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  • empresssue
    empresssue Posts: 2,977 Member
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    It is too cold in OH.
  • UltraVegAthlete
    UltraVegAthlete Posts: 667 Member
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    Apples float.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    Also, some apples are red.
  • dinadyna21
    dinadyna21 Posts: 403 Member
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    Nature fact: if we took every elephant in the world and laid them end to end into space, they would die.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    Listen is an anagram for silent.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit. True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless). Blueberries, raspberries, and oranges are true fruits, and so are many kinds of nut.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
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    Van Gogh's painting Starry Night depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise
  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
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    Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
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  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,521 Member
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    There is no such thing as precise simultaneity. (Enstein)
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
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    cee134 wrote: »
    Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit. True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless). Blueberries, raspberries, and oranges are true fruits, and so are many kinds of nut.

    Also aren’t pumpkins a fruit? And similar “vegetables” like gourds and squashes?

    IS ANYTHING A VEGETABLE? IS MY WHOLE LIFE A LIE?
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
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  • VanishingNachos
    VanishingNachos Posts: 5,688 Member
    edited January 2018
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  • ZiggyRS0307
    ZiggyRS0307 Posts: 73 Member
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    The dot above a lower case i is called a ‘tittle’
  • racetofinish751
    racetofinish751 Posts: 15 Member
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    The shortest poem in the world is
    Fleas
    Adam Had Them
  • eccomi_qui
    eccomi_qui Posts: 1,831 Member
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    ZiggyRS0307 wrote: »
    The dot above a lower case i is called a ‘tittle’

    very tittilating
  • KeepRunningFatboy
    KeepRunningFatboy Posts: 3,055 Member
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    ->" U.S. employees at large-sized companies (1000 employees or more) only spend 45 percent of their time on primary job duties. So what about the other 55 percent of the time? Their respondents reported spending 14 percent of their workweek on email. The other 40 percent of their working hours were spent on meetings, administrative tasks, and "interruptions."
  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
    edited January 2018
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    Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
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    KeepRunningFatboy wrote: »
    ->" U.S. employees at large-sized companies (1000 employees or more) only spend 45 percent of their time on primary job duties. So what about the other 55 percent of the time? Their respondents reported spending 14 percent of their workweek on email. The other 40 percent of their working hours were spent on meetings, administrative tasks, and "interruptions."

    I work for a company with ~2,500 people that's part of a larger company with ~24,000 people. I'd say that's accurate, if not a slight underestimation.

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