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35 Facts That Don’t Need A Lot Of Knowledge To Grasp, But Folks Online Only Recently Realized
Have you ever let your mind wander and started thinking about something that’s so common, so everyday, that you hadn’t even considered it before? In a minute’s time you come to some mind-blowing realization, feeling like the king of the world and wanting to share your discovery with the world.
In another minute’s time you understand that everyone else probably already knows this fact and you feel like a bit of a goof. But fret no more, we’ve got you covered with 45 more of these common facts that people only realized later in life!
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#1
Not really obvious but x% of y is equal to y% of x
So for example 4% of 75 isn't really easy to figure out at first but if you switch the numbers to 75% of 4, the answer is 3 and that's also your answer to 4% of 75.
Bobby 2 years ago
Yeah, a% is the same as a/100, so you get (a/100)*b or (a*b)/100.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I was under the impression that there would be no math today.
Jp@nda 2 years ago
Isn't that the truth, remembering it is the hardest part lol
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#2
That raincoats typically have bright colours so you're easier to spot during heavy rain, not because raincoat designers have bad taste
glowworm2 2 years ago (edited)
I don’t think I ever thought of why they were so brightly colored. Makes it easier to find someone when they’re the color of a rubber duckie.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
*sings the rubber ducky song in cat*
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Tim Gearing 2 years ago
I hiked for many years in an Orange coloured shell jacket. Other hikers would sometimes comment about the colour, and I would reply “it makes it easier for the rescue helicopter to spot me”
Norman Beattie 2 years ago
That's why I wear Bright colored clothing while hiking and wilderness adventures - So the Search and rescue people will find me first
Mycroft1967 2 years ago
And the color you can generally see best and furthest away is yellow. This is why cabs were designed yellow.
#3
There was this really pretty girl in high school who bugged the s**t out of me. Would do obnoxious stuff like go out of her way to talk to me about nothing and one time she laid on me when I had my head down on my desk. She would take my erasers and draw on them and I hated that.
Then I realized she probably liked me.
I realized that, out of the blue, when I was in my 30's.
So watch out ladies. if you show any affection toward me in 15 or 20 years I'll be knockin' on your door still unsure of your intentions!
Ryan Edwards 2 years ago
Ahhh, there's nothing like that sudden adult onset of embarrassment for childhood stupidity. It's weird how it kinda hits hard with "OMG, they thought I was a complete idiot. They probably think I'm still stupid too".
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
That is why people with demetia seem happy. They no longer remember childhood c**p.
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Lee Henderson 2 years ago
A number of local girls said they had a crush on me in high scholl. I am now 63. Why didn't they say something? I always thought they were making fun of me.
R Dennis 2 years ago
Wait... there was a girl that used to play with my hair in high school... she might have liked me? (Or maybe not?) Either way, too many decades too late to find out.
Bill Tinsley 2 years ago
When I was in like 7th grade I was in Montreal during the summer and I hung out at the pool every day. I was friends with this really hot girl and she was so cool and a little older and she told me she liked me and all I had to do was ask her out and I was still too afraid to do it like she was going to turn me down in front of everyone or something. God I was so dumb
David 2 years ago (edited)
(SIGH!) I didn't have enough self confidence to ask out a very pretty (also very nice) girl I kind of crushed on in HS. Ran into her years later in a store - we got to talking. She said she wished I had asked because she would have gone out with me. Damn you fear or rejection! :)
Roscofari 2 years ago
I pulled out one an old HS yearbook a while back, and was reading the little signature snippets from my friends and others. Some of the girls wrote things that my older self did a head smack .. I was such an idiot! On the other hand they prob would’ve made mincemeat outta me ^/^
Malfar 2 years ago
Long after I finished school I learned that two girls from my class liked me A LOT. I was shocked. I was a physically weak and not particularly bright boy and considered myself completely unlikeable. The maximum of their interactions with me was replying to my "hi". After that I realized that no matter how c**p you think you are, someone is secretly in love with you. But you will probably learn of it too late.
#4
VERY LATE BUT it's called the alphabet because the Greek "Alphabet" starts with the letter alpha, beta....
David 2 years ago
and the greeks got it from the Phoenicians, and in ancient Levantine Semitic it was Aleph Bet (same as Hebrew today)
Chris D'Asta 2 years ago
Alef and Bet in Hebrew, if my memory serves. Also the two relate as father and mother.
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
Funny because the Greek is actually Alpha Vita, not Alpha Beta. Arabic is Aleph Ba Ta Tha for example.
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#5
About six months ago, I had an epiphany while opening up a new deodorant. I realized that I could click it up from the bottom and just remove the plastic top once the deodorant had raised up a bit. I've always pulled the plastic piece off before raising the deodorant. Like, tugging on it, using my teeth, etc. I'm 36 years old! I have an engineering degree!! I came out of the bathroom and told my husband about it. I think it made him re-evaluate what he was doing with me lol. Then I called my mom to let her know she failed that step of parenting me.
Chris D'Asta 2 years ago
I think I just peed a little. "Masterclass in Humility" was a stellar phrase.
Load More Replies... Alexej Dvorak 2 years ago (edited)
On that bombshell, here's another one for you. I'm German, and the german word "Geruch" is quite different from its english counterpart "odor", while Deodorant is a rather normal german word as well. Also, the short form "Deo" is widely used. This all led to me not realizing until having learned a fair bit of english, that the word is not derived as "deo-dorant", but "de-odorant" instead. The stuff is literally named "unsmeller" and nobody ever told me.
