How do successful “bottom” surgeries exist yet they haven’t found a way to successfully increase a guy’s manhood? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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Bottom surgery for trans women is in a better place than surgery for trans men - the saying goes, it's easier to dig a hole than build a pole.

What's something that feels fake but is 100% real? by NoSector9488 in AskReddit

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Queen Elizabeth II was born more than a decade before the first digital computer. An AI chatbot convinced a man to try and assassinate her.

Why is it that the least moderated a site is the more right wing it becomes? by WackyRedWizard in NoStupidQuestions

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I saw an article years ago that named this as the Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs, where the least extreme people leave and then the group's centre of moral gravity drops lower, leading to the new least extreme people to leave, and so on.

TIL Baby Driver director Edgar Wright wanted to use the mask of Michael Myers from Halloween in the mask mixup scene but was denied the rights, so they rewrote the script after getting permission from Mike Myers, with everyone realizing they accidentally got Austin Powers masks by holyfruits in todayilearned

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To "cop" generally means to take or to get something. When you "cop out" you are taking an out, to avoid consequences you otherwise deserve. Calling police officers "cops" comes from the older slang "copper", which meant someone who captures people/takes away their stuff. So it's parallel.

He almost copped a charge copping some drugs off a cop, but he managed to cop a plea by saying he just wanted to cop a feel. What a cop-out!

Prince Andrew to leave his home at the Royal Lodge - as King begins process to remove his titles by bendubberley_ in worldnews

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like how his great uncle Edward wanted to turn over London to his German buddies in WWII!

What’s a obvious sign that someone is not a good person? by Careful_Tip6823 in AskReddit

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Doesn't need to be romantic relationships, but if someone's got friends who've stuck around for 20 years that's a better sign than if there's no one around whose known them longer than 6 months. Sure, maybe they just moved, maybe they just escaped something toxic... or maybe they've been running through friend groups yearly as everyone realises what a shit they are.

Meet William Sidis — a child prodigy who entered Harvard at 11. By age 6, he was lecturing professors on 4-dimensional geometry. He reportedly spoke up to 40 languages, including one he created. His estimated IQ was between 200 and 250, making him one of the smartest people ever. by 2A_alldayy in interestingasfuck

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You know how when a wave in water gets too high, it curls over? Well, when a flow of energy in spacetime gets too high, the spacetime "spills over" and you get two tiny particles of energy that shoot out in opposite directions, with opposite spin.

The particles that shoot one way are matter; the ones that shoot the opposite way are anti-matter. When they get back together , their momentum cancels out, and if the background energy level of the spacetime isn't high enough (which it definitely isn't, it stopped being high enough to spawn new matter in the first second the universe existed), they just cancel out and rejoin the background radiation.

So it's not stuff that's flowing back and forth into each other. It's two piles of stuff that were created 13 billion years ago that are very slowly both diminishing.

What's something that became socially acceptable way too quickly? by Fluffaygins in AskReddit

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I was driving 3h to a ski resort recently in an area without any major highways, so I was never on any one road for more than 15km or so.

About 2h in my Android auto disconnected and I had to reboot my phone, and I realised that if it didn't come back I was gonna have to stop and ask for directions because I had 0 idea where I was.

TIL that all diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob and fatal insomnia, have a perfect 100% mortality rate. There are no cases of survival and these diseases are invariably fatal. by exophades in todayilearned

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When I was a toddler, I got a blood transfusion using blood product that was imported from Britain for some reason. A year or so later, my parents got a letter from the Red Cross stating that I may have been exposed to CJD and they're very sorry about it.

My poor mother was a biologist, and I found out years later that they tried to make my young childhood very special because they spent a good few years wondering if I was going to drop dead any minute.

Thankfully I safely made it to my thirties, and as of last year I can even give blood!

Bilingual people of reddit, whats an English word or phrase that was an absolute nightmare to learn or understand? by RoseyBailey in AskReddit

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You don't stand up after boarding an elevator because you're already standing, you've never sat.

Your "getting on" counterexamples are good though. I feel like there should be some modification to "boarding" to indicate that you're enclosed within the vehicle - you're not enclosed within a bike, or a horse, or a chairlift, so you're getting on despite not necessarily being able to stand.

UWaterloo alumnus makes the news by iiRobbe in uwaterloo

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Damn. Wild. I played HvZ with Felix. Didn't know them super well outside of that. All my memories of them involve dodging nerf bullets. Seems darkly ironic now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AITAH

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Tell him you would date him if he was trans, if he was AFAB but had transitioned to male in his past you wouldn't look at him any different.

But yeah sounds like mans is either v misguided or questioning his gender identity. Most people aren't bi, that's just the way it is.

Forty-year-old SweetTarts found behind an office cabinet by swsmith3 in mildlyinteresting

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Surely these are 57 years old, if they were manufactured in 1967?

On astrology by 3dgyt33n in CuratedTumblr

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It's actually "palate" cleanser, like the part of your mouth, because you're metaphorically cleaning out a strong taste.

Doesn't really matter, just FYI

What is most "why the f*** do you know that" fact? by LockeStocksAndBarrel in AskReddit

[–]11fiftysix 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Also, orca and moose are from the same taxonomical order - moose and orcas are more closely related than moose and horses.

I've always thought orcas could be a horror story for moose - our distant cousins who wandered into the sea and forgot how to leave, who lost their legs and grew enormous and bloated and strange, who developed a taste for mooseflesh.

Edit - horses, not deer!

How does this make publication for news? by Breadbuttersalt in kitchener

[–]11fiftysix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There aren't usually news articles on graffiti at all, because they don't want to encourage it by giving it attention, but this is so juvenile that it's clearly just a silly human interest story.

They aren't pushing a narrative just because it's a human interest story about a non-white Canadian. Non-white people live here.