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that saturn is the perfect accumulation of what earth would be if their where to be a nuclear disaster.

The Victorians believed it was bad luck for a mother's tears to fall upon her baby, before the baby was weaned.

75% of all sesame seeds grown in Mexico end up on McDonald's hamburger buns.

According to George R. R. Martin King Joffrey from A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones was inspired by Donald Trump.

In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK's assassination.

I've learned that NASA has discovered over 1000 exoplanets so far, and they continue to discover more and more of them over time

^Have they discovered that those exoplanets may be suitable for extraterrestrial life?

Costa Rica became in 2012 the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport.

The country with the highest obesity problem in the world is Nauru. It's not the US, contrary to popular belief.

In Nauru almost everything they eat is imported processed junk food and they have a very inactive lifestyle, so it's not that hard to see why their weight is a real problem. They weren't always that way, though.

I've learned that regardless of where you apply at occupational wise, the applicant tracking software tends to be a detriment despite the various work a rounds..

I've learned that no matter how hard you try, you just cannot be both honest and likable at the same time.

In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.

kangaroo flatus does not burn. Research on wombat flatus has been delayed due to severe wombat bites.
The color and shape of burning space wombat flatus remains...unknown.

this strange fact matters because the non combustible gas contains no methane-it is consumed by symbiotic intestinal flora to yield more energy for the animal- and methane is a potent greenhouse gas.
if scientists can adapt this flora to cattle we can all stop worrying about greenhousing cow farts.
We are saved!

I noticed that my descriptor has changed from butterfly to iforget to now yellow bellied sapsucker.
does this mean if i annoy the mods, they'll bust me back to larva?
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Hey, I told you about the very important 'roo farts.