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Your teacher, mom, and virtually any adult with a thoughtful mind would never approve of Twitter as a learning tool. And how would they with this whole infinite source of the not-very-serious side of the internet where memes, jokes, and burns are roaming free?

But people are proving them wrong by sharing incredible facts brought to them by Twitter that should have been put in the textbooks. From realizing the symbol “&” is a ligature for the word "et" to finding out that an 18-inch pizza has more of a good thing than two 12-inch pizzas, these are some of the facts that could have been part of my wisdom bank this whole time.

So scroll down, upvote your faves, and after you’re done with this post, check out our previous list of 30 random facts that will make you feel "today years old."

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UberFacts Report

Bobert Robertson
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By this logic wouldn’t this make most wars nowadays “the American war”?

David Viesta
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And WWII in other planets is called "The Monkeys are at it again, silly Monkeys".

Kevin Teng
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think that can be said for war in general

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Dann999
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no matter how you call it, the USA lost the war

Bill Newsome
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Pulled out and the Vietnamese people lost.

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James C.
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This fact is what got me into the rabbit hole of government propaganda. After learning this, around 13 yo, I thought to myself, "what else are they lying about?". AND OHHH BOY! 😂😂😂

Phunny Philosopher
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me too! And led me to realize the winners get to write the history. For example, if lions were in charge, the statue of the lion and the man would have the lion on top, victorious.

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Sasha Kuleshov
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WWII is also referred to as the Great Patriotic War in East Europe ;)

Daria B
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a European, never heard of it. You learn something new every day... In my country "patriotic war" refers to the post Yugoslavian war of the 1990s.

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Bill Newsome
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor southern Vietnamese that were butchered by the Viet Cong

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Lenka Smetanová
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In russia the learned about "ocupation of czechoslovakia" as a "rescuing czechoslovakia"

Kelly O'Leary
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But it started out as the French War.

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    #2

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    hispanic! at the disco
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And still today, Natives are being harassed by police for protesting there peacefully. Nothing much has changed..

    Kisses4Katie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There were people in maga hats yelling at the native protesters to "go back where they came from". I don't even know what to say to that.

    K.Kobayashi
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which explains why Trump chose to make his July 4 speech there.

    Martha Meyer
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can't believe the amount of Americans who don't know this and/or get aggressive when told.

    Lil Bare
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That Mountain is scary. Megalomaniac. Poor ppl of the KKK must be really insecure

    Marek Yanchurak
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And, minor quibble, they never cleaned up the big rubble pile underneath it like they were supposed to.

    Blackheart
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is true, but if taught, needs to be age appropriate. Many artists were terrible people who did terrible things, but that does not necessarily negate their work. People are a product of how they were brought up, as well as the time and society in which they lived.

    Elisabeth Moriarty
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Disgusting how the Native people of America are treated I say give it back and carve faces of the great native chiefs like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse oh how I wonder how the American police would act if they were among the protesters nothing has changed

    Berlinda Dunbar-Nye
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Crazy Horse monument down the road is way cooler...........

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    #3

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    Fireflower
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    4% of 75 = 75% of 4. 4% of 75 = 4 x (0.75) 4% of 75 = 4 x (3/4) 4% of 75 = 3 Proofs are easier to visualize, I hope this helps!

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    Alpa Lotlikar
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shut. Up. You just changed my life.

    Captain Legible
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An easy way to look at this: per cent means "per hundred" or "divide by a hundred", and "of" means "multiply" when fractions are about. So 4% of 75 is (4/100)x75 and 75% of 4 is (75/100)x4, so they're both just (75x4)/100.

    karin s.
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    how can this get down votes - it is the correct explanation and proof of the hack.

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    Shauna
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It works. I wish I knew this a long time ago.

    Bob Belcher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same reason why 3 x 4 is 12 and 4 x 3 is 12.

    Rebekah
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THIS????

    Jesse
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It used to be part of the daily life skills curriculum taught at schools. But beginning in the 1970s curriculums were commercialized and "tricks which do not explain or utilize core concepts" were sidelined. There's a solid argument there, but that's the case with many bad ideas. At the end of the day the academic "tricks" used so successfully to build the post war infrastructure and economy were discarded in the name of commerce to sell textbooks.

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    Louloubelle
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Something a little similar. I had a friend that couldn't figure tipping. I know some of you are from outside the US, but 15-20% is considered usual. My friend and I tend to be good tippers at 20%, plus it's easier. I told her just figure 10% and multiply it by 2. 10% is much easier to figure on a bill than 20.

    Alex Newell
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did a similar trick when doing mental math in highschool. I'd move the decimal once for the 10%, then move it again for 1% and multiply by 5. People probably thought I was a witch.

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    Noel Bovae
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For those still confused: 50% of something is easy, right? 50% of 20 is 10. But trying to figure out 20% of 50, now that sounds a bit more difficult. This trick is showing you that the answer is still going to be 10. Because 50% of 20, is exactly the same thing as 20% of 50.

    Kisses4Katie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So 3? Is 3 4% of 75? I need to get good at math. I'm about to go to school for science! 😮

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    Look, I am not saying we should believe all that Twitter has to offer. But it turns out, the things we were taught at school are not so innocent either. Some facts we still believe to this day are complete myths, and they had better be laid out bare before you become "today years old" to realize they aren’t true.

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    You probably would place a pretty high bid on the fact that Columbus discovered America. You’re not the only one. A 2005 survey showed that 85% of Americans believed Columbus discovered the continents and only 2% correctly answered that he couldn’t have discovered America because it was already inhabited by Native Americans.

    #4

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    Whitehart
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Caligula declared victory and his soldiers brought back chests full of seashells as proof.

    Vic
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What were they smoking? Can I have some of it? Sounds fun..

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because if they didn't play along they would be killed in a most sadistic way. Caligula often said: "I can do anything to anybody. That's my right."

    Claire
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hmmm, this sounds rather similar to something a current leader of country says. Something along the lines of "I can do whatever I want as President".

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    Sabse
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You mean like nuking a hurricane? 🤔

    ElusiveIntrovert
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually pictured men stabbing water..:D:D

    Nameless 4
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I imagined a bunch of Roman Legions marching up to the ocean and then being told by their superiors that the water was the enemy and they needed to defeat it.

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    Norah Reilly
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds kinda like a Trump campaign...

