"generosity, unity, humility, hospitality, patience, honesty, defence of fatherland, protection of female dignity, and caring for horses" #wikifinds
"Ivan first flew into space on Korabl-Sputnik 4 on 9 March 1961, accompanied by a dog named Chernushka, various reptiles, and 80 mice and guinea pigs, some of which were placed inside his body."
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> On 17 January 2012, the Aaye Art Group, an Iranian company, said it would send miniature, toy versions of the captured drone to President Obama as a response to the request for sending the drone back.[29]
lmfao. i hope they did it
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> Karp has condemned "woke" ways of thinking, calling them the central risk to his company Palantir and to the United States as a whole.[69]
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The shortest day ever recorded was 29 June 2022, at 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours.[26]
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#wikifinds legendary non-sequitur
> The rocket saw its first test on 23 April 1958 when Thor-Able 116 was launched from LC-17A with a biological nose cone containing a mouse named MIA (Mouse In Able). At 19:10 EST, the Thor's engine ignited and drove the Able stage and its passenger into the sky. Two minutes and fifteen seconds […]
i was looking up how we ended up calling connectors male and female
> The Talmud describes arrow heads and mating shafts as potentially being either male or female, depending on their construction, i.e. a prong on a male arrow head fits into a hollowed out shaft and vice versa. This is owing to […]
The phonetician Jack Windsor Lewis frequently criticised the name "Received Pronunciation" in his blog: he has called it "invidious",[22] a "ridiculously archaic, parochial and question-begging term"[23] and noted that American scholars find the term "quite curious".[24]
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"Some consider thrips to have piercing-sucking mouthparts, but others describe them as rasping-sucking.[11]"
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#wikifinds “In 1977, British psychiatrist David Cooper asked Foucault […]: when the USSR has [police], why do they use psychiatry [to suppress dissent]? Foucault answered it was not a question of a distortion of the use of psychiatry but that was its fundamental project.”
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Unlike panda bonds, dim sum bonds are issued in the offshore market.
(Redirected from Kungfu bond):
Chinese-issued U.S. dollar bonds
A wikipedia sentence: This slogan is not a formal commitment, and in fact the USPS may delay mail during bad weather.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Important clarification about the famous US postal motto
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"An example of an actual eCBE is AM404, the active metabolite of the analgesic paracetamol (acetaminophen; Tylenol) and a dual FAAH inhibitor and eCBRI" #wikifinds @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
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#wikifinds “by one estimate, the number of mice and rats used in the United States alone in 2001 was 80 million”
As with all social networks, ACH faced a chicken-or-the-egg problem in that it was difficult to convince consumers to want to move funds via this method if banks didn't support it, and it was difficult to convince banks to join the network if customers weren't clamoring to use ACH. Arguably the single most important event in the history of the development of ACH was the United States Social Security Administration trialing direct deposit of Supplemental Security Income via the ACH network in 1975. This meant that joining the network enabled banks' customers to receive Social Security benefits via direct deposit instead of via paper check, which drove many US banks to quickly sign up with the network.[1][7]
sentences that read like a fever dream: "These low frequencies create large wavelengths, which induce strong particle accelerations in the near field of swimming fish that do not radiate into the far field as acoustic waves due to an acoustic short circuit."
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from the "American Wire Gauge article: Rules of thumb: The sixth power of the 39th root of 92 is very close to 2, which leads to the following rules of thumb:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicksho... *snort* #wikifinds
Mildly interesting: the English Wikipedia and Russian Wikipedia pages "Service structure" and "Ферма обслуживания" are paired.
The first discusses NASA almost exclusively, with a brief nod to Russian spaceflight by mentioning Baikonur.
The second discusses Russian spaceflight almost […]
Historically, the absence of calf, meaning a lower leg without a prominent calf muscle, was regarded by some authors as a sign of inferiority: it is well known that monkeys have no calves, and still less do they exist among the lower orders of mammals
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_...
(via youtu.be/Q0S4JagP8Tk)
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In the Osiris myth, the most important Egyptian myth, Set is portrayed as the usurper who murdered and mutilated his own brother, Osiris. Osiris's sister-wife, Isis, reassembled his corpse and resurrected her dead brother-husband with the help of the goddess Nephthys. The resurrection lasted long enough to conceive his son and heir, Horus. Horus sought revenge upon Set, and many of the ancient Egyptian myths describe their conflicts.[8]
necrophilia of the divine i guess #wikifinds
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#wikifinds “Since he was posing as an artist and photographer, nobody questioned his irregular working hours and frequent disappearances.”
wow i should become a kgb agent too
"They differed from the real Renaults in having a neater underslung front radiator arrangement." #wikifinds
#wikifinds „Neu Drontheim war die Bezeichnung für eine projektierte Großstadt, die die Führung des nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Reiches im Zusammenhang mit einer Marinebasis etwa 20 km außerhalb Trondheims (Norwegen) plante.“
#wikifinds “The Spelling Act gives the Committee of Ministers of the Dutch Language Union the authority to determine the spelling of Dutch by ministerial decision.”
a wikipedia article for Ray Cats. it shows an artist's impression of a ray cat, which is a green glowing house cat. "A ray cat[a] is a proposed kind of cat that would be genetically engineered to change appearance in the presence of nuclear radiation."
The M33 cluster bomb was used in a series of tests from August–October 1952 at GPI, with the Army Chemical Corps exposing over 11,000 guinea pigs to Brucella suis. The guinea pig trials caused one Chemical Corps general to remark, "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"