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ranjith11 · 7 months

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100 Random Ridiculous Geography Facts Part 1 | 100 amazing facts of the world

🌍 Welcome to "100 Random Ridiculous Geography Facts Part 1"! 🌎 ✨Video is About Welcome to our fascinating journey into the world of geography! 🌍 In this video, we'll delve into the most unbelievable and amusing facts about our planet. From peculiar landmarks to quirky geographical phenomena, you won't want to miss these 100 ridiculous geography facts. Join us on this adventure of exploration and amazement

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batshit-auspol · 4 months

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With the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, many of the former empire's resources were sold off to the highest bidder, and their $14 billion space shuttle program was no exception.

Seeking to recoup some of that eyewatering spend, in 1998, the "Buran" (Russia's answer to the American Space Shuttle) was offered up for sale on eBay for $10 million.

No serious offers were received - with most people assuming the listing to be a joke, until the New York Post confirmed the sale, with Russian authorities stating they "actually have two" if anyone is interested.

(Pictured: A later auction of a smaller scale Buran in 2005)

Sensing an opportunity, a group of Aussie entrepreneurs including Australia's first astronaut and the lawyer for Prime Minister Paul Keating offer to lease the shuttle from Russia, to put it on display in Australia during the Sydney Olympics.

After gaining permission from the Kremlin for the lease, in 1999 the Russian military briefly stops bombing Chechnya in order to dismantle the Buran, and it is placed on a barge to be shipped to Sydney on the (soon to be infamous for other reasons) Tampa shipping vessel at a cost of $5 million.

Once in Sydney, after a disastrous few months on display where crowds failed to flock to the shuttle exhibition featuring such compelling educational offerings as "activities is to assist in the development of issues of nutrition and hygiene at home" (an actual quote from their website) - the leasing company declared bankruptcy and washed their hands of the space shuttle completely.

The Buran Gift shop where you could buy soviet space ship themed football jerseys, in case you needed one of those

One of four people listed on the lease, described as a business partner of the Prime Minister, also claims he never knew he was a director of the company, which went on to cause a lot more problems.

This whole debacle presented a slight issue for the cash strapped Russian authorities, who had now only been paid $100,000 for the 9 year lease of the shuttle instead of the $600,000 they were owed. Eventually the decision was made to abandon the once $1 billion Soviet pride and joy in a Sydney carpark, where it resided for a year under a small tarpaulin.

Failed attempts to be rid of the shuttle included a 12 day auction hosted by an LA radio station, where listeners were offered the chance to buy the shuttle for $6 million, however all bids turned out to be pranks and the shuttle remained.

Multiple attempts were also made to sell the shuttle to Tom Cruise, with the exacerbated movie star's representatives repeatedly telling the insistent traders that he was not interested in owning a Russian spaceship.

Eventually a Singaporean group dismantled the shuttle and shipped it overseas, however Russian authorities soon reported they once again had been failed to be paid for the lease. Singaporean representatives responded that they definitely had paid for the shuttle, and that they simply couldn't remember when or how much was paid.

Representing the Russian government, Lawyer Suhaila Turani told the Wall Street Journal “I feel sorry for the Russians. They’re good in space, but they’re very naive in business.”

For a time the shuttle was abandoned in the storage yard of event company Pico, with the company owner telling the Wall Street Journal "I just want this thing out of my life" after three years of being stuck with it.

A few years later the shuttle was found by German journalists dismantled in a junkyard, and it was then bought and shipped to Germany to be put on display a museum, so all's well that ends well (except they dropped it from a crane while trying to set it up, but it polished up okay).

#auspol #australia #russia #history #fun facts

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decolonize-the-left · 28 days

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If you don't vote for Biden the gays will be rounded up in Project2025! No more abortion! No more anything!

Vote Biden!!

You mean this Biden?

U.S. will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, Biden tells Israel's Lapid

US to launch West Asia Quad with India, Israel and UAE during Biden's visit

.....The same joe Biden that's ALREADY completing goals outlined in Project 2025?

And these are only links and evidence for one page.

Vote 3rd party or don't vote at all, I'm not your dad, do what feels right to you.

But don't vote blue and tell everyone it's a vote against Project2025 or Trump or fascism or that you're saving democracy with your vote. Because you're not. It's literally just gaslighting or at the very least an ignorant and uninformed stance.

