TUESDAY #3715

One Of My Very Own

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THIS JUST IN...

I showed that to a guy in the bar and he didn't get it.
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ANIMAL FACTS I DIDN'T KNOW YESTERDAY

Cheetas are so closely related to each other that you can freely transplant organs between all members of their species without needing immunosuppression. 

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On ostrich farms, farmers have a hard time with breeding because the ostrich is more attracted to humans than other ostriches.

The feeling is mutual I'm sure. The animal equivalent to furries. 

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The American bison is the only animal in which both lungs share a common cavity. In every other animal, the lungs are separated. What this meant is that when shot by an arrow, both lungs would collapse and the buffalo would suffocate quickly. (For other animals, being shot in the chest would only collapse one lung, and they would at least have a chance) That's why such a large animal could be taken down with relatively small weapons.

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Six crows trained to pick up cigarette ends and rubbish will be put to work next week at a French historical theme park.

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The Greenland shark reaches sexual maturity at 150 years old and lives 300-500 years. They often go blind due to parasites that specifically target Greenland shark eyes, but the sharks don't mind at all because where they live it's so dark anyway.

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*MNBT

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Listening to the updated version of the "Baby It's Cold Outside" song where the guy's trying to convince the woman to leave so he can jack off.

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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE I DIDN'T HAVE YESTERDAY

During the Vietnam War, 50,000 bullets were fired PER enemy killed.

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You can make a larger (though not watertight) Ziplock bag by turning one inside-out and connecting it to a second one.

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An interesting read:

https://qz.com/1353793/north-america-hasnt-had-a-megadrought-in-recorded-history-it-could-be-overdue/ 

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"In 17th Century Europe, when Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens painted their famous masterworks, an ultramarine blue pigment made from the semi-precious lapis lazuli stone was mined far away in Afghanistan and cost more than its weight in gold. Only the most illustrious painters were allowed to use the costly material, while lesser artists were forced to use duller colors that faded under the sun. It wasn’t until the industrial revolution in the 19th Century that a synthetic alternative was invented, and true ultramarine blue finally became widely available.  Across the Atlantic Ocean, colonial Baroque works created by artists like José Juárez, Baltasar de Echave Ibia and Cristóbal de Villalpando in early 17th Century Mexico – New Spain – were full of this beautiful blue. How could this be? Lapis lazuli was even rarer in the New World. It wasn’t until the middle of the 20th Century that archaeologists discovered the Maya had invented a resilient and brilliant blue, centuries before their land was colonized and their resources exploited." 

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I once showed you a steam locomotive coming out of a tunnel and the huge amount of smoke emerging from the tunnel after the train exited. Well, this line in a movie.

This is another line in another movie:

"He had been shot so many times that they didn't know whether to bury him or sell him for scrap metal." 

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There were dozens of these...

Freezing rain coated rotting apples, creating a solid icy shell around them. When the trees are pruned they would shake, causing many of the frozen apples to fall off, ice and all. However, with a few of them, the mush slipped out of the bottom of the ice casing, leading to a "ghost apple."

It was cold enough for the ice to remain, but warm enough for the apples to turn to complete mush since apples have a lower freezing point than water.

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This seems to be a worldwide phenomenon.

 The temperature, wind, and snow must be just right.

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An automatic weapon that is powered by a power drill.

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How can I believe in The Bible when there were literally zero women in the writer's group.

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YOU HAD ONE JOB

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I feel my OCD awkening...

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The look of disgust on the dog's face...

I once had a large (but not standard) poodle that I once had trimmed properly complete with painted nails. He was so embarrassed that he hid behind the sofa.

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 For the love of god, Y'all!

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We've all solved problems that way, haven't we?

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When you’re at a party and you spend four hours unsure how to leave, that’s called a Brexit.

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PEOPLE NOT LIKE YOU AND ME

 "With 25,000 euros and 1000 hours of work, Maurizio Cesprini and his partner Paola Gardin rebuilt a ruined home in the medieval village of Ghesc, Italy. They hope other young families will consider their example with a plentiful supply of medieval ghost towns. They also feel drawn to save the rich architectural heritage of artisanal stonework dotting villages throughout the Alps, and beyond."

I sure hope that catches on.

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 Despite working in public schools for most of their careers, the Alters were financially stable enough to visit 140 countries across all seven continents. At the time of their deaths, the couple had more than a million dollars in their bank account.

They do look like the descriptions of the thieves.

Read more: 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/photograph-offers-link-between-retired-couple-and-160-million-stolen-de-kooning-180969963/#JKbXsBu9vVY1xYUx.99

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🎶And the laughs go on.🎶

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When I was a kid, the only password you had to remember was the one that got you into the treehouse.

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FUN WITH LANGUAGE

Does anybody iron anymore? 

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Banned in China

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Mr. Jones is reading his daily newspaper. He read an article with the following headline: “Woman dies in holiday accident.“ It goes on to say, “Mrs. Smith, while on holiday with her husband in Rome, fell to her death from the balcony of her seventh-floor room.“

Mr. Jones turns to his wife and says “That was not an accident. It was murder.“ He had never met either of the Smiths, so how could he know it was murder?

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"Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor asserting that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim, and if this burden is not met, the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it.  ("What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.") Hitchens's razor is actually an English translation of the Latin proverb quod grātīs asseritur, grātīs negātur ("What is asserted gratuitously may be denied gratuitously"), which was commonly used in the 19th century. It takes a stronger stance than the Sagan standard ("Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"), instead applying to even non-extraordinary claims." 

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