Fri. 1/15 - Wikipedia As An MMORPG & A Pigeon on Trial
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the cotkey ride home for fr, January 15th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. A couple of stories for the birds today. First, Ravens at the Tower of London are living up to their collective name of a conspiracy of Ravens by possibly foretelling the fall of Britain. |
| 0:56.5 | And a pigeon in Australia who was almost sentenced to death by government officials, |
| 1:02.3 | plus the many ways in which Wikipedia is like an MMRP. |
| 1:07.5 | And because I know we all want to relive it so badly, introducing 2020 The Game. |
| 1:15.3 | Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
| 1:20.7 | You know, not that I have room to talk as an American, but Britain's been having a pretty |
| 1:25.9 | tough go of things lately. They've been locked down again as COVID cases continue to surge, being the origin of the more contagious B117 strain. |
| 1:35.3 | Brexit continues to pull the nation further apart from each other and from members of the European Union, causing obstacle after obstacle as they adjust to their new non-EU normal. |
| 1:46.7 | And as if their actual challenges weren't worrying enough as to the future of the nation, |
| 1:52.0 | a centuries-old prophecy spelling doom for the realm may just have been fulfilled. |
| 1:59.1 | So a number of ravens live at the Tower of London in England, |
| 2:02.5 | the historic castle and former prison on the bank of the River Thames, where many executions |
| 2:07.6 | took place over the years, including two of the wives of Henry VIII. It's also where the |
| 2:12.4 | crown jewels are held. It's a massive tourist attraction, and one of the sites people go there to see, or at least |
| 2:18.5 | are bombarded with upon arrival, is the tower's Ravens. Ravens are native to Britain, and centuries |
| 2:25.1 | ago used to be more commonplace, even in towns, and it's presumed that back then they just |
| 2:30.2 | naturally inhabited the Tower of London. And when raven populations decreased and ravens weren't |
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