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15 Jan 2019, 2:20 pm

That transgender cats exist
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15 Jan 2019, 3:51 pm

The flame-shooting guitar in the movie "Mad Max: Fury Road" weighed 132 pounds and shot real flames.


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16 Jan 2019, 3:04 am

I just woke up and learned about JA3 and JA3S TLS fingerprinting. Cool stuff!


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16 Jan 2019, 2:42 pm

In the 17th Century, 1 in every 10 British coins was forged. Isaac Newton oversaw a huge project to recall the old currency, and issue a more reliable one.


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17 Jan 2019, 10:30 am

. Anniston, Alabama is home to the World's Largest Office Chair, which is made from 10 tons of steel.



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17 Jan 2019, 10:52 am

In nature the strong always prey on the weak.

In human wars the strongest armies always defeat the weakest armies.



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17 Jan 2019, 3:50 pm

A grizzly bear has to eat almost 20,000 calories a day.


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19 Jan 2019, 6:42 pm

General Electric is the only company remaining from the original Dow Jones index of 1896.


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20 Jan 2019, 10:30 am

The official language of Liberia is English. This surprised me.

Not that I'm like the thick women in the library I used to work at who think only people in majority white countries grow up speaking European languages. I just thought their official language would be French.



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20 Jan 2019, 1:43 pm

Denmark has been inhabited since around 12,500 BC and agriculture has been evident since 3,900 BC.


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21 Jan 2019, 10:40 pm

For a few years until 2016, if you want to buy dollars in Argentina to travel abroad, you needed to send an application to the government declaring where, when and why you are traveling.


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21 Jan 2019, 10:42 pm

H. P. Lovecraft was racist and antisimitic.



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21 Jan 2019, 10:52 pm

Americans spend an average of $1,092 on coffee each year.


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21 Jan 2019, 11:14 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
Americans spend an average of $1,092 on coffee each year.

All except me, I hate coffee! :eew: :coffee:



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21 Jan 2019, 11:32 pm

The Subway near me doesn't have wi fi.



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21 Jan 2019, 11:38 pm

That a year from Feb. 14th will be my parents 50th/Golden anniversary.