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@xkcd "In the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper."

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@xkcd "90% of the iceberg is hidden beneath the water, but that 90% only uses 10% of its brain, so it's really only 9%."

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@xkcd "[Decades in the future] "Well, the good news is that we've received definitive communication from aliens. The bad news is that they're asking about Cats (2019).""

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@xkcd "I have so many plans. It would incorporate a Galton board, a Ranque-Hilsch marble vortex tube, and a compartment lined with pinball bouncers with a camera-and-servo Maxwell's Demon that separated the balls into fast and slow sides."

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@xkcd "After a pail of water was thrown on the Wicked Witch of the West outside Salt Lake City, Utah's Great Salt Lake was measured to be 7 parts per trillion witch by volume."

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@xkcd "We were able to replicate and confirm prior authors' detection of a moon orbiting the Earth with high confidence."

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@xkcd "I would never stoop to vandalism, but I'm not above discreetly deleting the occasional 'this article contains excessive amounts of detail' tag."

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@xkcd "Plato made the solids, and five were gifted to the mathematicians. But in secret Plato forged a sixth solid to rule over all the others."

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@xkcd "The Hubble length is about 1.9 meters lying down; Edwin Hubble was a tall guy."

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@xkcd "Tau Ceti is farther away, so it took me 36 years to start the war over updog."

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@xkcd "My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space."

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@xkcd "Party Mode also enables the feature, but reverses the slider."

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@xkcd "They often use ball lenses to collect light at the ends of optical fibers, so when you look stuff up on the internet you're actually scrying through a crystal ball."

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@xkcd "ADDITIONAL NOTES: Fixed a bug that caused some rocks to generate virtually infinite heat while just sitting there."

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@xkcd "I don't understand why anyone would pay full price for a flatbed truck rental when you can buy 'DETOUR' signs online for like $10."

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@xkcd "This rumpled fabric at the corner looks like evidence of ongoing tectonic activity."

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@xkcd "[Below] On this site on May 12th, 2023, I finally learned how to use the masonry bit for my drill."

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@xkcd "'Your chitin armor is no match for our iron-tipped stingers! Better go hide in your jars!' --common playground taunt"

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@xkcd "Using a reflective wall in a game to give one shot two chances to hit is called a double-tapetum lucidum."