licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2025
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what planet? I never heard of this. Wait. Its orion isn't it.
it's so easy to break into an apartment in south korea, any basement dweller can do this.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
"The truth is always stronger than the lie."
One is a quote made by Joseph Goebbels,
the other is a paraphrase of a paraphrase
of a quote made by Joseph Goebbels,
with the "In British culture" part missing.
Guess which one is which.
(P.S. I disavow German fascism.
It's just the more I learn about the US or UK,
the more I'm surprised that fascism took hold in Germany... (first.))
The correct spelling of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
The word "America" does not come from Amerigo Vespucci, but is likely an amalgamation of
the Mayan word "Amerristiquiqque" for "land where the wind blows constantly", which is the name of a mountain range in Nicaragua, and the Spanish word "Rica" for rich, like in "Costa Rica" (Rich Coast) as Spanish sailors would ask Carib Amerindians where their gold came from.
The smallpox blankets event where a couple of blankets laced with smallpox were knowingly gifted to Native Americans happened before germ theory existed. The plan was based on miasma theory.
Stephen Jay Gould, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, testified in defense of evolution at a trial in Arkansas then was on the same plane as Bill Clinton during Clinton's interregnum between governorships. Clinton said he "would have vetoed that bill", meaning the bill mandating equal time for creationism.
You can speeddrift on the top of the tube on Purple, a classic Trackmania fullspeed map, and continuing the SD from the top to the next section without cutting it but with a little overdrift allows you to set World Record if done correctly