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'It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond.'
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'If any of you want to meet some cool local oxygen atoms, I can introduce you!'
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'There's a heated debate over whether the big island of Tierra del Fuego should qualify for membership.'
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'The distinctive 'UCLA comma' and 'Michigan comma' are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.'
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'I see white shores, and beyond it, a far green country under a tequila sunrise.'
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'The Watership Down rabbits removed an additional 0.1 nanometers constructing their warren, although that was mostly soil. British rabbits have historically mined very little coal; the sole rabbit-run coal plant was shut down in the 1990s.'
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'Under quantum tax law, photons sent through a beamsplitter don't actually choose which path they took, or incur a tax burden, until their wavefunction collapses when the power is sold.'
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'Our nucleic acid recovery techinques found a great deal of homo sapiens DNA incorporated into the fossils, particularly the ones containing high levels of resin, leading to the theory that these dinosaurs preyed on the once-dominant primates.'
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'Hopefully the HVAC people set it to only affect the AIR in the room.'
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'The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.'
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'The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.'
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'Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.'
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'It's annoying that the Nastapoka Arc isn't a meteor impact crater, but I truly believe that--with enough time, effort, and determination--we could make it one.'
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'Their calculations show it will 'pass within the distance of the moon' but that it 'will not hit the moon, so what's the point?''
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