And manioc!
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Cruise ships have on board morgues
I learned that during the pandemic.
My grandparents were regular cruisers, especially on the QEII, so Iād known that for a while.
When I was on the emergency response team at the school I was teaching at, I learned that they had a number of body bags on hand in case there was a disaster (earthquake being the most likely) that claimed a bunch of lives and we were on our own for a while before FEMA got to us. We had four, IIRC which seemed like too many for all but the worst disaster in which case it wouldnāt have been enough. 
One of our jobs was to empty & refill the emergency water supply. The water was safe for 5 years and it had been nearly that long. So one day we had to empty the drums out and refill them with fresh water & new purification tablets. We had to do this one 500 gallon drum at a time in case there was an earthquake while we were doing it. And we did it on a teacher in-service day so there wouldnāt have been a need for as much water with no students being there. But like, I couldnāt empty drum #2 while my colleague was filling drum #1 because then if an earthquake happened weād have no water.
The Doukhobors were a Russian Protestant group who refused military service due to being pacifists. Fast forward 200 years and some of them were terrorists in Canada burning stuff down to maintain their right to be pacifist. Like, Iām so pacifist Iāll kill everyone here to prove what a pacifist I am!
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With the current atmospheric river event on the west coast, I got curious about the term as I donāt remember it being used for long. My TV (weather channel) just told me it was an āofficialā term starting in 2017
I couldnāt find anything to confirm or deny that in a quick Google. Per wiki, the term was coined in the 1990ās by MIT researchers. The Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes released a 5 point rating scale for atmospheric rivers in 2019.
Before the frequent use of the atmospheric river term to describe these west coast events, people generally used the term pineapple express. I still see some folks using that
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Atmospheric river was quite the rage in the 1870s.
But not āatmospheric riverā
I knew that. I read about it wrt insurance fraud. If the first digits of your insurance claims donāt follow that distribution, possible fraud!
I learned about this when some people tried to use it to prove voter fraud in the 2020 election. Except they applied it incorrectly.
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I learned about it from numberphile:
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Matt Parker discussed that
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To strike through text, I already knew about the [s] method, but thereās a better way!ā¦
See? It works!
i see it does
game changer!
(pretzel bun? you seein this?!?!)
:squintyeyes: 
sounds like someone just tripled their productivity!
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This episode had a big influence on my career (not the wearing the dress part).
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IT WAS A MUU-MUU!!!
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Thatās a good word to remember for Spelling Bee.