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And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
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I learned today that: -

Cholangiocarcinoma, also known as bile duct cancer, is a type of cancer that forms in the bile ducts and symptoms of cholangiocarcinoma may include abdominal pain, yellowish skin, weight loss, generalized itching, and fever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholangiocarcinoma
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Today I am starting to learn Openscad to help me with designing 3D printing models for my future 3D printing business and bought the book Programming with Openscad, this will help me with Programming and with the software too.

Hopefully within a few months, I can get a grip at designing my own models that I have planned as well.
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And there was me calling her "Ker-mah-ler" Harris.


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TIL: Your fingernails are growing at about 1.2 nanometres per second.
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TIL: Winston Churchill had a distant ancestor, also called Winston Churchill, who was a politician and cavalier that lived from 1620–1688.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_C ... (Cavalier)


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Can confirm.
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God that's some of the most White People answers I have ever read.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_the_Moon

Atmosphere of the Moon

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The average daytime abundances of the elements known to be present in the lunar atmosphere, in atoms per cubic centimeter, are as follows:

Argon: 20,000–100,000
Helium: 5,000–30,000
Neon: up to 20,000
Sodium: 70
Potassium: 17
Hydrogen: fewer than 17

This yields approximately 80,000 total atoms per cubic centimeter, marginally higher than the quantity posited to exist in the atmosphere of Mercury. While this greatly exceeds the density of the solar wind, which is usually on the order of just a few protons per cubic centimeter, it is virtually a vacuum in comparison with the atmosphere of the Earth.
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To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
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