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  1. big soft moose

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    eggplants (aubergines over here) are more of a fruit, like apples or pears
     
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    Komposten Insanitary pile of rotten fruit Contributor

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    But apples and pears are also hypanthia (with the actual fruit being inside the core, which we usually throw away)! ;)
     
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    They are doing it on purpose.
     
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    Did you know Methuselah is a word first used in the 1930s meaning "a wine bottle eight times the standard size.
     
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    The plastic end of shoelaces are called aglets.
     
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    Potatoes contain nicotine. No wonder your kids like Mcdonald's fries.
     
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    L'appel du vide "The Call of the Void" is apparently a common phenomenon where people experience the urge to engage in self destructive behaviors during everyday life.
     
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    Life is a terminal condition.
     
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    Oh, great. Now my sister will justify her smoking by telling me she's just getting her potato fix.
     
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    like watching medical procedures on YouTube.
     
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    @Link the Writer +7 on dramatic reveal. -3 in said reveal. Overall 5 for execution. :p

    Home procedures are the best to watch. :)
     
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    Go on, you can say it, we won't think less of you. You like watching the zit popping videos.
     
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    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    These are the sort of videos I like to watch.
     
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    Probably!
     
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    A woodpecker's tongue starts in his nostril.
     
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    All orcas have different languages and vocal patterns
     
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    I don't get it. If they all have different languages, how do they understand each other? You're basically saying they can't communicate, so those things you're calling languages are just noises, right? :confused:
     
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    The claws of a cat carry more germs than the comman house fly. That's a lot of germs!

    No offense to any cat lovers. I like cats too.
     
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    Yes, researchers have found that all orca calls are not the same. And each pod has their own communication language.
     
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    Ah. You said, "All orcas", not all orca pods. It's clear now!
     
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    Well I guess that's just the Autist brain of mine. I associate All Orcas as in their Pods. Eitherway it seems their language is in accordance to where the Orcas live. So Orcas from different regions have their own languages. [he says in an audible friendly tone, and laughs at his goof]
     
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    That's okay, half-awake Iain read the original post on the topic as "all orcs" and thought, shit, yeah, Tolkien would have included that detail somewhere...
     
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    Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

    (I've been exercising wrong all this time)
     
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