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The ancient city was built over a lake so surprising that it took a couple hundred years to start sinking
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Kraft discontinued Hot & Spicy Shake 'n Bake.
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The Moon Is Bigger Than Pluto
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Rice paper contains no rice.
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@silvermouse said:
Rice paper contains no rice.I wkipedia'd that and was reminded of Kung Fu.
If you remember this, you're old.
Kwai Chang Caine undergoes training to become a Shaolin priest. One of the challenges he faces is to walk on a long sheet of rice paper without tearing it or leaving any marks of his passage. His successful completion of the test is incorporated into the series' opening title sequence, with the narration, "When you can walk its length and leave no trace, you will have learned."2 -
Then world's oldest recorded joke as translated from Sumerian:
“Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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@Significant3 said:
Did you know Reno NV is further west than Los Angeles CA?This reminded me of a map I saw a while back. I believe what I saw said something like 'Most of Canada's population lives south of the Canadian border you're thinking of' (the big straight line from WA to MN)
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There's only 206 days left until Christmas 🎄.
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It's amazing, computer synthesized music had so much promise in 1984. How far we've fallen.
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Toilet seats are cleaner than your cell phone.
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Cheese is the most shoplifted food in the world.
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Blue whale hearts weigh almost a ton and beat once every 10 seconds.
A hummingbird’s heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute
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One single sketty noodle is properly called a spaghetto.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Bees do in fact poop.
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Not any more.
The least popular article on Wikipedia is a about this moth. Trichromia phaeocrota (Dognin, 1911)/Public Domain
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Women Feel Less Stressed on Weekends
Women feel less stressed on weekends, when there is more downtime, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.0 -
I wonder how long and how much money it took to come to that conclusion.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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@Rdp77 said:
I wonder how long and how much money it took to come to that conclusion.Long as they could for as much as they could milk out of it.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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The Last Supper originally showed Jesus' feet, but they were cut off to make a doorway
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Giraffes have purple tongues.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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found this on the internet so Reagan must have said it:
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@silvermouse said:
found this on the internet so Reagan must have said it:Also from the internet (Oxford Academic):
Often represented as a misquotation by Ronald Reagan of the words of John Adams (second President of the United States), defending soldiers in the ‘Boston Massacre’ trials in March 1770. In the course of his speech, he uttered the words:
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the states of facts and evidence.
In his address to the 1988 Republican National Convention, Ronald Reagan introduced a section of his speech with the words:
Before we came to Washington, Americans had just suffered the two worst back-to-back years of inflation in 60 years. Those are the facts, and as John Adams said, ‘Facts are stubborn things.’
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Thanks Davis.
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A Chicken gun is a compressed-air cannon used to fire dead chickens at aircraft components to simulate high-speed bird strikes during the aircraft’s flight. It was first used in the mid-1950s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
A 10-inch (25 cm) smoothbore chicken gun used by Canadian aerospace firms to test components at the Flight Impact Simulator Facility in Ottawa, photographed here in storage at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum at some point after 2016
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https://youtu.be/SAwaTIwe0jU
