Eat first, before the food fights back!
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Even if it looks that friendly?
Though one may point out that having to kill your food yourself was the standard way of things for quite a bit of history.
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âEat or be eatenâ is a powerful motivator.
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Sometimes the classics canât be beaten. Itâs a motivator that practically everyone, even many non-humans, understand without problem.
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Well, this is cool.
From the article:
-The team has been exploring the reef using an underwater robot called âSuBastianââŚ-
I see what you did there, guys. 
-The âdetachedâ reef is â the first to be discovered in more than 120 years â is around 1.5 kilometres long, and rises from over 500 metres deep up to 40 metres below the surface.-
- is estimated to be 20 million years old-
Ainât it cool?
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Just found this thread looks cool. I just read the first few posts then zoomed down to the active last posts and will read the rest when I have some time. So sorry if this one has already been mentioned.
New York was briefly called New Orange.
The Dutch captured New York in 1673 from the English and renamed it New Orange in honour of William of Orange. The English took it back the following year and changed it back.
So before it was the Big Apple it was the New Orange 
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Toronto was originally named âYorkâ as well. I think they might have been going to call it âNew Yorkâ but that was already taken, obviously. It was named after Fort York (which you can still visit and tour).
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Competitive art used to be part of the Olympics.
Between 1912 - 1948 the Olympic games awarded medals in music, sculpture, painting and architecture.
John Copley a Brit won one of the final medals awarded at the age of 73. If his silver medal was still counted in the records today it would make him the oldest Olympian in history.
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This isnât new to me, as âEach one teach oneâ is likely my favorite proverb, but while I believe it to be very important its history is rooted in our tragic and problematic past.
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Iâve heard of the Nocebo affect before - mostly in the context of claims of electromagnetic susceptibility - but the magnitude of the affect with statins was very surprising. The human mind is a weird and wonderful thingâŚ
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Today I learned, or rather re-emphasized, that âthe dogâs bollocksâ is a phrase that indicates âbest ofâŚâ, but I actually newly learned that it is the term for a specific typographical construction, namely [:-] (excluding the brackets).
Bonus points if you click the link to see the picture of dogâs bollocks in the US Declaration of Independence.
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Huh. I didnât know that the term applied to that construct, or even had a typographical association. It was a very common term to hear in south east London growing up.
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As a humble rebellious colonist I encountered it in film, I want to say Snatch but could easily be wrong. The exchange that I hear in my head being: âSo, bollocks is bad?â âYes.â âBut the dogâs bollocks is good?â âRight.â Hence Google, hence new knowledge, hence a giggle at seeing it in the Declaration of Independence.
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FTR, the opposite would be âa dogâs breakfastâ
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Literary trivia, that expression is where the title of the Vonnegut novel âBreakfast of Championsâ comes from, though there the expression is used in reference to the human brain.
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That may be the case for more regions in Europe.
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I knew that the Disney lemming âsuicideâ was staged, but I hadnât fully appreciated just how different lemmings actually are from the impressions my younger self formed watching that work of fiction:
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I never watched the Disney fake, but I always thought of them as bloodthirsty, hairy berserkers. They can be lethal with their little pick axes and blow torches.
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