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Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean was allegedly inspired from a real life pirate from 17th century, John Ward aka Jack Birdy

Germany tends to win tournaments that happen in years which end with 4 - 1954, 1974, 2014

Flamingos are born grey but turn pink because of all the shrimp they eat.

There is the other side of this much security dependency on U.S. As I said in an earlier post, American military complex comes with a cost of having some war theatre anywhere at everytime. It's not far fetched to say there was some poking by America which Putin found provocative. It's normal for countries to have ambivalent relations like in this case where there are both pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia sentiments within one country and even families. But it didn't need to escalate this much, there needs to be pragmatism regarding conflict resolution which I think Europe lacks compared to Asia, Africa and South America because of bloated military complex of U.S.

Gas leakages by possible saboteurs. Europe made a blunder by putting its energy needs in the hands of Russia and security needs in the hands of U.S. Two competing continental powers.

94% of Chinese population lives on the red side. I think only Russia and Canada are only that extreme in terms of disparate pop density

If England beat some traditional big team (Argentina, France) on their way to QFs or semis than it would be a successful campaign.

I never thought I would live through the great plague, recession and war of our times, let alone consecutively.

The fertile crescent in Middle East is the region where settled farming emerged in human history.

Didn't watch the game but Haris Rauf defended 4 runs in the last over against England. In modern T20 that is something.

He'll back hopefully, said he will be busy until the WC starts

I have 130 followers, 3-4 blue checked. I'm unstoppable now

Your opinion is like Victor Wanyama’s opinion of Paranormal Activity 3, it goes in the bin.

Yeah something like that I saw it on twitter.

George I was 53rd in line for the throne when he was chosen, because the 52 in front of him were Catholic.

@Berserker dream job

I'm waiting for the WC to create a poll on "It's coming home" so no one is allowed to steal my thread.

Mankading back in the discussion. I don't understand the fuss about the rule, it's similar to baseball where you can rightfully throw the ball to one of the bases if the runner is too far from the base.

Yeah but Egypt was brutal, hundreds were killed by live fire in minutes.

Two French Kings died by smashing their heads in a door frame. Mughal Emperor Humayun died by slipping from a staircase after his foot got stuck in his robe.

Iran will be the surprise package in England's group. Well not exactly surprise they equalled Portugal on points last time and their players play in Qatar a lot.

Fascinating how staple foods of today like potatoes and corn were first cultivated in the Americas, which were largely undiscovered to the known world for quite a time.