The Thread for Useless, but Interesting Facts

[Azeem]

Operation Flicker was a 2009 FBI investigation into child pornography but they found out 5,200 government and military officials had viewed or downloaded such content.

[Tommy]

32 minutes ago, Beelzebub said:

Operation Flicker was a 2009 FBI investigation into child pornography but they found out 5,200 government and military officials had viewed or downloaded such content.

That is more shocking than anything. 

[Tommy]

[Devil]

On 15/12/2022 at 16:08, Beelzebub said:

Operation Flicker was a 2009 FBI investigation into child pornography but they found out 5,200 government and military officials had viewed or downloaded such content.

That's horrific, I assume they can't track or trace any of the guilty party?

Or is it a case of sweeping it under the carpet.

[Waylander]

I think that was the one where the US also identified UK judge, MPs, RAF and Army were implicated.

I can't remember how it ended.

 

[Azeem]

11 hours ago, Devil said:

That's horrific, I assume they can't track or trace any of the guilty party?

Or is it a case of sweeping it under the carpet.

Same as Epstein. Sweeping under the rug. 

[Azeem]

Most of the seemingly ordinary things being sold for millions like paintings etc are done for making black money white. 

[Bandito Burrito]

some paintings look like they were done by children, but are bought for a lot because they are 'abstract'

[Bandito Burrito]

i guess some people just buy them to showboat or because they were made by a painter they like

[Azeem]

Lavon Affair was a botched Israeli operation to bomb Egyptian, American and British official buildings in Egypt and to blame Egypt to keep British military in Egypt. 

I feel for Egypt, the country of such history should be much more significant in Arab/Muslim region and Mediterranean/African region, but it must always remain in perpetual choas and a client state of petro Shieks because it's in immediate security zone of Israel and most populous Arab state having democracy is not some petro Shieks will like.

[Waylander]

6 hours ago, Beelzebub said:

Lavon Affair was a botched Israeli operation to bomb Egyptian, American and British official buildings in Egypt and to blame Egypt to keep British military in Egypt. 

I feel for Egypt, the country of such history should be much more significant in Arab/Muslim region and Mediterranean/African region, but it must always remain in perpetual choas and a client state of petro Shieks because it's in immediate security zone of Israel and most populous Arab state having democracy is not some petro Shieks will like.

They have a problem for me.

If they go truly democratic you get the Muslim Brotherhood and that leads to possibly supporting Assad and Iran which is probably why their Arab Spring was crushed.

They may have trouble anyway due to hydroelectric dams being built in countries upstream in the Nile reducing  their ability to obtain sufficient usable water in the near future.

 

[Azeem]

 

[Tommy]

[nudge]

Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn. 

[CaaC (John)+]

23 minutes ago, nudge said:

Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn. 

Oldest Shark in the World - 512 Year Old Greenland Shark

 

 

[nudge]

2 minutes ago, CaaC (John) said:

Oldest Shark in the World - 512 Year Old Greenland Shark

 

 

Yeah, but what I meant was that sharks as a species are older than rings of Saturn  Sharks have existed on Earth for over 450 million years, whereas the rings of Saturn are estimated to have formed around 100 million years ago... In fact, sharks are also older than trees, and they have survived four of the five mass extinctions - the only animal to do so.

[CaaC (John)+]

9 minutes ago, nudge said:

Yeah, but what I meant was that sharks as a species are older than rings of Saturn  Sharks have existed on Earth for over 450 million years, whereas the rings of Saturn are estimated to have formed around 100 million years ago... In fact, sharks are also older than trees, and they have survived four of the five mass extinctions - the only animal to do so.

Aye, I know what you meant I just added that video in, that shark might be Jaw's great granddaddy  

[Azeem]

Operation Dropshot was a 1949 Dept of Defense plan to drop 300 nuclear and 30,000 conventional weapons on Soviet Union by 1957, but never executed due to other side also getting nukes. When Kennedy was briefed on the plan he was like wtf and reportedly said " we call ourselves a human race "

[Azeem]

On 18/11/2022 at 07:19, Beelzebub said:

U.S has an act that if any American military personnel is convicted for war crimes by international court in the Hague, they have the right to invade the Hague. 

 

[Azeem]

Reverse cowgirl and doggystyle are the same position in space. 

[Gunnersaurus]

8 hours ago, Beelzebub said:

Reverse cowgirl and doggystyle are the same position in space. 

Took me a few moments to work that out. Also @MUFC

[Carnivore Chris]

On 02/01/2023 at 17:01, nudge said:

Yeah, but what I meant was that sharks as a species are older than rings of Saturn  

I wonder if they can crawl inside your t-shirt, bite you and disappear without being noticed like snakes can? 

[MUFC]

 

[nudge]

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

[Tommy]

41 minutes ago, nudge said:

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

 

Edit: It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun.

Aaaaah.