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Dear Mila,

I guess instead of penpal they should call it pen-yourself. Ha! You know, because I’m writing to myself. But that’s not entirely true either. I’m writing to you, you being my ideal imagined audience. And who is reading it in actuality is 50% a mystery to me. Which is kind of exciting, but mostly predictable. And predictability is something we seem to mostly underestimate, or ignore completely. I am more and more convinced that much of my life is completely predictable. Pushing the obvious aside, like that I will set my alarm for 8:30am tomorrow but won’t wake up till around 11am, eat a bowl of oatmeal while watching something I’ve already seen on HBO. Continue reading…

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This fact made me a little sad…

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

Read more!

Poor piggy!

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The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

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There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru.

See for yourself: http://www.amusingfacts.com/facts/Miscellaneous/

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The Statue of Liberty is actually a statue of two different people. The face was that of Charlotte Bartholdi, the mother of the designer Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. The sculptor’s girlfriend, Jeanne-Emilie, was the model for the statue’s arms and body.

Who-da thunk it?

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In Tucson, Arizona, it is illegal for women to wear pants.

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The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

This is not Pam (but I secretly wish it were…)

Dunder Mifflin, this is non-pretentious.

Anyone game for a virtual Dunder Mifflin Branch?

whisperrrrrr

whispering bench. who knows what this is? (CV can’t answer!!!)

better categorize correctly!

or you may have a hard time finding your posts!