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28 Jan 2019, 10:20 am

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Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.

My sister goes to UF :D

I learned that I'm a bit pretentious. I need to stop. :(



Interesting sir....



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28 Jan 2019, 1:44 pm

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Cartographers used to include fake towns on their maps to catch forgers.


Some malware researchers include stuff like drive.google.com and 127.0.0.1 as indicators of compromise to catch some security people off guard. I've added exceptions to my filters to get rid of that stuff and i eyeball the results.

Don't know if they do it deliberately - as in for fun, or if it's part of some automated process.


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28 Jan 2019, 1:49 pm

Dyslexia is not limited to visual reading. Blind dyslexics are also affected when reading Braille.


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30 Jan 2019, 9:45 am

Long-Term Effects of Emotional Abuse

In long-term emotionally abusive situations, the victim has such low self-esteem that they often feel they cannot leave their abuser and that they are not worthy of a non-abusive relationship. Adult emotional abuse leads to the victim believing the terrible things that the abuser says about him/her. Emotional abuse victims often think they're "going crazy



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30 Jan 2019, 4:51 pm

TW1ZTY wrote:
longshot wrote:
Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.

My sister goes to UF :D

I learned that I'm a bit pretentious. I need to stop. :(


I haven't noticed pretentious in any of your posts that I have read.


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30 Jan 2019, 8:18 pm

The lyrics of Come on Eileen



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30 Jan 2019, 8:50 pm

The largest prime number ever found is more than 22 million digits long.


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31 Jan 2019, 2:06 am

My ex has me on voicemail still.
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31 Jan 2019, 10:32 am

That taking decisive action is one of the best ways to deal with a given scenario..



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31 Jan 2019, 3:04 pm

Green tea extract is safe if you take only about 250-500 mg daily. If one takes more than 800 mg per day, it can be dangerous.


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31 Jan 2019, 3:46 pm

Each year, Americans throw out enough soda cans and bottles to reach the moon and back 20 times.


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01 Feb 2019, 10:30 am

I learned that Ben Affleck will not be reprising his role for any Batman films...



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01 Feb 2019, 5:48 pm

70% of the land in Britain is owned by less than 1% of the population.


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02 Feb 2019, 10:36 am

3 – In 2007, the World Bank dubbed Georgia “the number one economic reformer in the world”. That year, the country improved from rank 112th to 18th in terms of ease of doing business and its real GDP growth rate reached 12%. Since then, Georgia hasn’t stopped developing: the 2018 World Bank report confirmed it to be the highest ranked economy in Europe and Central Asia, and it even claimed a place in the top ten countries worldwide.



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03 Feb 2019, 7:46 pm

You know how everyone says aspies are pedantic?

There was this bunch of neurotypical women who kept telling me I didn't know one place from another.

I just googled it. There's a farm next to a hamlet. The hamlet is the first place and the farm is the second. The farm isn't even a farm anymore it's a site. Or it was a few years ago, I guess, now it's just empty wasteland and part of the hamlet.

It's a six minute walk away... :roll:

I really think this is the same place unless you're being incredibly pedantic. All these years I've been assuming it was across the big river or the other side of the village or something.

(These are the sort of people who say 'he doesn't live locally, he lives in the nearest city' even though the city is just down the road and some people consider the village to be a suburb)

Dunno if this goes in rants or in here but lol.

So to summarise:

I figured out the difference between one of these places and the other one at last.



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03 Feb 2019, 10:28 pm

The United Nations is planning to launch its first space mission in 2021.


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