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The late Triassic rifting was caused by a dinosaur trying to use the control panel to escape a predator, but it was eaten before the continent could fully separate.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3285/
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The administration thinks it's weird, but the geologists say it looks normal.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3284/
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With their 13 years recording and performing together and two humans worth of mass, the White Stripes are sandwiched neatly between gray wolves and blue whales.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3283/
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I've been trying to find out whether the Laws of the Game take the axiom of choice or not, but FIFA officials keep blocking my number.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3282/
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The family lore was that we've had it ever since it was ejected from a star-forming gas cloud, but it seems more likely that my great-grandparents probably just bought it while on vacation in the galactic thin disk.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3281/
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As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3280/
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Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge?
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3279/
xkcd #3278: Vera Rubin Observatory
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'Spurious signals from the kitchen' is harder for an optical telescope than a radio one, but with enough determination and creativity, I believe it's possible.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3278/
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I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3277/
xkcd #3276: Recursive Trucker's Hitch
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As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3276/
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We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3275/
xkcd #3274: Arthurian Connector
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Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3274/
xkcd #3273: Latitude and Longitude
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NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3273/
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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3272/
xkcd #3271: The Princess and the Pea
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Once we've fully explored this space, we can start varying the number of princesses.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3271/
xkcd #3270: Toasting Marshmallows
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We have two 'in case of fire, break glass' boxes, which you pick between based on how big of a problem the fire is. One has an extinguisher, and one has sticks, marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3270/
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Although it was a setback for physics, I'm glad the particle naming rights issue led to the cancelation of Pizza Hut's Superconducting Super Collider in the early 90s, so the Double Stuffed Extra Cheese Topping Quark ended up just being named 'top quark.'
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3269/
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The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3268/
xkcd #3267: Types of Tornado Alert
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I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3267/
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If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3266/