    Sasha Kuleshov
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like someone Trump would admire XD

    Foxxy (The Original)
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is very random but Caligula is a funny name to say.

    Phunny Philosopher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right? It just sort of rolls off the tongue but doesn't. And feels naughty but really isn't. It sounds like fancy writing plus the act of making lady bits happy plus the name of that thing that hangs down in the back of your throat.

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    Xan A. Du
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kind of like what is happening today. Trump bad. Must destroy. [everyone scurries along]

    Mike Crow
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Trump isn’t bad per say, but he is incompetent and a narcissist.

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    chi-wei shen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was crazy enough to fill a lot of movies.

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    #5

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    Gareth Graham
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The London Underground maintain several stations that trains never use. They are reserved for TV and movie locations so as not to close down functioning stations

    Patien
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In DC we use drab brown colors, keeps the lights dim and make every station look similar just to remind everyone they are going to work to a job they hate.

    Miss Cris
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Lisbon, each lines has an animal and a picture.

    Lyra Rey
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's kind of adorable. They do that with the school buses at the preschool where I sub sometimes because the kids have an easier time remembering what animal they are than what their bus number is.

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    Daria B
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Seoul, each line/route is differentiated by colour.

    Joey Marlin
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They do this as well on the London Underground - even the colour of the poles in the tubes match the line colours on the maps and in the stations. Nice to see how many cities actually did think it through pretty well.

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    Maya Bélanger
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Montreal (Canada) every subway station is completely different. You can have one in red tile, the other one electric blue. Even the benches are different!

    Suzette Poirier
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Brussels different artists have done each. Well, I was there years ago, but it was that way then. One had the same scene painted as a huge mural, with the four seasons affecting it. Just beautiful. I didn't even mind waiting for the train.

    YoyoSthlm
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Stockholm every station looks different and wonderful and covered with art! It's "the worlds longest art exhibition" (google it). It's so much easier to see where you are when stations don't look the same. I'm always lost in Washington because if you can't see the sign you don't know where you are.

    Rissie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Amsterdam has a color coding system on trams :)

    LittleMissPanda
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same goes for Prague. Each metro line is a different letter and colour and tiles on the walls are matching accordingly

    Cathy Jo Baker
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mexico City does this also with their metro. Every line is a certain color, and every station has a symbol in the color of the line it's on. Some Mexicans are illiterate, while others don't have Spanish as a language.

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    None
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/of-drinks-and-clinks/

    Tor Rolf Strøm
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nice catch! Many of these are bound to be fake, as people spread fake facts ALL THE TIME.

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    Frenchie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the same concept of shaking hands my grabbing each others forearms instead of hands. This was to check each other for small knives.

    Demongrrrrl
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    Left-handed soldiers supposedly had their hands chopped off because they had an unfair advantage - they could grab their swords while shaking hands .

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    El Dee
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Scotland you would offer your visitor a drink from a drinking vessel called a quaich. You need two hands to hold it so when you give it to your guest you can't reach for your sword or knife. Likewise when you are both drinking together. It's a sign of trust and welcome that there is no need for weapons..

    Kimberly Greenock
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My husband is scottish. He got several quaichs at our wedding. We also were given several for each of our boys when they were born. I love the history behind them.

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    Lil Bare
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The more sophisticated version would be to use copper mugs - no?

    Hans Leenders
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Next to being incorrect (see the Snopes link of None), the guy who tweeted this is, looking at his name, not Native American. Thus very probably of European descent.

    Dorothy Cloud
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What does native american have to do with anything?

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    Bob Belcher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same reason why you shook forearms and not hands, to check for daggers. That's why women were assassins as well, no one shook a woman's forearm.

    Ophir Gonen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dude, that's a myth. Google it.

    Ripley
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, this isn't a fact. We're not actually learning anything. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/of-drinks-and-clinks/

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    Another fact which turns out to be a myth is the tongue map idea, which suggests that different parts of our tongues identify different kinds of tastes. However, the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste stated that “the locations of those taste buds aren't in accordance with the 'tongue map.'” And even if taste buds are indeed receptive to certain types of tastes, the difference in reality is tiny.

    You've probably heard how Einstein failed math in school and was not an A student in general. It turns out, the only exam he failed was an entrance test to the Zurich Polytechnic he had to take in French, which he didn’t speak well at the time.

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    sparkleyflowers Report

    SirPatTheCat
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *goes outside* *it's too hot* "Well THIS is NOT to my liking!! >:(" *sleeps for 3 years*

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    Foxxy (The Original)
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would love to just sleep one year. Hibernating through 2020 sounds heavenly.

    S
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can too but people always wake me up needing me to like... go to work and like... eat

    Vic
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    challenge accepted! *Fluffs pillow*.. see you in a few years, my love (that's to the missus)

    Mim Dim
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why is that me? Am I a snail?

    Jo Firth
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wish I could do that until this pandemic resolves

    Patrick McKemie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And when I do it for the same reason, I'm labeled depressed.

    Daria B
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Technically, I think I could too. But, eh, you gotta earn money and go to work....

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Printer ink can cost up to $5000 per 1 liter. (0.26 US Gallon)

    Vic
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *starts writing everything by hand*

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    Phunny Philosopher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was just thinking this yesterday when I saw nail polish! It is ridiculously expensive compared to other enamel paint. Yet we happily pay for it. The same thing is true for CocaCola. It's four times more expensive than gasoline, yet people will drive across town to get gas 2 cents cheaper.

    SirPatTheCat
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine like someone in the future explaining our society like "Foods like steak, caviar, and movie theater popcorn displayed wealth."

    K.Kobayashi
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, small or lightweight things can have a very high cost per pound.

    Valquerys
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If that’s true, Popcorn should be on Gordon Ramsay’s menu

    El Dee
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A pound of popcorn would be enough for the entire row in the cinema..

    Raine Soo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And, that is one reason why I don't eat theater popcorn.

    Miss Cris
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Next time I'll eat a filet mignon at the cinema.

    Stannous Flouride
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, but when I took a steak into the theater people complained about the sm

    lailyfnoor
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am cheap person who sometimes bring (smuggle) my own snack to movie theater

    Jace
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You’re not cheap. You’ve been forced into it by insane prices of concessions.

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    స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's just ignore the human rights abuses suffered by the Nepali minority group...

    KatHat
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can recognize one fact about a place without "just ignoring" another fact.

