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title text: We're working to make sure the images are as up-to-date and accurate as possible, with a minimum number of sponsored galaxies.
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title text: Some surfaces may seem difficult to glue. But if you research the materials, find tables of what adhesives work on them, and prepare your surfaces carefully, you can fail to glue them in a fun NEW way that fills your house with dangerous vapors.
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title text: Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.
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title text: I don't get it. The peak acceleration for passengers was WAY lower than in the giant-waterslide-loop-the-loop incident the other cruise line fired me for.
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title text: Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.
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title text: Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.
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title text: 'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects
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title text: Unfortunately, my scheme to trick NASA has now taken over a decade longer than planned and has run way over budget.
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title text: Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?
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title text: An old astronomer trick for distinguishing the Sun from other stars is to take multiple photos a few minutes apart and overlay them, making the Sun stand out due to its high proper motion.
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title text: After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away.
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title text: As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent.
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title text: People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.
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title text: Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?
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title text: Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!
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title text: This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses.
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title text: 'Oh, and can I borrow 50 sacks of loose flour, a pile of lithium-ion batteries, a bucket of bleach, and a bucket of vinega--' 'NO!!!!!!'
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title text: 'Well, there's speculation that it's due to a mantle hotspot.' --a geologist who's trying to cover up the fact that they didn't hear your question
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title text: Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.
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title text: I've had countless nights where the line never left the bottom zone of the graph, but the few moments where it's climbed all the way to the top have made up for them all.
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title text: The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.
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title text: There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.
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title text: Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!
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title text: My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
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title text: 'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.
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title text: I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points.
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