Adam Belaire 2 years ago
I always enjoyed peeling off the plastic before raising the deodorant. It's like peeling off plastic off a phone/TV. Just an odd satisfaction.
zak 2 years ago
Same lol. That kind of "thwuck" as the suction releases is very satisfying
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Fire Singer 2 years ago
I think I learned this from TikTok or even another post on BoredPanda. I'm 39 and probably only stopped using my teeth to get those damn things off about a year ago. Felt like a right idiot.
Glenn Milliken 2 years ago
I have an actual mental disability that makes it hard for me to learn things but Jesus that was like the number two thing I learned in life
#6
The division symbol ÷ is just a fraction. The two dots represent numbers.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I'm 54, and didn't know this.
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Nancy Collins 2 years ago
I teach my 4th graders this. :) They're always surprised, and are like, "Oh, I gotta tell my parents!"
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Nah, he's already done ÷. He's probably aiming for () next. He's doing the sums all out of order.
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#7
I just finished reading Dracula by Bram Stoker.
At the end of the book, there was a little blurb about the author; Abraham Stoker.
Bram is short for Abraham. I didn't know that.
glowworm2 2 years ago
I didn’t know that either. Always thought Bram sounded like a pretty badass name.
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
My son's name is Bram. It's short for Abraham.😃 He likes his name. He thinks it's pretty badass!
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Kel_how 2 years ago
I didn't realize Peggy was short for Margaret until the show Agent Carter (of Captain America) came out.
Mylittlecorgi 2 years ago
I have a friend named Peggy whose mother didn't know about the abbreviation for Margaret. Thus, my friend's name is Peggy, not Margaret.
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GirlFriday 2 years ago
OK - So I work with a Bram - hear me out....I just went to his desk and confirmed that his full name is Abraham. I didn't know this.
Ivy la Sangrienta 2 years ago
Is that why they have so much vampire stuff in Whitby?
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Cass Malone 2 years ago
Out of the ones I've seen (this is #7 ATM) this is the only one I didn't know so far
#8
When the evil villain in cheesy movies shouts "Curses!" It's because he can't shout curses.
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
In old science fiction books I would read things like "you unexpurgerated unprintability!"
Cat Chat 2 years ago (edited)
Guess I had it all wrong. I always took Curses as instead bein Hexes, or Hexed. So Curses, Foiled Again meant more to be," My dumb luck hit again. I'm hexed/cursed now".🤷♀️
Array Index Out of Bounds 2 years ago
"And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids!"
Kira Okah 2 years ago
Sorry, no. "The epithet 'Curses!' began life as a melodramatic stage epithet that 19th-century dramatists put into the mouths of dastardly villains. Typically, the foiled villain would spit 'Curses!' near the end as his evil scheme unraveled. By the early 20th century, the cry had been expanded to 'Curses! Foiled again.' However, we haven’t found any evidence that 'Curses!' was a euphemism for something stronger." https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2015/05/curses-foiled-again.html
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Did they have *any* plays where the villain yelled "If it wasn't for you f****n' kids and your f****n' dog"? If not, I find it pretty believable. Kinda like how squiggles were substituted into comics and cartoons for swear words.
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UncleJon_TheMadScientist 2 years ago (edited)
They substituted "LOVER" for F#@KER in movie like the dirty dozen "I think the first chance one of those LOVERS gets, he's going to shoot the Major right in the head... sir."
k sand 2 years ago
Yes...there's a number of movies out there where it gets dubbed as 'mother lover'. Love the 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' dubbing of Spicolli calling Mr. Hand a 'Fuzzy Nerd' 😂
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#9
A chef is called a chef in a restaurant because restaurants originated in France and ‘chef’ just means boss in French.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Seriously. “Chef” literally translates as “Chief”, aka Boss.
melissa rogers 2 years ago
That makes sense- too many chiefs in the kitchen, not enough cooks.
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Mary Kelly 2 years ago
just remember that a chef is a c**k in swedish...i know, i know, like cook...but, hey, it's pronounced like c**k
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
Isn’t the first restaurant Botin, in Madrid? At least that’s the superlative they used when I ate there. Maybe they meant it’s just the oldest in Spain.
HungryPanda 2 years ago
1725 Sobrino de Botín in Madrid - world's oldest restaurant
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The houses in Bikini Bottom are car mufflers
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
And bikini bottom is below bikini atoll, nuclear radiation fall out have rise to sponge Bob.
Shannon Mallory 2 years ago
I knew about Bikink atoll, but I'd never noticed the mufflers until right now, thanks for something new!
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
A pineapple is a car muffler? And a moai head? And a rock? And... I forget what Sandy lives in.
TTorrest Author 2 years ago
I thought they were discarded hot water heaters.
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"Eeyore" is the noise donkeys make.
Barbara Kayton 2 years ago
Haha, I thought you wrote "execs", and wondered why you thought you would be downvoted LOL
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Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
That's why donkeys in America are said to go "hew haw". The sound varies from place to place.
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
So little fat bears who don't wear pants say "Pooh"? I always thought they said "oh, bother".
Toaster Teostra 2 years ago
In german, the Character is called I-Aah, which is quite literally how donkeys sound in german.
#12
That the Guinness beer company is responsible for the Guinness book of world records
Sean 2 years ago
Michelin stars are given to restaurants in the Michelin guide, which was created and is still maintained by Michelin the tire company.
