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@[email protected] Jesus only had 12 follower’s Mr. Werder #somethingtothinkabout

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

Henry David Thoreau

(Discovered in The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman)

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#words #reading

@rugby #Rugby #6Nations #ENGvIRE quick visit to the English half, quick three points.

England dominant on the field, Ireland ahead on the board.

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The longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of an English typewriter, is "typewriter".

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When your car puts a red warning up to tell you you need petrol, but you know you can go another 20, 30 miles on what's in the tank...

are you being...

gas light-ed?

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In honour of the USA civics test I took yesterday, did you know there's a basketball court on the 5th floor of the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C.?

Makes answering "what is the highest court in the land" a tricky question.

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I don't have all my fingers on one hand.

Neither do you.

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Never put anything in your ear smaller than your elbow.

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There is a beach in New Zealand named "Ninety Mile Beach".

It's a very long beach.

Fifty-five miles long, to be exact.

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The precise origin of culinary rhubarb is unknown.

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If you took all the mosquitoes in the world and put them in one place, that place would apparently be outside my back door.

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The Fediverse and its 25,000 independent servers is a great place to be, in large part because of the thousands of people around the world performing content moderation.

99.999% of them are unpaid volunteers.

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Try to lick your elbow.

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You once held the record, albeit briefly, for "youngest person on the planet".

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Some cats are allergic to people.

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The word "SWIMS" is still "SWIMS" if you turn your phone upside down.

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@sourdust technically as all atoms are 99.999% empty space, we're never truly touching the ball.

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There are not one but two cash machines in Antarctica.

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Cassoulet,
qu'est ce que c'est?
Je ne sais
pas

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The rock is one, but the stones are many.

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Wait, that's not right.

The Rock is one, but the Stones are many.

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Commercial air travel predates commercial sliced bread.

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The dot above a lower case j or i is called a "tittle", and is centred directly above the letter in question.

According to some sources, this is the origin of the expression, "tittle tittle in the middle".

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If you took all my arteries, veins, capillaries, stretched them out and laid them out end to end, I'd be dead.

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A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared and not a bit more.

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The word "oxymoron" (from the Greek for sharp-dull) is an oxymoron.

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According to the web site democracysausage.org - 43.4% of Australians had access to a Democracy Sausage at their respective polling booth in the 2022 federal election.

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Many of the "facts" printed on Snapple bottle tops have been found to be incorrect, or somewhat exaggerated.

Hopefully, they are not the source of these posts.

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Psychology toolbox: How to use skepticism

https://bigthink.com/videos/psychology-toolbox-how-to-use-skepticism

#derrenbrown #skepticism #somethingtothinkabout