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#164

TIL Pandas will sometimes fake pregnancies to receive more food and special treatment from humans

I’ll remember this forever haha!

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#165

So you’re saying that pandas are smarter than the average bear?!

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#166

You can never judge them by their looks though, can you?

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#167

Of course you can. Haven’t you heard the Stereotype song?
:wink:

#168

Things start to become clearer:

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-trump-family-fortune/
“Trump’s Family Fortune Originated in a Canadian Gold-Rush Brothel”

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#169
#170

TIL about a game called Big Rigs and it’s “backwards driving” glitch.

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. It’s a video game in which you race trucks, and it is infamously one of the worst games ever made. It’s completely broken in every imaginable way. Notably, one of the funniest bugs in the game is the lack of a cap on backwards acceleration. If you start driving in reverse, your truck will keep going faster and faster indefinitely until it breaks the universe.

It’s been found that the maximum speed your truck can achieve is 12.3 undecillion mph, at which point the truck literally exists everywhere at once and automatically wins the race by hitting all the checkpoints simultaneously.

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#171

Omniscience has its perks lmao.
index

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#172

A group of scientists noticed that GPS data showed the earth compressing under the weight of Hurricane Harvey’s water. Apparently, at the height of the flooding, parts of Texas were 21 mm lower than normal. There’s more:

That is… a LOT of water. And now I’m wondering if there’s similar data available for N. Carolina.

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#173

Trump gets it.

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#174

Seems to be the only thing he does get!

TL;DR: The more he tries to reverse the US trade deficit, the more his actions contribute to the trade deficit.

#175

Ever heard the phrase “I can see it in your eyes that you are lying”?

then check this out.

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#176

TIL that when NASA was preparing for Sally Ride to travel as the first American female astronaut, engineers initially were at a loss about how many tampons to send. “Is 100 the right number?” they asked her. “No. That would not be the right number,” she replied.

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#177

Dry hopping:

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#178

Come on - no boofing session is complete without an exploding beer. This is a feature!

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#179

“On this day in 2004, Iowa beat Penn State (football) 6-4, taking an intentional safety to force the lions into driving down the field. They did not.”

#180

Did you know IMDB has actor pages for animal actors?
I kind of find that awesome.

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#181

Now that is pleasing.

And through it TIL the dolphin from the 1960s show Flipper was actually played by 5 different dolphins. It confuses me (though the issue is likely obscure) that the creators and actors on that programme (a sweet, idyllic tale about a young boy and his pet dolphin) were also behind several bloody exploitation films, including Shock Waves (Nazi zombies) and The Amazing Mr No Legs (don’t ask).

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#182

That page is missing Asta! Unacceptable!

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#183

Oh god the comments

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