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That a cumulus cloud weighs on average 1,000,000 pounds? Yes, that's a million. Who knew?

 > A typical cumulus cloud weighs approximately 1.1 million pounds, which is equivalent to about 500,000 kilograms. This weight is comparable to the mass of 100 elephants or a large airplane <

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Frank Zappa's 130th official release came out today. Cheaper Than Cheep, it was originally recorded live in 1974 and intended as a TV special. Technical problems in the recording process kept it on the shelf, until now. Featuring the following parade of hits:

1. Intro / Cheepnis - Percussion / 'Cheaper Than Cheep'

2. Cosmik Debris

3. Band Introductions

4. RDNZL

5. Village Of The Sun

6. Montana

7. Duke Goes Out

8. A Visit To The Art Studio

9. Inca Roads

10. 'Get Down Simmons'

11. Penguin In Bondage

12. T’Mershi Duween

13. The Dog Breath Variations

14. Uncle Meat

15. How Could I Be Such A Fool

16. I’m Not Satisfied

17. Wowie Zowie

18. I Don’t Even Care

19. Let’s Make The Water Turn Black

20. Dupree’s Paradise Introduction

21. Dupree’s Paradise

22. Oh No

23. Son Of Orange County

24. More Trouble Every Day

25. Apostrophe’

26. Camarillo Brillo

light roast coffee has more caffeine than dark roast

The human hand can sense variations in thickness up to 1/1000 of an inch

pumpkin blossoms picked at full bloom are edible and delicious.  Grew up eating these for breakfast. Cheap and filling when coated in melted butter and crushed crackers.  Still grow pumpkin vines every year just for the blossoms, chopped up in salads and bean dishes.

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R-454B refrigerant is unobtainable and is not a good product

The maoi Harmine, found in the Ayahuasca vine and Syrian Rue seed has been shown to be an effective treatment for Parkinson's disease since 1928.

 Merck made capsules, suppositories, and an injectable solution available in 1928.

There is no Yosemite Sam Trail in Yosemite

Philippines has 7,641 islands.

If love is blind and god is love then ray charles is god.

Did you know...

A NEW blue.
Sort of similar to this, but so clear, pure and lively!

This recently discovered blue, sooooo beautiful. Discovered at Oregon State University, an interesting science story.

https://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/chemistry-news-events/yinmn-blue

Armadillos can carry and transmit leprosy to humans.

90% of the world's natural rubber supply comes from a single species of rubber tree in southeast Asia, leaving the supply highly susceptible to disease and transportation disruption.  The US is looking at extracting natural rubber on an industrial scale from the domestic production of the Russian dandelion and sunflower leaves, among other plants.

Patagonia wetsuits are made from rubber from the guayule plant.

Snowflakes form on non-soluble nuclei, whereas water droplets form on soluble nuclei.  One of the reasons why no 2 snowflakes are the same, there condensation nuclei can have a huge range in size and crystal structure!  

Neil Young and Daryl Hannah have been married for 6 years since 24th Aug 2018.

 

Daryl Hannah has been in relationships with

 Rami Jaffee (2010 - 2013), 

Paul Blackthorne (2010 - 2011),

 Brad Renfro (2006), Brad Renfro (2006),

 Sean MacPherson (2004 - 2006),

 David Blaine (2002), 

Val Kilmer (2001 - 2002),

 Dodi Fayed (1997),

 John Kennedy Jr. (1991 - 1994),

 Jim Henson (1989),

 Jackson Browne (1983 - 1992)

 and Chris Bensinger (1976 - 1977).

Daryl Hannah has had encounters with Mick Jagger (1987) and Warren Beatty (1987).

 

Hardy Cyclamen is a particularly lovely plant with beautiful leaves and delicate sweet flowers. The flowers bloom in the fall and the leaves appear in winter.

I have swaths of them growing in my yard that all came from one small patch many years ago. The plants create seeds that are covered with a sweet coating that attracts ants; the ants move the seeds around and new plants appear. It blows my mind that ants do the work of transferring the seeds to so many places so far apart. The plants grow out of corm-like discs that look like rocks - there are some in my yard that are have gotten as big as 4" across.

Getting bit by leaches is good for you. They carry no disease and inject you with a combination of an antibiotic, a pain killer, and an anticoagulant. 

The anti coagulant is so good that they use them in modern medicine for reattaching severed body parts. They will put leaches on the wound which keeps the blood flowing. 

There was a medical leach growing facility in Scottland where they had shallow pools with cow intestines that they filled with blood to feed the leaches. Animal rights activists showed up one day to protest. All they knew was that the facility breed animals for medical research. The owner invited the activists in and showed them the intestine pools with thousands of leaches attached to them. After the tour the activists said never mind all good here. 

Only been bit once in Thailand out on a hike. You could see them on the trail in the forest on the ground - they were tiny maybe a half inch long. If you waved your hand over them they would stand up and follow your hand back and forth because they could smell the blood. One of the fuckers got on me and crawled up to the middle of my back. I had no idea until I took my shirt off at the river we were hiking to. It was full about a 5 inches long and as thick as my thumb. My wife knocked it off no problem but it did bleed for about 4 hours due to the anticoagulant. 

alls i got is that squash blossoms are equally tender and delicious

 

https://youtu.be/AqAJLh9wuZ0?si=n8jOpSULrvHJaKuY

Taylor Swift's entire catalog was sold at auction and bought by scooter Braun a bunch of years ago and she had ze across to every bit of writing that she had done with her entire heart and soul 

And now this year thanks to her epic eras tour which fed every single City that she went to's food Bank for a long time to come along with all the other money and time and care that she gives everywhere she goes.

And thanks to that tour the whole reason she did it which she now announced this year has been for her to buy back her catalogue.

In the meantime while her work was not her own, she released Taylor's version of many albums so that it would belong to her. 

Also she's Sagi

12/13heart

 

A human heart beats approximately 35 million times per year. This translates to roughly 100,000 times per day. Over an average lifetime, the human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times.