GirlFriday 2 years ago
Anytime I would hear that a restaurant had a Michelin star, I always picture the Michelin Man going in and having a really big meal and really great time.
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Lotekguy 2 years ago
Makes sense. Probably a lot of Guinness is consumed to spur dudes into doing some of the dumbass stunts that set those "records".
Midoribird Aoi 2 years ago
Probably because they wanted to make you drunk enough to try and break the records. Jkjk
#13
Ecuador is spanish for equator and the country is named so because yep....
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
don't feel bad...it took me years to realize that the state of vermont was named for the green mountain range...verde montagne...or that the state of arizona is essentially the arid zone in spanish...zona arida...felt so stupid...
clist414 2 years ago
Yes! But french, not Spanish. So, Vert and Mont (same but different)
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Walter Brameld 2 years ago (edited)
I thought everybody knew this. Don't they teach this in school anymore?
#14
42 here. In the song “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid and egg...” I never knew why Robin would lay and egg. It seemed so random and weird to me. Just this winter, walking down a hallway at work, it finally clicked into place: Robins are birds. Birds lay eggs.
Yep. Sharp tack over here.
Hippopotamuses 2 years ago
I’d understood it to mean Robin farted. When I was a kid, farting was sometimes called laying an egg.
meow point1 2 years ago
I've only heard "laying an egg" being slang for "became bad".
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Robert T 2 years ago
Never did that one. Ours were "We three kings of Orient are, one in a taxi, one in a car, one on a scooter, honking his hooter, following yonder star" and "Good King Wenceslas last looked out, Of his bedroom window, Silly old fool, he fell out, Onto red hot cinders, Brightly shone his bum that night, Though the frost was cru-el" ;-)
Jenna Logan 2 years ago
I always pictured Robin, batmans side kick literally laying an egg like a chicken... never thought about the lyrics but now it makes sense lol
A.E.P. Face The muddy professor 2 years ago
Because robin farted..."laid an egg" (because eggs smell like farts)... they're in the Batmobile together and robin ripped one so bad that it even has Batman stinking ... lmao
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MadameMalfoy 2 years ago
When we were in elementary school, we weren’t allowed to sing this version of jingle bells during Christmas lol. Idk why, it was really weird.
#15
I was playing Monopoly, and someone owned a load of properties all clustered together. I said “you’ve got a bit of a monopoly on that part of the board. Hey that’s funny, because we’re playing Monopoly, and you got a... oh I see now.”
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I used to play by myself, with six characters. Each one had a section of board to keep their money under, and a stack of properties next to their money. It doesn't work out so well, though, if cats live with you.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
I used to play with two playing pieces, but I was never ambitious enough to do all six!
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
This is me when I was younger, my sister is a savage business woman when it comes to that cursed game. Oh the nights I've cried myself to sleep...
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
The worst game in the world because there is only one real winner, the losers really feel like losers, and it takes forever.
Bec 2 years ago
I was going to ask if anyone had actually ever finished a game.
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Jacob B. 2 years ago
Now there's a game that will p**s off your siblings. I always won, because I would play on their greed in making deals. They would always covet Park Place and Broadway, me, I grab all the slums because you are going to land on them quiet frequently. Collect $200 after passing "Go"...now you give it to me. The one time I didn't win, when they finally banded together and make no deals with me. So, I advised my wife and she won. They were still upset.
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
I used to love that game as a kid - we would play for hours on rainy days at cottages. No one could beat me. Played it recently after more than 30 years and I annihilated everyone.
#16
'The Los Angeles Angels' is actually 'The the angels angels'.
Wesley Clifford 2 years ago
Now I want to start a company, "La Brea Tartar Sauce" has a nice ring to it.
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Captain Panda 2 years ago
It bothers me when people say naan bread. That would be bread bread! Its just naan :)
Riche White 2 years ago
And they're not even in Los Angeles. That's the B S of professional sports teams. We have the San Francisco 49ers and they are two counties away in Santa Clara
#17
The reason that the lower notes are on the left side of the piano is because most people are right handed, and the bass parts are simpler to play, even with the non-dominant hand.
Sean 2 years ago
As a left hand dominant piano player, I am very aware of this. It caused me a lot of frustration when I first started learning to play.
RabidChild 2 years ago
They make left handed guitars, why not left-handed pianos?
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zak 2 years ago
This made me think of stringed instruments, like guitar, where right handed people usually pick/strum with their right hand and use their left hand on the fretboard. When you apply the piano logic from this post to a guitar, it seems backwards, because it's usually your non-dominant hand that's doing the more difficult job. Its probably easier to keep a rhythm with your dominant hand, though, which then makes sense why that's the picking/strumming hand.
Alan Christensen 2 years ago
Another explanation is that keyboard instruments were developed in Europe where most people read from left to right, so the scale is also read from left to right.
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CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
Probably because the lower notes have lower pitches. Things are usually numbered left to right in an ascending sequence.
#18
Breakfast is named so because you're breaking the fast from when you were sleeping.
Lucille 2 2 years ago
I’m imagining the red sauce is sriracha and I’m drooling 😍
Load More Replies... Shark Lady 2 years ago
Now you know why the meal after a marriage ceremony is called the wedding breakfast! It was customary to fast until after the ceremony. These days I don't recommend the fasting bit, especially if you are drinking alcohol to calm your nerves.
