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xkcd #2935: Ocean Loop (imgs.xkcd.com)
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https://xkcd.com/2935

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I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

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https://xkcd.com/2934

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Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.

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https://xkcd.com/2933

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==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

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https://xkcd.com/2932

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This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

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xkcd #2931: Chasing (imgs.xkcd.com)
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https://xkcd.com/2931

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Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

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https://xkcd.com/2930

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From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.

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https://xkcd.com/2929

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While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.

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https://xkcd.com/2928

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The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.

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https://xkcd.com/2927/

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Poor Weeoming.

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https://xkcd.com/2926

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The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.

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https://xkcd.com/2925/

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It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.

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https://xkcd.com/2924

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The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.

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https://xkcd.com/2923

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Concealed mostly beneath the surface, sharks are the icebergs of the sea.

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xkcd #2922: Pub Trivia (imgs.xkcd.com)
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https://xkcd.com/2922

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Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London

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https://xkcd.com/2921

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Okay, this eclipse will only be visible from the Arctic in February 2063, when the sun is below the horizon, BUT if we get lucky and a gigantic chasm opens in the Earth in just the right spot...

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https://xkcd.com/2920

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Fun fact: The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-center by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place.

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https://xkcd.com/2919/

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First comes blood / Then we perish / Then comes Death in his Eternity Carriage.

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xkcd #2918: Tick Marks (imgs.xkcd.com)
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https://xkcd.com/2918

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If you're really savvy, you can hide an entire set of illicit transactions by timing them to draw what looks like a graph inset.

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https://xkcd.com/2917

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The most rare, top-tier eclipse photo would be the Solar Earth Eclipse, but the Apollo 12 crew's attempt to capture it was marred by camera shake. They said it looked spectacular, though.

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https://xkcd.com/2915

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The rare compound solar-lunar-nephelogical eclipse

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