Kis Explains

"You're not wrong": adventures in didactica from @kiswara.
Stick around, you might learn something you already knew!

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This land is your land
This land is my land
From California
To Prince Edward Island

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Baby-cut carrots are neither harvested young nor small. Rather, they begin as full-sized (often cosmetically imperfect) carrots and are cut down to size by an infant labor force having hands of an appropriate scale to operate miniature lathes.

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The ubiquitous pin and socket electrical interconnect is commonly referred to by the genericized trademark "molex", after the enigmatic brand run by a race of cryptid mole people that pioneered the design for stability in underground burrows.

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A Humboldt, CA dispensary was recently shuttered after having been caught adulterating their product with milk phosphoproteins as filler – a practice known in the vernacular as “casein the joint”.

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The game of tiddlywinks was originally played with its namesake tittles, frequently stolen from readily available 'i's and 'j's. In the late 1920s the risk of depletion of this natural resource came to prominence, prompting the transition to now-commonplace tokens.

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Embracing idioms or: how I learned to stop worrying and love 'da bomb'

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The elusive jackaloupe is a rare specimen featuring the body of a jackal and the head of a cantaloupe. Folklore holds that your best chance of an audience with this noble creature is to leave an offering of a glass of Midori. If you deemed worthy, she will make herself known.

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In tournament chess, once a player touches a piece they may not release and choose another. Bobby Fischer one held a rook for a record-breaking thirty-two years, relinquishing it after his opponent’s death.

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@TriacFox @kiswara “Now with 50% less Cerium-141 than last month”

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All of the food is cooked using sustainable cosmic background radiation.

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On average, the airspace range of ghosts extends approximately 853 feet above a dwelling, derived from PKE readings (which follow an inverse square law). In some municipalities, haunting airspace may be further constrained by the FAA to 500 feet.

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The butter knife, thought to have its origins in a 1637 design by Cardinal Richelieu, solved the problem of conventional cutlery struggling with butter-cutting needs. In modern times these have been scientifically quantified in ISO 16305 “Butter — Determination of firmness.”

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The increasingly bandied-about sentiment to “eat the rich” owes in part to the culinary principle that “fortunes flavor the loopholed” (this may have lost or gained something from the original Latin).

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Early prototypes of the USDA food pyramid nutrition guidelines used Sierpiński triangles to convey intra-meal balance. Ultimately this approach was scrapped after fractal dimension nutrition fact labels proved inscrutable.

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@vangdfang No.

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Under the LP64 data model, a singed long is 63 bits.

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Recently mathematicians have approximated the fundamental Carver’s constant, the ideal ratio of peanut butter to jelly, (given by P-sub-J) to 36 million decimal places using the PSLQ integer relation algorithm. This eclipses the previous record by 36 million decimal places.

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If a mail server is overly burdened, RFC 1651 provides for the server to return an error code of 421 to rate limit access. This mechanism is called an “EHLO Governor.”

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In Britain, the direction in which the hands of the clock progress their cadence is called “anticounterclockwise”.