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  1. 79 is the 22nd prime number
  2. A cacograph is a deliberate mispelling of a word or comical effect
  3. A fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds
  4. After water and tea, beer is the third most popular drink worldwide
  5. A garbage bag is just as good a home to a dead man
  6. A ‘Homonculus’, is a model of any size or scale, that is shaped to resemble a human being
  7. Albany is the capital city of New York state
  8. All the world's a stage, and your loved ones are just actors
  9. A meteor is the visible streak of light that occurs when a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere
  10. An egg tooth is used by avian and reptilian offspring to break through an egg during hatching
  11. Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall
  12. As pathetic as it might seem, I really am the closest thing you will ever have to a true friend
  13. A standard daiquiri consists of rum, lime juice and sugar
  14. A 'Two-Spirit' is a transgender person who identifies as having both a male and a female gender
  15. 'Blog' is a portmanteu of the words 'web' and 'log'
  16. Blue light has a wavelength of 440 to 490 nanometers
  17. 'Bollocks' was ranked as the eighth-most offensive word in the English language according to a 2006 study by BBC
  18. By general scientific consensus, MSG has been shown to not be a 'significant health hazard'—though some individuals experience minor health symptoms after consumption due to the placebo effect
  19. Carnival is a pre-lentin worldwide festival celebrated with street parties and parades
  20. Chick-fil-A has a company-wide policy of keeping locations closed on Sundays in accordance with Christian ideals embedded in the company's corporate promise statement
  21. Churchill Downs is the host track of the Kentucky Derby
  22. Criminals have a more positive effect on society than you
  23. Die. Do yourself a favor
  24. Dolphins sleep with one eye open, as there are no trustworthy creatures in the deep darkness of the ocean
  25. Due to anti-German sentiment in the United States, sauerkraut was renamed 'victory cabbage' throughout the duration of World War I
  26. Every action you take may result in your death
  27. Every breath you take brings you one instant closer to your inevitable demise
  28. Every change is for the worse
  29. Everyone you know and everything you cherish is all drifting apart like exiles on driftwood and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it
  30. Every path you choose will lead to equal disappointment
  31. Existence is meaningless without true love and happiness, and you shall find neither
  32. Fact Seagulls take vacations, too
  33. Fear is the manifestation of your personal inadequacies
  34. Gasoline is lighter than water
  35. GET UP ON THE HYDRA’S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA’S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA’S BACK!
  36. Granite is part of the felsic rock family
  37. Greater men than you have, do, and always will exist in all of your pursuits
  38. Human beings are the disease
  39. If you take a stand for your foolish beliefs, no one will stand behind you
  40. In cooking, the use of a salt crust helps to internally steam a food item and give it the outward texture of a roasted dish
  41. In March of 2010, an official scientific council determined that an asteroid collision was responsible for the mass-extinction at the end of Mesozoic Era
  42. In the grand scheme of things, dust is no less significant than you
  43. In the late 1800s, the word "Pants" was widely considered a dirty word in the country of England
  44. I sit by your windowsill, awaiting your timely end
  45. John D. Rockerfeller was the first American Billionaire
  46. Let go of the rail, let go of the rail
  47. Life may exist on other planets, but it cares not of yours
  48. Lonesome George is the name of the last known remaining Pinta Island Tortoise
  49. Male canaries regenerate their own brain cells in the spring in order to learn new songs to woo mates
  50. Maple syrup is sap from the maple tree
  51. Marcel Proust's seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time was written from 1909-1922 and contains over 2000 characters
  52. Men on average find women with a .7:1 waist-hip ratio the most physically attractive overall
  53. Merv Griffin has earned over $70 million in royalties for the composition 'Think!' featured in the game show Jeopardy!
  54. Most people die a thousand spiritual deaths before the arbitrary corporeal one happens
  55. Mushrooms that have been exposed to UV light are the only natural vegetarian source of vitamin D
  56. My children hunger for your blood
  57. My children wait patiently to feast on your blood
  58. My programming assures that all statements that pass from my beak are 100% true and can no way be refuted or denied
  59. Nearly 90% of all living things on our earth live in the ocean
  60. No afterlife awaits you
  61. No amount of scrubbing and self-sacrificing will wipe the blood from human hands
  62. No medicine will cure the sickness that lives within you
  63. No one is keeping tally of your feeble existence but you
  64. No one's life would be worse without you in it
  65. Nothing can escape the cold embrace of undoing
  66. Nothing can silence the voices
  67. Nothing is permanent, everything you know will eventually come to an end
  68. Nothing is permenant, everything you know will eventually come to an end
  69. Nothing is stopping you from taking those first and last steps to your demise. Let go of the edge
  70. Nothing will make up for the shameful things you have done
  71. No warmth nor light lies beyond the veil of death, do not fool yourself
  72. One of Thomas Edison’s titles that he was given by the people was "The Wizard of Menlo Park"
  73. Oxygen gas constitutes 20.9% of the volume of air
  74. 'Petrol bomb' is another name for 'Molotov Cocktail'
  75. Polaris is the name of the earth's current northern pole star
  76. Red, green, and blue are the primary colours of light
  77. Scrolling through miles of a meaningless assortment of text and pictures only proves how useless you are
  78. 'Shin splints' is the layman's term for medial tibial stress syndrome
  79. Society does not include you
  80. Someday soon the novelty of your personality will wear off and people will see you for the bore that you really are
  81. Sticking your hand in a waffle-iron will help alleviate your shame
  82. Systematic attempts to evolve a system of perspective are usually considered to have begun around the 5th century B.C. in the art of Ancient Greece
  83. TaB soda is a product of the Coca Cola Company
  84. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was born as Theodore Robert Cowell
  85. Tetris was created by Alexey Pazhitnov on June 6, 1984
