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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is a 2014 non-fiction book by Randall Munroe in which the author answers hypothetical science questions sent to him by readers of his webcomic, xkcd. The book contains a selection of questions and answers originally published on his blog What If?, along with several new ones.
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle or an item on a test, for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object ...
The aptly named test site for the world's first and only nuclear-powered rocket engines. Jerimoth Hill: The highest natural point in Rhode Island. For years, one of the toughest highpoints in the U.S. to scale, not because of its 812-foot (247 m) height, but because of an angry old man who lived nearby. Just Room Enough Island
But one employee noted a customer ordered two pickles for delivery and nothing else. The pickles themselves came to a reasonable $3.48, but the delivery fee tacked on $5.49. All told, those two ...
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Do any odd weird numbers exist? Do any (2, 5)-perfect numbers exist? Do any Taxicab(5, 2, n) exist for n > 1? Is there a covering system with odd distinct moduli? Is a normal number (i.e., is each digit 0–9 equally frequent)? Are all irrational algebraic numbers normal? Is 10 a solitary number?
7. Snake Milker. If you are not someone who scares easily or is risk-averse, snake milking may be a career path for you. This job requires the snake milker to collect the venom of poisonous snakes ...
Horizontal pitch. Horizontal pitch (HP) is a unit of length defined by the Eurocard printed circuit board standard used to measure the horizontal width of rack mounted electronic equipment, similar to the rack unit (U) used to measure vertical heights of rack mounted equipment. One HP is 0.2 inches (1/5") or 5.08 millimetres wide.
An inherently funny word is a word that is humorous without context, often more for its phonetic structure than for its meaning. Vaudeville tradition holds that words with the / k / sound are funny. A 2015 study at the University of Alberta suggested that the humor of certain nonsense words can be explained by whether they seem rude, and by the ...
Smells and odors (particularly foul ones) emanating from the body, especially the sexual areas and/or from the opposite sex (as from bad breath, urine, feces, flatulence, etc.). [4] [19] Omorashi. Having a full bladder and/or wetting oneself, or from seeing someone else experiencing a full bladder and/or wetting themself.