#Obscure and interesting wikipedia links
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Though eating off the beach could provide a fairly healthy and varied diet, eating nothing but "beach food" is considered contemptible among the Tlingit, and a sign of poverty. Shamans and their families were required to abstain from all food gathered from the beach, and men might avoid eating beach food before battles or strenuous activities in the belief that it would weaken them spiritually and perhaps physically as well.
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Despite being referred to as a "bandit" by the United States government, his exploits made him a hero throughout much of Latin America, where he became a symbol of resistance to American imperialism.
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When Jesus did not appear by October 22, 1844, Miller and his followers were disappointed.[1][2][3][4]
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Since Miller's death, "Quantum Grammar" has seen continued usage by other people within the sovereign citizen movement.[2]
Miller's design involves sentences that begin with prepositional phrases, using the word For. It is easily recognizable, among other traits, by the constant and repetitive use of the phrases "for the" and "with the"[13] and by the absence of action verbs, except in gerund form. Users of the dialect reject the use of adjectives, adverbs and pronouns.[3] The language also has an abundance of punctuation. For example:
FOR THE FORMS OF OUR PUNCTUATIONS ARE WITH THE CLAIM OF THE USE: FULL-COLON=POSITION-LODIO-FACTS, HYPHEN=COMPOUND-FACTS =KNOWN, PERIOD=END-THOUGHT, COMMA-PAUSE, AND LOCATION-TILDES WITH THE MEANINGS AND USES OF THE COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE FULL-COLON OF THE POSITION-LODIAL-FACT-PHRASE WITH THE FACT/KNOWN-TERM OF THE POSITIONAL-LODIO-FACT-PHRASE AND WITH THE VOID OF THE NOM-DE-GUERRE = DEAD-PERSON.[14]
Miller's ideas about language are notably rooted in the idea that only nouns have legal meaning and that their meanings are static and absolute.[2][8] This had led Miller to arbitrarily recast words' definitions and roles according to his own understanding and convenience.[2] Among the idiosyncratic rules of the language he created, sentences must contain at least 13 words and use more nouns than verbs,[1] sentences used in court filings must start with prepositional phrases,[10] a preposition is needed to certify a noun,[18] and a word that starts with a vowel followed by two consonants means "no contract" and will therefore void any document.[11][19]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_catch_syndrome
I just discovered this the other day and it brought me peace
The most interesting part is that it's happened to me for as long as I can remember, but only recently was I like "oh, hm. That's weird and I should probably look into it"
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The most interesting part is that it's happened to me for as long as I can remem...
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The Swedish name of the village translates literally into "outer village".[3] Ytterby is the single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world; the chemical elements yttrium (Y), terbium (Tb), erbium (Er), and ytterbium (Yb) are all named after Ytterby, and the elements holmium (Ho), scandium (Sc), thulium (Tm), tantalum (Ta), and gadolinium (Gd) were also first discovered there.
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Coined by American psychologist Henry H. Goddard in 1910, from Ancient Greek μωρόν (mōrón), the neuter form of μωρός (mōrós, “foolish, dull”).
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The decision created the Paramount Decree, a standard held by the United States Department of Justice that prevented film production companies from owning exhibition companies.[2] The case is important both in American antitrust law and film history. In the former, it remains a landmark decision in vertical integration cases; in the latter, it is responsible for putting an end to the old Hollywood studio system. As part of a 2019 review of its ongoing decrees, the Department of Justice issued a two-year sunsetting notice for the Paramount Decree in August 2020, believing the antitrust restriction was no longer necessary as the old model could never be recreated in contemporary settings.[3]
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The larvae of wasps in both of those groups are themselves parasitic on Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), and the polydnaviruses are important in circumventing the immune response of their parasitized hosts.
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When split-brain patients are shown an image only in the left half of each eye's visual field, they cannot verbally name what they have seen. This is because the brain's experiences of the senses is contralateral.
The same effect occurs for visual pairs and reasoning. For example, a patient with split brain is shown a picture of a chicken foot and a snowy field in separate visual fields and asked to choose from a list of words the best association with the pictures. The patient would choose a chicken to associate with the chicken foot and a shovel to associate with the snow; however, when asked to reason why the patient chose the shovel, the response would relate to the chicken (e.g. "the shovel is for cleaning out the chicken coop").[4]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_(graffito) @ruby breach I'd like to scribble your name a million times around the world in this very font. But alas, my handwriting is not exactly aesthetically pleasing.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_(graffito) <@461952652750618645> I'd like...
It's ok
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Beavers are serious business
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_vices
@ruby breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_(stock_character)
Geez, did you guys know about Rake!?!? 😮
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbing_(horse)
Horses are so weird
Our horse would peel paint off the wall at his first barn because he was bored
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Geez, did you guys know about Rake!?!? 😮
Slander!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020s_purpling_of_streetlights
I miss these lights
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once read a poem by this author in middle school and never thought to follow up on him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind
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"Tung tung sahur" is an informal phrase that emerged from traditional practices associated with sahur, the pre-dawn meal consumed by Muslims during the month of Ramadan. In various regions, particularly in Southeast Asia, communities have historically used rhythmic drumming, chanting, or other forms of noise-making as a wake-up call for residents.[3] In Indonesia specifically, this practice is done by calling out and making percussive sounds with drums, kentongan, improvised containers, or other noisy objects.[11] The expression "tung tung" serves as onomatopoeia, imitating the sound of percussive instruments used in these wake-up calls.[3]
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The flattened shape, low-to-the-ground profile, and tough exoskeleton of the diabolical ironclad beetle makes it extremely hard to crush; the structure of the procuticle allows for focused compressive forces to be distributed evenly across the beetle's body. Because of the exoskeleton's toughness, collectors find it extremely difficult to pin specimens. The beetles cannot be mounted normally; a hole must be drilled in the shell for the pin to be inserted
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_castration
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The placenta of mammalian pregnancy is so named from the perceived resemblance between its shape and that of a placenta cake.
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