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Binary Star

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The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.
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The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.
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Groundhog Day Meaning

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Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.
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Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.
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Proof Without Content

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There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.
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There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.
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Funny, but ackchyually this attempted "proof" involves setting up a context with words and a visual border, so it is not a proof "without words, pictures or content of any kind", just like how a gestalt image cannot be constructed from empty space alone.

Chemical Formula

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Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.
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Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.
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Early Arthropods

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'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects
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'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects
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Double-Pronged Extension Cord

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'Oh, and can I borrow 50 sacks of loose flour, a pile of lithium-ion batteries, a bucket of bleach, and a bucket of vinega--' 'NO!!!!!!'
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'Oh, and can I borrow 50 sacks of loose flour, a pile of lithium-ion batteries, a bucket of bleach, and a bucket of vinega--' 'NO!!!!!!'
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