Roşia Montană: the richest village you’ve never heard of. Until 94% of the gold they’re sat on goes to Canada.

16 September 2013 18:09 0

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TIL that “Lawnchair” Larry Walters, who flew to 16,000 feet using weather balloons tied to a lawn chair in 1982, shot himself eleven years later.

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TIL that in 1916, a conman called Sir Edmund Backhouse, claiming to be working for the Chinese government, sold the UK six (non-existent) battleships and an (imaginary) flotilla-load of rifles.

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