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3D prints I made of space ships and satellites I made for my sons room! They’re glow in the dark filament so he has something to look at during bedtime!

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Freakonomics Podcast discusses how vaping can improve public health through reduced cancer risk, helping people quit smoking, and when regulated properly (like the UK) will not cause a Youth Vaping Epidemic

Bulls down 5 with 10 seconds left and pull out the win with a last second Zach LaVine three

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Rudy Giuliani Appeared to ‘Publicly Blackmail’ President Trump For the Second Time In Fox News Interview

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Record-Breaking Gamma Rays Reveal Secrets of the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions

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Elon Musk says Tesla has already received 146,000 orders for the Cybertruck

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Finn Russell kicks the ball between a defenders legs before regathering to score a try

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She crossed her out of her shoes

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TIL of the Roman military ritual evocatio, in which they'd attempt to deprive an enemy of divine protection by summoning their god and promising to worship it better

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Was fortunate enough to visit this legend recently

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Galactic Center

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Lunar South Pole

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My 13 hour exposure of the Tarantula Nebula from my backyard

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On Senior Day, Wisconsin's backup senior kicker Zach Hintze, who was 0/1 in his collegiate career before tonight, drills a school record 62-yard field goal

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Cognitive intelligence (CI) was positively correlated with ability emotional intelligence (EI) and negatively with some measures of religiosity. EI revealed no direct, significant relationship with religiosity. In a single model with CI, EI was a significant positive predictor of religiosity.

Self‐identified rightists scored higher than leftists on needs for order and structure and system justification. Rightists expressed more intolerance than leftists toward groups that are commonly mistreated in Eastern Europe, including the Roma, religious minorities and sexual minorities.

YouTube needs to chill with its annoying Premium spam - Pop-up ads only hurt consumers

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Let's Go Past 16 Mil!

Top Dem says ethics investigation into Devin Nunes likely

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All that glitters is not gold

TIL It is unknown what Neil Armstrong took with him to the moon personally and the record of his personal property kit was never found. Armstrong made an unscripted visit to a crater and it is speculated he left his late daughter's bracelet there

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TIL I learned about RAS Syndrome — "Redundant Acronym Syndrome". It's when someone repeats a word used in an acronym/initialism, like "ATM machine", "PIN number", "RAS Syndrome", or "TIL I learned".

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An "old greybeard" tells the story of how he went from college in the late 50s to work on very secret government projects aka "black programs". It's long, but many of you will appreciate.

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World Hula Hooping Record Shattered in Chicago

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LPT: are your hair ties all stretched out? Put them in a laundry bag (or just a mesh closable bag of some kind) and run them through the wash! Set them out to air dry and they be much better than before, if not like new.

Trump said 'I do want corruption, always,' an apparent gaffe in a Fox News interview about impeachment

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Hello! It's the 1st anniversary of our Giveaways (also my birthday), and I am giving away free copies of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez', to anyone who has not read it yet!

'Your Addresses' > Click on Add Address > Save your full address including your mobile number > Save > Click on 'Set as Default' to make that address your default [This is important]Now Create a WishList, it should be Public and not Shared. Remember to check the box that says 'Third Party Shipping Agreement', when you make the list.Now search for the title of the book, and add the book to the same Public WishList.And you're done!After you're done with setting up your Gift Registry:You first need to request for the book by commenting on this post, so to get visibility, and I can add you to my list from there. This way I get to manage list of requests in a sequence.Now you need to DM me your WishList link. Please don't copy the invite link, you need to copy the WishList link from 'Send list to others' button or directly from URL :)Though I try to fulfill every request made here, I don't send the books to users whose accounts ar

TIL about the legendary pickpocket Apollo Robbins, who once stripped Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service detail of their watches, badges, keys, and the presidential itinerary. He once stole a man’s driver’s license and made it turn up inside a sealed bag of M&M’s in his wife’s purse.

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TIL A Texas dad sold his business and built a $51 million amusement park for his disabled daughter with free admission for everyone with special needs. Morgan's wonderland has had more than a million visitors since it opened, and one-third of it's staff includes people with special needs.

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Venus and Jupiter will hover just 1.5° apart after sunset this weekend.

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Two 17 year old boys giving it their all on a dutch national kickboxing championship

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‘The time is now to have a federal privacy bill,’ says Tim Cook

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Excess suicide rate among same-sex married is decreasing in the Nordic countries: 'Of note, the study found that across the years since same-sex marriage was legalized, the suicide rate has been decreasing more rapidly among people in same-sex marriages than among those in opposite-sex marriages'

LPT: Even if you’ve done something a hundred times before, watch a video online about it anyway. There might be a better way to do it that could save you a ton of time, effort and headaches.

The future is upon us

In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks

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Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much

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Everybody stay calm it’s happening.

we know you did Elon

TIL Queen Elizabeth once went for a walk near her Balmoral estate with one of her protection officers and met some American tourists who didn’t recognise her. They asked her if she’d ever met the Queen and she said “No”, then pointed to her officer and said “he has”. They didn’t connect the dots.

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After outcry, Me Too accused composer Anu Malik steps down as ‘Indian Idol’ judge. Singer Sona Mohapatra, who has consistently been calling out Sony for having a Me Too accused as a judge, said this was a 'symbolic victory for all women'.

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‘So Tired of Cowardly Men’: Critics Torch John Bolton’s Twitter Homecoming, Want Him to Testify Immediately

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When a deep red town’s only grocery closed, city hall opened its own store. Just don’t call it ‘socialism.’

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Humans across cultures may share the same universal musical grammar, suggests a new study of 60 human societies in the journal Science. Whether it’s a love song, dance song or lullaby, music shares similar underlying structural elements, suggesting humans might have an innate “grammar” for music.

TIL that Roman Emperor Caligula was actually called Gaius. The nickname Caligula meant ‘little boots’ and came from the fact that his father like to dress him up in child-sized armor. He hated it.

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LPT. If you have to inform someone their loved one was in an accident but they’re ok, the first thing you say is that their loved one is ok. Don’t make them wait to hear the condition of the person.

Whamo World Cup 4, Game 2: The Portta Potty Tippers take on Ty’s Skunks!

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Adam Schiff Erupts: Closing Statement On Contentious Impeachment Hearing

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