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    El Dee
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is actually much more sensible than any other measure. What's the point of having 'the largest economy in the world' if you oppress your people? (China) or the second largest and don't have healthcare, do have widespread racism and police brutality and are a force for evil in the world (guess who)

    elia 84631
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish we had this in my country

    Lil Bare
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Its also said that if you walk around in Bhutan, they are no commercials& ads visible in the streets. ... sounds heavenly

    Jesse
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In fairness, that's also true in North Korea.

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    Martin Alex
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    GNH is Bhutan propaganda to distract from human rights abuse and poverty

    Flávia Guimarães
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bhutan was a homophobic country just a few years ago

    Electric Ed
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they changed away from that? Why does your comment make this sound like a bad thing?

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    Łukasz Markuszewski
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They limiting number of tourists coming into the country.

    Dorothy Cloud
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Difficult to actually measure happiness.

    Nichole Dug
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Far out east was an Oz series that the main character was writing a book called "gross national happiness"!

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    ADHORTATOR
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Made of stardust..." BTW, I love your username :-)

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    sorlag110
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A mind blowing extra fact is that those 100 000 years bouncing around in the sun and finally leaving for 8 minutes to reach the flower is only a really long journey from the perspective of us. Because of special relativity, the closer you get to the speed of light, the shorter distance in both space and time you travel. So at the speed of light the distance to any other point in the entire universe is 0. In other words, light itself does not experience neither time or distance. So the moment a photon is formed, from its perspective, is also the same moment it hits your eye. Even if it is a star millions of light years away.

    Monika Soffronow
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are all part of everything, before, now, and after.

    Sarah Malicoat
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the best thing I've read in quite some time.

    Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same apply when you look at a piece of dog poop.

    Peko
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And possibly a few of them ended a million year long journey from another star. And possibly some of those photons were from the first formed stars and planets in the universe

    Amanda Hunter
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Really? I have a lot of flower photon's in me then.

    Sander
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All energy on earth came/comes from the sun. Chew on that.

    Electric Ed
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except the thermonuclear energy. So if you grow a flower in artificial light powered by a nuclear plant, you are all set.

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    Marek Yanchurak
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, not really the end of their journey though. It's not like your eye uses them up.

    sorlag110
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not really yeah but also kinda, your eyes convert them to a chemical process.

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    TimOBrien Report

    Indra Servo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well...there is no internet in 1600s, guys must be bored

    E Menendez
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the quarantine did NOTHING because it was spread by fleas. (Not saying current quarantine does nothing - just saying)

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    Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, Shakespeare was also a bloody genius and didn't have the Internet or Netflix to distract him.

    blugeagua
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shakespeare might not have actually written any plays. There's still an ongoing debate about that.

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    chi-wei shen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nowadays he might have tweeted.

    Jesse
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was also an exodus of theatre troupes from London during that plague. Those roving actors introduced theater, and Shakespeare, to the general public with low budget productions of big city plays traded for food and other necessary items (and money when they could get it).

    Camilla Gonzales
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ight now imma go write a few plays that people in the 25th century can fawn over

    Barbara Vandewalle
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shakespeare wrote his depressed plays after his son died.

    John Doe
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Plague-inspired." What kind of Google translate sh*t is this.

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    #12

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    amaranamara Report

    Shelp
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One more reason not to display babyb skulls in your house

    Martti Laurson
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can think hundreds of reasons not to do that

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    Aldhissla VargTimmen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, this is not really a baby skull. Adult teeth start as "buds" or "seeds" and don't get as big as that picture untill you're 6-9 years old... This is a child's skull with pieces of bone removed so you can see the teeth sitting there but not a baby skull!

    Steve Barnett
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As our life expectancy is increasing, I hope evolution will create a third layer. Not that I'll be around for that, except maybe reincarnation, but that's a totally different subject.

    Courtney Christelle
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    First time I saw this picture, I yelled. Then my cute 3 years old came up to me and I yelled again.

    Daria B
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still have one milk tooth and I smile every time at the dentists' reactions. You'd think they got used to it, that they'd seen it all, and yet.... Makes me feel unique. ♡

    Sandra Cesca
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also used to have one because I miss the correspondent adult tooth. It's normal since baby teeth fall because the adult ones "eat" their roots.

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    Carlos Ferreira
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and I thought they were creepy with skin and flesh all over their faces!

    spirit wolf
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For some reason, I just find this tremendously creepy. Not the idea of "'housing teeth" but the way it looks like this. But I also can't stop looking at it.

    Kimberly Greenock
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do too. The first time I saw my oldest sons X-ray I nearly threw up. I'm serious. I had no idea that happened. Well I'm sure I learned it and forgot at some point. Anyway I have been grossed out since.

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    Elisabeth Moriarty
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am looking at my toothless baby and she's smiling up at me and I said to her I am on to you,you little toothless raptor ha ha ha )0(

    El Dee
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The terrible thing about this picture is that it's the preserved skull of a child. A child who has died before their time and not been granted the very least we can do - a decent burial..

    Phunny Philosopher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree. That's what makes it so unsettling I think.

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    #13

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    minutephysics Report

    chi-wei shen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A small group of wooly mammoth existed on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 2000 B.C.

    Monika Soffronow
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191007081750.htm#:~:text=The%20last%20woolly%20mammoths%20lived,within%20a%20very%20short%20time.&text=The%20results%20showed%20that%20Wrangel,up%20some%2010%2C000%20years%20ago.

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    Indra Servo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even Cleopatra didn't know what kind of people the pyramid builder is

    David K
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And Cleo is closer to us on the timeline than to the pyramide builders. That´s crazy, huh?

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    Vernice Aure
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Giza pyramids also had an outer layer, now mostly worn off, that was so smooth and shiny that sun gleamed off of them.

    Jesse
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That limestone covering is all over Cairo. It was used as building material in the city.

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    80 Van
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you think the mammoths may have helped build them?

    John Doe
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm pretty sure this comment is just a joke, but they would've died in the weather.

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    Vicki Perizzolo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    right up until Humans killed of the last of them -- our experience with extinction goes back a long way - we haven't learned a freaking thing either except how to do it faster

    Dónal Ó Murchadha
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fun fact: the time between the extinction of stegasaurus and the birth of T-rex is greater than the time between the extinction of T-rex and the birth of humans.

