Canadian Bills Fan Posted June 12, 2017 Author Share Posted June 12, 2017 TIL: Central Park had an estimated property value of $528 billion in 2005; In today's market that would be $810,801,446,400.00 - nearly a trillion dollars. If it were in Detroit, instead of NY, it's value would be $4.5 million. CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 TIL: Central Park had an estimated property value of $528 billion in 2005; In today's market that would be $810,801,446,400.00 - nearly a trillion dollars. If it were in Detroit, instead of NY, it's value would be $4.5 million. CBF That's a lot of wampum! Peter Stuy sure knew what he was doing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted June 14, 2017 Author Share Posted June 14, 2017 TIL that Goldeney 007 for N64 only had 9 developers on the team, and 8 of them had never worked on video games before. CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted June 15, 2017 Author Share Posted June 15, 2017 TIL that the longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal; it has been going for 631 years and still stands today. Ya Portugal! CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 TIL that the longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal; it has been going for 631 years and still stands today. Ya Portugal! CBF Since it was disrupted for 60 years I'd hardly it unbroken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 TIL that the longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal; it has been going for 631 years and still stands today. Ya Portugal! CBF Used to be second, but since Al Davis and Ralph Wilson passed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Used to be second, but since Al Davis and Ralph Wilson passed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted June 16, 2017 Author Share Posted June 16, 2017 TIL in 2013 it cost $289,500 a year to run a hot dog cart near the Central Park Zoo in New York City. CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRBills Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Surprisingly, The Secret History of the Mongols is a very good one. Genghis Khan invented Mongolian writing, then had scribes write a surprisingly honest account of the Mongolian Empire. It's generally very well-thought of for being an honest accounting and not a propaganda device (Genghis might be the only emperor in history that didn't commission a work of propaganda as "history.") \ Jeremiah Curtin has some good descriptions of the destruction of Khwarezm, but he's a century old or more, so it's chock full of rough, turgid Victorian prose, and not the easiest read. Hildinger, Warriors of the Steppe, is pretty good, but only devotes a chapter to the Mongols proper (the Mongols were Turkic, so loosely descended from the Scythians and Huns, and last all the way to the Crimean Tatars, Cossacks, and the end of the Manchu dynasty.) Michel Hoang's Genghis Khan is pretty good, but it's originally in French, and I have yet to read an English translation of any French writing that I felt was truly accessible. Those are the three that are on my bookshelf within eyesight right now. I know I've got others, but they're more military history oriented (the Mongol invasion of Khwarezm was the foundation of Russian - and thus by extension German - armored tactics in World War 2), and they're probably in another room somewhere where I was looking something up. Have you watched the series "Marco Polo" on Netflix? Its very entertaining and historically accurate depiction of 13th century Mangolia under kublai Khans rule. One of my favorite shows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Have you watched the series "Marco Polo" on Netflix? Its very entertaining and historically accurate depiction of 13th century Mangolia under kublai Khans rule. One of my favorite shows And plenty of naked Asian girls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 That's a lot of wampum! Peter Stuy sure knew what he was doing!f law olmstead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRBills Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 And plenty of naked Asian girls And there is that! Lol, definitely makes the viwing experience that much more enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Have you watched the series "Marco Polo" on Netflix? Its very entertaining and historically accurate depiction of 13th century Mangolia under kublai Khans rule. One of my favorite shows I have not. But it's historically inaccurate. Mongols didn't ride Arabians, and didn't have weird blocky splices on their recurves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snafu Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 TIL in 2013 it cost $289,500 a year to run a hot dog cart near the Central Park Zoo in New York City. CBF They charge $3.00/hot dog. Roughly need to sell 270/day to break even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 TIL you don't mess with a Canadian Sniper http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/report-record-2-mile-sniper-shot-kills-isis-militant-in-iraq/ar-BBD1Qjl?OCID=ansmsnnews11 A Canadian soldier in Iraq has killed an ISIS militant from more than two miles away. The 3,450-meter shot, which took about 10 seconds to reach its target, was independently verified by a video camera and other data Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Today I learned my dad has officially become the grumpy old man that bitches about everything....literally everything. My friends growing up warned me....they were right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 (edited) Today I learned my dad has officially become the grumpy old man that bitches about everything....literally everything. My friends growing up warned me....they were right. that sounds like my wife Edited June 22, 2017 by ShadyBillsFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 that sounds like my wife People suck don't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DC Tom Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 TIL you don't mess with a Canadian Sniper http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/report-record-2-mile-sniper-shot-kills-isis-militant-in-iraq/ar-BBD1Qjl?OCID=ansmsnnews11 A Canadian soldier in Iraq has killed an ISIS militant from more than two miles away. The 3,450-meter shot, which took about 10 seconds to reach its target, was independently verified by a video camera and other data Just as a measure of how insane a shot that is: He's hitting a target about the size of a pie plate at two miles, which is an accuracy about four times better than your typical match-grade rifle and ammo available (and about ten times better than your typical military rifle.) And a bullet over that distance will drop about three hundred yards. Which means he's not firing at the target, he's firing at a point a quarter-mile above the target and dropping the bullet onto it. And he probably had to take between five and ten shots, just to get the range and wind deflection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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