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1. Specify that your drive-thru order is “to go.”

2. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

3. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will “swipe your grub.”

4. Name your dog “Dog.”

5. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions “to keep them tuned up.”

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Found were 716 stone ‘disks’ described as “obviously fashioned by the hand of an intelligent creature.” Etched in its face was a very fine groove spiraling out from the center; closer inspection revealed the ’spiral’ to be an almost microscopic, continuous line of what appeared to be writing. Placed on a turntable the disk emitted a strange ‘hum’.

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A Japanese mental health counselor recited pi to
100,000 decimal places from memory on Wednesday, setting what he claims
to be a new world record.

Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than
16 hours to recite the number to 100,000 decimal places, breaking his
personal best of 83,431 digits set in 1995, his office said Wednesday.
He made the attempt at a public hall in Kisarazu, just east of Tokyo.

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With a driving need to boost agricultural production, Indians are tapping their groundwater faster than nature can replenish it… continue reading

A minor solar flare in September 2005 produced a noticeable degradation
of all GPS signals on the day side of the Earth. When scaled up to the
larger solar flares expected in 2011-12, Cornell researchers expect
massive outages of all GPS receivers on the day side of the Earth.

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I was skeptical, to say the least, about this rumor, and was about to dismiss it as one more Internet hoax. But I thought I better try it out first. Well, low and behold, it works. I tried it with a Motorola v330 GSM cell phone, and it reliably opens (and relocks) the car.

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Leave that bulky desktop battery charger at home - flip the lid on these clever AA batteries and charge over USB using the in-built, standard USB port! A must-have for digital cameras and other devices still using AA cells.

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