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Mantle plumes explain Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, the East African Rift, the Adirondack uplift, the Permian extinction, the decline of Rome, the DB Cooper hijacking, and the balrog in Moria. Those little hills of sand in your yard are caused by antle plumes.
![Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/biology_department.png "Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.")
Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.
The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.
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I wonder if this actually would b interesting in an "ultimate tic-tac-toe" way
A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.
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My son just got a measuring tape that is marked with the period of the pendulum formed if you lock the tape off at that length and hang it by metal hook.
Columbia, MD
Another group of mathematicians is working to put an upper bound on the number, although everyone keeps begging them to stop.
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the number was actually 4, and our minds are already gone.
Earth, Sol system, Western spiral arm
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