Today I Learned

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I think this might’ve been a Criminal episode! A very fun one—they weren’t just “burglars.”

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That was an amazing read!

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This was a really cool article about a song traced throughout Australia:

Did a fairly good job centring the Aboriginal people rather than white people who happened to hear them singing it, too.

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I can’t get over that there were apartments in the same building as the FBI office! Isn’t that super fucking weird?! I just assumed every FBI anything would be like, IDK, a bank vault.

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GO DUANE!

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“in Portland, OR”

Keeping Portland Weird, Duane!

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our term ‘jumbo’ meaning ‘very big’ comes from the name of the popular elephant, he was not named Jumbo because he was large.

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This was one of the main shows we watched as a kid. It might explain a lot about me :laughing:

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I worked for the publishing company that put out this book about Grandma Gatewood!

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Did she eat?

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Haha I certainly hope so! I didn’t read it :innocent:

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Today I learned what “cis” means. I had never heard of that term before perusing this forum. I must admit that the makeup of this forum is quite different than I’m used to interacting with in day to day life. Therefore, my puny worldview is expanding ever so slightly, as evidenced by today’s new bit of knowledge.

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