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    Ah. Are you just confessing to being a grossly fat guy who parades around in nothing but a thong? Because that's okay, dude. You do you. :D
     
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    That describes just about every European who holidays on the beach here, which, at this time of year, is just about everyone. Not that I've been to the beach lately... it's a hooplocalypse in August. I'd rather chew broken glass.
     
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    Would that be teamed with your blue suede shoes? :p
     
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    If he knew the distance to the horizon, especially over water, the calculation is pretty straightforward......sorry, still trying to calculate the possibilities of the first 4 moves in chess.....my brain hurts :S

    A politician was SHOCKED that half the children were below the median score in standardized tests.......he would NOT REST until ALL CHILDREN were above the median level :p
     
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    I'm liking a post about an Orca sitting at a computer on my phone.
     
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    My life isn’t the same without Mr. Keillor’s voice on the radio every weekend.
     
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    A woman named Vesna Vulović survived a fall from 10,160m in the air on January 26, 1972. She was in the hospital for 16 months after emerging from a 27 day coma and having many bones broken.
     
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    wished she hadn't on impact. That would hurt like a MotherF'er.
     
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    In terms of how often their hunts succeed, domestic cats are better predators than lions or tigers.
     
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    more abundant prey probably plays a big part - along with a lack of competition
     
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    I miss Mr. Keillor too.
     
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    In 1988, 100 years after the infamous Whitechapel murders, the police revealed one of the three letters believed to have been written by the serial killer, known as the "Dear Boss" letter, was revealed to have been anonymously sent to them the previous year. To this day the location and state of the two other infamous pieces of correspondence that were deemed of interest at the time, the "From Hell" letter and the "Saucy Jacky" postcard, remains unknown. However, photographs of them exist so we know the contents.
     
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    In software development going through something aloud to help you find something wrong with it is called "rubber duck debugging" because the one who coined the term used a rubber duck as his audience.
     
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    The next Friday the 13th is in one year and two months. Jason is taking that long of a vacation, folks.
     
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    Rubber ducks should not be underestimated. The amount of bugs they have solved is unfathomable. :-D
     
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    Useless fact: Ravens can mimic sounds really well.



    Lyrebirds too,

     
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    Lyrebirds make me sad, cos they impersonate chain saws. :(
     
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    Never heard of a lyrebird.
     
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    :)
     
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