Things I learned today (Part 2)

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The :bulb: is dim there tbf

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Selena Gomez has had an organ transplant this year.

What a way to go

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Horsing an incredible cocktail of spirits and the few pints coupled with arm wrestling contests can and had serious repercussions for the ticker. Combination noted for future referenceā€¦.

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Be careful out there

I had dinner with him in Dublin one night after a 5 nations match. Gas man altogether.

Have photos somewhere of him, bare chested, arm-wrestling my uncle.on the floor of the restaurant

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Denise Welch is the mother of one of the fellas from 1975

Michael Palinā€™s wife passed away on Tuesday.

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Fair to say, jealously of her good looks was another factor.

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A grim tale all told. Women are bitches

Weather forecasters can wear green.

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The lads are brothers. News to them too.

Woody would be as well laying off the weed a bit.

Iā€™d never heard of that before. Utterly chilling

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Loyalist romper room murders were met with universal revulsion, when the victims were protestant women

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I only tripped over the story because there is a podcast advertised on the Sindo website about it.

Sure isnt Eddie McIlwaine still in the Orange Order and marchingā€¦cunts

The story is crazier than that.

From the History section of the ā€œSleeping Lady with Black Vaseā€ Wiki:

ā€œ24 December 2009, Hungarian National Gallery researcher and art historian Gergely Barki recognised the painting whilst watching Stuart Little at home with his three-year-old daughter. Barki recognised the painting from a 1928 black-and-white photograph he had seen. As he had no recording software, he was unable to pause or playback the sections with the painting, but it was shown frequently during the film. Barki believed that the painting was unlikely to be a print or copy as it was not well known. Barki sent 40ā€“50 emails to different production companies and crew members in an attempt to track down the painting. After TWO years, he received a response from the set designer who owned itā€¦ Barki met the set designer in a park in Washington, D.C., and, after unscrewing the frame with a screwdriver borrowed from a hot dog vendor, was able to confirm the painting was genuineā€. In the mid 90ā€™s it was sold for $40, and later, upon its rediscovery, was sold to a private Hungarian collector for $285,700. ā€œBecause of the publicity generated by its unusual rediscovery it has been described as the most widely known Hungarian paintingā€.

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