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The 60-acre Cool Patch Pumpkins corn maze in Dixon, CA, is so big that people routinely call 911 for help getting out, even though they have a map that details every twist and turn. 

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Scientist Adam J Calhoun removed words from famous novels to analyze their punctuation styles, then converted the data into heat maps.

Periods, question marks, and exclamation points are red, commas and quotation marks are green, and semicolons and colons are blue. 

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An Oxford comma helped a group of truck drivers win a lawsuit against their employer. They sued their company for being refused overtime pay based on a confusing state document that lists the jobs that are ineligible for overtime, which includes the “packing for shipment or distribution of” products. Because the drivers distribute but do not pack their trucks, the absent serial comma after ‘shipment’ made the sentence’s intent too vague, and they won the case. 

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Which half are you? 🤔

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The Swedish Vallhund is a dog that looks like a cross between a Corgi and a wolf.

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The happiest couples are those who consider each other their best friend.

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Yummy 😋

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Oh hey it happened again

Here ya go, champs

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The oldest living tree ever found was a pine named “Prometheus.” It had been alive since before the Egyptian pyramids were built. Some guy cut it down in 1964. Source

[aclockworknick]

he was actually a forestry graduate student who was doing research on bristlecone pines (Pinus langaevea) and got his increment borer stuck in the tree. this tool costs almost $800, so he asked the forest service if he could cut down the tree to recover the tool. after cutting it down, it became apparent that the tree was actually the oldest living organism. ever. (around 8,000 years old). so, not just some asshole. the guy feels extremely guilty and has even broken down in tears during an interview about the accident

[wellshitcaitlin]

OH MY GOD SO LET ME TELL YOU A STORY

So after the grad student cut down the tree and discovered it was the oldest tree in the world he quit studying forestry and went to study salt flats (can’t cut down the oldest trees in the world on salt flats no siree none of that happening) and he was being interviewed about his research, but in the middle of the interview the reporter just stops and says “wait aren’t the guy that…”

And he just takes off running. Literally. Turns around and runs across the salt flats away from the interview and I feel so bad for him but I can’t help but start crying I’m laughing so hard about it imagine a guy high tailing it across salt flats away from a dude with a recorder

[porphyra]

i own an aesthetic blog, and i don’t usually comment on reblogs, but:

the “grad student”, dr. donald rusk currey, died in 2004. so he is not, as someone said in the comments, “still receiving death threats to this day”.

prometheus was the oldest non-clonal organism known at the time. many many many floral organisms of equal and older ages (upwards of 10 kya) have been found since 1964. so not “oldest living organism ever”.

though it wasn’t known at the time, methuselah (sampled in 1957) was later found to be at least 10 years older than prometheus.

prometheus’ innermost, extant rings have been dated to 4862 years. not 8000. (the only source given doesn’t even say 8000. where did this person get 8000?)

currey became a professor of geography in 1970. he was an extremely respected scholar in his field with an annual field trip and a scholarship in his name. he helped the area prometheus belonged to become the protected great basin national park. yes, it was controversial at the time (again: 1964. we’re talking about 5 years before man landed on the moon), but it did not sink his career, and it did not become the only thing he was known for.

i barely know anything about dendrochronology and yet i was able to find all this information in about 10 minutes. don’t believe everything you see on tumblr.com.

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I saw you in my dream last night and

I swear I didn't want to wake up

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Eating carrots doesn’t make your vision better.

Though your body does convert beta-carotene into vitamin A, it’s not enough to enhance the average person’s eyesight.

The myth comes from WWII propaganda, when England tried to hide their new radar technology by tricking the Germans into thinking British pilots had developed a special ‘night sight’ from eating a lot of carrots.

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