    James Floyd
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So THAT'S who transported all those heavy a*s stones!

    Electric Ed
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, it was slaves. Lets tear down the pyramids!

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    Cathy Jo Baker
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did you know that the world's largest pyramid is NOT in Egypt?

    Lenka Smetanová
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hope you dont mean the "bosnia pyramid"...also... Did you know, that pyramids in south america is more likely ziggurats?

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    Humani Nephalela
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so the movie 10000 B.C had historic accuracy

    Lenka Smetanová
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope... They riding there on friesians horses, which was bred to look like they looks now (Black with long mane and tail) somewhere abou 16. century

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    Chris Challis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the pyramids are much older than is generally known or told..

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    #14

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    AnikaNoniRose Report

    Stimpy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is "Estonia" the name of your crocodile, perhaps?

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    ElusiveIntrovert
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People cannot push and pull correctly when it is written on the doors, it is too much to expect to remember difference between push n pull when in panic.

    GirlFriday
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am 100% sure that when I am being attacked by an alligator, I will remember this random tweet.

    David K
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very unlikely to happen here in the Czech Republic, but a good to know life hack in any case

    Eric James
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, they have immensely powerful jaws for chomping but NOT for opening, so, you can quite literally hold their mouths shut

    Grumble O'Pug
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, that will be the first thing on my mind. Fact: horses will push into pain instinctively, just as above they evolved to push into predators to hurt or dislodge them.

    LOttawa
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I knew this for a reason, which is a very useless thing to know living in Canada 🤷🏻‍♀️

    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope I never have to use this.

    Sarah Blanche Brinsfield
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But what if you are on land and there is no water for it to drown in? Hold on there, Sir Alligator, while I go and get a cup of water to drown you with.

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    #15

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    jacob_dahlke Report

    David Viesta
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh yeah?, what about now... Dammit. Now!... NOW!!! Well, I really don't think I can process it.

    Sergio Bicerra Descalzi
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a Isaac Asimov story about a Chronoscope, a device to watch the past. The government had one and didn't want to lend it or give the secret to build one. They were afraid people would start to focus on the near past, the 1/100000000 sec that separated from the present and start to watch what basically is the present, and all secrets and privacy would be gone forever.

    Craig Lee
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even if you're brain was fast enough, the light bouncing off of an object then into your eyes is still in the past. But these scales are so small it's almost pointless to even mention. I love science, but this is stretching a fact to scales that are so small, we don't really perceive them.

    Analynsy Buck
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read this book called "the girl in the spider's web," (if you're reading this skip bc spoilers) and one of the main characters was an autistic boy and he was what you'd call a savant, which is basically when someone autistic or disabled has special abilities (in math and art and such) and anyway it made it seem like he was experiencing things in present form the way it put it it was kinda deep tbh

    Sarah Blanche Brinsfield
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm going to add this to my reading list. Thanks for the recommendation!

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    Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brain just folded in half a couple thousand times.

    TheHerplover
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except time is just a human construct and we could say that the "present" is when we perceive it.

    TheHerplover
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll say it right now I redid time BAM what r u gonna do about it.

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    Phunny Philosopher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Time is a human construct. Lunchtime; doubly so."

    H.L.Lewis
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Facts like this just make my brain hurt! Like imagining infinity. Lol

    Dónal Ó Murchadha
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you take any number you can always add one to it. If you think about it, isn't it harder to imagine the highest number possible if we can always add one to it. Infinity should be easier a concept for us to imagine as every number we imagine can instantly change by adding one. It's head melting!

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    _____tabitha Report

    Lil Bare
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The earth is secretly ruled by mushrooms and cats

    B
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about the badger badger badgers?

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    littlesaresare
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because we're both heterotrophs - we have to digest other organisms to survive.

    Player 0001
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That explains why when I was a kid growing up in the 70's I was literally scared crazy when this Japanese movie was shown on weekends or during our Creature Feature movie night! 'Attack of the Mushroom People' faa7581dee...266e85.jpg faa7581dee27472838eb3f9f00266e85.jpg

    Sasha Kuleshov
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So that's why our feet smell like cheese! XD

    Beezel Palomar
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Explains why I can have a portobelo burger and not meat.

    Amanda Hunter
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That explains a lot about many people right now.

    Alan Green
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fungi can survive in space and entry into earths atmosphere so there's a good chance all life on earth evolved from alien fungi.

    Death Metal Kitty
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OI YA GITZ, WHYS YA YAPPING INSTADA KRUMPIN' HUMMIES?

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    Naima Ivansdóttir
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    mushrooms were referred as gods' flesh by the aztecs (teonanácatl)

    Crusin Sandi
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Would be a reason why they are called 'Meat for Vegetarians'

    Laughinmydreams
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We've seen what the insects that live in strawberries, so what lives in mushrooms?

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    #17

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    Museum_Facts Report

    Mishte Tine
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She’s also small and behind a ton of protection. She’s beyond amazing.

    Aileen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Likely because it was only a portrait for a close friend, so it didn't need to be that large. And it wasn't even famous until it got stolen.

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    David Viesta
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Since so many people call her "Mona" for so long, by now we can say it's "Nostra Lisa".

    Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like that! ("Nostra Lisa" translates "our Lisa" for those who didn't know)

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    Filippo Cesari
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's "Monna" not "Mona" . Monna means Lady, Mona in venetian, meas dumb and sounds pretty tough. The paint it's called "la Gioconda", because Leonardo da Vinci was florentine and italian speaker. Not french.

    Pseudo Puppy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was highly unimpressed when I saw this in person. In the end, this painting only became famous after being stolen & recovered decades ago. I expected it to be some huge masterpiece, and it's tiny and really not that impressive, sorry to say. :(

    Jesse
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't really care for it either.

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    Kenny Kulbiski
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've never understood the fascination or value. If it was only worth $5 it's not something I'd hang on the wall.

    Inga Viviane
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whats interesting about her is the background, not the woman. Leonardo used a technique called sfumato, to beautifully blend the background landscape. So she just a plain woman, whilst the background is what makes the portrait interesting for art historians.

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    Bob Belcher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it was a mystery who it really was and some people thought it was the artist?

    Mumof1
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've never understood the fuss about that "smile", which to me is more of a smirk. Do we know why the Laughing Cavalier was laughing? Why isn't a fuss made about him?

