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Shocking car accident happened today near Moscow (Russia) where a white BMW crashed into a gas tank truck at approx. 150-200 kph (93.2 - 125 mph). The truck exploded and then burned down. 3 guys from the BMW were found dead. Moreover, the actual moment of the accident was caught on camera by people in the car which followed the BMW. Please, drive carefully!

Update (July 29): the gas tanker drivers survived (there were two of them). There are some more photos at the end of the post.

Photos and videos of the last minutes of life of the people in BMW inside:

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Many photos of the King!

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In case someone missed this today on Digg.

Nice glam-looking car.

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Yeehaah! Its Friday! Funtasticus wishes you a good weekend, hope you enjoyed the stuff we published this week, next update on Monday! Have fun!

A selection of funny and interesting photos inside:

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“Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.”
—Jean Anouilh, L’Alouette, 1952

“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
—George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1938

“When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
—Robert A. Heinlein, If This Goes On, 1940

“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”
—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
—Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, 1997

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
—Gore Vidal, Imperial America, 2004

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1.There are more than 2,700 major languages spoken throughout the world.

2.There are over 583 different languages and dialects spoken in Indonesia alone, including English and Dutch.

More Info: The official language of Indonesia is Bahasa. Other languages include Minahasa, Tetu, Ambonese, Buginese, Dayak, Halmahera, Javanese, Acehnese, Batak, Toraja, Sundanese, Ceramese, and Sasak.

3.More than 2,000 languages are spoken in the entire continent of Africa.

4.The language spoken by the people most is Mandarin, a type of Chinese. Second is English.

5.The most difficult language to speak is Basque. It is not related to any language in the world. It is spoken in north-western Spain and south-western France.

6.The Berbers of Northern Africa have no written form of their language.

7.Somalia is the only country in the world where every citizen speaks one language, Somali.

8.The only country where Latin is the official language is Vatican City.

9.The Cambodian alphabet is the world’s largest alphabet, with 74 letters.

10.The world’s shortest alphabet, used in the Solomon Islands, has only 11.

11.English, the second most spoken language in the world, has more words than any other language. But English speakers generally use only about 1% of the language. About one third of the more than one million English words are technical terms.

12.The language of Taki, spoken in parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words.

13.The Irish language has three dialects, the Connact Irish, Munster Irish, and Ulster Irish.

14.The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome.

15.Tigrinya, spoken by half of Eritrea’s population, is a Semitic language based on Ge’ez, the ancient liturgical (and now extinct vernacular) language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

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A wooden car, is that possible?

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The Great Blue hole attracts divers from around the globe. Located in Belize, this hole is famous for being almost perfectly cingular and more than 400 feet deep (National Geographic). Photos inside:

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V Magazine’s photo experiment of making photos of top models before the make-ups and after. 34 famous models and 2 photographers participated in the experiment. Here’s the result:

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Azerbaijan’s head of the Health Department was put in prison for 11 years due to corruption. These are the photos of one of his houses.

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