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Rhyhorn was the first Pokemon designed.

Jamaica, Colombia, and St. Lucia are the only 3 countries in the world where your boss is more likely to be a woman.

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Russia did not formally abolish serfdom until 1861.

As of 2013, over 300,000 slaves are believed to live in the country.

Mario, the video game character, was based on a real-life Italian landlord for Nintendo America. At the time, they were brainstorming for a character who would fight Donkey Kong. Also, in that game, he is said to be a carpenter, and (though this is probably common knowledge by now) he was called Jumpman.

France's Macron is expected to win the election with 64% of the vote, his competitor Le Pen will have 36% of it.

Bob Ross did all The Joy of Painting episodes for free. He could shoot a 13-episode season in less than a week, and his income came from selling his line of painting supplies and teaching classes.

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worm planet? from the 'wormwheel'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_drive?

then there's that, https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-relat ... -worm-hole
but not that, but in a direction changing directions like billards but when balls are electromagnets
and not holes, maybe red dwarf style masses
Red dwarfs are by far the most common type of star in the Milky Way, at least in the neighborhood of the Sun, but because of their low luminosity, individual red dwarfs cannot be easily observed. From Earth, not one is visible to the naked eye. Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, is a red dwarf (Type M5, apparent magnitude 11.05), as are twenty of the next thirty nearest stars. According to some estimates, red dwarfs make up three-quarters of the stars in the Milky Way.

All observed red dwarfs contain "metals", which in astronomy are elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. The Big Bang model predicts that the first generation of stars should have only hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium, and hence would be of low metallicity. With their extreme lifespans, any red dwarfs that were a part of that first generation (population III stars) should still exist today. Low metallicity red dwarfs, however, are rare. There are several explanations for the missing population of metal-poor red dwarfs. The preferred explanation is that, without heavy elements, only large stars can form. Large stars rapidly burn out and explode as supernova, spewing heavy elements that then allow higher metallicity stars population II stars, including red dwarfs to form. Alternative explanations of the scarcity of metal-poor red dwarfs, such as their dimness and scarcity, are considered less likely because they appear to conflict with stellar-evolution models.

i miss electromagnetic, tf to habitability
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... ul-th.html
i know nothing, but it gives a bone to chew on, for a while

UPS trucks don’t turn left. Their policy to never turn across oncoming traffic, even if it’s a shorter route, reduces accidents and traffic delays, so they plan out their routes to avoid left turns when possible. They say this cuts their number of trucks by 1,100, saves 10 million gallons of fuel and emits 22,000 fewer US tons (19,958 metric tons) of carbon dioxide per year, and lowers the annual distance traveled by 28.5 million miles (45.9 million kilometers).

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Hitler's mother was thinking about getting an abortion until her doctor talked her out of it.

Jams are made of fruit, and jellies are made of juice. While jam consists of whole fruit that’s been crushed or cut into pieces, jelly is made of fruit juice that’s firmed with pectin.

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Spanish tennis player Juan Carlos Ferrero was named for the former King of Spain.

Denis Istomin is a Russian playing for Uzbekistan, while Marat Safin played for Russia, and his parents were from Tatarstan.

Varvara Lepchenko is of Ukrainian ancestry, was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and now plays for the United States.

Both Istomin and Lepchenko were born in 1986 and grew up in Tashkent.

Tashkent means "stone city." In Uzbekistan, the city is called Toshkent.

The disclaimer ‘No animals were harmed during the making of this film’ has been approved for the end credits of multiple movies in which animals actually were injured or died. Approvals were granted on the grounds that the animals were not intentionally harmed or the incidents occurred while cameras weren’t rolling.

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"Star-Spangled Banner" began as a poem by Francis Scott Key called, "Defence of Fort M'Henry." Later, it was set to a song called "To Anacreon in Heaven" by John Stafford Smith.

A group of pugs is called a grumble.

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A group of crows is called a 'parliament '.

^Actually, a group of crows is called a murder. A group of owls is called a parliament.