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Archaeological Dig in North Korea Finds No Wheel

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A rare moment in archaeology has occurred in North Korea. First, it was amazing that Kim Jong-Un even let in foreign scientists to study the prehistory of the top of the Korean peninsula, but then again, Kim’s dictatorship doesn’t exactly encourage a lot of people to become scientists, unless they can make weapons of mass destruction. The only kind of science that matters to a dic … tator. They dug deep and found … nothing. No sign of a wheel. The North Koreans didn’t even invent the wheel? How in the hell can you develop any technology without … oh, right, the Chinese GAVE the North everything. But Kim’s fascist ancestors couldn’t come up with the simple machine, although scientists did find a lot of evidence that the ancient Jong’s invented the noose, the cat ‘o nine tails, waterboarding, the Iron maiden, thumbscrews, electrocution (by static electricity, rubbing silk shoes on cotton mats), smacking a guy’s balls with a knotted rope, and being forced to listen to self-...