Kalon Suszko 2 years ago
Has to be the Philippines, Filipios always serve hot dogs with breakfast
Firstname Lastname 2 years ago
That dish looks like he witnessed a brutal slashing and is worried he is next.
#19
Tinder app is so called because it helps spark a connection with a Match.
Ryan Edwards 2 years ago
UGH! I hate it when something seems SO OBVIOUS to me ONLY AFTER it is pointed out to me. That is actually quite brilliant.
GirlFriday 2 years ago
Amazon named its tablet the Kindle because its purpose was to "light a fire of reading and learning." Don't care what you think of Bezos, my Kindle lets me check out books for free from my local library.
Red Foreman 2 years ago
I thought it was from the red rash area around your genitals after swiping on the wrong match...tee hee
RandomEpiBioPerson 2 years ago
That's the same reason that tinder uses a flame symbol in their logo.
#20
That the mommy in that christmas song wasn't cheating with santa but instead, it's the dad dressed in a santa claus costume that's why "I saw mommy kissing santa claus."
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Don't feel bad, I was well into my twenties when this clicked as I was singing the song
Lil Miss Hobbit 2 years ago
I didn't figure this out until I was 17 or 18. I honestly didn't sing it around my little siblings because of that.🤣
Krod Mandoon 2 years ago
The "I saw daddy kissing santa clause" version is the only version I ever heard, but definitely has a line toward the end about "....mommy in disguise"
Casey Smith 2 years ago
Until a couple years ago I thought the lyrics were ‘What a mess it would have been if daddy had only seen.. ‘ I always felt bad the kid had to hold this deep secret because he knew if his dad found out it’d be a big mess. I saw the lyrics on closed caption and felt so dumb. I’m 54. Long time to worry about that kid.
Mylittlecorgi 2 years ago
How long did it take you to get that? Your ignorance is stupendous. Thanks for sharing!
#21
The fact that I have unusual struggles in life doesn’t mean that my problems are worse or more important than anyone else’s. There are people out there with problems that are just as annoying and/or numerous, even if they aren’t the exact same as mine.
Kira Okah 2 years ago
On the same vein: just because other people struggle and have problems, and their struggles and problems may indeed be worse than yours, that doesn't mean that your struggles and problems are invalid or nothing. If something is difficult for you or you are in pain, you are allowed to stop and focus on that for a time.
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
Telling someone they should not be complaining about their problems because someone else has a worse problem is a form of a put down. Actually an insult. A toxic trait.
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Kalon Suszko 2 years ago
Though my problems are meaningless That don't make them go away ~ From Neil Young "On the Beach" (1974)
Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
Everyone has their problems, good or bad, and I don't want to hear about yours unless you are a good friend.
Matt Du 2 years ago
I actually don't mind hearing about other peoples struggles, first because its an outlet for people that may not be able to talk about otherwise. And secondly there is less burden if others are walking beside you or have traveled that path and it gets better. I get that you may not want to HEAR about it but no one is forcing you to READ anything
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Jessica Penick 2 years ago
If I am sitting in a pile of dung and you are sitting in a pile of dung, does it matter which pile is bigger? We both smell, so let's try to get out together.
Shannon Mallory 2 years ago
That's what underlies the old saying "everybody has a cross to bear."
clist414 2 years ago
That and the fact that people used to regularly be crucified. The meaning was slightly different back then when folks had to watch others die slowly on crosses
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I went through a phase of "why me" when I had bad stuff happen, then I realised "why not me" I am no more or less deserving than anyone else.
#22
Cigarettes are called cigarettes, as they are small cigars. Cigar-ette
Walter Brameld 2 years ago
Only obvious if you know the word for fly in one of the Latin languages.
Load More Replies... Five Years 2 years ago
I swore off smoking cigarettes but then one day smoked a cigar, then another then packs of little cigars before I realized I was smoking cigarettes. I swore because I'd broken the promise to myself, threw them away and went and got real cigarettes.
Joshua David 2 years ago
I knew that. Not sure how I knew. Don't touch them though. I smoked for lots of years. Newport. Ugh.
#23
I always found it funny how Abba songs fit the movie Mamma mia so well ... it took me years to figure out the movie was made around the songs.
Blondie23 2 years ago
shhhh don't tell them about the movie Sg. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band!
#24
Your bones are always wet. They've also probably never seen the light of day.
Edit: I forgot about teeth, stop roasting me
Edit 2: teeth aren't bones. Calm down y'all
Demosthenes 2 years ago
Weirder still is that your bones never touch each other. You will know this if they for any horrible reason end up touching each other.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Was only recently I learnt that a human brain is not like a brain in a preserving jar. The preservative makes it rubbery so it holds its shape. The human brain is really a large lump of unsupported fat, that will flow off a table if you let it.
clist414 2 years ago
If you've ever had the opportunity to eat organ meat (like calves brains) you'd know this! But I'm glad for you you havent
Load More Replies... Michael Fernandez 2 years ago
Three weeks ago today, I checked into a hospital, and they sawed off the top of my leg, hammered a long titanium spike into my femur, drilled out a cavity in my pelvis, hammered a socket into it, connected the new parts of my hip joint, and … less than three hours later I was taking tentative steps along a hallway with a walker. They’ve definitely seen loving bone in daylight. I can’t imagine how they managed to do such a complex and precise operation through a five inch incision without cutting through any muscles. (Yes, there’s pain, but less than before, and it’s rapidly decreasing. And I walked a mile and a half yesterday.)
Russell Bowman 2 years ago
Having had two compound fractures ... you don't want those bones to see the light of day.
