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[Lavinda Past]

Yes. Prodigious memory feats are often a sign.

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.

 

[KS55]

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.

I saw one of St Pancras, amazing. He had been driven past just once.

 

[Lavinda Past]

In 1997, 39 Heaven’s Gate members died in a mass suicide, dressed in black with $5.75 in their pockets, believing they’d board a spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.

 

[Lavinda Past]

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.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

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.

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.

 

[Lavinda Past]

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.

 

[mexico1970]

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.

That professor was on a decent screw at 10,000 marks a month in 1923 :-O

 

[calumdown]

no idea why,
but eggs here come in sevens

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

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.

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.

 

[supercity88]

no idea why,
but eggs here come in sevens

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