    Michael Dworkin-Robertson
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    also did you know that there are complete other paintings underneath the paint creating this work of art?

    Roshan Dash
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In odia, "Mo" means my and "Na" Means name which roughly translates to My name is Lisa.

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    yourpappalardo Report

    Shelp
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...which is perfectly logical if you have French or Latin as your first language

    Xandra
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless time-travelling, nobody has Latin as their first language...

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    Jesse
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    &c was the way etcetera was abbreviated for a very long time.

    Jonathan Armstrong
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was today years old when I learned this

    Mimi
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh. My. And I've spend my life liking and using the sign without knowing this. THANK YOU!!!

    Monika Soffronow
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But where does the word 'ampersand' come from?

    MrTree1779
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand#Etymology --- "and per se and", meaning "the character (&), by itself, is the word 'and'." --- The word 'et' means 'and' in Latin.

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    Sawdust
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And, the original title for the Steven Speilberg movie was going to be &: The Extra-Terrestrial.

    Christopher Brenna
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Ampersand" is the running together of the word "and per se and," meaning that the symbol "&" is the word "and." It was considered a letter of the alphabet and school kids used to say it when they said their ABCs.

    Joe Gilmore
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always thought that ampersand was the elongated form of the word "and".

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    joshnorthsouth Report

    E Menendez
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The dinosaurs were around for millions of years. I really do not think that humanity has that kind of lineage to look forward to.

    Andy Mutch
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about Racheĺ Weĺch and her fur bikini?

    Chewie Baron
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This s similar to the fact that Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.

    Vicki Perizzolo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    check out Cosmos - either Carl or Neil - they have the linear calendar on that - puts it into serious perspective....we have managed a MASSIVE amount of damage in a very, very, very short period of time

    Nevaeh Milton
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i was today years old when i discoved this

    Tom Susala
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then they both had to move when they built the Crosstown Freeway....

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    #20

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    Okeating Report

    Sergio Bicerra Descalzi
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Read a funny story about him. He used to pay meals with checks. People didn't cash them cause Dali's signature was more worthy than the pay, so he got many free meals doing so. Not sure if its true, but like this story.

    Ms Phit
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've Heard the exact same story but it was Picasso...

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    Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I honestly never knew that. Other random fact: the name "Chupa Chup" comes from the Spanish verb "chupar" meaning "to suck".

    Pseudo Puppy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He designed it on a small table napkin, in about 10 seconds, out of sheer frustration. He had rejected their request repeatedly, until someone from the company interrupted him while at a cafe, asking him again if he'd do it. So he grabbed a napkin, scrawled the design on it, then chucked the napkin at the employee and said something to the effect of "here, now leave me alone!!!". At least that's the story in his home town. :)

    Foxxy (The Original)
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Grr, those wrappers are a pain in the f*****g a**e to get off. Surely there was an easier way.

    Vicky Zar
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes there is. The Nimm 2 Lollies are way easier to open

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    Blackheart
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dali delved into several commercial endeavors.

    Raine Soo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chupa Chups are delicious. I just wish that I wasn't diabetic.

    Gina Babe
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I haven't seen these in a while, they're so good

    Firework
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were also invented to help people quit smoking.

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    #21

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    fermatslibrary Report

    Tiny Dynamine
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did you know you can get free extra pizza slices if you cut your pizza into 8 pieces instead of 6? ;)

    mph seti
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why some pizza places (ie: Domino's) try to get you to buy 2 medium with a coupon instead of one large. It saves them toppings.

    Tom Susala
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I only cut my pizza in 4 slices...I can't eat 8

    okpkpkp
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just so happens we are having a pizza delivered in one hour. Veggie for me.

    Jo Choto
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's why I always order the biggest one of all!

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    #22

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    MaaloufMD Report

    Aisha Boudy
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Googol Plex (it's a number) is so large that if u wrote each of its zeros on separate atoms in the universe, there won't be enough space to finish writing all the zeros.

    Marek Yanchurak
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are estimated to be something like 10^81 basic particles in the universe (I'm assuming this the visible universe). A googolplex has 10^100 digits.

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    Clayton Embrey
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another way to look at it is that you could give a person $90,000.00 a day and it would take 31 years for them to reach 1 billion dollars.

    Bradford Johnson
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my friend uses this fact to demonstrate how hard it is for the brain to grasp the concept of a billion.

    Jo Ellen Washburn
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which puts in perspective how much money billionaires have (and tells me they need to pay more taxes).

    Tom Hardeveld
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am 1½ billion seconds old

    Carole Dose
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So how long will it take Congress to recover all the billions of $$ they are using to help the economy?

    --
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually it is 31 years, 258 days,. 18 hours,. 54 minutes and 24 seconds

    Not Marsha
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read these when I can't sleep...this is not helping

    jpaul
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i thought i was older, glad to hear it

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    #23

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    LenaInMN Report

    Saurin Apriliawan
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My identical twin cousin just told me that, although wearing exactly the same clothes and has quite similar voice, their toddlers can still tell them apart.

    Vic
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to think for a while, how you have an identical twin that's your cousin. I not the sharpest tool in shed..🤦🏻‍♂️

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    Jessica
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It acts as a lubricant as well so breastfeeding is less painfull....

    birdy gobyebye
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a child, I remember my mother having a distinct soothing smell on her hands, it smelled like my mother. Once she died [cancer] I found out the smell was nicotine from smoking cigarettes.

    Brendan
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow that's really sad. I'm so sorry to hear that.

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    El Dee
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aww...that is lovely. What a beautiful comfort for babies when being breast fed. Our bodies seem to have thought of everything!!

    Kevin Donegan
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is the bond just as great if a mother bottle feeds their newborn?

    OhForSmegSake
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't see why not, you just need to spend some time cuddling bub to your bare chest

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    BusLady
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Explains why Dad can't breastfeed?

    Laughinmydreams
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you might have added the word 'women's' areola

    Peko
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not sure if I have had amniotic fluid and every time I breastfeed I get some really nasty comments.

    Chris Challis
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love this.and again if there is toxicity in mother's system they refuse the breast.

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    sunny Report

    B
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But how would we know? It's not like, 'Oh hey Bob, it's you - high five!' or anything. They're surly little guys.

    Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And according to National Geographic, they prefer attractive people: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/01/animals-chickens-evolution-eggs-food/

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    I I
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so if your the chickens 31st friend , get ready to be ignored , typical chicken sh#'t

    Marty BlackEagle-Carl
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i can only recognize 5, every one else looks the same to me.