Charity Angel 2 years ago (edited)
It's why they tell you to soak some gauze and cover the ends, though. Keeping my fingers crossed I never have to do it. Two is truly spectacular - cyclist? EDIT - never mind, just looked at your profile pic. I had a "stupid" moment.
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Carla McNeil 2 years ago
But we have lips in part to keep our teeth wet. Dry mouth causes your teeth to rot fast, ask any meth-head... animals with exposed teeth live in water. Like crocodiles and fish.
#25
Eminem are his initials M & M.
Cat Chat 2 years ago
But right off the table? Couldn't use a plate or keep it in the container?
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#26
As a non native English speaker.
I just recently found out why ground beef is called ground beef.
I was always like "yeah maybe it's the foundation of beef, so it's the ground", like the basis.
But only recently I realized it's the past tense of "to grind" something. Now that makes sense!
Rosie Red 2 years ago
Canadian here, we called it mince on the East Coast. When I moved to the West Coast people would laugh and say, do you mean ground?
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Full Name 2 years ago
Sky beef is considerably harder to catch, and is a serious risk to aircraft.
Loren Pechtel 2 years ago
It doesn't fly that high. The problem is it's basically impossible to corral so nobody ranches it.
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Der Kommissar 2 years ago
I went to buy some coffee beans once, and the girl asked me if I wanted them " grounded "
Michael None 2 years ago (edited)
I've always thought maybe originally it's because that's where the pieces they made it from were found. All the beef that was on the GROUND after processing. Ground beef.
The Mediterranean Fruit 2 years ago
Up until recently I didn't realize why people were hating on American cheese. I was kind of offended and thought "That's not very nice. There are a lot of good types of cheese made in America." Yeah, I thought they were talking about all the different kinds of cheese made in America, not the cheese named American cheese. That stuff is gross.
#27
When people said, "it's a double-edged sword," I thought the sword's hilt was also a sword. Only until yesterday, it was explained to me by my brother that it was just sharp on both sides of the blade.
StitchIsCuteAndFluffy 2 years ago
I had to go and look up pictures of a single edged sword and double edged to finally figure out what the differences were. The point is, I didn’t know single-edged swords existed. Double-edged made more sense to me, with fighting and stuff.
juice 2 years ago
they both have their merits! single edged swords are usually curved, making them better at efficient/powerful cutting and slashing (think swashbuckling pirates), and double edged swords are straight, but very useful for thrusting motions and work well with shields. (source: https://swordencyclopedia.com/single-edged-swords/ )
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Arch 2 years ago
The saying is flawed actually. It is referring to a double-ended sword because the idea is that it cuts you as well as your enemy. A double-edged sword (a normal sword) only cuts your enemy and is nothing special.
#28
That it would be easier to lift the cutlery basket out of the dishwasher to unload the cutlery while next to the cutlery drawer. Prior to seeing it on a reddit thread, I'd been leaving the basket in the dishwasher and grabbing as many of the cutlery out that I could manage in one go...
Jinx (she/her) 2 years ago
they don't all have a handle. I have a small one with a handle, and a bigger one without
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Pro tip - if you prewash this trick also works for filling the basket. And if you are truly a monster like me you can just tip the whole basket to dump the clean stuff into the silverware drawer. Not giving a s...t can be a real time saver.
SmooshieFries 2 years ago
I dump the basket too but onto the counter ABOVE the silverware drawer and then put it in the drawer all properly n stuff
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James016 2 years ago
We splurged on a dishwasher that has a cutlery tray at the top so there would be more space for dishes etc in the bottom. It still came with a basket. Saying that, after 7 years we have only just found the latches that adjust the height of the top drawer. We threw away the manual years ago during a clear out
Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 years ago
And you can load each section in it with a different type of cutlery, so you can just grab all the forks in one go to put them away etc.
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
I always forget to do this though even though I know I can and I aggravate myself. I’ll try to remember tomorrow.
Shelby Moonheart 2 years ago
My mom would dump the cutlery out next to the drawer since it was easier for her.
#29
Im 27 and always liked geography and got good grades for it in school. This holidays i learned that the seasons are reverted in northern and southern hemisphere. I was blown away I didnt know this earlier. *yes I ment *inverted* not reverted, must've missed that too in english classes
Lil Miss Hobbit 2 years ago
All the Aussies singing American Christmas songs and being major confused.🤣
David A Paterson 2 years ago
True enough. All this "dashing through the snow" and "all the snow lay round about" in the middle of Australian summer strikes us as ridiculous. Even "partridge in a pear tree" strikes a foul chord as we don't have partridges. Australians have tried writing their own Christmas songs, such as "six white boomers" where Santa is pulled along by six Kangaroos, but they've never been popular.
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Hippopotamuses 2 years ago
If you’re from the Southern Hemisphere, you will be aware of this. The biggest clue is that Christmas is in the middle of summer.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
See, Endless Summer was one of my dad's favorite movies. It's about two surfers who leave LAX in November and go to Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti to surf. There's a line about Australians thinking Santa Claus wears Bermuda shorts and hangs out on the beach, and some of the Australians they meet talk about surfing in the winter -- July. I've grown up knowing how seasons work, and it baffles me when people don't seem to get it.
Robert T 2 years ago (edited)
Or reversed, which would only have been one letter away. I know this, yet it still doesn't sit right that the aussies will have a barbie on the beach on Christmas Day!
