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Foxes use the Earth’s magnetic field as a targeting system
Jaroslav Červený has found that when red foxes pounce, they mostly jump in a north-easterly direction. He thinks that they’re using the Earth’s magnetic field to hunt.
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  • King of Spades: David, King of Israel from the Old Testament
  • King of Clubs: Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, who conquered a vast region and lived from 356 to 323 BCE.
  • King of Hearts: Charlemagne, King of France and the first Holy Roman Emperor, who lived from 747 to 814 AD.
  • King of Diamonds: Roman Caesar Augustus. Some sources say the king of diamonds is Julius Caesar, not Augustus.
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We say only badsah. The names are chidin, hukum, and event. This is new.
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Tash (cards) aren't played only in india.
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I'm gonna go full wacky (spaghetti on the wall) and send you my full collections of FUNNY NAMES THAT AREN'T WHAT THEY SEEM:
  • Holy Roman Empire wasn't holy(?), wasn't Roman, and wasn't much of an empire
  • MMT isn't modern, isn’t monetary, and isn’t theory.
  • Golden gate bridge isn't golden (but red)
  • Oxford commas aren't used in official Uni of Oxford style
  • A French press (Coffee) isn’t French; and in French it’s merely called “la prese”
  • Ninety Mile Beach in New Zealand is exactly 55 miles long
  • A British "hundredweight", (a "long" hundredweight) is a commodity with mass equal to... 112 pounds.
  • The pope in Rome doesn't have "Pope" in his title; the Patriarch of Constantinople --who's not a pope -- has "Pope" in his title.
Yeah, fuck knows why I collect these
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 1 Nov
Speaking of Popes..
Pontifex is the title of Roman emperors and the current Pope, CEO of the Holy Roman Empire
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Taken at Singapore Zoo
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A group of butterflies is called a "kaleidoscope".
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 1 Nov
Aardvarks eat 50,000 ants in a night.
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It’s a well known and serious problem, the so called ant-ihilation.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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From Pomp
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In Schenck v. United States (1919), the Supreme Court invented the famous "clear and present danger" test to determine when a state could constitutionally limit an individual's free speech rights under the First Amendment.^[PBS. " Schenck v. U.S. (1919)." PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/capitalism/landmark_schenck.html (accessed July 27, 2014).]
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Africa: The Only Continent in all the four hemispheres
It spans all four hemispheres - the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere, and Western Hemisphere.
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During World War I, British intelligence explored various methods of writing secret messages, including using invisible ink. Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, the first director of MI6, reportedly discovered that semen could be used as a form of invisible ink that was not easily detected by traditional methods of espionage at the time, such as iodine vapor. However, this method was eventually abandoned because of obvious hygiene concerns and the unpleasant odor as it aged. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming#:~:text=When%20the%20SSB%20discovered%20that,masturbatory%20habits%20of%20the%20agents.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 1 Nov
On Friday, April 18, 1930 people from Britain tuned into BBC only to hear: “Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news.”
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