You might as well be burning your ballot or voting for Trump.

Quit guilting everyone for not wanting to vote blue when him supporting apartheid & genocide is a good enough reason not to, let alone all of this, too.

And if you're gonna vote for him anyway, get used to being called a white supremacist who supports fascists. Because that's what you would be.

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unbfacts · 3 months

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#Russia #World records #Woman #births #unbelievable facts

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translesbianvampire · 10 months

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newsflash asshole!

#translesbianvampire #always sunny #sunnys super sweet 16 #iasip #s16 spoilers #shitpost #sunny sweet 16 #sunny season 16 spoilers #macdennis #iasip spoilers #sunny spoilers #the fact i'm even tagging this as always sunny spoilers...omg #frank vs russia

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nadezhda-wexler · 11 months

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#when you are trying to run a country but your husband is drama queen and a great dancer

The Great 3x02: Choose Your Weapon

#the great hulu #the great #huzzahthegreat #thegreatdaily #catherine x peter #catherine the great #peter iii of russia #userdanahscott #natahjikio #tusercat #underbetelgeuse #userzaynab #elle fanning #nicholas hoult #mine #i will never be over the fact that the last she just danced on her own #anyway

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redstonedust · 5 months

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ive said this before but if you hear israel is allowed to compete in eurovision again and your response is ''lol but theyre not even in europe'' or ''eurovision has bad music anyways'' then you are like. majorly missing the point.

#technically most countries around the mediterranean are allowed to compete israel is just one of the only ones who chooses to #(plus some others like lebanon actively wont compete because of israels presence)#and yes the fact they compete IS free positive publicity and tourism for a genocidal nation. and hypocricy when russia has been excluded #its way more troubling than just ''but its not even europe''

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babygirlyouretheheart · 1 year

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Thinking about this again

#byler #and the fact that the russia and bedroom scenes happened one after the other #parallels

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realbeefman · 9 months

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my one and only qualm with frank v russia is that they de-canonized frank reynolds being a freak bitch who likes taking it up the ass. WHY are we pretending that the man who, according to artemis, FREQUENTLY needs an “anal stimulant” to get off would be weirded out by mac letting a stranger control the anal beads in his ass via remote control. he shouldve gone on a rant about the last time he had beads up his own ass until charlie mercifully swept him away to play chess and left dennis & dee even more traumatized than usual

#NOT MY FRANK!!!!#megan ganz you WILL be dealt with…#Joking i have nothing against megan j love her #she is so good at writing episodes with absolutely DEVIOUS emotional twists #but yeah. the fact that frank is a weird freak who ran with an art crowd in the 70s is FUNDAMENTAL!!!#its always sunny in philadelphia #its always sunny #iasip #frank reynolds #frank vs russia

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ciderbird · 1 month

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Gold - Imagine Dragons

Teen Idle - Marina and the Diamonds

#so the playlist thing got out of control and I made this #this is a compensation for the fact I cannot edit actual music videos to these songs on account of there not being enough suitable footage #napoleon bonaparte #tsar alexander i #alexander i of russia #yes I said it. I like imagine dragons ok #the swan bit is Napoleon’s washbasin btw. if you even care

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ranjith11 · 7 months

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100 Random Ridiculous Geography Facts Part 1 | 100 amazing facts of the world

🌍 Welcome to "100 Random Ridiculous Geography Facts Part 1"! 🌎 ✨Video is About Welcome to our fascinating journey into the world of geography! 🌍 In this video, we'll delve into the most unbelievable and amusing facts about our planet. From peculiar landmarks to quirky geographical phenomena, you won't want to miss these 100 ridiculous geography facts. Join us on this adventure of exploration and amazement

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prototypelq · 3 months

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Today, is the first day in 23 months when I finally heard some good news from within russia, about politics no less.

As you probably haven't heard, because this theme is being agressively ignored by all possible media, 15-17 march is the date of next presidential election in russia. If you have laughed after reading this statement, then congratulations, you pretty much know everything about it, hence why no media coverage. But there should be.

Ekaterina Shulman, who has a PhD in political sciences, who has been one of the most enlightening sources on all matters russian-politics and autocrasy-related, has been handedly calling the oncoming election an 'electoral event', meaning the current system will not allow any real election to take place (and it never really did), but will instead make an illusion of the 'winner' being fair.

