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http://www.bullionstreet.com/news/romania-wants-gold-treasure-back-from-russia/3047
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lafitte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality
http://www.local10.com/news/local/south-florida-lifeguard-fired-after-saving-man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London#Population_change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Love,_Not_Warcraft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart#X-Men_film_series
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JaredKidd
For the 1st one, is that metric tonnes?
oo0ORB0oo
Facebook pokes in real life.
Angelova33
Its not even a blog, it's a click bait site. '10 funniest photos, 7 things you didn't know..., 15 photos of THIS!' I banish you back to FB!!
Iaimtomisbehave
http://imgur.com/acvO2vI
girlyThings84
#2 must be Jack Sparrow
DogTaxEvader
#1 : confirmed. But, to put it in perspective, Russia owes just aroud a cup of coffee to each Romanian citizen. (1.77$). Plus interests.
adiorga
Most Romanians would be happy to take that.
dinosaurprincess
Is there a video of the scientists poking the penguins? Because that's why I came here...
CriticalSerpent
I didn't know that gold was sold in tones.
cousteau
There's a similar legend to #1 in Spain; "tte gold of Moscow".
lukas9356
Rusia habe veri manny gould.
papercraneswithsoup
Typo in the first image, had to downvote.
Wimpymind
If you think the russia one is bad, wait til you find out what happened to the gold in continental europe after ww2. (The us took it).
Wimpymind
and just like russia (apparently, I wasnt aware of the russia one), it has given almost none back, and created miles of red tape to stop it.
Draunamou
Source? I've never heard that story.
DirtySneakyDoubleCrossingCunnivinMuthafucka
http://www.mining.com/germans-give-up-on-getting-back-their-gold-held-in-us-45305/
SylvanaDarkmyst
I just read the entire wiki article on the "Make Love Not Warcraft" episode and that fact is mentioned nowhere.
ajmazing
Florida man finally did good and got fired for it...damn
Skymureaux
The WoW one is bogus, and his proof link has nothing relevant to the picture.
TrustyHonestlyDishonestMan
+1 for sources :)
Greatscott89
"Sources" Wikipedia isn't really a source. For all we know OP could have just gone on and changed them to reflect what these facts say!
gabadabagool
It's not 2003 anymore. Wikipedia is plenty reliable.
OneZebraInAHerdOfWildebeests
Thou true, this isn't for a grade and if you tried to be smarter than your dumb PhD professor you would scroll do the sources of wikipedia
Skymureaux
His World of Warcraft source has nothing of the claim he made about it. It throws his other ones into question.
SaxonsNowRedux
Yea...i had never heard that before. Was disappointed to not find anything about it in his source. :(
DavidNemeth
them a private server.
DavidNemeth
The original source's site is getting 500 error in time of posting here. So I tried to find at least a source where it says Blizzard gave
pimptendo
If I learned anything from school its that Wikipedia is Not to be trusted
ThisIsYourLifeNow
"Rusia" is like: "What Gold?"
ThisIsYourLifeNow
Ok Ok, here have some gold, peasant.
GoingBallsOutGetsYouArrested1
Ireland has never matched it's highest population. 8.175 million in 1840. 4.71 million 2014
bevme
PotatoE problem?
TheHumanCentipad
Also Londons population had been shrinking prior and long after WWII.
GoingBallsOutGetsYouArrested1
Really? That's interesting.
tellmewhereisgandalfimuchdesiretospeakwithhim
You'd never get served on a bank holiday of we had that many now! ????
GoingBallsOutGetsYouArrested1
Lol. Still wait half hour at bars in Ennis no matter what day of year it is
Baalzak
According to that other post on the front page, it looks like somebody poked WAY too hard with the stick
MrInvisibo
Did any one else read the Patrick Stewart one in his American Dad voice?
LZYRMN
Russians not being on the up and up? You don't say.
DirtySneakyDoubleCrossingCunnivinMuthafucka
http://www.mining.com/germans-give-up-on-getting-back-their-gold-held-in-us-45305/
ninjakitty8184
http://imgur.com/T3euA9A there you go.
Cmannn
You can imagine the talks J.J. Thompson had with his son
andycristea
sneaky fucking russians!
