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raze giraffes can lick their own eyes. 161102
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nr speaking of giraffes, they also only sleep about half an hour per day. such cool animals. 161102
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raze i didn't know that! no wonder they're able to get so much done. 161102
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raze january 3rd is national chocolate-covered cherry day. 161205
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raze there were traffic lights before there were cars. 170207
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raze there is such a thing as a museum of strawberries — the musée de la fraise de wepion, in belgium. 170807
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raze jazz pianist bill evans co-owned a race horse named annie hall. 171029
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raze the german word "scheißgeist" refers to the foul smell left behind in a bathroom by someone who's just finished voiding their bowels.

the literal english translation is "shit ghost". 		180804
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raze mark_twain had a cat named blatherskite. 211006
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raze (borrowed from a 'skite named dreamer who only ever wrote on blue:)

in both punctuation and human anatomy, the semicolon is larger than the colon. 		211008
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raze there was once a *third* blather, written in the spoken language of ancient israel.

(see: other_blathers) 		211216
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raze wayne and brent gretzky hold the record for most points ever amassed by two brothers in the nhl. wayne scored or assisted on 2,857 points throughout his storied career.

brent's total number of points? 4. 		220216
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raze today is "random acts of kindness day" (est. 1995, in colorado). 220217
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tender_square wombats poop in cubes--up to 100 per day! 220712
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epitome of incomprehensibility Honey is one natural food that's never been known to spoil.

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raze, I know this wasn't what you meant back in December, but I read that post and pictured people blathering in *ancient* Hebrew. Like Jeremiah from the Bible:

"Lament"

My voice disappears like ice in the sun; my hopes wither like broken reeds. Day and night I cry: "O LORD, maker of heaven and earth, open my eyes to read the captcha! Banish the confounding squiggles that cause me to confuse ו‎ and ז‎!" 		220712
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raze (can we designate a day where we all talk like that? BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE GLORIOUS.) 220712
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e_o_i (Ha, thanks! A day? A blathe, at least: write_like_Jeremiah.) 220713
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raze a shrimp's heart is in its head. 230420
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raze in ancient rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons. 230421
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raze south africa has eleven official languages. 230924
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e_o_i That one I used to know! My brother would recite them. I can only remember five: Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, English and Afrikaans.

As for organizations of animal organs, octopuses have nine brains - sort of. The main one in their heads and smaller ones in each of their tentacles. 		230924
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raze dolly parton once entered a dolly parton lookalike contest.

she lost. 		230926
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raze the oldest surviving example of human fecal matter was deposited by neanderthals fifty thousand years ago atop an ancient campfire in spain.

mierda caliente, no? 		231023
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raze a jiffy is an actual unit of time, but it's a lot shorter than you might think. for someone to succeed in arriving somewhere in a jiffy, they would have to travel at the speed of light. 240208
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raze crows console one another when they're sad. they also sometimes try to have sex with their fallen comrades when they've finished mourning them. so, you know, there's that too. 240301
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