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KS55 said:
Yes. Prodigious memory feats are often a sign.
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Have a look on Google about Stephen Wiltshire MBE, Hon. FSAI, Hon. FSSAA (born 24 April 1974), a British architectural artist and autistic savant.

He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once.

Look up his drawing of the Houses of Parliament from memory. Absolutely wonderful stuff.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Have a look on Google about Stephen Wiltshire MBE, Hon. FSAI, Hon. FSSAA (born 24 April 1974), a British architectural artist and autistic savant.

He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once.

Look up his drawing of the Houses of Parliament from memory. Absolutely wonderful stuff.
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I saw one of St Pancras, amazing. He had been driven past just once.
 
The Kola borehole located in Russia is the deepest human-made hole on Earth, which in 1979 attained a maximum vertical depth of 40,230 ft (12,226 metres)

If Earth was the size of an apple, the Kola borehole wouldn't have got through the skin.

At that depth, rock behaves like plastic, so the equipment pre-1979 was not good enough. Drilling became so difficult, they simply gave up.

This project bore unexpected fruit, as most modern-day deep boring equipment was invented by the Russians during their excavation.
 
Lavinda Past said:
The Kola borehole located in Russia is the deepest human-made hole on Earth, which in 1979 attained a maximum vertical depth of 40,230 ft (12,226 metres)

If Earth was the size of an apple, the Kola borehole wouldn't have got through the skin.

At that depth, rock behaves like plastic, so the equipment pre-1979 was not good enough. Drilling became so difficult, they simply gave up.

This project bore unexpected fruit, as most modern-day deep boring equipment was invented by the Russians during their excavation.
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I saw a documentary about this on YouTube recently. Mad how it’s just been left abandoned with just a steel plate bolted over it.
 
At the height of hyperinflation in Germany, in November 1923, one US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 marks.

This was due to Germany needing to print phenomenal amounts of money to pay the entente reparations for the damage of WWI

A college professor is reported to have said that before inflation went out of control, his salary was 10,000 marks paid once a month.
Two years later, it was 10 million marks paid twice a day.
 
Lavinda Past said:
At the height of hyperinflation in Germany, in November 1923, one US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 marks.

This was due to Germany needing to print phenomenal amounts of money to pay the entente reparations for the damage of WWI

A college professor is reported to have said that before inflation went out of control, his salary was 10,000 marks paid once a month.
Two years later, it was 10 million marks paid twice a day.
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That professor was on a decent screw at 10,000 marks a month in 1923 :-O
 
Lavinda Past said:
At the height of hyperinflation in Germany, in November 1923, one US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 marks.

This was due to Germany needing to print phenomenal amounts of money to pay the entente reparations for the damage of WWI

A college professor is reported to have said that before inflation went out of control, his salary was 10,000 marks paid once a month.
Two years later, it was 10 million marks paid twice a day.
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My grandad once told me a tale about a neighbour of his who worked in a bank in a German suburb. The guy was taking some cash from the main floor down to the vault, and carrying it in a wheelbarrow. He was attacked and the assailant tipped the out cash and just took the wheelbarrow.
He swore it was true.
 
probably already been done but the Best Before date on any packet of crisps in the UK will always be a Saturday....check it and see..
 
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham was released nearer to the end of the Second World War than to today.
 
Jam Tomorrow said:
probably already been done but the Best Before date on any packet of crisps in the UK will always be a Saturday....check it and see..
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No way... that's surprising, really! I don't have anything super exciting to share at the moment, but I just wanted to say a big thank you to the amazing team at calsavers customer service. Thanks to their great work, it looks like I'll be getting a new house very soon! Their support has made everything so much smoother, and I'm really excited about the next chapter
 
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A BBC weather presenter announced her departure on Friday after more than 20 years with the Beeb.
Her name was Sara Blizzard.
 
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