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I just wrote 'Washing' by autocompleting to 'Washington' and then pressing delete three times. (beehaw.org)
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47 dangerous old playgrounds that our great-grandparents somehow survived (clickamericana.com)
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Old article, but no wonder there were a lot of young people dying in the olden times.

Apparently there are still concrete slides for the kids? https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/issue-4/the-concrete-slides-of-northern-california/

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Large tornado seen touching down in Nebraska (www.bbc.com)
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Mark Zuckerberg owns over 1,200 acres of land. Here's a look at his properties across the US, from a Hawaiian doomsday bunker to Lake Tahoe estates. (www.businessinsider.com)
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Over the years, he's bought and sold homes all over the country. He's also reportedly built some — a Hawaiian doomsday ranch that has had many scratching their heads, for example.

Zuckerberg's real estate portfolio has an assessed value of around $200 million, according to Business Insider calculations based on property assessments.

However, the assessed value of properties can be lower than reported purchase prices (or current market value), so Zuckerberg's holdings are likely worth significantly more.

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An archived article by Andrea Warren about The Orphan Train that sent kids from NYC to the West (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Full-sized oak tree growing from a 125-year-old grave. (sh.itjust.works)
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One of our Walmarts has anti-theft wheels (lemmy.world)
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None of the others in town have these, thought it was unusual enough to share

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An old gemstone identification chart (7775208001.blogspot.com)
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archive.today link

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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)
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Location on a map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-88.5628734&zoom=17#map=17/42.14861/-88.56287

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Researchers have found that sharks' heightened senses at sea could significantly improve hurricane forecast models (lemmy.ml)
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Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/25/hurricane-season-can-sharks-predict-power-path-of-storms/70459058007/

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fun fact bout eggs (hackers.town)
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If you throw one at a Republican it was already cracked

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Absolute unit of a mushroom we found (lemmy.world)
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Hand for scale, because there were no bananas at hand

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I just found these old rusty hancuffs in my back yard (lemmy.world)
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Obsolete Russian units of measurement (en.wikipedia.org)
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If you leave things in an Oakland Public Library book, or around the library, you might find them featured here on their website (oaklandlibrary.org)
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via https://www.metafilter.com/195998/Have-you-ever-wondered-what-happens-to-the-things-you-leave-behind

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Found A Container Full Of Trim (Weed) (lemmy.ml)
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Found it on my bike ride today, it was a bit away from the main trail and exposed to the environment (and possibly hobo hands) so I left it where it was. Now that I think about it though, I should of grabbed some to use as kindling for a bonfire.