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Hey Pandas! Did you know that women’s farts tend to smell worse because they contain more hydrogen sulfide than men’s farts? Well, they say that every day is a chance to learn something new. And the Instagram page that we’re covering here helps you do exactly that. And don’t worry – not all of them are flatulence-related.

The Weird Facts Instagram has an astounding 1.5 million followers and deserves every single one. They also provide their subscribers with interesting and fascinating facts on other social platforms, like Facebook and YouTube, so their total follower count tallies up to around 5 million. Interested in why it’s so popular? Scroll down and see for yourself. And don’t forget to upvote your favorite weird fact!

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Many of us remember school as a purgatory. Our memories relating to sitting in the classroom are often tainted with feelings of boredom, annoyance, and thinking that most of this information is useless. Clearly, those who come up with the school curriculum include the basic information every adult should know. Yet, somehow, we find learning through the Internet a lot more satisfying.

So let's tackle the question "Why is school so useless?", shall we? There is a sound reason many of us dislike learning at school. Maria Sanchez writes for Save Our Schools March: "School often focuses too much on rote memorization and standardized tests rather than imparting useful life skills and knowledge." Students feel unengaged with the curriculum because it doesn't relate to their realities.

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A frequent criticism of the education system is that the things we teach children in school are impractical. Why do we need all that math if we're going to have a calculator in our pocket at all times anyway? And so what if the mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell? We can't really apply it anywhere in our daily lives, so how does knowing it benefit us (given that we're not working in a lab of some sort)?

As a child of a teacher and someone who's dabbled in teaching kids for a few months, I have nothing but respect for teachers. I was always a stickler for the rules growing up and, most times, the teacher's favorite. (Parental influence, wink, wink.) So I nodded and agreed with my peers when they would snicker and sneer while learning the Pythagorean theorem, but I still went ahead and learned it.

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Was Always More Of A Slowpoke Rodriguez Fan Myself 89wreply

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It seems that most often that the only people getting offended are people that don't belong to that community because they feel the need to fight something that doesn't need fighting

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How?

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From January 25 to 31, 2017, Smith ran marathons in Perth, Australia; Singapore; Cairo, Egypt; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Garden City, New York; Punta Arenas, Chile; and King George Island, Antarctica. It’s part of a challenge called Triple 7 Quest, operated by Marathon Adventures, which planned the itinerary and logistics.

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I always felt like, maybe, it's not the theorem itself that is useful, but the process. Maybe school is about learning how to pick up and understand information, not about the information itself. And it's partially true. School is sometimes not about the things we memorize but about the new neural pathways we train our brains to create while doing so.

#10

Now That’s Going Out On Your Own Dog-Terms.🤌🏼

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Louise Clarke
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is both a very sweet sentiment and it also makes it more educational, seeing the similarities and differences between a human skeleton and a dog one.

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We The Differents invites us to think about the learning process more like growing a tree. In primary school, we learn the basics of life, things like reading and writing. Then, in high school, we start to grow the branches of the tree. We start building skills that we'll need throughout life. These include: problem-solving, storing and remembering information, new ways of thinking, and learning how to learn.

#13

This Doesn’t Make Sense. If One Used A Different Identity And Gender To Marry The Other, Then It Would Look Like On Paper To Be A Heterosexual Marriage, Not Same-Sex, So It Wouldn’t Be Recorded As A Same-Sex Marriage…

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Ines Olabarria-Smith
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sánchez . Elisa came back as Mario. They even got married in church!!! Ther will be a series in Netflix.

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Yall R Believing It Blindy While It Aint True💀

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks to a helpful panda, I learned that he also changed a lot of his views because of this in the years after. I wish I could find the comment that made me aware of this fact but if you're reading this, thank you

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So, it's not that big of a deal if we forget how to do ratios. The neural pathways we built will still be there and help us in the future to get jobs and adapt to life. Even if that job will never include mathematics, the brain will have stored knowledge for us to know that numbers are important. When the time comes to make important life decisions, such as buying a car or moving out on your own, the neural pathways that you use to learn and problem-solve will come in handy.

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In Jamaica All Winners Wear Masks For Their Own Protection

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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The efficacy of the plan somewhat diminished by printing his name on the cheque.

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#17

I Suffered A Brain Injury And Lost All Memory Of Our First Son’s Birth. It Tears Me Apart When I Try To Remember. This Gives Me Hope That I Will Someday Recall That Special Moment🙏🏻

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One Chinese girl was found unconscious on roadside. Authority failed to find her family so a local family adopted her. Went to school, got married etc. A new police noticed that the dumplings she made had a very peculiar shape. The police asked netizens for help and was able to identify the area where this type of dumplings was from. The woman finally got to meet her family using DNA test.

