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How different religious groups in America vote

Early zeppelins were made from beaten and stretched cow intestine

The gas cells of many of the early zeppelins were made from so-called goldbeater’s skin: cow intestines beaten to a pulp and then stretched. It took two hundred and fifty thousand cows to make one airship. During the First World War, Germany and its allies ceased production of sausages so that there would be enough cow guts to make zeppelins from which to bomb England. [link]

Vader’s Redemption: The Imperial March in a Major Key

LA county devotes 200 square miles to parking

In a recent piece, Scott Foreman argues that parking is underpriced and is a giant urban blight, taking up ridiculous amounts of space 

As of today, there are something on the order of 250 million cars in the United States alone. There are also around 800 million parking spaces.

Here’s a visualization of the land area in Los Angeles county devoted to parking, courtesy of betterinstitutions.com:

 

Lanka TukTuk Polo

 

A[n] elephant polo tournament in Sri Lanka which was scrapped after one of the beasts went rogue has been revived with tuk-tuk taxis taking their place, to the relief of animal lovers. [link] 

Sam Mangwana & African All Stars- Suzana Coulibaly 1979

M7 raps

Backstory here

Fela, Sandra and Africa 70, “Up Side Down”

Kissinger’s policies led to at least 4 million civilian deaths

So, to sum up, using the lower estimates above: Kissinger’s policies resulted in at least 4,124,000 civilian deaths, probably many times that number of wounded and refugees – and that doesn’t include Kissinger’s victims in Vietnam — a war that he (and Nixon) helped prolong for five years when they sabotaged 1968 peace talks — Laos, or Argentina, Uruguay, the Middle East and Persian Gulf, at the hands of Kissinger’s partners, such as the Shah and the Saudis. [link]