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    If you wish to buy scalpel blades (5-100 pack) they will throw in a handle #3 or #4 along with it
    in most cases. Seems they feel you need to be able to actually use the blades, or start a handle
    collection. :p (Also people will use scalpels for craft work).
    Twofer. :superyesh:
     
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    All of the scalpels I've used came handle and all in a surgically sterile single use prepack. I know they're cheaper to buy separate, but I don't have an autoclave.
     
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    :superlaugh::superlaugh::superlaugh:
     
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    You are so cute. :)
     
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    The Black Strat, David Gilmour's most famous guitar, has just sold at a charity auction for $3,975,000. Gilmour decided to auction off 120 of his guitars, clearing $21.5 million for his charitable foundation by doing so.
     
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    Today (June 22nd, 2019) is the 79th anniversary of the United States granting of diplomatic recognition to the Vichy (Nazi puppet) French government.

    It's also Cindy Lauper's 66th birthday.
     
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    The most requested wedding gift (on a certain popular gift registry site) has always been a KitchenAid stand mixer.

    (link a citation to an article in the Washington Post, not the gift registry site)
     
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    The Youtube channel Megabattie features an Australian woman who rescues flying foxes, and she has an adorable collection of retired senior batties she looks after who have squeaky arguments:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwyl6DjeJTF1rECrfsx9Rjw
     
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    The romans had no concept of "zero" (in fact, despite their engineering excellence, they were rubbish mathemeticians)

    Zero wasn't really invented until someone in India had a zero column on an abacus around fifteen hundred years ago. Muslim arabs brought it to Europe around the eighth century.
     
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    No matter how still you are, you are always in motion because the planet is hurdling at
    10k mph. So you never physically stop, even when you think you have. :p
     
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    In 2013, the Egyptian government held a secret meeting to discuss its opposition to a proposed dam project.

    The meeting was accidentally aired on live television.
     
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    They had one job.
     
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    Indeed. How hard is it to fail to air something live on national TV?
     
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    Like....why would you even have a secret off the books meeting where it could be aired? It`s not a Fred hit the wrong button silly Fred thing, so many things had to actively be in place for this to even accidentally happen.
     
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    It was a Riker Job. :p
    [​IMG]
     
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    I thought it was the Aztecs who invented the number 'zero'.
     
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    Maya?
     
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    Chinchillas in the wild bathe in lava dust, and not water.
     
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    Even pet chinchillas get dust bathes at least mine did. Wasn't lava dust....cant imagine how expensive that would be but there was a dust bath mixture shed roll in or something like that. She lived in a Barbie dream Castle so her bath was set up on the balcony.
     
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    :superlaugh::superlaugh::superlaugh:

    Chinderella? :supergrin:
     
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    It's one in the morning and I don't have coffee yet but... lava dust? Lava got dust? o_O
     
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    Yup. Lava dust.
     
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    Dust from volcanic rock. Particles of igneous stone.
     
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    In Rovaniemi, Finland some soccer team had problems to train in the football field.

     
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    At 1,084', Emley Moor radio mast is taller than both the Shard in London and the Eiffel Tower in Paris

    Apparently.

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