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To attract hummingbirds leave an overripe banana or just the peel in the yard, it will attract fruit flies which the birds eat.
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Susan B. Anthony died on this day in 1906.
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Behemoth blueberry grown in Australia verified as heaviest ever
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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.
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a group of jellyfish is called a “smack,”
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In Massachusetts we say when making a u turn "bang a U'ey". In Wyoming they say "flip a bítch".
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@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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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.
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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...0 -
@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 Twain0 -
@Amos_Umwhat said:
About driving?The truth or something less interesting?
🥸Nolite Oblivisci Peniculus Dentes
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I read that the average American comes in personal contact with 17 murderers in their lifetime.
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I don't hang out with professional athletes.
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At least one in a dozen binary stars eat their own planets
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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.
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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.
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They have someone else unbox their online purchases?
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The name “raccoon” is derived from the Powhatan word “aroughcun” or “ahrah-koon-em,” which means “animal that scratches with its hands.”
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@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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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
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The cold makes it shrink.
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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.”
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Picasso's full name is
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso2 -
Get that embroidered over the pocket of a work shirt.
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John Tyler, our 10th president who was born in 1790, has a living grandchild.
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Not sure if it’s been mentioned before, but the very first Wordle word was…wait for it…
Cigar
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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Rusty, now we know you do the nyt mini crossword.
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