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Daniel Appleton's avatar

Memories & the persistence thereof..... When will they develop a device to record them ? That would be great to see a series of the memories of Einstein, Sir Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, Jorge Luis Borge, Lao Tzu, Indira Gandhi, among others - contingent upon how intact their physical brains still are.

Carl Sagan or Georgia O'Keefe ?

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Ms. Writer's avatar

I wonder if the teacher (whose project revealed 30% of the student’s fathers weren’t biological) kept his/her job. I’m guessing it was the first and last time they taught that lesson!

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Ellen from Endwell's avatar

Really enjoyed learning about tomatoes. Amazing.

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Dave Laughlin's avatar

the fermented fish guts origin story may ruin my relationship with ketchup forever...and to offer evidence for your first point, simply imagining Banzai Skydiving was enough to almost make me soil myself!

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Jim Geschke's avatar

I once sampled a species of grass called "Montenushka Thunderfuck." I don't remember much after that. :-)

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Jim Geschke's avatar

I don't remember. I was too busy staring at my hand.

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John P. Weiss's avatar

I hate the fact that for half a second, as I sipped my first wake-up coffee of the day, I actually thought β€œcould there really have been a three-headed race horse?”

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…broken that i never got the og real g-mail garfmail…how different my life might have been…

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