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It took two tries. Witness reports say he caught fire.

Zebra is the American medical slang for a surprising, often exotic, medical diagnosis, especially when a more commonplace explanation is more likely.

"it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

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Should the user of the code consider the software useful, they are encouraged to buy the author a beer "in return" if they ever meet.

Fruits and vegetables inside bottles are grown by placing a bottle around the blossom or young fruit and securing it to the plant. The fruit then grows to full size inside the bottle.

"The New Kingdom, also referred to as the Egyptian Empire, was the ancient Egyptian state between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC. This period of ancient Egyptian history covers the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties. Through radiocarbon dating, the establishment of the New Kingdom has been placed between 1570 BC and 1544 BC. The New Kingdom followed the Second Intermediate Period and was succeeded by the Third Intermediate Period. It was the most prosperous time for the Egyptian people and marked the peak of Egypt's power."

Don’t mean to cause an argument war in the comments so please stay civil. But it’s an interesting read.

Before there were retroreflective coatings on road signs, some places used retroreflective dots to trace the letters and shapes.

Dead at 37, very sad.

41 years ago today. Thank you, Stanislav Petrov

Taiwan’s is awesome

When in doubt, become crab

…this transformation occurs if these ground fruit have been kept for more than ten days: then the gathered pumpkins stir all by themselves and make a sound like ‘brrrl, brrrl, brrrl!’ and begin to shake themselves.