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Yes, definitely one of those facts you don't want to dwell on too long. ;)
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Patterson wrote: Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:11 pm "The world's termites outweigh the world's people." That is a terrifying thought!
It's because of all the chocolate :(
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Termite wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:08 am
Patterson wrote: Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:11 pm "The world's termites outweigh the world's people." That is a terrifying thought!
It's because of all the chocolate :(

Termite!!!! I was hoping you would appear to comment on this.
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Termite wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:08 am
Patterson wrote: Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:11 pm "The world's termites outweigh the world's people." That is a terrifying thought!
It's because of all the chocolate :(
:lol: Hey, chocolate is always worth it! :yes:
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Catspaw wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:59 pm
Termite wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:08 am
Patterson wrote: Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:11 pm "The world's termites outweigh the world's people." That is a terrifying thought!
It's because of all the chocolate :(
:lol: Hey, chocolate is always worth it! :yes:
Unless it's dark chocolate.
:sick: :-
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Pirate Oriana wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 8:02 pm
Catspaw wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:59 pm
Termite wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:08 am
Patterson wrote: Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:11 pm "The world's termites outweigh the world's people." That is a terrifying thought!
It's because of all the chocolate :(
:lol: Hey, chocolate is always worth it! :yes:
Unless it's dark chocolate.
:sick: :-
Yes indeed. I should have been more specific. Good chocolate (a.k.a. not dark chocolate) is always worth it.
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Pirate Oriana wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 6:26 pm
Termite wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:08 am
Patterson wrote: Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:11 pm "The world's termites outweigh the world's people." That is a terrifying thought!
It's because of all the chocolate :(

Termite!!!! I was hoping you would appear to comment on this.
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Catspaw wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:59 pm
Termite wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:08 am
Patterson wrote: Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:11 pm "The world's termites outweigh the world's people." That is a terrifying thought!
It's because of all the chocolate :(
:lol: Hey, chocolate is always worth it! :yes:
\:D/ very true

Catspaw wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 8:07 pm
Pirate Oriana wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 8:02 pm Unless it's dark chocolate.
:sick: :-
Yes indeed. I should have been more specific. Good chocolate (a.k.a. not dark chocolate) is always worth it.
. . . :shock:
I definitely dislike the chocolate that's done in percentages and too dark, but Hershey's special dark is my favorite go-to.
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Ketchup as medicine? Man, yesteryear was weird.
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It's impossible to hum while holding your nose.
Learning this was way more interesting to me than it ought to have been for being such an inconsequential realization. I just never thought about the details of how that sound is produced before. (Because why would I have?)
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bookworm wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 8:18 pm
It's impossible to hum while holding your nose.
Learning this was way more interesting to me than it ought to have been for being such an inconsequential realization. I just never thought about the details of how that sound is produced before. (Because why would I have?)
Yes, there are so many things we just don't have a reason to think about! Of course I had to give it a try and got a weird sound in my head when I did.
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I had to try the humming thing as soon as I read it.

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He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. Matthew 28:6
While this is not a random tidbit, I felt it important to include this today. I am so thankful to serve a risen saviour today. Who knew that in 2022 I would need Him in so many ways.
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Thanks for the Easter reminder, Bren! It's a great way to celebrate Jesus on such an important day.
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President Lyndon Johnson owned an amphibious car.
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Talk about a random and interesting fact! That is so odd to watch.
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McDonald's once tried to sell bubblegum flavored broccoli.
I had never heard about this before, so I assumed it must have been some weird thing they did way back; but it was actually not very long ago!
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bookworm wrote: Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:45 am
McDonald's once tried to sell bubblegum flavored broccoli.
I had never heard about this before, so I assumed it must have been some weird thing they did way back; but it was actually not very long ago!
Haha, I was wondering the same thing, so thanks for the link, bookworm! It sounds like it didn't make it very far and that's why we didn't know about it. Crazy.
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Canada's lowest recorded temperature is as cold as the surface of Mars!
I don't understand how this can be possible with the difference in atmospheres, but apparently it's true. I'm not a geologist or astronomer.

(The linked article is not about the same incident this tidbit references (which was in 1947), but I used it because it had more details than any that I found about that older occurrence specifically regarding the Mars comparison which is what I was trying to make make sense. And it shows that this temperature equivalency has actually happened more than once.)
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Yes, that's one of those random facts that seems like it must be made up but isn't! Thanks for the article link, bookworm.
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