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'If you drill at the right angle and time things perfectly, your core sample can include a section of a rival team's coring equipment.'
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'Now, if it were the *Canon* wiki, it's possible to imagine someone with a productivity-related reason for consulting it, but no one's job requires them to read that much about Admiral Daala.'
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'We're adding some industrial flypaper to minimize reflection or scattering of customers who might complain.'
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''They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.''
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'At least people who make religious predictions of the apocalypse have an answer to the question 'Why didn't you predict any of the other ones that happened recently?''
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'The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.'
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'Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this 'volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft' thing seems like it can't possibly be right, but..."'
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'Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record'
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'It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a...'
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'The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.'
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'Sharks can occasionally travel short distances through air when pursuing prey, but their attenuation coefficient is pretty high.'
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'Many things about Star Wars were not well planned out, but having a 37-year-old in old-age makeup play the Emperor in Return of the Jedi was such an incredible call.'
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'If you don't know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you're probably near the Equator, right under the ring.'
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