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   win said, 5 months ago

   Lewis and Clark discovered that blue beads were the most favored in trade with Native Americans along their route of exploration. I love trivia…
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   gmartin997 said, 5 months ago

   You have to give John Graziano credit. He goes to great lengths to find these oddities.
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   N7326 Foxtrot said, 5 months ago

   I wonder if that millipede gets ingrown toenails.
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   Puddleglum2 said, 5 months ago

   “Blue” – LeAnn Rimes
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   win said, 5 months ago

   @gmartin997

   Huzzah! And a grand huzzah to John Graziano.
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   ☆☆☆☆☆|~| °●° ★★★★★ said, 5 months ago

   So where are the activists complaining about not enough testosterone and to much hormones?
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   tototu said, 5 months ago

   751 legs and always walks to the left. It’s CALIFORNIA people!
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   Ragarm350 said, 5 months ago

   @N7326 Foxtrot

   I never thought about that!
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   Ragarm350 said, 5 months ago

   Only one female mechanic in all of India?! Amazing!
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    Kathe said, 5 months ago

    The blue came from the lapis lazuli stone.
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    Albertaguy said, 5 months ago

    In a country of over one bilion people, how can it possibly be known that there is only one female mechanic? And how do you define mechanic, I have no formal training, and I am not that good at it but I do over 75% of the work on my tractors, quads, truck and other equipment. Am I a mechanic or not?
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    @N7326 Foxtrot

    Being an arthropod, millipedes wear their skeletons on their outside. So no in grown toenails since they wear them.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    @Albertaguy

    In many ways Hindustan or Baharat or as the British called it “India” anot only still sexist in certain areas and the inculcated aspect of an entrenched form of layered and walled off caste system that keeps people from moving up and laterally in their social hierarchies.
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    win said, 5 months ago

    @Albertaguy

    Yes, I would say you are a mechanic. And I suspect you’re also adept at many other skills associated with self-sufficiency.
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    Stephen Gilberg said, 5 months ago

    @gmartin997

    Ah, I just noticed that nobody else gets credit for submitting the facts today.
    Here I thought that purple was the most expensive pigment, given its association with royalty.
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