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Startling but true: Giraffes eat bones

That's not a cigar in this giraffe's mouthit's a bone. Apparently, although giraffes mostly eat the leaves of thorny trees such as acacias, they occasionally supplement their diets with minerals from other sources, such as bones they find on the ground.

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Mornings on Maple Street: Attaching stories to Lewis Hine's Child Labor photos

UPDATE: Lewis Hine was a photographer who began working for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) in 1908 documenting working children.

Joe Manning ferreted out the stories behind this picture, and many others:

"As I type the opening words of this story, it has been five years to the month since I saw this picture for the first time, in August of 2006. It was posted on a photo blog I ran across while searching for information about Lewis Hine."

The children and families depicted in the child labor photographs of Lewis Hine were unwittingly caught in the act of making history, but we know almost nothing about them. The pictures were taken for a noble purpose, but a century later, they have become an enormous photo album of the American family. By finding out what happened to some of them, and by revealing the photos to their descendants (most descendants are unaware of them), we are dignifying their lives, and the lives of everyone that history has forgotten.

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Batman: "I am the 1%"

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Only on Fox - Man vs Beast:"[It] was only a race once the camel decided it liked to chase midgets"

Shows where midgets compete with animals. Where midgets compete with each other. Fox’s other programming (which may or may not involve midgets). The network has finally come to grips with its lowest-common-denominator nature.

"This year’s competitions (and let's all pray that Man Vs. Beast 3 is on the Fox horizon) featured...a relay team of 4 midgets racing against a camel."

"...[the Beast] doesn’t try, for the simple reason that ...It doesn’t know it’s in a competition. That’s why greyhound races require fake rabbits and horse races require jockeys. And why that camel race was only a race once the camel decided it liked to chase midgets."

From Paul's Ponderings via Searching For A Band of Gypsies

One of those obvious questions you never thought of

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The World of Beetles

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Jello? Who knew?

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Public perceptions of U.S. income inequality

Click the chart (PDF) to see the stufdy upon which it was based. There are several other good charts in this article at Mother Jones, too.

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Meanwhile in Japan, Jesus' grave

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Fun fact: Finding Nemo

Male clownfish change gender after losing the female in their school. That means that for the entirety of Finding Nemo, Nemo’s dad was turning into Nemo’s mom.

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This changes everything!

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Americans' taxes among the lowest in the world

Not only are they low, but they are lower than any time since 1965.

via www.theatlantic.com

Second Base at last!

Click the extended link below to see the final few pages of this terrific story from the always-entertaining afternoonsnoozebutton.com. It is definitley worth the few seconds it'll take you to read.

Are eggs actually chicken menstruation?

Yes, and honey is actually bee vomit. Thank you, science!

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Webcam: Sokoblovsky Farms - Russia's Finest Purveyors of Miniature Lap Giraffes

If you've seen these commercials you know how cute and alluring these miniature giraffes can be. Their breeder has installed a webcam in the bull giraffe's barn that allows you to watch many of the charming activites of this little guy.

via www.petitelapgiraffe.com