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The greatest wrestler ever? Ever?! Sure bud. Oh come on, people say shit like that every day about the guy they like, sometimes about different guys in the same conversation! It's not sports if you're not constantly arguing about the best of the best, GOAT is so overused that it's practically in every other argument, and wrestling fans in particular love to pick favourites.
Everything about this man sounds like something out of the tallest of backwoods tall tales, the wildest and most clichéd of urban legends.
Except it was all a matter of international record.
(and Shiv knows how to tell a hell of a story)
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Mongrel wrote:
Spongebob and Krabby, together at last!
Büge wrote:
Red...because it makes you go FAST
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Air conditioning is actually far more environmentally-friendly than home heating, because heat tends to be far more carbon-burning, especially older forms of heating, and even if both are powered by renewable, clean electricity, AC is still less harmful simply because the temperature differential it's trying to bridge is much less than that of home heating, usually.
Seems obvious, but I never really thought of it this way!
Seems obvious, but I never really thought of it this way!
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Air conditioning is most used when it's sunny, which is also when solar power is the most effective.
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How cookie cutters are made.
"Oh. Yeah... Yeah that makes sense."
"Oh. Yeah... Yeah that makes sense."
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Today I learned that there was a series of commercials for Japanese canned coffee, and it was set in Twin Peaks.
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Creationists often love using eyeballs as a "Where your evolution NOW, huh? Explain EYES!" 'argument', when in fact the evolution of eyeballs is actually the result of a well-documented and naturally-elegant process, and seen in a wide range of species:
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I was like, oh hey, this is a really well-done video of the process.
So... NERD TIME.
So... NERD TIME.
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I like how it's a lot like how modern garden pathways are built just much, much larger in scale
I learned a few years back that the city of Rome had once built a North American-style highway for cars atop the Appian Way, and it wasn't until like the 80s that the Way became a park, and they had to divert and undo the highway to make it that way
I learned a few years back that the city of Rome had once built a North American-style highway for cars atop the Appian Way, and it wasn't until like the 80s that the Way became a park, and they had to divert and undo the highway to make it that way
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Mongrel wrote:eyeball post
Back when I was a young philosophy major, my philosophy professor and my bio professor decided to do their first and only combined field trip 3 and a half hours away.
It was to a lecture where a man talked about the evolutionary process that lead to cephalapods eyes, the one that lead to our eyes, and then eventually arguments for and against intelligent design caused by these eyeballs.
It was a weird ass lecture but the in-depth discussion of the evolution of eyes was neat.
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I love how cephalopod eyes start growing from an invagination of the surface whereas vertebrate eyes are an outgrowth of the brain and the deep ones don't have blind spots on account of not having nerve fibers in the way but mostly I'm just pleased that I got to use invagination in a run on sentence.
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"My family invented James Bond, and it's the second most famous thing they've invented."
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Today I learned that Eric Nagler, goofball Canadian celebrity and beloved children's entertainer, is now a personal counselor specializing in poly and trans relationship and sexuality issues.
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