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where's the fourth foot if he only has three legs?

the guy that took the picture with the cheetah has studied them for decades so they were familiar with him and new he was cool. animals are smart.

there was an injured crow in the parking lot this last week. the rest of his murder hung around and cawed at anyone that got close to him, protecting one of their own. smart birbs.

ROBANN_88 posted...

where's the fourth foot if he only has three legs?

I can only assume one of those legs has an additional foot.

To this day, No WWE wrestler born in the 90s has ever won a WWE World Heavyweight Title.

You can't lick your elbow

Actually. I love the take that the myth has persisted for 100,000 years.

The next time I am away from light pollution I will look for 7 of them. I guess truth is better than a beautiful story?

Terry Pratchett changed his German publisher in 1994.
Heyne was the biggest German scifi publisher at the time so why would he change?
He discovered that they had inserted two pages of ads for 5 Min Soup.
Suddenly the story took a break and the main character sat down and ate some 5 Min Soup.
Pratchett got angry and demanded an apology and a promise that it would never happen again. Heyne couldnt do that, so he switched publisher. This was right before he became really popular in Germany.
Heyne seems to have done this with pretty much every book they published, there is even a Star Trek TNG book that got soup ads.
This originated in the 50s/60s when they published cheap pockets and they had tons of cheap scripts to pick from, they simply needed the inbook ads to make a profit.
Jumping to the 90s and they were selling expensive books, so those ads were not needed to make a profit, but they were a nice bonus. The suits got a higher profit, the writers didnt know about it and the readers were used to them, they were just happy to be able to read the published books. Shortly after Heyne stopped with the ads.

https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/

There were a number of reasons for switching to Goldmann, but a deeply personal one for me was the way Heyne (in Sourcery, I think, although it may have been in other books) inserted a soup advert in the text a few black lines and then something like Around about now our heroes must be pretty hungry and what better than a nourishing bowl etc, etc. My editor was pretty sick about it, but the company wouldnt promise not to do it again, so that made it very easy to leave them. They did it to Iain Banks, too, and apparently at a con he tore out the offending page and ate it. Without croutons.

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YugiNoob posted...

I can only assume one of those legs has an additional foot.

Lentini was born with a parasitic twin. The twin was attached to his body at the base of his spine and consisted of a pelvic bone, a rudimentary set of male genitalia, and a full-sized leg extending from the right side of his hip, with a small foot protruding from its knee."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lentini#:~:text=Lentini%20was%20born%20with%20a,foot%20protruding%20from%20its%20knee

Back in 1997 a guy tried to bungee jump off a 70 foot railroad trestle using bungee cords. Those little stretchy cords with hooks at each end.

He ended up making it too long, and just went splat

I wonder if he had time to realize his error before he hit

ROBANN_88 posted...

I wonder if he had time to realize his error before he hit

...any time now... any ti

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I case anyone was wondering, the name they changed it to was TrekStor Blaxx :3

Nogger is an European ice lolly in a dark color.
Around 2005 Sweden got a special version with licorice flavor called... Nogger Black.

Nephews/Nieces of the Hamas' political leader have served in the Israeli army according to today's Wikipedia article on Ismail Haniyeh[ constant edits you know]

Haniyeh's sisters, Kholidia, Laila, and Sabah, are Israeli citizens and live in the Bedouin town of Tel as-Sabi in southern Israel.[59] Kholodia moved to Tel as-Sabi first and then her two sisters followed.[59] Kholidia's husband said "Our life is normal here and we want it to continue."[59] Laila and Sabah are both widowed but remain in Tel as-Sabi, presumably to retain their Israeli citizenship.[59] Some of the children of the three sisters have served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).[59]

The cicadas emerging now may be 13 year or 17 year. Surprisingly, each of the 3 species of long term cicadas has 13 year and 17 members. Savants cannot see a difference between the pairs.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-the-difference-betw/

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Periodical cicadas occur in three pairs of species--each pair comprised of a 17-year and a 13-year species. (There are other cicadas, such as dog-day cicadas, which have only a four-year life cycle.) The periodical varieties look, sound and behave alike. The only characteristic distinguishing them from one another is the length of time they spend in the ground during the nymphal stages--either 13 or 17 years.
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They also cycle together.

https://cicadas.uconn.edu/species/

Brood XIX, emerging now around Chicago, contains all of the "magic cicadas".

The Japanese voice actors for Jin, Hakumen and Hilda have voiced hentai :3

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Rodents cannot vomit.

They found rodents had bodily constraints that would limit how much they could vomit even if they could attempt it. This included reduced muscularity of the diaphragm, the thin sheet of muscle underneath the lungs, as well as a stomach that is not structured well for moving contents up the throat.
The researchers also investigated the brainstems of lab mice and rats. When given compounds that normally trigger nausea in other animals, the researchers saw less nerve, mouth, throat and shoulder activity normally linked with vomiting. This suggests they lack the brain circuits for throwing up.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-rodents-cant-throw-up-in-case-you-were-wondering-25707720/

Ice is considered a mineral but only if it's naturally formed

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