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I've had a white Christmas once, but I happily went back to the barbie the next year. I loved the chance for 'traditional' foods, but prawns and pavlova are still my favourite Christmas fare.
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Jill Rhodry 2 years ago
Good try - Spring is 1st Sept to 30 Nov - Summer starts here 1st December
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#30
If you wait for the waiter, you are the waiter.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Yes. You don't find waiters in restaurants, you find them at the doctors.
Dreaming Spirit 2 years ago
At the doctor's, you are a patient because you have to be patient to see a doctor. :P
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Shelley DuVal 1 year ago
I did this with my sister, told her that when she cleans out the vacuum cleaner, she automatically becomes a vacuum cleaner. Confused the c.rap out of her.
#31
In the song Africa by Toto for the longest time I thought it was I guess it rains down in Africa not I bless the rains down in africa.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
WHY DID YOU BRING THIS UP?? 🎶 It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you! There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do! 🎶
James016 2 years ago
It's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do. 😛🎶
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Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
Two days ago I realised that the lyrics in Summertime Sadness are "sizzling like a snare" and not "sizzling like a snail". The worst thing is that I never questioned why a snail would be sizzling...
Leta Schoeller 2 years ago
Oooohhh!!! I thought it was I MISS the rains in Africa, which was also weird to me
Ryan Edwards 2 years ago
There are SO MANY lyrics in this song that I will forever sing incorrectly. Also, there is an art installation in the middle of the Namib Desert where this song is forever playing on an endless loop. Here is a link to an article (with embedded video) about the installation. www. nme. com/news/music/art-installation-play-totos-africa-desert-end-days-2431157
k sand 2 years ago
Ikr...the song is him reminiscing about what he misses
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UncleJon_TheMadScientist 2 years ago
Haha... and I'm a nbit evil 'cause I like to screw up lyrics on purpose to see if I can get others to start thinking mine ate the correct way to sing a song
#32
That in order to properly use a hand dryer, you have to rub your hands.
I used to just put my hands under it and question why it was taking so long, but then I saw one of my friends rubbing their hands, and I felt stupid.
Will Cable 2 years ago
I hate the dyson ones with the 'slot' you put your hands in and it is meant to dry them
Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago
And it still doesn't get your hands dry. I just skip all that and dry them on my pants leg eliminating that useless first step.
Ryan Edwards 2 years ago
I dunno ... this kinda rubs me the wrong way. (I am SO VERY SORRY for this incredibly bad dad humor.)
Walter Brameld 2 years ago (edited)
Another hand dryer fact: The blowing air only feels cold because it is rapidly evaporating the water from your skin. You think it takes forever to warm up because you can't feel the warmth until your hands have dried, but it is hot basically the whole time.
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
And they suck the bacteria from the floor and blast it onto your hands. I never use them.
Donald Crocker, Jr. 2 years ago
True with the older "hairdryer" type models, but the newer ones have a narrow forceful laminar flow of air that pushes water off the hands in addition to evaporative drying.
Attila Ángyán 2 years ago
Just avoid hand dryers at all cost. They are filthy af, blowing millions of germs on your hands...
Walter Brameld 2 years ago
...because germs breed in electric fans? Please explain.
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That the little arrow next to the fuel icon on your dashboard, shows which side the fuel tank is on your car.
zak 2 years ago
The fuel tank is always on the underside of the car. The fuel filler door, however... 😋
Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 2 years ago
Zak, I am stealing this. Perfect timing for my daughter who is about to turn 16. I've got this locked and loaded now.
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Annie 2 years ago
Not every car! It wasn't the case on mine, would fool me and be the opposite
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Yep, this is a myth, or a lucky coincidence not a fact.
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
I'll let you have that, they don't explain that in driver's education. At least not when I was taught...
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
My husband didn’t realize this on one of our vehicles recently and I looked at him like WTF! And then he questioned me and asked if I was sure which side it was on.
Jeff Gabrisl 2 years ago
Although I had heard about this, it didn't help me when I got my new car. I drove a 1979 Camaro for 20 years as my daily driver. The Camaro had the gas cap hidden behind a door that was between the taillights. It took me at least two weeks to get used to pulling up to a pump on the correct side, and not pulling to far ahead of the pump.
#34
Mount Wannahockaloogie- I am Aussie so hearing it without subtitles as a kid, I just assumed it was another american attempt at an Aussie sounding name. Seeing it written down made me feel like the dumbest thing alive.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
“If you're crackin’ up from having lack of shackin’ up. If you're crackin’ up from having lack of shackin’ up. If you're crackin’ up, why don't you pack it up? You got to find yourself a crazy kind of love. Two-Three-Four. Aaaahh-Way. Lackanookie’s got-me! Aaaaahh-Way. Omaniwannalaya! Aaaaahh-Way. Find yourself a crazy kind of love!” (Thank you, Bette Midler!)
Jude Bennett 2 years ago (edited)
One of my friends in Australia called his property "Bringatinalong"
Bob Brezniak 2 years ago
I recall one show had the characters visit Hawaii and stay in the "Wannaleime Hotel"
Shannon Mallory 2 years ago
If you think Wannahockaloogie is a dumb American attempt at an Aussie sounding name, you've never looked at place names and river names in Florida.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
We have lots of them too. Many come from Aboriginal words or mispronunciations of them. I always assumed the "weirder" sounding places in America came from Native American languages for the same reason. Some examples: https://www.winetraveler.com/australia/funny-town-place-names-in-australia/
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Slightly related: if you've only heard it spoken you might not have realized that the teacher on the Simpsons was Miss Crab Apple.
