Oh my. I’ll be back in 4 hours reading such things as:
List of possibly living people
In the study, an evolutionary neurobiologist and his co-authors examined 28 fingers wrinkled by water. They found that they all had the same pattern of unconnected channels diverging away from one another as they got more distant from the fingertips.
The wrinkles allow water to drain away as fingertips are pressed to wet surfaces, creating more contact and a better grip.
For all of the other languages, the researchers discovered, the more data-dense the average syllable is, the fewer of those syllables had to be spoken per second — and the slower the speech thus was.
The initials YKK stand for 吉田工業株式会社 (Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha
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This list contains about 675 buildings in the United States that are underground, either completely or to a significant extent. It also includes a few that are under construction or are being planned.
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| — | The more you know… USA Underground Buildings |
Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is a rare psychological or, possibly, a neurological disorder first observed by George Miller Beard in 1878. It entails an exaggerated “startle” reflex [1] which may be described as an uncontrollable “jump” but can also exhibit sudden movements in all parts of the body.
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