What weird and wonderful facts keep you awake at night.

The United States hasn't minted any new purple heart medals since World War II.

We've been using the stockpile that was prepared in anticipation of the ground invasion of Japan.

We were anticipating so many casualties.

We can't prove we aren't in a simulation. Schizophrenia's hallucinations are

shaped by culture. Americans with schizophrenia tend to have more paranoid and harsher voices or

hallucinations. In India and Africa, people with schizophrenia tend to have more playful and

positive voices. There's a really new treatment called

Avatar Therapy. It has a computer character mimic the particular person's malicious

hallucinations, but gradually over time its voice and expressions become more friendly and

controllable by the patient. Apparently this treatment has the effect of giving the patient

more control over the hallucinations, and either getting rid of them

completely, or making the hallucinations more positive in nature. Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has not

yet made a full orbit of the sun. It went from undiscovered, to planet, to not planet in less than one

Pluto year. The geyser sphinx is so old that it was the ancient

Egyptians themselves who performed the first restoration after digging it out from under the

dunes over 1,000 years after it had been built. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to the

lobsters in the galley. About 40% of the world's food is just wasted,

and a lot of that is before it even hits the shelves. Cows kill more Americans than radical

terror actors. Most years, we should probably be turning the cows and the terror fighters

against each other. There are now legally adult movie stars who were born after the year 2000.

I remember ideing someone at my bar born in the year 2000 and being deeply unhappy

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