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    In most lab testing facilities that use mice, the lab technicians need to sit down with the rats for a while an pet them to calm down before injecting them with whatever solution they are using. So they basically sit for an hour and calm them individually, then most of the time send them to their deaths. I feel some similarities in life can be can be made or found from this.
     
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    Joe-Joe the Dog Faced Boy’s (1868-1904) given name was Fedor Jeftichew. There’s some speculation that Chewbaca, of Star Wars was inspired by him, even that the name Chewbaca was inspired by Jeftichew’s name.
     
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    I dunno guys. Sleep is so boring I can never stay up to enjoy it. :(
     
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    I thought the term was barista.
     
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    In the heyday of US train travel, all passenger car porters, regardless of their actual names, were addressed as 'George', after George Pullman, the cars' inventor.
     
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    If you go to stillontheinternetbigtime.com it will actually take you to a John Oliver Last Week tonight video, that the subject of tried to force down.

    It`s actually a very interesting case.



    As much as I don`t dislike Trevor Noah what John Olivers doing over at HBO is more like a successor to Stewarts Daily Show then the current one.
     
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    I thoroughly enjoyed this. Put a smile on my face. :)
     
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    For whatever reason I had to use a VPN to watch this
     
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    The reason Mace Windu has a purple lightsabre in the Star Wars prequels is simply because they asked Samuel L. Jackson what colour lightsabre he wanted and he replied "Purple."

    "But Jedi don't have purple lightsabres. Do you want a blue one or a green one?"

    "Purple."
     
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    They actually had to make a huge backstory to it for that color to come into play.
     
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    I always found that story kind of hinky given that in the Extended Universe there were Jedi with differently coloured lightsabres before The Phantom Menace came out (probably most memorable being Mara Jade). But it's also not entirely implausible that George Lucas didn't really have the most solid understanding of what Star Wars had grown into at that time, either.
     
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