    Thinairgal
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not surprised on this one. Mine know I'm the steady food source and come running as soon as they see me. Won't go near anyone else, even if they bring treats

    Jesse
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They can also fly out of the yard and avoid the deep fryer, but they don't. I question their priorities.

    jpaul
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i barely regnosize the vendors of my hometown

    Sandra Boyd
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So can any animal I guess. I know that sheep can recognise each other's face.

    Vivian Davis
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder how many chickens have ever seen 30 people in their whole life.

    Nevaeh Milton
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i cant cant even rember one persons face after a 30 minute talk

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    #25

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    UberFacts Report

    giovanna
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well I guess it would be useless to know anyway 😬

    Spring Fisk
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i wonder if we would instantly die at this point or if it would take a few min

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    Paul K. Johnson
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sun should call ahead and let us know.

    Miss Cris
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But its voice runs slower than the light. We'd hear it after seen it. Oh, you meant the sun calledus with a smartphone.

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    Kevin Donegan
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was in a full eclipse a few years ago. When the sun was blocked, it immediately got cool enough to feel like I needed to put on a coat.

    Vic
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the Sun were to explode, the flat earthers would simply throw the Earth like a frisbee to another star system and live there as if nothing ever happened..

    Stephen Smith
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well if it did explode, we would only have to wait a day for the next one to come up.

    Podunkus
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You’d be safe if it happened at night.

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    Jelena Putinja
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    only if you live on the day side of Earth

    ElusiveIntrovert
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only if we knew at the exact moment, we would have saved the earth in 8 minutes 20 seconds.

    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the sun were to explode we might not live long enough to understand what has happened.

    Martti Laurson
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who would be dumb enough to put explosives on a sun?

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    ThatEricAlper Report

    Gareth Graham
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Amy Schumer time travelling again?

    John Montgomery
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Until you said that I never would've thought of that, but they do look very similar.

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    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The painter's sister Nan who modeled as the woman in the painting, perhaps embarrassed about being depicted as the wife of a man twice her age (modeled by a dentist), started telling people that Wood had envisioned the couple as father and daughter, not husband and wife. The painter Grant Wood himself remained vague on this point.

    Paizleypie
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm sorry, it's too late. I'm too old to change my mind.

    Andy Mutch
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The pitchfork is for the ubiquitous travellìng salesman

    BusLady
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She'll never get a date with Dad holding that pitchfork.

    Ann Abdelzaher
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and the models weren't related at all.

    RMick
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Sister was very offended that people thought she was old enough to be the man's wife. She asked her brother why he painter her so ugly.

    Rae Black
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember her looking older before....

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    WhatTheFFacts Report

    Clare Bond
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And some people never develop beyond that point !!!

    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They only develop to become bigger anuses.

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    Shelp
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And for that very reason, we are scientifically called "Deuterostomes"

    MrTree1779
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Deutero" + "Stoma" = 2nd hole. Insects develop the reverse, and are called "Protostomes". "Proto" + "Stoma" = 1st hole. Their butts are where our mouths are, and our mouths are where their butts are. Also, their spinal cords are in their bellies. So insects are both upside-down, and backward from us.

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    Heather Jerrie
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not true. At around four weeks an embryo has a primitive spinal cord, and the heart is forming. The a**s doesn't form until around 8 weeks.

    Brendan
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So we begin as an a*****e and die as one too.

    iblowsheep
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    a******s from the start, a******s until they part.

    Lisa Pockat Bork
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always said that some people just never grew up!

    moeless
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is pretty damn important. It's the creatures that don't have one that scare me. Like the little bugs that live in your eyelashes. Seriously, no bunghole.

    Mark Kelly
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess we are build like a building, from the bottom up.

    Shelbie Ernst
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    omg so my butt is older than the rest of me!?

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    rfxob Report

    Jo Johannsen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But do they put their hands over their mouths when they do so?

    Barbara Carlson
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I heard one do so at Upper Canada Village years ago -- in their carp pond.

    PhantomBuni
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Otherwise they couldn’t be sarcastic.

    El Dee
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, it's not to clear their lungs so I can only assume it's to clear their throat..

    Debra Robinson
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fish don't have lungs. Well, except lungfish-it's a thing.

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    Ken K
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do they cover their mouths?

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    #29

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    Museum_Facts Report

    WilvanderHeijden
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eat your heart out Jeff Bezos with your meager $178.1Billion...

    Podunkus
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have patience. He’s getting there... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-20/jeff-bezos-adds-record-13-billion-in-single-day-to-his-fortune

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    Consequential_mishaps
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    While on his way to Mecca for a pilgrimage he literally destroyed the economy of a country he passed through just by tipping everyone with gold and he did it so much that gold crashed and tanked the economy.

    PhantomBuni
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Power move, that’s so awesome. Sucks for that one rich guy who’s like “I’ll just have rooms filled with gold coins” Rumpelstiltskin has it rough.

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    B
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kinda seems a bit unfair that some individuals can have this amount of wealth while countless millions have nothing.

    Jace
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is. And then you’ll have cultish laissez-faire capitalists tell you “life isn’t fair”, and spewing survivorship bias “arguments” about how all you have to do is “work for it”, all in support of maintaining the status quo. Usually they’re the type of people who expect to become a millionaire any time now... So it’s all about self-interest and riding the coat tails of the current plutocracy.

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    Bob Belcher
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The first market collapse was for tulips.

    Phunny Philosopher
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've read about the tulip bulb bubble during USA's housing bubble. How odd.

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    Margaret O'Connor
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a horrible society for the average person. We cannot even imagine the inequality.

    El Dee
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think he is the man I read about, he went on a tour of Africa and gave away gold to people along the way. He gave away so much gold it damaged the economies of countries he visited..

    Bill Newsome
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except that when he spread his gold around on the way to Mecca, it destroyed the price of it. So his gold was really not that valuable.

    Ocelotty1
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On his pilgrimage to Mecca he distributed so much gold he caused a gold price depression; devaluing the commodity that lasted a decade

    BusLady
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wonder how many wives he had?

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    #30

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    terpityderpity Report

    Martti Laurson
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just wondering where would a flamingo get boiling water?