Apple Jakes 2 years ago
Curious about what other names this person thought were attempts at sounding Australian.
UncleJon_TheMadScientist 2 years ago
Just watch the outtakes from grumpy old men and grumpier old men for more... like "comoniwannalayou"
#35
The word hyperbole is spelled hyperbole. I know the word but never connected the spelling to the pronunciation, and thus in written form thought it was an entirely different word. The funniest (saddest) thing here is I'm dead serious and this comment is not a hyperbole... Smh.
zak 2 years ago
I've known the word and the spelling for a very long time, but I still say "hyper bowl" in my head every time I read it 😅
Bec 2 years ago
epitome is an equally frustrating word. I know you are epitome but my brain says epi-tome every time I read it.
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Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
That one, too, and segue, and envelope (was en-VELLO-pee for me), and awry, and, yes, hyperbole as well, and a handful of others that I only knew from reading them, not hearing them (not a native speaker).
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Vintage Books 2 years ago
I used to think the name Penelope was pronounced "PEN-a-lōpe" (long o"
Therese Clarke 2 years ago
For me it is Yosemite, and I grew up just 2 hours away from the park
Vicki Leigh 2 years ago
I have heard the city name "La Hoya" a million times but didn't recognize it when I saw "La Jolla." And it took way too long for someone to tell me it wasn't pronounced phonetically!
Jeff Gabrisl 2 years ago
My mom is the reason I didn't pronounce macabre correct. We we read together at night before bed and when I said I couldn't say it, she said it was pronounced ma-cob. My senior year English teacher corrected me.
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Comedy Clumbers 2 years ago
Mine was rendezvous. I thought it was 2 different words, but synonyms, until high school and another student reading the word aloud in class. No, I had no idea how I thought it was spelled.... Rondevous or something? I lucked out because I was next for reading an excerpt to the class... AP/college-prep English. I barely missed exposing my "disunderstanding" to the class. (Close enough that my very mean brain still reminds me about this non- embarrassment. I'm in my damn mid-50s and I really believe there should be a statute of limitations for reminding me of times i was (almost) an idiot. ) (For that matter, wouldn't be a big deal then or certainly now, Brain! Stop it!)
#36
Might just be a US thing but whatever
The measuring stick/pole on the inside of gas stations is for identifying the height of potential robbers
El Cucuy 2 years ago
Not true. That stick is for measuring the amount of gasoline in the underground tanks. I know this because my parents used to own a gas station.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
You’re right, but I have seen measurements marked out (Stickers? Painted on? I don’t know) on either side of the doorway.
Load More Replies... John Boy 2 years ago
Actually, when I used to work at a gas station, we used the actual sticks to measure the amount of gasoline that was in the tanks. We'd apply a bit of a substance that would react if there was water in the tank (always below the fuel level as water is heavier than gasoline), so if we saw the color green, we knew how many inches of water were in the bottom of the tank.
UncleJon_TheMadScientist 2 years ago
...And as Ron White said "I'm between 6'1" and 6' 6" depending on what convenience store I'm leaving"
Nichole Harris 2 years ago
They need to hang them better tho.... I've been over 6 ft based on those things...... I'm 5'6" on my best day lol
Donkey boi 2 years ago
Tell me your country's citizens are desensitized to crime without telling me...
#38
The phrase 'bottoms up' (used like 'cheers' when you're making a toast and having a drink) is used because you're putting the bottom of your glass up in the air... Never put that together in my head until this weekend...
James Marciniak 2 years ago
Bottoms up refers exactly to the days when men were recruited into the English navy by putting their lips to a coin in the bottom of their beer in a pub. Bottoms up is the slang phrase referring to this is my last drink as a free man.
#39
I realized that aquarium walls are reflective on the inside once they’re filled with water.
I’ve kept a goldfish for the past decade, so I should have noticed, but goldfish also aren’t really territorial, so he never minded. I keep a betta fish now, and he’s *very* mad at his reflection. I only realized two weeks ago that he’d even have one....
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
If OP invited us over for soup, the problem would be solved permanently. *burp*
Jinx (she/her) 2 years ago
it's suggested you cover the 3 side/back walls outside with dark paper to help with this
#40
That the Rick and Morty Episode 'pickle Rick' was an entire story about him getting himself out of a pickle.
Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
Whereas many doctors deal with men who have the opposite problem. Extracting pickles is likely a fine art.
Jenna Logan 2 years ago
But it was literally the best episode! I'M PICKLE RICK!! I laughed till I cried I don't know why I thought it was so funny lol
#41
That Mike Myers played both Dr Evil and Austin Powers.. I watched those movies since I was 4
mysterious(all pronouns) 2 years ago
Idea for a fourth Austin Powers movie: Every single character is played by Mike Myers, regardless of gender, significance, role in the movie, they're all just Mike Myers.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Just need to note that my uncle looks like Dr. Evil. He even humored us and put his pinky up to his mouth one time; my cousin and I almost peed ourselves laughing 🤣
#42
That New Years Day is exactly one week after Christmas Day. So last Christmas was on a Wednesday and NYD was Wednesday the following week. I was in my last 30s before I noticed this
Trevor 2 years ago
ah but Christmas and NYD never fall on the same day of the week in the Same Calender Year. Fun Trick I play at Christmas time. why? because New years Day is actually the next Calender year. NYD 2023 is on a Sunday and Christmas is on Monday
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Meanwhile there are people out there who think it'll be so cool when Halloween falls on Friday the 13th
Load More Replies... Display_Name 2 years ago
My bday is Jan 2. To avoid the "Almost New Years baby" comment, I tell people 8 days after Christmas.
