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'You do have to be careful, though--sometimes, instead of water, you hit this free fuel that you can sell for a lot of money instead.'
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'The number one rule of string manipulation is that you’ve got to specify your encodings.'
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'Disney lore: Canonically, because of how Elsa's abiogenesis powers work, Olaf is an RNA-only organism.'
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'In my new scale, °X, 0 is Earths' record lowest surface temperature, 50 is the global average, and 100 is the record highest, with a linear scale between each point and adjustment every year as needed.'
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'Our experiment will be expensive, but we believe it will produce important spin-offs, especially if we manage to hit the sun from the right angle.'
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'This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.'
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'It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond.'
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'If any of you want to meet some cool local oxygen atoms, I can introduce you!'
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'There's a heated debate over whether the big island of Tierra del Fuego should qualify for membership.'
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'The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.'
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'I see white shores, and beyond it, a far green country under a tequila sunrise.'
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'The Watership Down rabbits removed an additional 0.1 nanometers constructing their warren, although that was mostly soil. British rabbits have historically mined very little coal; the sole rabbit-run coal plant was shut down in the 1990s.'
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'Under quantum tax law, photons sent through a beamsplitter don't actually choose which path they took, or incur a tax burden, until their wavefunction collapses when the power is sold.'
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'Our nucleic acid recovery techinques found a great deal of homo sapiens DNA incorporated into the fossils, particularly the ones containing high levels of resin, leading to the theory that these dinosaurs preyed on the once-dominant primates.'
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