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  1. Oscar Leigh

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    Is that the precise height the bombs where dropped from? That would be a morbidly interesting touch.
     
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    The bombs were dropped at 31,060 feet. The closest I could get the image to was from 31,071 feet. The T-shaped Aioi Bridge (targeted ground zero) is roughly in the center of the image.

    Morbid is always what I'm going for.
     
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    A cesium atom at 0 degrees Kelvin vibrates between two ground states exactly 9,192,631,770 times per second.

    If the number is wrong, it's time itself that needs to be adjusted.

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    Well lets just make time more complicated. :p
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time
     
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    Good point:

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    Speaking of funerals:

    Despite the pall being the cloth used to cover caskets, those carrying the coffin are called pallbearers.
     
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    Is it some reference to the shroud in ancient burials? Some kind of pallet reference? Aren't humans bizarre?
     
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    It could bear reference to those whose cultures do not use caskets or because to have one is a sign of wealth at one point, I don't know for sure.

    I came across Caleb Wilde, a funeral director and author/blogger, his stuff is pretty insightful (and typos don't feel so bad after reading about mistakes he's made along the way).
     
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    On this day in 1964, Ringo Starr passed his driving test.
     
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    Orca whales kill and eat Great White Sharks.
     
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    The first time was a fluke, but now they do it on porpoise.
     
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    That sounds like a fishy excuse for that first incident, but whale I've got no real evidence.
     
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    It almost sounds like they somehow orca-strated it.
     
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    Bears Shaved.jpg
     
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    The worlds softest wood is generally thought to come from the Cuipo tree, which is technically classified as a hardwood, while the hardest comes from the Australian Buloke, a softwood.
     
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    If I don't ask, no one will. What's the deal with the shaved animals today? o_O
     
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    IDK, spent a good long time last night looking for pics.
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    If you pay attention to the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction, they're all stopped at 4:20.
     
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    By taking advantage of their tonic immobility. Paleo-historically(?) speaking, this is 'recent' behavior. Smart futher-muckers!
     
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    Now I see where the inspiration for the Yao Guai came from.

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    No, no, no.

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    This is a shaved baboon. THIS is much scarier than that relatively normal looking animal.
     
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    Gargoyles!
     
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    @DK3654 , @Cave Troll -- Excuse me while I change my shorts.

    And I thought we Orcas were scary...
     
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    I'm gonna say that the bears are creepy, but the baboons are scary.
     
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    And how do you feel about:
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