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It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

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    • Tomb filled with a dozen skeletons found underneath the Treasury in Petra

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  • That was magnificent...

    • Does each language have "lefty loosey righty tighty"?

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  • They're made that way so you don't accidentally connect a gas cylinder to a water line.

    • Iran readying 'imminent' ballistic missile attack against Israel, U.S. official tells NBC News

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  • Yes, I imagine they'd use the Arrow 3, and the US Navy could probably help out with SM3s if they were instructed to intervene.

    • Absolute chaos.

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    • Iran readying 'imminent' ballistic missile attack against Israel, U.S. official tells NBC News

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  • They're saying ballistic missiles, not cruise missiles though. Those are too fast and too vertical to be intercepted with aircraft.

    • What was the last song you had to press repeat on?

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    • Bees

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  • You know what you did.

    • TIL Gravity is not about mass pulling other mass. It's mass bending time spacetime that makes other mass get closer

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  • Dread it, run from it...

    • Moss

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  • That really was great, thank you!

    • America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting

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  • Mmm, high tea... Haven't played that in a while.

    • Kamala’s interview was a masterclass in dodging traps set by Trump

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  • It's called a job. You demoncrats wouldn't know anything about that.

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    • The unpleasantness of mosquito bites is not something useful for mosquitoes, but it is useful for the ones who suffer it

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  • I understand the saliva has a benefit for mosquitoes, but not the swelling and the itching (the "unpleasantness" in the title). In essence, our bodies hung this not-otherwise-useful allergic response on something the mosquitoes couldn't/wouldn't/didn't give up and which was firmly specific to their bites, to single them out.

    If there was no saliva our bodies would be pressured by natural selection to pick some other mechanism to make their bites unpleasant. An allergy to their chitin or a phobia to the sound of their wings, etc.

    Evolutionary pressure from mosquitoes has probably been no small thing.

    • What doesn't kill ya

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  • The image just loaded very slowly for me (i.e. after about 10 seconds). In some posts it never loads at all, but there is a thumbnail in the main screen. This is on sync.

    • Why does “weird” work? Republicans love to appeal to a supposed silent majority. The new insult helps intervene.

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  • Yes, that's right. There's a "no" at the beginning of the phrase which gives it that meaning (I misread it myself, so I see where you're coming from).

    • Why does “weird” work? Republicans love to appeal to a supposed silent majority. The new insult helps intervene.

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  • TL;DR: "No 14 year old boy will stop following someone if they're considered evil and bad, but they will stop if they're considered cringe".

    • Strength

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  • It also propels itself forward by discharging high velocity watermarks.

    • Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion for using facial recognition technology without users’ permission.

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  • Tomato / tomato.

    • Outrage after French MP says Israelis 'not welcome' at Olympics

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  • It's a special ethnic adjustment operation.

    • J.D. Vance says he gets bad press because most journalists are “childless adults”

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  • Finnala.