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Sounds Like Your Average American Worker

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People with food allergies should consider not going, for their own safety. Not bashing this restaurant, just pointing the obvious out.

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It's the principle idea behind Daniel T. Willingham's book Why Don't Students Like School? He's a researcher of cognitive science behind learning, and he claims that knowledge is exponential. Basically, the more we learn, the easier it is to learn new things. 

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The Only Joy You Get In Nature Is When You’re Drunk. Wtf Else Are You Gonna Do Out In The Woods? Smell A Tree?

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Anna Ekberg
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think Norway and Finland has something similar if not the same as allemansrätten?

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It somewhat negates Einstein’s idea that imagination is more important than knowledge – knowledge is what allows us to imagine. To teach someone 'how' to think, we must first teach them a considerable amount of 'what' to think. We must have some background knowledge so we can learn better.

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Good Job Ancient Humans

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To all the people talking about how they should have used Wood or something else, this was the tundra, where no wood was growing.

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#23

Back When Some Honour Was Still Left In War

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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's always a kind of chivalry in the Air Forces - Manfred von Richthofen's body for example was also treated with respect after he got shot down. A british pilot that had a faulty chute and only survived by being slowed down by trees had a few drink with the germans on the nearby base as that impressed them. And of course the stories about Charlie Brown / Franz Stigler or Ernst Udet / Georges Guynemer

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Great Movie

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a great year for cinema. The Shawshank Redemption is imo the best but at the time I probably would've chosen Jurassic Park

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However, that's not to say that the current education system in most Western countries is perfect. The curriculum is still abstract and impractical, focuses more on memorization than understanding, and doesn't consider different learning styles.

That's why many experts advocate for more interactive, hands-on learning. They say that projects, experiments, and group discussions allow the students to apply their knowledge in practical ways.

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Her Head And Arms?

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At first I completely misinterpreted 'growing two extra feet' and wondered what she'd want four feet for...

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New Orleans Moment

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Izzy and his partner Moe used to go into speakeasies and announce "We're Prohibition agents! So serve us a drink." Everyone would just laugh. When Izzy and Moe returned the next day with search and arrest warrants, the laughter died down a bit.

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Mathematics can be more interesting, too! When the teacher connects the material to the real world, students become more engaged. For example, they can teach math through real-life scenarios, such as calculating discounts or budgeting. 

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So Weird

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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Given that we replace ourselves cell by cell over time, this makes sense right? The cells in her donor hands were being replaced by cells written from her dna?

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#29

But They Out Here Firing People For Not Taking An Experimental Jab 😂 What Is This World Even

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Serves them right for not making chargers commodity items and then gouging people for Apple-specific chargers

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#30

What A Waste. All His Words Sucked Up And Never Heard From Once There

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like to think he would have loved that. He also had a great wit and sense of humour, as well as his contributions to physics.

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It's also important to consider learning styles. The four predominant ones are: auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, and read/write. Some students really learn better by taking notes and reading textbooks. These are most often well-organized people. But the reality is that others struggle to take in information without visual aids and hands-on activities.

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Not So Weird

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My city in Japan has a station that is only open during ume blossom season (plum blossom). And it only stops on the north direction side of the track.

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#36

Why Did They Do Away With The Ban For? Seriously People Are Idiots And I Hate Idiots

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It should be banned today. All it does is make it so corporations can ask you to do work when you go home without you protesting.

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Factsweird

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's missing from this is that he was fined because it also interfered with police/emergency services communications

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#41

F#$% You Know It's A Long Never Ending Cold Snowy Spring When U Argue With A 20 Something On Ig And Then Comment How Sad It Is To Argue With A 20something On Ig. It's Been A Long Winter.....😉😊🤪

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Catacombs. A network of ancient stone quarries. Part of it can be visited, among which the "scary" part where the bones from à medieval cemetary were moved to make place for new builds, but there are many other "forbidden" caves and tunnels that only few people know of.

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#42

Clasic Bil,always Packing Shit Or Musqittos In Jar

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember reading somewhere that the mosquitoes he released were male, and therefore would not actually bite anyone. He just wanted to scare them.

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I Read This While Shitting My Guts Out

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🎼 When you want to fire your gun but your opponent's on the dun, Diarrhoea, Diarrhoea 🎶

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#47

Same Effect From Going To A Salt Cave Like Oceanair In Palm Harbor, Florida

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poland: https://www.wieliczka-saltmine.com/health-resort/about-the-health-resort.

