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1. about 2 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   There is a book, which I have NOT read, No Contest: The Case Against Competition.

2. 1 day ago on Rose is Rose

   When my parents moved, every Spring, a red-bellied woodpecker would announce his return by drilling on the metal gutters or downspouts. From inside the house, it was LOUD

3. 1 day ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Will there ever be an annular Lunar eclipse?

4. 1 day ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   The claim is that in 600 million years, there will be no more total Solar eclipses. There will still be annular and partial Solar eclipses.

   About 1.6 billion years ago, the first annular Solar eclipse on Earth occurred.

5. 2 days ago on Luann Againn

   Reminds me of the video It’s Not About The Nail. ?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

6. 2 days ago on Francis

   That story about the Chevy Nova not selling in Spanish speaking countries is funny, but it has been debunked: Snopes fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanish/

7. 3 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   He is saying that document is a forgery. To continue your analogy, a copy of the U.S. Constitution with Abraham Lincoln as a signatory would be a fake. So, if someone quotes from it, what is said might nor might not be in the real Constitution.

8. 3 days ago on Gasoline Alley

   “Once, I was the King of Spain. But, now I eat humble pie.”

9. 5 days ago on Francis

   I also heard that. That’s why I thought to try that with Google Translate.

10. 5 days ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    The advice to “walk like a penguin” when crossing ice is decades old. When I moved to Minnesota, 30 years ago, it was used in an ad for ice melt. (The point being, if you used ice melt, you could avoid the need to walk like a penguin.)