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  1. Xoic

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    Meanwhile the descent of Confusion has spread across the entire population of the planet many times over.
     
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    If put in a huge field and blindfolded, then told to walk in a straight line, most of us will walk in a rough circle and end up back where we started.
     
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    More of a translating spiral. You're more likely to cross your own path, eventually, but not your starting point. Many lost (unblindfolded) have died within sight of rescue because they didn't keep a reference point on the horizon. Even if you do, your path will look like a stretched out zig-zag because your kinemetrics take over until you correct them again.
     
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    I remember they did that in an episode of Mythbusters once. The squiggly lines they ended up with was like an oddly refined Jackson Pollock.
     
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    That "I'm not a Robot" button you have to click? Those fire hydrants or buses or crossings you have to select?
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    The way it works is by pressing the "Im not a Robot" button - you give it permission to access your internet history, as well as letting it detect how you were moving your mouse across the screen for the few minutes beforehand.
    It then uses an algorithm to try and see if you have natural mouse movements as well as making sure you haven't been spamming websites over and over again in a repetitive way.

    If the algorithm fails, it then gives you an image to select those pesky buses from. :D

    After learning that, I now worry every time im asked to select traffic lights from multiple pictures. How robotic must I have been for the algorithm to say "Nope, mouse movements are very straight, and his history is suspect, too. CHECK HIM!"
     
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    QI - "Quite Interesting" it's basically an entire comedy quiz show about useless facts, and their "elves" go above and beyond the call of duty to source this stuff ;)
     
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    The girl who came up the Nike ‘swoosh’ logo back in the 1970s - a graphic design student - was paid just $35 (about $200 today).
     
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    The steps of the Wallace monument are shorter in length at the middle than anywhere else.

    There are 246 steps in total from the ground to the top.

    You're welcome.
     
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    If a pregnant woman eats a bunch of corn lillys, her baby will be born with one eye.
     
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    Apparently, there is this system called the CRISP Cas-9 system that can edit genes using manufactured RNA to copy specific strands on DNA. One potential use of this technology could be to try to eliminate sickle cell disease. While this would be advantageous to many Westerners, in Africa, it would actually hurt them, as sickle cell carriers have a "carrier advantage" that makes them less prone to malaria, which is a far bigger problem over there.

    Kinda a damned-if-you-do situation. Either your life is at risk over malaria, or your RBCs can't be filtered by your liver, so you're anemic.
     
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    Left or right, or would the baby be like a cyclops?
     
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopia
     
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    Either way depth perception will be an issue.
    It's not like there are a lot of one-eyed pilots. :p
     
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