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    IMF’s unstated rate: Sri Lanka’s $695m loan costs about 5.33% per annum

    I am with the BOC. Haven't received yet.
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    Duty free බඩු

    Happening since the dawn of history or rather realistically since the arrival of the duty-free shopping. Many who are in the clothing business get ME returners, on a holiday in BKK for three days or so and get them to carry back several suitcases full of clothing and use their duty free...
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    nakamichi car audio

    Nakamichi set the standards of audio Hi-Fi. Their huge success became the downfall too. They had to close shop about 20 years ago and it was bought by a Chinese company. The label still exists but nowhere near the original. :unsure:
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    IMF’s unstated rate: Sri Lanka’s $695m loan costs about 5.33% per annum

    Gita Gopinath, who served as the IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director from 2022 to 2025 and is now a professor of economics at Harvard University, said something at a Bloomberg podcast interview on May 29 that every Sri Lankan policymaker and citizen should hear. She said: “I do think there has...
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    Elakiri ChatGPT මහාචාර්යවරු 😆

    Just note that I do not engage into conversations with imbeciles who have apology letters from the condom factory as their birth certificates. :ROFLMAO:
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    Carrom Board එකක් recommend කරන්න

    The standard striker cannot exceed 15g in weight. Diameter no more than 4.13 cm. . A Striker made of any material other than Ivory and metal, with the specifications prescribed above, may be used. Ivory strikers are banned and only mad made ivory discs are available.
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    Vitamin D Mega Thread!

    Just follow your consultant's advice. I have written enough on Vitamin D since the arrival of Covid. Just do a search. Never take large doses without proper medical supervision. Vitamin K exists in several forms. Most common are K1 & K2. Another synthesized form K3 exists but not recommended...
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    Carrom Board එකක් recommend කරන්න

    Not only durability. Heavier boards are far superior without long term warping effects, offer much better & consistent rebounds and have much better playing surfaces than the cheap boards. Have you ever played on very old British made carrom boards?
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    Carrom Board එකක් recommend කරන්න

    Note that a good quality carrom board will weigh above 20 kg and have a playing surface thickness of about 18mm. I have a tournament class board that weighs over 25 kg.
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    IT වැඩ්ඩො පොඩ්ඩක් එන්න

    Open Hardware Monitor or it's fork the Libre Hardware Monitor
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    CeraVe ගෑවම කැන්සර් හැදෙනවාලු 🤔

    There were six lawsuits against them in early 2026 against the use of Benzoyl peroxide because of unsafe benzene concentrations.
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    The GEOMETRY of Everything Is Only 8 Shapes — and One MAN Found Them All.

    The no 8 is considered a lucky number by the Chinese But they don't go near the number 4 which is unlucky.
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    The GEOMETRY of Everything Is Only 8 Shapes — and One MAN Found Them All.

    Yes... quite when considering he had an eye problem that he couldn't see in three dimensions. Reminds me of another instance. The eversion of a ball. Can anyone turn a tennis ball inside out? I have read there there was a kid who could do so. He plays with the ball and all of a sudden the ball...
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    How Does Google Maps Actually Work?

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    Gene test helps many breast cancer patients avoid chemotherapy

    Many people with breast cancer can safely avoid chemotherapy with the use of a gene test, potentially sparing them unnecessary side effects without increasing the risk of the cancer returning, a large international clinical trial led by UCL has found. The OPTIMA trial (Optimal Personalised...
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    His Discovery Was Rejected Twice — Now It's Inside Every Single Hospital on Earth.

    Rejections are in plenty. It's always quite hard to get something published in a peer reviewed journal. Even the paper on Laser was rejected (1960).
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    His Discovery Was Rejected Twice — Now It's Inside Every Single Hospital on Earth.

    The story of Richard R. Ernst - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991. He passed away 4 June 2021.

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