo Dyson would sometimes interrupt these readings with, ‘Oh fuck, not another elf’.
Ögonblicket ens kompis sitter och väntar på att avsnittet ska sluta för att springa på toa:
- Du vet väl att du kan pausa?
- Kan jag? Just de det kan jag!
In 1989 the cash-strapped Soviet Union paid Pepsi with 17 submarines and 3 war ships. Pepsi sold these for scrap, but the deal briefly made them owners of the sixth largest military submarine fleet in the world.
Alexander the Great may have been buried alive. His contemporaries remarked that his body did not decompose and declared him a god, but new theories suggest he may have suffered from a paralysis, rendering him completely immobile but fully conscious.