(btw 'election' advertisements and notices have been going under the banner of the letter V, which you can consider fair since 'election' is 'выборы' in russian, so using the same letter makes sense, but we all know who this big letter references, don't we, same way as all the militarist zealots are uniting under letter Z)

Yesterday, she held a stream with Boris Nadezhdin, who is currently running for presidential candidate by trying to gather citizen votes.

The reason you should care about this, is that Nadezhdin is the only candidate, who is openly critical of Putin,

he has been the public voice of opposition for the russian autocracy for more than 20 years,

the stream he held with Ekaterina could be considered an extremely risky move, enough to send him to jail for this move alone, since she has been declared a foreign agent for a long time (current brand of quality for russians),

he has opened up multiple vote booths across the world, so that political refugees (which is exactly what all the russians abroad are) could safely vote, as the government has already considered denying them their constitutional right to do so,

and he has presented the plan for his presidential reign, starting with: releasing all the political prisoners and immediately starting peace talks with Ukraine.

If you think that those are just empty words, well, they might be, though I can only pity the person who would dedicate more than 20 years of their life on empty promises, especially ones that can easily get you imprisoned for life or killed. I am not joking.

The reason there is 'unanimous agreement' of russians and the media of russians regarding the Invasion of Ukraine and other political topics, is that the political filed in this forsaken country has been carefully curated and all unsactioned-by-Kremlin opposition immediately eliminated for longer than I have been alive.

I live with the weight of just living my life in this country being a daily contributor to committing war crimes in Ukraine, and inside Russia. The reason I'm writing this in english on tumblr, which, hey, lgbt is considered extremist propaganda and will get you in jail, and tumblr even markets itself as the most lgbt-friendly social site, is that there is no way to talk about this in russia. And each time, I browse the politics or russia tags here I see the same zealous aggression which russians are called terrorists for, directed back at all russians. I took it for a long time, because there was no way to dispute this claim, I felt and continue to feel shame for this forsaken country or being related to it, and because every day this country exists ukrainian and russian people are forced into the meatgrinder.

No more. or well, no more feeling shame over it, the guilt will remain long after even the end of the Invasion.

Boris Nadezhdin's (btw his surname almost literally translates to Hopeful) electoral booths have been having full rows of people wishing to sign a petition to make him electable for presidential run. People in Siberia stood in line in -40 C (granted, normal siberian weather, but still, you wouldn't want to be out and about for too long in that kind of cold, even when accustomed to it) to sign a petition for him. At the moment of writing he has reached around 70k, out of 100k needed to be legally allowed to petition for presidential run (sidenote: that number is astronomically high for a number of reasons, so him getting that close is a big win too)

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(this video covers the current news of Nadezhdin's campaign pretty well, it also has hand-done english subs)

So yes. You're not allowed to call all russians terrorists any longer, untill they are proven Zealots. There are literally thousands of russian people voting against Putin's reign, they are donating money to this campaign to help it grow too.

In a country, which has never really been a free space to be able to discuss politics, much less actively participate in them or have an informed opinion on them, and which has spent decades curating political apathy in it's people, these events are WILD.

Granted, the possibility of Nadezhdin being allowed to actually run for president is astronomically small, the country is still an autocrasy. Still, participation this high is anything-politics related is phenominal, and I wish to celebrate that, whatever may come in the future.

Here are some additional russian sources available to english-speakers to learn more:

The Russian State of Mind, a brilliant lecture by Ekaterina Shulman, PhD in political science, updated with data from october 2023

Maxim Katz channel, he covers politics and subtitles his videos by hand in english, I've linked another video of his above

Meduza newsletter has an english department

Tamara Eidelman covers history, mythology and related topics, her lectures are fascinating to listen to and have english voiceover

Yuri Dud does interviews with english subs

Any content creator with the (obligatory) foreign agent (иностранный агент) warning is good to listen to. This means the author said something not to the current governmen'ts liking, or not Enough liking of russian system, so good for them for having an actual opinion.

