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scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon
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i hope shein gets shut down i hope ai projects get shut down i hope billionaires go bankrupt i hope public transportation expands fast i am so tired of the world’s bs
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biologists will be like this is a very simplified diagram of a mammalian cell

chemists will be like this is a molecule

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something charmingly twentieth century about this
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hyena positivity that focuses on spotted hyenas only is so fake. if you don’t love brown and striped hyenas then get out. if you don’t love aardwolves I can’t even look at you oh my god
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There is an unbreakable mirror in the middle of a town square. So famous that the small town has grown into a city. The mirror answers any question the person who stands in front of it wants to know. The caveat though, is that it follows up with telling another truth. Unwanted this time.
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This is a 1913 Helica, a car powered by a propeller. Frenchman Marcel Leyat built it, and only 23 reportedly ever sold.
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Enriched uranium sword with a lead sheathe that is rumored to slowly kill its owner in exchange for god killing power.
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head of a Nyūbu-no-ono (moutaineering ax) with heart-shaped holes and a flower-shaped head (c. 14th century CE; Muromachi period)
This ax, formerly kept in the Jinshō-ji temple of the Shiga prefecture was used for Buddhist ritualistic purposes to symbolize cutting the ties between monks and their worldly possessions
Currently in the collection of the Nara National Museum (Nara, Japan), accession no. 659-0
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octopus 2022 wrapped
this year you disguised yourself as:
coral 10023 times
ocean floor 8064 times
coconut shell 244 times
various fish 196 times
scuba divers long lost wife 12 times
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