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Fact: Everything tastes better topped with cheese (sorry, but it's true).

--Marissa Miller

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Just because people did not pay attention to the [Gobi sand]storms does not mean the storms stopped existing.

--Liu Junyan

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People started to throw rocks at the mayor, and the mayor ran away. 

--Zanga Muteba

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The internet is a fossil machine. 

--Kashmir Hill

Required reading...

... for the 2½ devotees of the Archipelago.

https://soranews24.com/2021/05/30/is-milk-really-the-best-match-for-cereal-why-not-try-beer-and-these-five-other-liquids/ 

Pro monkey litigator quote of the moment

We support the El Paso Zoo and our thoughts go out to the spider monkeys -Libby and Sunday- and hope that they will recover from this very traumatic experience.

--Lovett Law Firm

Weakest headline of the moment

Thousands of Unknown Viruses and Bacteria Are Living in Our Subways

--gizmodo.com

Joining the club headline of the moment

Mountain lion breaks into SF Bay Area house filled with taxidermy trophy heads

--sfgate.com

Quote of the moment

People complain about the air (nitrogen, actually) inside, but it's there for a reason — nitrogen pushes out oxygen, so the chips live in a state of factory-fresh dormancy until you rip open the bag and release the gas. If you want flat-pack chips, there's always those uniformly-shaped potato slurry wafers that come in a can.

--Kristina Panos

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I'm not trying to plow food into my system now. It's different.

--Michael Phelps

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Incredibly, there are around 3 million saunas in Finland alone, a country of 5.5 million people.

--Charles Steward

Bleak thought of the moment

At some point in the future you will be thought of for the very last time.

--Ryan George

Iceberg A-76 quote of the moment

The whole world was going crazy about that and then everyone forgot it, right? This one's going to be in the imagination until the next big one, and the next big one and the next big one. And it's part of the larger global problem.

--M Jackson¹ 

¹not the performer 

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Every clock is stopped in these little places.

--Laurie Anderson

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Child abuse is an identity crisis and fame is an identity crisis, so I went straight from one identity crisis into another.

--Sinead O'Connor

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Using techniques such as scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction, they analyzed six small samples of red trinitite. Finally, they got a hit in one of the samples - a tiny, 20-sided grain of silicon, copper, calcium and iron, with a five-fold rotational symmetry impossible in conventional crystals - an "unintended consequence" of warmongering.

--Michelle Starr

Junkyard expert headline of the moment

Twisted Sister guitarist says Bob Dylan is horrible playing live

--tonedeaf.thebrag.com

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I'm an old man — I'd like to be around as long as I can.

--George Jones

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Psychologists and psychiatrists have long observed that eating disorders are almost always preceded by dieting, and not just anorexia: bulimia and binge eating disorder, as well.

--Margaret Johnson

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The benefits of dieting are too small and the potential harm is too large for dieting to be recommended as a safe, effective treatment for obesity.

--Traci Mann

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It's May — bathing suit o'clock — and over a third of Americans are vaccinated.

--Margaret Johnson

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There's value in a bit of uncertainty, in finding peace within ambiguity.

--David Gelles

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Bhutanese mythology says a person will be cleared of all of his or her sins by circumventing the Dakarpo 108 times. Each lap takes roughly 25 minutes. The full 108 takes most pilgrims about four full days, a relatively small fee for absolute absolution. 

--Michael Easter

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Food is more than fuel and filler; it's a relationship.

--Sarah Garrone

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'Loss' is just another word for 'change.'

--Tim Cappello

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No blog post can explain, let alone eliminate, our drive to darkness.

--Jessica Stillman

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Minimal attention is ok, none is bad.

--b1-67er

Disturbed avocado

LV, NV

Bream separating palo verde and bird in flight

LV, NV

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Opening paragraph partial quote of the moment

When you think of Tang -- if you think of Tang at all...

--Casey Barber

Data of the moment

Examining the body camera policies of 28 large police departments in a geographically representative array of U.S. states, along with the policy in Chester, NBC News found 45 percent gave specific instructions for when officers should start recording. Roughly 41 percent required officers to announce they're recording. And only 34 percent clearly stated there are consequences for not recording.

--nbc.com

Awkwardly worded headline of the moment

Black physicist rethinks the 'dark' in dark matter

--cnn.com