#first voting in my life and this is the stakes im working with yaaaay #i get why people are calling russians terrorists but i am so tired of it #now i have literal prove it's not true and you should take a closer look at the facts #the problem with politics is that they are just too complicated for any ordinary person to make sense of #but when the question is 'do you support killing people' there is only one answer #russian invasion of ukraine #russia #ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #i hope one day that tag changes to putin is a terrorist state #putin #he is a definitive war criminal and must be judged in world court #Youtube

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the-last-tsar · 4 months

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"Just as Nicholas felt intimidated by his father, Alexandra had the same feelings towards her mother-in-law. The cheerful and effusive Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna knew the whole society of St. Petersburg, for she had had a long period of adaptation from her arrival at court, as the bride of Tsarevich Alexander, to the moment of ascending the throne as Tsarina. She cared about the way she looked and dressed with pomp and luxury. She was known for her flawless skin, even after old age. Legend has it that she was one of the first people to do peeling. It was difficult for Maria to leave her old post and make room for her new daughter-in-law and new empress. It did not take long for the raids between them to begin. One of the first issues involved the state jewels. Maria did not want to give them up to her daughter-in-law, despite the fact that she had a beautiful collection of personal jewelry. Alexandra, resentful of her mother-in-law, wanted to refuse the pieces taken from the Dowager Empress, which the young woman, as a new Tsarina, was supposed to wear. To minimize friction and avoid further scandals, it was decided that the jewels would be under the responsibility of the Treasury, and could be requested by the two when certain events required their use, such as the coronation of Nicholas in Moscow. The influence of the Dowager Empress on the life of the couple continued intense for several years. She appointed all the servants of Alexandra and, having more experience in state affairs than her son, thanks to the complicity she had with her husband, Alexander III, took upon herself the duty of becoming an adviser to the young Tsar. The couple had meals with her in Anichkov, and even after they moved they used to have breakfast with Maria every day. The different personalities and tastes of the two women, however, meant that there was little understanding between them."

Os Últimos Czares (the last tsars) | Paulo Rezzutti

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#tsarina alexandra #maria feodorovna #dagmar of denmark #alix of hesse #tsarina #facts #romanov family #imperial russia #matilda 2017 #my own #my editions

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odinsblog · 7 months

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Crimea is Ukraine 🇺🇦

#politics #ukraine #crimea #russia #russia is a terrorist state #russian imperialism #snapple #russian colonialism #vladimir putin is a war criminal #real fact 933

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des-fangirl · 24 days

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LISTEN TO ME the impression left on me after that one scene from Jingo is. Oh god. I remember SHAKING while reading it

Like my head was spinning just like Vimes', it all happened at once and fast and he was standing here, pointing a weapon at the prince, Ahmed standing back to back with him, his organizer listing how and when his dear died IN A TIMELINE SO CLOSE TO HIS OWN. LIKE. IT WAS JUST SO CLOSE TO A CATASTROPHE. HE BARELY MADE IT INTO A TIMELINE WHERE HE AND HIS FRIENDS GET TO LIVE AND EVEN HERE RIGHT NOW HE'S IN FEAR SHAKING BECAUSE APPARENTLY HE HAS TO KILL THIS MAN TO FINISH IT ALL??

AND THEN. ”Ah...Commander Vimes..."

☹️ I HATE YOU. I LOVE YOU. I'VE NEVER BEEN AS HAPPY SO SEE YOU AS I AM AT THIS MOMENT BRO.

I have always imagined this moment to be something like. That

Like an owner holding their dog by the collar when everything seems to be going wrong & about to get even worse - but they're on time.

#ohhhh do you get me!??? do you see the same shit i see here??#im insane #and even more insane over the fact that i can't get this book on russian #bcs it's apparently out of stock EVERYWHERE??#wtf #i mean i can buy it in English AND IT EVEN IS IN STOCK IN SHOPS IN RUSSIA #so the funny thing is they dont have jingo on Russian in stock BUT DO HAVE IT ON ENGLISH. OK.#des-shitpost #discworld #vimes #Jingo #vetvimes #vetinari

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atom-writings · 27 days

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cosplayed ivan today at anime detour mn. the only time i got recognized someone yelled “RUSSIA???” at me and i just yelled back “OH NO” and ran away so. to whoever that person was im sorry yes i was russia i dont know why i immediately went into fight or flight mode.

also heres the costume :3

#FUN FACT i got my russia cosplay coat FROM A THRIFT STORE. SOMEONE DONATED A RUSSIA COSPLAY COAT #also u cant tell but i had like 20 medals and soviet buttons + a bag with his plushie and a flag hanging out #yaaaay it was fun #wish people knew who i was doing though #talking tag

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