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Hit and runs and dashcams
  • Oddly there are EU countries where dashcams are illegal or there are severe restrictions on what one can do with the footage.

  • Countries that no longer exist
  • What about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ?

    Or the multiple Kingdoms which existed on both islands 1,000 + years ago ?

    Historically just about the oldest recognisable country in Europe is France and even it's borders have shifted on multiple occasions.

  • Countries that no longer exist
  • I used to work with a guy who was very insistent that he as Czechoslovak.

    Not Czech nor Slovak but Czechoslovak.

    Seemingly his Mother was one and his Father the other and he took great pride in his hybrid identity and allegiance to a country which no longer exists.

    Probably loads of folk like that in the former Yugoslavia and USSR as well.

  • directional FM antenna + omni-directional DAB/FM antenna spliced together on one coax
  • A pair of diplexers (specific to the frequency ranges in question) would do the trick.

    But depending on what reception is like in your area it may be the case that your FM aerial fortuitously picks up sufficient DAB signal for a separate DAB aerial to prove unnecessary ?

  • TIL in May 1864 the first record of electronic spam was sent by a dentist in London
  • Spam by telegram and get free ad in national newspaper ?

  • Countries where Ancient Greek is taught at schools, Europe
  • In Ireland its still theoretically an option (as in there is an end-of-school exam one can take in the subject) however its only available in a tiny handful of schools nowadays.

    It was more widespread in the first half of the last century.

  • Thefts in Europe
  • I see your 80p Lidl loaf and raise you Marks and Spencer 75p.

    Despite their upmarket reputation theyre surprisingly reasonably priced on a lot of staples.

  • European timezones are wild
  • EU has a common time zone

    Nobody told the Irish, Greeks, Finns and Baltic states ?

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  • TIL that France and Spain are in the wrong time zone because of Nazis.
  • In Czechoslovakia they used to drive on the left until some visitors dropped by in early 1939 and persuaded them that driving on the right made more sense.

    In 1940 something similar happened in the Channel Islands but after 1945 they reverted to driving on the left (or at least those whose cars hadn't been requisitioned did)

  • TIL there is a theory that Columbus' Navigator, William Harris AKA Guillermo Herries, an Irishman from Galway, had actually sailed to the Americas before 1492.
  • Columbus didn't "discover" shit.

    Prior to 1492 the Americas were populated by people completely unaware of their own existence.

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