Cat Chat 2 years ago
My stepdad birthday was New Years Day. Funnier is my father's is Halloween and he lives up to it
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Cora Han 2 years ago
Fun party riddle I've used: "Every year Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve fall on the same day of the week, but in 1945, Christmas Day and New Year's Day were not. Why?" You could pick any year but I tend to use 1945 to mislead people in thinking it had something to do with the war.
#43
Watch For Ice On Bridge signs are because ice forms on bridges before it does on roads
Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 2 years ago
That's actually what the sign says. It literally says "ice forms on bridge before road."
Lil Miss Hobbit 2 years ago
That's what I thought...but maybe it doesn't say that everywhere.
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Timmy Pillinger 2 years ago
The ground is a very good insulator and in lots of places not permafrost and so will warm a sub zero road from underneath. Bridges will tend to air temperature rather quickly.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Bridges don’t have the benefit of the ground temperature to keep the part of the road on them from freezing before the ground that the road is sitting on freezes.
Load More Replies... Kalon Suszko 2 years ago
"Black Ice" on concrete bridge surfaces is hard to detect at night. Even if the roads are clear of snow. I managed to bail out of a 720 (yea two 360's) crossing a bridge that seems totally void of anything. Next thing I knew my back end of my car way going past my front end! :P Let off the gas and went with the flow, steering out of the spins somehow. Ended up on the shoulder facing the same direction I was going, no damage done. My guardian angel was with me that night!
Shark Lady 2 years ago
I'm guessing you needed a change of underwear after having that happen!
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Joshua David 2 years ago
The blowing winds above and below it make it freeze quicker. If no wind, the surrounding cold. Someone told me that.
#44
Sweatbands are to collect the sweat and not make you sweat more.
Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 2 years ago
Yeah, this one is a bit ridiculous. No one has ever thought, "If I take this small strip of fabric in a very specific spot, it will make me sweat more."
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
They’re meant to keep sweat from getting in your eyes, not make even more sweat to get in your eyes.
Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
I've got a sweat gutter for when I'm cycling, makes the sweat run down the side of your face rather than into your eyes.
#45
Took me a long time to realize pay-per-view was actually words that described it (I'd never seen it written)
What do you think ?
Legoinsinööri 2 years ago
For a long time I didn't realize that teenager came from thirTeen - nineTeen.
DBear 2 years ago
Knew a guy who in his late 30's realized that Thanksgiving Day in the USA was always on Thursday,
Gianna B D 2 years ago
It was just last week that I realized that quesadillas have cheese in them and the Spanish word for cheese is queso. "Oh, the two must be related," I, a genius, said.
Stargazer66 2 years ago (edited)
#30. Ground beef is also called hamburger in the US and confuses a lot of non Americans. It's called hamburger because ground beef is used to make hamburgers and Americans like to give everything nicknames.
Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
This confused me for such a long time! Same with hot dogs. Where I live, you put a viena sausage in a bun and then you call it a hot dog.
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
There’s a brand in my country called “Kissan” which means farmer in Hindi. Despite knowing what farmer meant, it didn’t click in my head until June that the brand name means farmer
Far Cough Khan 2 years ago
there's a dairy company called Norco. recently i realized no~ko in japanese means organic.
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Giles McArdell 2 years ago
Banoffee Pie, thought it was some Italian word, didn't click until I was well in to my 30s.
neocosmical 2 years ago
until around a month ago, my best friend didn't know that pancakes were called pancakes because they're cakes that you cook in a pan
Will Cable 2 years ago
Took me months to work out the weather map in the local newspaper we had years ago , I just couldn't make out the area shown, then I realised, they had reversed the print , it was still black and white in those days with shades of grey.
Legoinsinööri 2 years ago
For a long time I didn't realize that teenager came from thirTeen - nineTeen.
DBear 2 years ago
Knew a guy who in his late 30's realized that Thanksgiving Day in the USA was always on Thursday,
Gianna B D 2 years ago
It was just last week that I realized that quesadillas have cheese in them and the Spanish word for cheese is queso. "Oh, the two must be related," I, a genius, said.
Stargazer66 2 years ago (edited)
#30. Ground beef is also called hamburger in the US and confuses a lot of non Americans. It's called hamburger because ground beef is used to make hamburgers and Americans like to give everything nicknames.
Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
This confused me for such a long time! Same with hot dogs. Where I live, you put a viena sausage in a bun and then you call it a hot dog.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
There’s a brand in my country called “Kissan” which means farmer in Hindi. Despite knowing what farmer meant, it didn’t click in my head until June that the brand name means farmer
Far Cough Khan 2 years ago
there's a dairy company called Norco. recently i realized no~ko in japanese means organic.
Load More Replies... Giles McArdell 2 years ago
Banoffee Pie, thought it was some Italian word, didn't click until I was well in to my 30s.
neocosmical 2 years ago
until around a month ago, my best friend didn't know that pancakes were called pancakes because they're cakes that you cook in a pan
Will Cable 2 years ago
Took me months to work out the weather map in the local newspaper we had years ago , I just couldn't make out the area shown, then I realised, they had reversed the print , it was still black and white in those days with shades of grey.
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