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"An 80-year-old woman from Yekaterinburg, Russia, can call herself lucky to be alive after falling from the window of her sixth-floor apartment and landing on top of a parked car. The accident occurred last Thursday, as the unnamed octogenarian was cleaning the windows of her apartment."
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd odditycentral.com/news/80-year

Oddity Central · 80-Year-Old Woman Falls from Sixth Floor Apartment, Survives UnscathedAn 80-year-old woman from Yekaterinburg, Russia, can call herself lucky to be alive after falling from the window of her sixth-floor apartment

The #MAGA cult has voluntarily estranged itself from the ‘normies’ in their own marriage and/or family, not to mention traditional #Americans that honor the #UnitedStates #Constitution.

Like any cult member anywhere throughout #history they lack self-awareness and believe that the #normies are the #weird ones. Sad.

#ResistanceGenealogy as well as sad family stories such as ⬇️ will record who was who.
huffpost.com/entry/harvard-acc

HuffPost · I Just Got Into Harvard. My MAGA Grandparents’ 6-Word Reaction To My Acceptance Devastated Me.By Bella Paz

"Because we use water all the time, most of us have an intuitive sense of how long it takes a drop of water to form and fall. More viscous liquids, like oil or shampoo or honey, drop more slowly depending on how thick they are, which can vary depending on concentration, temperature and more."
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #science #cats #health upworthy.com/cats-buttholes-on

Upworthy · Do cat buttholes touch every surface the sit on? Science answers.By Jacalyn Wetzel

"If chivalry isn't already dead, it's certainly circling the drain. OpenAI CEO and tech billionaire Sam Altman recently admitted that people politely saying "please" and "thank you" to their AI chatbots is costing him bigtime."
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #tech #technology #technews #FFS
futurism.com/altman-please-tha

Futurism · Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing PowerBy Joe Wilkins
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Sora News: "Strange as it may sound, the technique has been a bit of folk wisdom for some time, and the Oita Prefectural Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Research Guidance Center recently confirmed that hammer time really does help lead to mushroom time.

Last month, the organization conducted an experiment, comparing the effects of hitting a log with a hammer versus leaving it un-smacked, and found that the wood that had been hammered subsequently produced more than twice as much shiitake (by weight). "

soranews24.com/2022/02/08/viol

SoraNews24 -Japan News- · Violence IS the answer – Japanese farmers using hammers to grow more mushroomsSwinging hammers now part of cultivating shiitake.