You aren’t actually dying the minute you are born. The definition of dying is when more cells are dying off than are being replaced and this happens once you hit 26. So you aren’t actually dying until you are 26 years old
Raccoons are very smart. They can open complex locks in under 10 tries, and can still repeat the process if the locks are rearranged or turned upside down. They’ll also remember solutions to problems for up to 3 years. Source
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"She can be difficult to love. But nothing exceptional ever comes easy. "
Bill Murray once took a cab and found out the driver played the saxophone but never got to practice because he worked 14-hour days. So…
BM: “I said, ‘When do you practice?’”
Cabbie: “I drive 14 hours a day.”
BM: “Well, where’s your sax?”
Cabbie: “In the trunk.”
BM: “Pull over and get in the back, I know how to drive a car. ”
“Not only did he play all the way to Sausalito, which is a long way, we stopped and got barbecue. He [wound up] playing in what some would call a sketchy, weird place in Oakland at 2:15 in the morning. I was like, ‘Relax, man, you’ve got the [bleeping] horn! We’re cool!’ And it was great and it made for a beautiful night!”
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"Do not mock a pain that you haven’t endured. "
Every year on August 5, the Mars Curiosity rover celebrates the anniversary of its arrival by singing the Happy Birthday song. To itself. All alone. On Mars. Source Source 2
Happy Birthday to the Curiosity rover!
I had to post this in hopes that maybe it won’t be so lonely if we’re all thinking about… it.
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Mark Twain loved to travel and once wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Source Source 2
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Queen Elizabeth II is related to Vlad the Impaler, making Prince Charles the ‘heir to Dracula’s bloodline.’ Source Source 2
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