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  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Susan B. Anthony died on this day in 1906.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Behemoth blueberry grown in Australia verified as heaviest ever

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A U.S. computer storage company has calculated the irrational number pi to 105 trillion digits, breaking the previous world record. The calculations took 75 days to complete and used up 1 million gigabytes of data.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    a group of jellyfish is called a “smack,”

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In Massachusetts we say when making a u turn "bang a U'ey". In Wyoming they say "flip a bítch".

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,385 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've used both expressions on occasion.

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  • Patrickbrick
    Patrickbrick Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    A U.S. computer storage company has calculated the irrational number pi to 105 trillion digits, breaking the previous world record. The calculations took 75 days to complete and used up 1 million gigabytes of data.

    This is another where answering “why”, with, “because we can” isn’t an answer.

    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,385 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Because pi is a fascinating number and to prove if it truly is an irrational number or if it eventually ever turns rational.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi

    It also appears to be a useful benchmark.

    https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/pi-calculated-to-105-trillion-digits-smashing-world-record

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  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If they just kept it running it would be a new record every second...

    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,805 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yakster said:
    I've used both expressions on occasion.

    About driving?

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    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,385 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, about performing a u-turn maneuver in an automobile.

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  • Hawks
    Hawks Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Amos_Umwhat said:
    About driving?

    The truth or something less interesting?
    🥸

    Nolite Oblivisci Peniculus Dentes

  • Rhamlin
    Rhamlin Posts: 9,137 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I read that the average American comes in personal contact with 17 murderers in their lifetime.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    At least one in a dozen binary stars eat their own planets

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,412 ✭✭✭✭✭

    TRYPOPHOBIA

    Trypophobia is an aversion to the sight of repetitive patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps. It is not officially recognized as a mental disorder, but may be diagnosed as a specific phobia if excessive fear and distress occur.

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,889 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    That because they don't identify as nonbinary. Most nonbinary stars are also vegan and won't consume planets because they might contain meat, fish or dairy.

    I laughed way too hard at this.

    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

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  • Rhamlin
    Rhamlin Posts: 9,137 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2024

    The Eifel tower is so light it actually weighs less than the air around it 😱 And it’s taller in the summer than in the winter

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The cold makes it shrink.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Getting nervous about sushi.......

    Parasites in canned salmon might not sound savory, but they point to good news on rebounding populations of marine mammals, suggests a new study covered by freelance science journalist Rachel Nuwer. Killer whales, seals and belugas prey on salmon, which are an intermediate host for various nematodes. So increased worm infection in salmon is tied to more chow for salmon and their predators. Researchers dissected a total of 178 cans of chum, coho, pink and sockeye salmon. The fish were processed between 1979 and 2019, providing a proxy timeline for salmon and marine mammal health and population sizes. The number of nematodes per gram of tissue significantly increased over time in chum and pink salmon. The uptick in worms signals a conservation success story for marine mammals.

    The data: A trade organization offered stacks of dusty boxes of expired canned salmon to the researchers. “We were like, ‘Worms could be in there!’ recalls parasite ecologist and study co-author Chelsea Wood. “That’s how we started on this study: [the Seafood Products Association] asking us if we wanted this trash from their basement and us saying, ‘Absolutely, yes.’”

    How they did it: The researchers carefully picked through the salmon muscle tissue with forceps. After salmon eat fish that host worms, the parasites burrow into the salmon’s muscle, making a little pocket. When the team opened one of the pockets, the worms tended to “spring out,” says Wood. “They were very easily visible.”

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Picasso's full name is
    Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso

  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Posts: 8,969 ✭✭✭✭✭

    John Tyler, our 10th president who was born in 1790, has a living grandchild.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rusty, now we know you do the nyt mini crossword.