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The rarest known mammal is found on one U.S. island. The beach vole is found on Muskegot Island. It was originally extinct, but was reintroduced in1893.
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How do you reintroduce an extinct animal? Shades of Jurassic Park... *Laugh*
🌖 HuntersMoon Author Icon - I've actually read (from multiple sources) about a project in which geneticists are said to have carefully bred from modern species of horse to a species known to have been extinct for several centuries. The reports claimed to be factual and the program reproduced an extinct species of horse rather than just an extinct breed.
The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz wore real lion skin and fur.
2 people in the 1800s made money by killing people and selling the cadavers Williard Hare(Edinburgh) William Burke sold to Edinburgh medical school.
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I wonder how much they'd charge for...
(Funny. I didn't even have to put in a name and you already know who I meant! *Laugh*)
Starting computer shopping tomorrow, because my old beast can't upgrade to Windows 11. Thought I would go all out, get new printer(possibly Canon, black laser only, new keyboard and mouse if necessary, remote CD drive read-only; high capacity thumb drives( two or three) now have to figure out the size of my present screen and the size of my C Drive for transfer.
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If you are in the US and near a Best Buy, I feel like they usually have something good on sale. Though sometimes the best sales are online, sometimes in the store, in my experience.

Exciting times! I wish you all the best!
I use Libre Office. A good computer place I go to set it up for me, made sure that my documents can work, and showed me how to save them as Word 2007 documents. Cost $60.
Sunday Word insouciant (adjective) [ihn-soo-see-uhnt]: lighthearted, lacking concern.
Over a 4 year period, road debris accounts for more than 200,000 car crashes.
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Not surprised! There was a bunch today and a Sheriff's car parked on the side of the road just past it. Pretty sure they were both waiting for the cleanup crew and for an accident to happen.
Saturday Word coxcomb (noun) [kawks-kohm]: 1. a foolish, concieted person who is overly concerned with their appearance; a dandy. 2. the cap or hat of jester adorned with a red stripe.
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Thursday Quote:
"Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost."
~Kevin Patterson
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Precisely! That's why I eat my gummy bears in the privacy of my office. *Laugh*
Sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes in and out of the water.
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The mind boggles at how they find out these things. I can just imagine a secret room at Area 51 marked "Sloth Immersion Studies" with a crazy scientist, a stopwatch, a big tank of water, a cage and a bunch of nervous sloths.



Yeah. Probably not. It's a myth.
A job can be so boring it makes you sick. A psychological disorder called "Boreout"(boredome burnout syndrome can lead to depression and physical illness.
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The Civil War was responsible for creating 400,000 morphine addicts.For this reason the addiction was referred to as 'Soldiers Disease.'
Sunday Word garble(verb) [gar-buhl] 1. to distort or alter a story to the point of change in meaning. 2. to make a textual error.
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Sounds like turkey talk to me... *FacePalm*
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Saturday Word: cruciverbalist: one who makes crossword puzzles or really enjoys doing them
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Dave Ryan Author Icon - According to a post I found on Quora, the veracity of which I can neither confirm nor deny, the term you seek may in fact be enigmatologist.
If we start using ⱲєbⱲitϚћ WDC's 25ologist, perhaps it will catch on, Dave Ryan Author Icon and Soldier_Mike Author Icon. lol
Dave Ryan Author Icon - I just got a new program for our computer. It's a very easy-to-use word search generator program.
Men are 2% more likely to be left-handed when compared to women. Science has yet to figure out why.
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Because men are more sinister. Women are only evil. *Laugh* Sinister comes from a Latin word meaning “on the left side,” or “left.”
Three Musketeers candy bars used to come in three flavors; strawberry, chocolate and vanilla, which is how they got their name.
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S 🤦 Author Icon - I grew up on plain, ol' Hershey Bars (from Hershey Pennsylvania) and still love them on rare occasions. The main problem I have with all sorts of U.S. "treats" is the huge sugar content in lieu of flavour. Friends in the UK and I have exchanged "goody packages" a few times. None of them cared much for US chocolate either. The candies and snack cakes from the UK seemed to me to have more flavour and were less sweet than similar items here in the states. We tried some fruit-flavoured snack cakes from Britain. The fruit flavour was more prominent than the sweetness. I thought they were great! The same goes for British chocolate. I love Cadbury! It's not only chocolaty-er, it has less "wax" than Hershey's chocolate. I don't know what the actual additive is, but it makes for a hard (and therefore less likely to melt on its way to the stores) chocolate. There are, however, small chocolatiers here who make very fine candies. (They probably immigrated here from Europe. *Wink* I'd love to hear anyone's opinions about Cadbury Cream Eggs and [especially] Cadbury Caramel Eggs.
Humble Poet PNG - Celebrating! Author Icon - Cadbury is our biggest seller here. In Australia, it's made down in Tasmania. I used to love the cream eggs, but nowadays go gor the fruit and nut chocolate.
         S 🤦 Author Icon - We're huge chocolate & caramel fans. So, we love Cadbury caramel eggs. Those and the cream eggs are only available around Easter time here. They're very expensive too (by our standards), a bit over $1 each. While shopping at an overstock store just after Easter one year, we found them 5 for $1 (about 1/5 the regular price that year). The store had them in boxes of 30-40. We bought a number of boxes. The rest of that year seemed to rush by at high speed!
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