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"a show that your brain puts on, just once, just for you, I hope you’re paying attention" - that I read this - I won't be forgetting it anytime soon

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I looked up information about Ming the clam (from point # 11). What it boils down to is this: Scientists find the oldest known living animal on earth, a peaceful creature minding its own business, and promptly kill it.

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Evolutionarily it would make no sense for running to kill your knees. It's modern shoes with their crazy and foot hostile designs that are to blame!

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Wood is awesome when you think about it

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How much of the felt heat from a campfire is warm air? I'd guess that it's mostly radiant heat that doesn't really rise (or does it)?

Open topped freezers are pretty cool tho and water heaters are amazingly cool (or hot?). I recently learned that warm water rising is very important to how they function. Excellent tech connections explainer: https://youtu.be/Bm7L-2J52GU

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Yeah, there's no love for my hedgehog homies* Desert and Indian. Sonic steals all the attention :(

*from now on I'll be calling homologues "homies"

#24 is pretty great though. I've been learning more about the Moon's orbit (through playing a KSP mod with the real life solar system) and it's kinda crazy that things are as stable as they are. You'd think all the weird stuff like nodal precession would mess that up, but apparently not.

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Good lord, /how/ I wish to know what unique perversion of Dynomight's is concealed beneath the bonnet of #23...

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