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@very-rusty said
https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/mp-kidnapped

Every year, an MP from the UK Parliament is kidnapped. But everyone seems okay with it...

-VR
Everyone would be ok if they kidnapped the whole lot of them.

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@the-gravedigger said
Everyone would be ok if they kidnapped the whole lot of them.
I certainly don't want to get involved in that can of worms.

Nice games against moon by the way. I didn't realize you were that good.

-VR

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@very-rusty said
I certainly don't want to get involved in that can of worms.

Nice games against moon by the way. I didn't realize you were that good.

-VR
Thanks VR. I have my moments but got outplayed by Earl recently.

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@the-gravedigger said
Thanks VR. I have my moments but got outplayed by Earl recently.
Earl is also very good, no shame in losing to him. I didn't even give him a game, he
beat me like I was a beginner.

EDIT: Not once but 9 times..... Earl 9 - VR 0

-VR

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/dolly-otto-fred


Her husband was so spooked by the noises in his house that they moved. What did Dolly keep hidden in the attic for 17 years?

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/punt-gun

This enormous gun was banned for being too powerful. Can you guess what its target was?

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/weather-censorship

When thick fog blocked his view of a Chicago football game in 1942, the radio broadcaster continued anyway. But why?

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/new-york-epidemic

In 1916, something terrifying arrived in New York City. What scared residents so much that they slaughtered 72,000 cats and kept their children indoors?

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/thomas-edison


Thomas Edison spent his last decade trying to create a device for the afterlife. Right before he died, he whispered something intriguing.

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/longyearbyen

There's a town in Norway where it's forbidden to die. The reason why people can not be buried there is eerily chilling... literally.

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Did you know?

Closing the gap now 370. Only Clan involved would know or care. 🙂

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/child-prodigy

This man is one of the smartest humans who ever lived... which makes his ending all the more shocking. Can you guess his IQ?

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/gingerbread-house

In 2013, a group of people decided to build a life-size gingerbread house. Can you guess how many calories it contained?

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/rapunzel-hair

In the Victorian era, 'Rapunzel' hair wasn't just the stuff of fairy tales. Long hair was a real statement

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