ok--I believe you now.

The beginning monologue reminds me of another fact:

the federal holiday in February is "Washington's Birthday" (so we do have a holiday in honor of the founding president--and he doesn't share it with Lincoln--the latter is just no longer a federal holiday).

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

The ZIG-ZAG® logo is a tribute to the French infantryman (a Zouave) who improvised wrapping his tobacco in a piece of paper torn from a bag of gunpowder after his clay pipe was broken by a bullet during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855).

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Old world monkeys are more closely related to apes than they are to new world monkeys.

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

(I'd imagine this is a fact)--smoking cigars made from paper used to hold gunpowder could be harmful to your health (or a bad joke, depending on amount of residue).

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

Samuel Butler, Darwin and the Machines, 1872

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

U.S. pennies (1983 onward) are 99% Zinc.

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I watched the Square Butts Burger King Music Video with SpongeBob Square Pants and didn't think, "OK, that's it, the Internet is over."

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Smile, and the Universe smiles with you. Frown, and everybody stays out of your way.

The word pencil is a derivative of the Latin word pencillus, for 'little tail'.

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My fingernails are rather thin and split easily.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

"There's always room for JELL-O!"

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There is no law requiring a U.S. citizen to file an IRS tax return.

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There are, however, plenty of laws explaining exactly what happens if you don't.

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Smile, and the Universe smiles with you. Frown, and everybody stays out of your way.

The term "sheeple" was originally coined by the John Birch Society to describe people who paid their taxes.

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

The current most viewed viral video of all-time is Judson Laipply's Evolution of Dance; 130 million times since 2006.

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42 US states have the right to imprison a child for life without parole.

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Since I changed the title of Wikipedia's article on "ZetaTalk" to "Nibiru collision", its view count has increased from 600 to 1300 a day.

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Three lefts make a right.

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The astrological practice of assigning characteristics via one's Sun sign only dates from the beginning of the 20th century. For much of astrological history, one's rising sign was more important.

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.

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Earth's oxygen is provided through photosynthesis.

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Mother's Day was founded by Anna Jarvis of Grafton, WV.

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

George Lucas offered David Lynch the job of directing Return of the Jedi, but Lynch turned it down.

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

SpongeBob Square Pants is a fictional character that lives in a pineapple house under the sea.

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This whole internet thing is probably not a passing fad.-Ronald Brak
While speech might be free, consequences cost.-Doodler

Niagra Falls is about 12½ thousand years old.

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Musically, the resonances between Neptune, the plutinos and the twotinos play the first three bars of Thus Spake Zarathustra by Strauss.

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Three days after a Soviet archeologist opened the tomb of Timur the Tatar in June of 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

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All fake moderation in purple

There are five Civil War battlefields in North Dakota.

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Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out. ---Cardinal Wolsey (1475-1530)

The British Navy originally used lemons to cure scurvy, not limes. The shift to limes occurred because limes were grown in British colonies whereas lemons were grown around the Mediterranean. The shift led to a massive increase in the incidence of scurvy as limes contain far less vitamin C than lemons.

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There is a growing tendancy to think of Man as a rational, thinking being, which is absurd.- Marvin the Martian.

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Today, the clouds dropped gentle rain into Fort Worth, TX; the kind of rain that the ground can soak up, which we need.

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"...with God, all things are possible..." Even evolution

The Hausa-Fulani are the largest tribe in sub-saharan Africa. Arabs are the most prevalent single ethnic group on the continent as a whole.

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Yonder is Dubhe seen on Earth tonight as it was in the days of Grover Cleveland's presidency whereas this way is Deneb seen as it was in the lifetime of Muhammed . If one somehow travelled to Deneb at very close to c then whenever you looked back you'd measure Earth as closer to you than the distance you would simultaneously measure between Earth and Dubhe.