CubanDoctorRapist
Your own source disproves the london factoid
wh33lm4n
I was going to say the same thing. It peaked in 1951 at 8.16 million, but that was after WWII.
DavidBrooker
Which is odd, because there are sources which support him (there was a municipal estimate, as opposed to a census, in 1939 at 8.6m)
jayneseahawk
Nothing about a random person infiltrating the private server in Wikipedia for the south park one
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
#8 Scumbag scientists!
Bodog01
With sauce! Amazing!
MarvelousMuggle
5/8 from Wikipedia.
Skymureaux
The WoW one's sauce has nothing to the 'fact.' Click it yourself and look for any mention of it. Brings the others into question.
OLIVEGARDENSBREADSTICKS
Well I mean if you gave gold to Rusia and asked Russia to give it back to you, you shouldn't have expected much in return.
m15p02h
reminds me of cuba and the trillion dollar bill on the simpsons
GuacamoleMoleMolester
RUSSIA DOESN'T SHARE GOLD!
rossimus
It's amazing that people actually expected to get their gold back from the Kremlin. Just amazing.
DorianPineda
AHA you're a funny
FatmanSaul
They clearly spent it all on getting that extra 's'
Bugofbelgium
Rus$ia
SkinknamedJormungandr
It could be that the Czar was actually going to give it back. Unfortunately, he was kinda taken into the woods and shot. Lenin probably saw
SkinknamedJormungandr
all the gold, creamed his pants, and then probably made it into a bed to sleep on. He also probably bludgeoned some people to death with one
SkinknamedJormungandr
of the brick for shits and giggles. That man was fucking crazy.
NorwayRat
Amen. While the Russian economy completely collapsed during the civil war, he bought 7 rolls royces
IWasInThePool
Give what back?
fistermatic5000
Sick reference and my favorite Simpsons scene
Akmens
Romania isn't the only country Russia owes money to. Latvian here.
Akmens
As I found out on exhibition in the Bank of Latvia. The amount of gold we gave is estimated to exceed our GDP. (2/2)
bevme
What happened there? (I love your coin with a chimney sweep on it!)
Akmens
The sendoff is common to all three Baltic states. What I meant was that during the same period LV gave RU some gold to protect (1/2)
ElegantBrute
I mean shit. Imagine the holocaust, right. Scale it down to a country our size. There. Literally 1 20th of our people got sent away to (1/2)
ElegantBrute
Syberia. Their posessions taken, most never returned. As the 2nd ww raged across us, both sides burnt down everything, stole anything. (2/2)
bevme
I had no idea that Latvia was destroyed. That is terrible. Innocent people being plowed under. :( Russia doesn't make friends.
SuperRockinMrMagic
Kinda like Alaska was given back? Regime change nullified a lot of things
Elonth
we bought alaska....
SuperRockinMrMagic
Essentially the Soviets didn't honor a whole lot of tsarist deals
SuperRockinMrMagic
If my recollection of high school history serves me (and very well may not) it was a 100 year lease.
Elonth
they sold it back in 1870-80 for 24.7 million dollars (in the trillions nowadays) mainly because they felt the british might take it.
Elonth
you would be wrong.
DuckField
93.4 tons = 84731 Kilograms just so the first one isn't confusing
Blayt
To be fair, Russian never got the gold. Rusia did. Different place i'm guessing
FilthyRapscallions
Worth approximately $700 million.
HanktheHeliotropeShank
As an American too lazy to even use google I though, "for all I know they might have given it all back..."
MonkeyHittingPianoDramatically
Well it's actually tonnes, and seems to been 120 of those. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Treasure
Speldrawng
I assumed he meant "tonnes" which would be 93400 kg.
briochedoree
Either way, they gave back almost nothing sooo a difference of 5000-10000 kg is like... Pft... :))
UnpinionedPoplars
Well, at least it isn't confusing anymore. :-/
Bugofbelgium
Why anything but metric is still in use is beyond me.
cousteau
Because you never know when you may want to divide a (long) ton into 7 equal parts, for example.
graygrif
I think people still use the troy ounce is used to measure precious metals even if they would normally use the metric system.
lronMaiden
A what? ... No. We use grams.