TommyBoy825
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Reply to comment by Murse_1 in What do you call 100 perverts in a park? by RowanFoxfire
There's no such thing. The terms are mutually exclusive.
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Reply to comment by BrokenEye3 in TIL a 2013 Justin Bieber concert at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa was rocked by an elaborate heist were the thieves made off with over 3 million rand (300,000 dollars) and were never caught. by delano1998
Logan Lucky on Prime. Elaborate heist at a NASCAR race.
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Reply to comment by kgunnar in TIL the term “cloud cuckoo land” goes back to the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, who used it for a utopian city of birds in his farce, the Birds by Mr_Westerfield
Excellent book.
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Reply to TIL, since the 1970s, precision fermentation has been used to produce the majority of the world's insulin. Before that, it came from slaughtered cows and pigs. by oodaalolly_joy
Back in the day if you drove through the near Southside of Indianapolis you could smell when Lilly was making insulin.
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Reply to comment by milkriver70 in I dated a hindu girl who would eat chicken or goat but not beef. She said it was a sacred animal. by KarmicComic12334
The wine and wafer are not symbols. They are the blood and body of Christ. It is the miracle of transubstantiation.
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Reply to TIL Frankenstein did not have a hunchback assistant called Igor in either Mary Shelley's novel or the original Universal and Hammer films. The character is a pastiche of multiple characters across several movies. by BringsHomeBones
Terry Pratchett's Igors are a lot more interesting, but Feldman is the only true Eyegore.
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Reply to comment by ikilledsupermario in A bear walks into a bar and orders a whisky with.. cola. by ElderberryPoet
The horse replies, "It's my wife. She's such a nag."
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Reply to My boss: "You're fired." by fresh_start_2023
How did you get a gun? You're still in your waiting period.
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Reply to comment by stewa1988 in What do you call a magician who lost their magic? by _dantastic
He really didn't have any to lose.
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Leo Durocher
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Reply to comment by Yerm_Terragon in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm
I always heard the Brits drank their beer at room temperature because they had Lucas refrigerators.
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Reply to Why didn't nasa send a duck into space? by KarmicComic12334
They had no grapes.