    Chris Müller
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The majority of lakes where flamingos live have extremely high salt concentrations. The only source of fresh water for some of these birds comes from boiling geysers.

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    Gareth Graham
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So can people. Once, just a little

    Samantha Lomb
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    or at high altitudes where water boils at a much lower temperature.

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    Brian Kemboi
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kenyan here. They drink the boiling water from Lake. Baringo

    Omag
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you!! That answered too many questions that i had

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    Brian Kemboi
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is common in Lake Bogoria, Kenya. This is from a Kenyan.

    Indra Servo
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Boiling alkaline water, which is deadlier

    Susoul Cats
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my question is, how did they find this out?

    EA
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Feel sorry for the poor birds who failed the experiment :(

    Gerry Higgins
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do they find this out? Are scientists using government grants to pour boiling water down water fowl throats? "Nope, penguins didn't live... Try a flamingo next"

    CelSlade
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wanna know who discovered this, and what exactly they thought they were doing

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    #31

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    mcgarrygirl78 Report

    CrunChewy McSandybutt
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    5th cousins is a really large gap as far as genetics is concerned.

    F. H.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It really is. I think I have 80 5th cousins or more.

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    Miss Cris
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So the Roosevelts were hippos or whales???

    Captain Legible
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But fifth cousins is really not "related" in any problematic sense. People have lots of fifth cousins on their home turf they even don't know about.

    BusLady
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And their name was pronounced Ruus a velt, not Rose a velt.

    White Wolf
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just really would like to know how Eleanor Roosevelt comes to hyppos....

    SirPatTheCat
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeahh I learned about the Roosevelt thing in 5th grade...Amazing lady, but it was a little bit disturbing when I was reading about her early life and I realized they were related

    F. H.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1st cousin marriage is banned in some countries, 2nd cousin marriage is frowned upon in some places. 5th cousins rarely even know each other or know that they are related in any form. At that point even people sharing the same lastname often believe it's just coincidence and that they can't possibly be related.

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    dsrobinson10 Report

    Stacy Beare
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So do kangaroos, wombats and Tasmanian tigers!

    SirPatTheCat
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For anyone else wondering, I looked it up and from what I understand, they have three tubes which are all connected into one main canal at the bottom, so there's only one hole on the outside of the animal. The three tubes are two vaginas and one birth canal since the tasks of receiving the sperm and birthing the baby are separated. There's two side vagina tubes and the birth canal going down the center. Hopefully I explained that well, but if it didn't make sense I recommend looking up a picture.

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    Iapetos
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Male koalas can also have two penises or one forked one.

    Blackheart
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you, I literally was wondering about that

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    White Wolf
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't want to know why everyone in this thread seems to have an extended knowledge about that.

    Blackheart
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, do male koalas have two penises? If not, the math does not add up

    Bacony
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah and echidnas kinda have 4

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    KimTx
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So many questions...

    Samantha Lomb
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most marsupials have multiple vaginas and uteri so they can be pregnant with embryos in different stages of development at the same time. but the multiple organs are why they have a pouch. There isn't enough room to gestate a joey to full term there. So the Joey is born as a rather undeveloped "pinkie" and then develops the rest of the way in the pouch

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    Kim_Brill Report

    Anne
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then it would be Slaghoepel (which means nothing, I think)

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    F. H.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, it's mentioned several times in the show. How is that an interesting fact?

    Catharina Geerts
    Community Member
    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've never heard that! But then, maybe the Dutch television did not buy ALL the shows.

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    Debra Robinson
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I knew that from The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.

    3ke
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And Betty Rubble's maiden name was McBricker in the cartoon series but O'Shale in the second live action movie

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    #34

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    Remzi_SSB Report

    David Viesta
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a lie. Everyone knows the symbol shows what a reverse "Pong" would look like.

    Vicky Zar
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never. We write it without the line. Just the dots.

    Demi Zwaan
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, we don’t use that here. We just have two dots, not a line.

    Holvnn Olive Ntivuguruzwa
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How didn't you know that! I though everyone knew...

    JustAWeirdoGirlChild
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    13 years old, i learned about a little over half a year ago, im 14 now

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    qikipedia Report

    chi-wei shen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...or Chomolungma (by Tibetans),

    Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think that "Chomolungma" (The Goddess Mother of Mountains) is a much more appropriate name.

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    Monika Soffronow
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is such a Eurocentric and colonialist view! The mountain mas certainly known by the locals for many, many thousands of years before G. Everest served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.

    Monika Soffronow
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I prefer The Goddess Mother Of The World! "the historic, local Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma, also spelled Qomolangma, meaning "Goddess Mother of the World." Chomolungma is pronounced "CHOH-moh-LUHNG-m?." The Nepali name for Mount Everest is Sagarmatha, meaning "Godess of the Sky."" http://www.montana.edu/everest/facts/naming.html

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    Catharina Geerts
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    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's so interesting about that? I always pronounced it like this

    Joanne Hudson
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I will remember that should I ever have the occasion to pronounce it.

    Lenka Smetanová
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i'm lobbing for rename it to "Mount of Jara Cimrman"... only czech people understand :D

    David Viesta
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Really? I've been calling it Bob for my whole life.

    Perfumista Perfumista
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And Fuchsia were named after Leonhart Fuchs, the ch would be pronounced k

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    #36

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    Only4RM Report

    ADHORTATOR
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    cool story to tell at parties

    Stimpy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you are Julia Roberts, at least...

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    John Witts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do you have to pay to be born?

    White Wolf
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does it shock only me that you have to PAY for giving birth?!

    #37

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    newtnewtriot Report

    Isobel Davies
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    cross the Ts and Tittle the I`s LOL

    Isabel Care
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The cross on a t is a jot. Not a jot or tittle out of place

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    #38

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    mariahgladstone Report

    littlesaresare
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Penguins also release air trapped beneath their feathers to boost their speed while jumping out of water. It is a very cool thing to see in person.

    Blackheart
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, I am shaped like a penguin

    Edwin Lesperance
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    SCUBA diving, I get nitrogen narcosis at 90 feet. Oh well. Freediving, I can easily reach 120 feet, grab an abalone, and surface without shallow-water blackout. Shallow-water underwater swimming (60' lap pool), I can travel 360 feet (six laps) on my own power without fins or mask (after hyperventilating just air until my dizziness passed). Of course, this was when I was 23 years old.

