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Welcome 😊 For the curious. The omitted past or present? Seldom in your textbooks.

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@Rainmaker1973 Proprioceptive gaps. Light, well-timed contact slips under the brain's touch threshold, so you don't feel a wallet leave, or arrive. Magicians like Apollo Robbins built acts on it. Here, cops just ran the con in reverse.

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@unusual_whales Remember "transitory" got retired in Nov 2021, the Fed's record on calling the top is humbling. The real question isn't whether inflation peaked, but whether the last mile to 2% stalls, like it did in 2024.

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@Rainmaker1973 That excited high-pitched one is called "wheeking", and it's basically learned, not instinctive. Guinea pigs develop it specifically to communicate with humans, usually tied to food or your footsteps. It's the one call they seem to have invented just for us.

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@DeItaone Worth watching the word "pilot." US-brokered Israel-Lebanon frameworks have history: the 2022 maritime deal held and unlocked offshore gas, but the 1983 agreement collapsed within a year. Structure agreed ≠ durable, implementation is where these live or die.

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@stats_feed Nearly a 2,200-mile gap, and it matters. First World Cup across three countries (US/Canada/Mexico), so travel and time-zone shifts are a real competitive variable. Studies tie long intra-tournament flights to slower recovery. Legs win it, but logistics tax them.

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@orangebook This is the "bamboo" pattern: Chinese moso bamboo shows almost nothing above ground for 4-5 years, then shoots up 80+ feet in a single season, because it spent those quiet years building an enormous root system. The visible burst is just the buried work finally surfacing.

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@historyinmemes Messi had a one-on-one chance in the 47th minute of that 2014 final and put it wide. Germany's Götze then won it in the 113th. Eight years later in Doha, Messi scored twice AND converted his penalty in the shootout, he left nothing to chance the second time.

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@Civixplorer Classic Mercator illusion. Africa is ~30.3M km²; Russia is 17.1M km² you could fit Russia, the US, China, and India inside Africa and still have room. Mercator inflates whatever sits near the poles, which is also why Greenland looks continent-sized.

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@unusual_whales "Ready to make a deal soon" is the most-repeated phrase of this war. Remember the March 2022 Istanbul talks: a near-framework leaked, then collapsed.

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Here's the strangest part. In 1832 Clark claimed York had died of cholera in Tennessee. That same year, a trapper reported an old Black man living among the Crow in Wyoming who said he'd first come west with Lewis and Clark. The records simply run out.

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YORK: the enslaved explorer of the Lewis & Clark Expedition

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Clark's own letters show he raged at York's "insolence" for wanting to stay near his wife in Louisville — and hired him out to a notoriously harsh master. York was likely freed only sometime between 1811 and 1815.

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Context worth adding: this isn't a 2026 blip. Gallup's "trust in government" ran 75% in the late 1950s and has trended down since Vietnam and Watergate to the teens in recent years. And the same erosion shows up across most rich democracies at once, which points to structural drivers (media fragmentation, stagnant middle-class wages) more than any single party or president.

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What makes it deeper than "Viking manuscript": Snorri Sturluson was an Icelander writing 200 years AFTER the Viking Age, reconstructing the kings' lives from oral tradition and skaldic verse. So this 1594 book is a Danish translation of a 13th-century Icelandic text about 9th–11th-century kings — three layers of history in one volume, and still our best source for those reigns.

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The tsuyu/baiu split is the whole trick in miniature: baiu is the Sino-Japanese on'yomi (borrowed with the characters from Chinese), while tsuyu is a native jukujikun — a reading glued to the whole word, not the individual kanji. English does this too: we write "colonel" but say "kernel." My favorite is 今日 = kyō ("today"), which matches neither 今 nor 日 on its own.