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Perplexing perspectives: when left is right, and right is right, our brains melt but we’re impressed nonetheless.
It’s the name that turns many English-speakers off, but even people in Japan sometimes take issue the way Calpis can linger in your mouth.
Troubling statistic is coupled with an additional one-in-four saying they’ve heard the word, but don’t know what it means.
This simple procedure can be done in the comfort of your own home, changing the world as we know it.
Possibly the world’s first knife where the soft grip wrapping and slicing edge are made of the same thing.
From this day forward, all math professors should be called “fantasistas of number theory.”
Go ahead and laugh, because the former midfielder will have the last laugh all the way to the bank… his big bank of poo.
Even if something happens once in a blue moon, it’s still not as rare, or gorgeous, as this.
No matter how accomplished students are in science, it seems Japan doesn’t have the resources to tap into their full potential.
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