Today I learned

edit: nevermind this, it's just a subset of what a dictionary extension could do. I'm just stupid.

Used for the assassination: Small handguns; Smith & Wesson Model 36 and Walther PPK

Kim Jae-gyu fired the gun twice at Park's chest from a distance of two to three meters, but the PPK jammed on a third shot.

"De retour en Suisse, il fut expulsé du canton de Genève en avril 1904 pour avoir falsifié la date de validité de son passeport..."

A few more articles on this:

• https://newmatilda.com/2020/06/02/john-pilger-on-the-forgotten-coup-against-the-most-loyal-ally/
• https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/remembering-november-11-1975-pine-gap-cia-and-coup-remove-whitlam
• https://jacobin.com/2021/06/gough-whitlam-australian-labor-party-right-wing-coup-john-kerr
• https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2019/02/08/the-cia-pine-gap-and-the-coup-that-removed-the-whitlam-government/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHMa-Ba-2Mo

The island was Epstein's primary residence,[4][14] and he called the island "Little St. Jeff".

In April 1998, a company called L.S.J. LLC purchased the island for $7.95 million, and documents showed that Jeffrey Epstein was the sole member of L.S.J

In 2024, U.S. utilities operated 94 nuclear reactors with a total net generating capacity of nearly 97 gigawatts (GW), the largest commercial nuclear power generation fleet in the world.

TL;DR: India, China, US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil. Aggregated percent of total: 50.4

They made Donkey a stallion and made him white, and during the episode of 'KNIGHTS' showcasing the chase with Shrek, Donkey, Puss in Boots, and the others, they call Donkey a 'white bronco' on the police radio while the chase unfolds.

I can't believe I never noticed this detail until now. Now I'll never unsee it.

KNIGHTS Scene

OJ Simpson Car Chase

Inspired by the Soviet Union, India used economic planning to manage its development. Their last and final plan ended in 2017.

Drop the pasta, start the playlist, when the music is over, you've got perfectly cooked pasta

@todayilearned Today I learned about the "village homosexual" in Tahitian culture who is always available when there are no women.

Screenshot is from David Gilmore's* "Manhood in the Making".

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* No, not that David Gilmore.

It seems that the Republic of China also control a few islands in the Fuchien/Fujian province as well, which are quite close to the People's Republic of China

The Italian maker wanted to export to Libya. But it never happened, and it stands around in storage 🚧.

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@todayilearned Today I learned that the Archbishop of York had a piece of Louis XIV's mummified heart in a locket. In 1848 he showed it to the Dean of Westminster, who ate it. https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/william-buckland