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Jack Ryan, the man who designed the original Barbie doll, also developed missiles for the Pentagon.
#people
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Success attracts the friends you want. Struggle attracts the friends you need.
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The word "fu*k" and its derivatives can be used as nouns, verbs, adjectives, interjections, or adverbs
Logically, they can be used almost anywhere in a sentence.
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Wild cannabis grows all over Northern Japan, but they don't smoke it
The Japanese government actually sends out survey and destruction teams every year to destroy the new growths of cannabis because it's so hard to get rid of.
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Even if we don’t choose who we fall in love with, we must choose who we stay in love with.
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There are over 2,000 recognized languages spoken in Africa
Africa is the most language-rich continent on the planet.
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"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."
- Jim Watkins
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Phosphenes (n.)
The floating stars, colors, and other shapes you see while closing and rubbing your eyes.
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Playing video games can help train your brain to make faster real-life decisions with equal accuracy.
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Give yourself permission to put your phone on sleep mode, turn off your laptop, cosy up in a room alone, and simply attend to yourself in peace.
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The ancient Egyptians kept trained cheetahs as house pets and used them for hunting.
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How are Pearls formed?
Natural pearls are made in oyster shells. The oyster sits on the bottom of the sea and keeps its shell shut, but occasionally a grain or two of sand sifts in. When that happens the oyster finds it irritating. It squirts out some stuff (like the stuff that makes its shell) to surround the sand and make it less irritating. The tiny grain of sand gets bigger and bigger in size as the stuff surrounds it and hardens. Eventually it gets to be quite a good sized “thing”. That “thing” is a pearl. The pearl can be pulled out of the shell and drilled.
In cultured pearls, people help the process along. They actually inject the sand into the oysters in pearl farms, and check to be sure the pearl is growing. When it is the appropriate size it is harvested and drilled.
Freshwater pearls are shaped liked grains of sand, but salt water pearls and cultured pearls are round.