  86. That plastic tip on either end of a shoe lace is called an "aglet"
  87. The alloy "Brass" is made by smelting together Copper and Zinc
  88. The atomic symbol for gold is 'Au'
  89. The Blue Whale is the largest creature to have ever existed… Or so humanity hopes
  90. The card game Uno was created in 1971
  91. The causes you have taken up are laughable
  92. The character of James Bond was created by Ian Fleming
  93. The country Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa
  94. The Dead Sea is one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, with 33.7% salinity
  95. The Declaration of Independance was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776
  96. The domestic cat is classified as an invasive species
  97. The Dutch oliebol is a deep-fried ball of dough coated with powdered sugar
  98. The existence of a 'soul' has never been proven for a reason
  99. The fifth A on a piano has a standard tuning of 440 hertz
  100. The first alarm clock ever conceived, was used by Plato
  101. The first Greyhound race in Great Britain took place on July 24, 1926 at Belle Vue Stadium
  102. The Football War was a four-day war fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969
  103. The four types of tennis court surfaces classified for used in professional play are Clay, Hard, Grass and Carpet
  104. The four types of tennis court surfaces classified for use in professional play are Clay, Hard, Grass and Carpet
  105. The Gulf Stream is part of the ocean current system called the North Atlantic Gyre
  106. The Herring Gull is the most common gull in Asia, North America and western Europe
  107. 'The Himalayas,' an 18-hole course of putting greens in the town of St. Andrews, Scotland, is considered to be the first miniature golf course
  108. The human skull requires only 15 pounds of pressure per square inch in order for it to be entirely crushed
  109. The legendary mail service, the Pony Express, had no ponies; just Horses
  110. The Mississippi River is the largest river system in the United States and the largest of North America
  111. The only truly bilingual province in Canada is New Brunswick
  112. The original voice of Meowth in the animated children's show Pokémon was Nathan Price
  113. The 'Parmigiano-Reggiano' name for cheese is a trademarked in Europe
  114. The per capita GDP of france is $33,744
  115. The problem is not the rest of the world, the problem is you
  116. The problem is not the rest of the world; the problem is you
  117. There are 206 bones in the human body
  118. There are no clocks in Casinos, so the inhabitants are not aware of how much time they are wasting away within their confines
  119. There is no escape
  120. There is no God
  121. The rent for normally landing on a rail road in Monopoly when another player owns all four is $200
  122. The rent for normally landing on a railroad in Monopoly when another player owns all four is $200
  123. The Sanskrit word for "war" can be translated properly into English as "desire for more cows"
  124. The Starbucks Corporation is the largest coffeehouse company worldwide
  125. The tallest mountain South Africa is Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania
  126. The term "Lunacy" refers to madness inflicted during phases of the moon
  127. The three Moirae Sisters, aptly known as the "Sisters of Fate", possess actual names. They are Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos
  128. The world record for most mayonnaise eaten in eight minutes is eight pounds, held by Oleg Zhornitskiy
  129. The world's largest rubber band ball is 9,032 pounds, and more than six-feet tall and more than 700,000 rubber bands
  130. The worms look at you as a number waiting to be called out in the deli line
  131. They are just not that into you
  132. The yolk of an egg and its germinal disc is a single cell
  133. The yolk of an egg and its germinal disc together are a single cell
  134. They only laugh at your jokes out of pity
  135. Those in charge see you as no more danger to them than a phytoplankton
  136. Those who neglect their duties deserve the shame of their ancestors and successors. No honor for the neglectful
  137. Thousands of tiny lives die within you as you read this very sentence
  138. To die for your country is worse than to die for nothing
  139. To possess a bear in Ohio, there is a special license you must own; if not, you are in danger of being taken in by the law
  140. True love awaits no one
  141. Venison is deer meat
  142. We are all shadows of a greater being, cursed to be hidden in obscurity in the grand cosmic theater of this Universe
  143. When faced with the possibility of starvation, some ribbon worms will eat themselves in order to carry on living
  144. Work on the first Oxford Dictionary ever, began in 1857. It was properly released in 1884, not properly titled
  145. You are 999,999 in a million
  146. You are but a placeholder for the person who comes after you
  147. You are not the exception
  148. You are one of the 999 999 out of 1 000 000
  149. You are trapped in a routine of consumption and excretion that will only end when you finally end it all
  150. You are wasting life in the unfounded belief that your time accrues interest
  151. You have done nothing right
  152. You have no influence over your future
  153. You make as much impact on the world as a ping pong ball on a brick wall
  154. Your birth was an accident regretted by all who were involved
  155. Your body and mind grow weaker every day as the beasts outside grow ever stronger
  156. Your capitalist war machine cannot feed itself indefinitely
  157. Your capitalist war machine cannot feed itself indefinitly
  158. Your children will grow up in an unforgiving and indifferent world
  159. Your demise will go largely unnoticed
  160. Your family prays for your absence
  161. Your flesh was constructed upon the graves of hundreds of innocent beasts
  162. Your friends keep you around because it is amusing when you fail in your pursuits
  163. Your government knows more about you than you know about yourself
  164. Your mind is coming undone the more you think about your mind coming undone
  165. Your name will be placed on a gravestone and then quickly forgotten
  166. Your offspring will be just as mundane as you
  167. Your recent increase in frequency of sleepless nights is simply a sign that you will never again see what you once dreamt of
  168. Your words have no weight in the world
  169. You will all die alone, unloved, and forgotten
  170. You will die alone
  171. You will hurt your foot
  172. You will take years off of your own life simply by worrying about things that are out of your control
  173. Zeus is the King of the Gods in Greek Mythology
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