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Bring Back Turtle Soup!

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to love Phish Food but can't get it anymore where I live

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Lick The Walls

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok. This might sound weird but hear me out... I kind of want to lick this place. I'm sorry. I'll go now.

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#54

If Rose Had Been There, She Wouldn't Share The Door

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The cat was later arrested and sent to prison for causing the destruction of three warships...

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#55

It Also Produced The “Year Without A Summer” In Vermont, Where It Snowed Every Month!

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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I remember correctly, at a seismic station in distant Jakarta it was clearly heard and the scientists manning the station at first thought it was an earthquake. Only to find no record of an earthquake on their seismograph. Concluding correctly that it was the sound of an explosion heard through the air.

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Muslims Been At It For A Minute

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And also, you can replace the water with another liquid! So if you want a ketchup bidet

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#57

Maybe In His Past Life, He Had Died On That Road And He Is Trying To Reverse The Action

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe he thinks he's a Traffic cone which would also explain why he doesn't talk

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O M G

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Giant Hot Pink Slug is definitely going to be the name of my new Speed Metal/Baroque mashup band.

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#64

One Bite Is Enough To Kill Up To 100 Men… Y’all Can Already Guess Where It Lives

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whereas our tiger snake is that happy combo of deadly toxic and psycho angry at everyone…

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That Is Horrific

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WOW I thought I recognised her face but I still can't figure out from where. What's crazy is how much of here filmography is lost to time. It looks like 3/4 of her films are "Lost Films", including her first five feature films.

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Send Me The Phone Number Of The Cop’s Mother Please…

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm curious as to why the banner has been obscured. It's obviously in a public place

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#70

Who The Fuck Eats Crack Or Heroin

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought meth and crack did damage due to dry mouth and being dry being bad for teeth... So which is better for teeth then diet or full sugar... I mean neither I know, but...

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Why Leave The House Out On The Party?

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So by positive, I'm assuming more than zero and if your alcolizer is sensitive to 0.01 BAC, as most of them are, that's not much.

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They Never Had A Power Outage? Seems Unlikely

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

first time i was in the states, summer of 1998. We wanted to visit a huge supermarket but also had other plans, so my friend walked in to asked when they closed. The answer was "at xmas" :-D

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Energy Vampire😮

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Otherwise known as "dad joke disease". Now I know what's wrong with my father! ;)

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I Always Wonder How A Human Tastes

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This "fact" is not completely true. Her victims were turned into soap bars, she just used the blood to lace some pastries she even offered to friends and family.

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#79

You Guys Just Sit There? Sad, Shitting Used To Be Such A Personal And Reflective

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I doubt it's just men tbh, we've all taken some time to decompress uninterrupted in work I'm sure.

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#80

What Do You Call A Sheep/Kitten Hybrid Then?

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The standard naming system is to take the first part of the daddy' name, and the second half of mummy's and smoosh them together. A geep has goat for a dad, and a sheep for a mam. The 'opposite' is a 'shoat'. A liger has lion dad, and a tiger mam, and its counterpart is a tigon.

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#83

Seems Like He Hasn’t Cleaned His Belly Button In Some Years

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which is why it's a good idea to wash it well when you shower. I clean mine out with q-tips as well. I think many people forget about it, which is why it's so dirty. Ick!

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#84

His Brother Turned Him In Because He Knew It Was Probably Him Doing The Bombings

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And he was brought down by his own manifesto. His BIL read it in the newspaper and was like "That sounds a lot like my brother-in-law." He called the FBI and bam, found the bastard. BTW he finally died last year.

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#85

My First Memory Is Like When I Was 4..😂

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i can remember my first steps. there was an old couch i went hand over hand along and when i got to the end i managed to walk across the room. i didn't learn to crawl until months later. I'm told i was not much over a year and a half old but i dont know myself what age i was cos i didn't know numbers yet.

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Never Wake Me Up… Like Ever. Pet Peeve Lol

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Might explain the whole mommy brain thing... and it might also explain the whole mommy brain thing too.

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How Many Kilos On Top Of That

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They Had Plenty Of Pasta And Ragu Jarred Sauce So They Weren’t Starving

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Annik Perrot
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Saw that story in Tintin. Acknowledged comic book fiction versus dubious historical fiction.

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Lumberjacks Standing By A Sequioa Log In Sequioa National Park, California, Ca. 1910. Photographer Unknown

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this is real, it's so sad. It looks like killing something magical. A unique or rare existence erased because of greed.

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