    Craig Lee
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a human breathing in a scuba set up though. Free deep diving sends humans far below the average penguin depths.

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    #39

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    AP_Images Report

    Ben Smith
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He had multiple affairs throughout his life. He stood up for what was right....but he was as flawed as anyone in his personal life

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    Aria Whitaker
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unfortunately, Izola was found to be so mentally ill that she was deemed "unfit to stand trial" and was committed to a mental facility, where she lived until she became infirmed, and then died at 98. Tragic all around.

    Drew Chandler
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The attacker had paranoid schizophrenia and an IQ of 70, and was declared insane!

    Demi Zwaan
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why are they all looking in a random direction?

    Aria Whitaker
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There were numerous news outlets snapping pics from all directions, the press pool constantly followed MLK around...they all happened to be looking into different cameras....

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    aussiastronomer Report

    Martti Laurson
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not the other side of the galaxy, but opposite side of where earth is now. The whole galaxy turns, therefore could have not been on the other side of galaxy. All stars have rotated. If a cat sits on a roomba and that makes a half turn, the cat still sits on the same spot on a roomba, but in a different location in the room, not on the other side of the roomba.

    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our sun revolves around the centre of the milky way about once in 200 million years, and 200 million years ago dinosaurs already existed, so some of them lived when the earth was close to its current position.

    #41

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    MJB_SF Report

    BusLady
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's because nobody stayed. Too freaking cold.

    Gina Babe
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's about 655,000 more than I thought

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    #42

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    Unknwnstuntman Report

    OogieBoogie
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that true, just asking for a friend !

    WilvanderHeijden
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes it is. Just answering for an ex-friend.

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    DE Ray
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is part of a process termed "wet cremation" which is really exciting for a lot of people in the funeral industry. Burial is expensive and in many areas increasingly impractical as land resources are limited. Cremation takes a huge amount of energy. This process would drop the cost of dealing with bodily remains by nearly 90% - but laws in many jurisdictions will only allow burial or cremation.

    Tom Hardeveld
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    haha, but where would you get 75lbs of lye :D ... seriously though, where could I get that?

    GirlFriday
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does anyone know the timing of this is the body is frozen? A friend has been talking about cleaning out her deep freeze and I want to be helpful.

    F. H.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The numbers in this post are completely pointless since the concentration of the lye is not given. It could work in this time at that temperature and it could not.

    JessG
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd like to know how this person knows such specifics...

    Pensive
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's the procedure used for 'aquamation,' aka flameless cremation aka alkaline hydrolysis. (Check out 'Ask a Mortician'!)

    Kasia Siwa
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Heating lye alone, could get you killed. And I believe it's a drain cleaner which they warn to use goggles and protective equipment or it will burn

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    #43

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    Shelp
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're too lazy for it

    KimTx
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do we know this? What was the method of gaining such info?

    Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any they generally only poop on a tri-weekly basis as they risk their lives every time they come down from the tree canopy.

    #44

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    MinaMarkham Report

    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a funny story about the little pocket. One day we were at a family BBQ, my younger brother who was around six went up to my mum and asked what the small pocket was for. She said go ask Poppa, big mistake. My Poppa said it is to put condoms in, in which my brother asked what a condom is for and my Poppa replied that it is to put your w***y in. My brother walked away looking puzzled until about 10 mins late he asks “But how do you get your w***y in there”. He thought he had to put his w***y in the actual pocket.

    Vic
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read that the tiny pocket is to keep the salary 😂😂

    Blackheart
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are perfect for folded money

    Joyce Buckley
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually always knew that...guess I'm really old.

    JessG
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's no way a whole a*s pocket watch is fitting in there now. I've heard this fact before, and I assumed it was for coin change because pocket watch wouldn't fit....right?

    kkathleen517
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people use that tiny pocket to hold illegal items. Not that I would know that. My friend told me.

    ADHORTATOR
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used it to put my bus ticket - ok, that was in the 1980s when the tickets were made of thick cardboard

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    DacolinDudley Report

    KimTx
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How many of us just tested this fact?

    Gina Babe
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are people who didn't know this? Where do you think it comes from?

    Craig Lee
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not everyone has common sense. But It's still surprising that someone didn't or doesn't know this.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I snap the sound comes from my hand hitting someone's face.

    Sill Marien
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That one is kinda obvious. Where else would it come frome

    Edwin Lesperance
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who knew? I thought I was breaking the speed of sound... ;).

    Tiny Dynamine
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When "we" snap? In half? What? Does she mean clicking our fingers? If so, mine touches my thumb. It couldn't reach my palm.

    JessG
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Snapping your fingers. Your middle finger and thumb. If your middle finger doesn't touch your palm after a snap, then, it's not making a noise.

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    GirlFriday
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This isn't true. When I snap, my finger does not touch my palm.

    Carole Dose
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neither did mine--the sound came from the finger tips "striking."

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    MerriamWebster Report

    JessG
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This tweet assumes that people don't know the two meanings of "just deserts" Ex: a guilty person that goes to jail, got their just deserts

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    Edwin Lesperance
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's eat, children! _____. Let's eat children! _____. Commas save lives.

    Carole Dose
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So do we now pronounce just deserts as we would Sahara mountains of sand? That's gonna be a hard sell.

    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not only a child's dream. Some 15 years ago on the last day of a long business trip I went to the restaurant where I usually took lunch and ate every item of the dessert menu. The sugar rush was amazing.

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    #47

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    sapphicmarxist Report

    Amanda Reicha
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dog must be an outlier. She sometimes faces the mountains, which are to the west of where I live and sometimes faces the valley, which is to the east.

    Stimpy
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mine pooped at random. I think this "fact" is simply not true

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    F. H.
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From lifelong observation of several dogs I can say that this is not true. Dogs will most likely align themselves to the road they are relieving themselves next to and if there is none, to hedges or other landmarks.

    ElusiveIntrovert
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think my doggo does not know directions, poops wherever

    BusLady
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So that's why they turn round and round.

    White Wolf
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So.... is it ok to carry around dog turd instead of a compass?

    Katrina B.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This isn't quite true. Dog's PREFER to do it this way. Preference doesn't mean always

    Maru
    Community Member
    1 month ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dog doesn't give a fluff he goes wherever he wants, my bedroom, my bathroom, the middle of the street, the sidewalk, he doesn't care

    CR Harvey
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Really? Mine just go, which ever way they are facing.

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