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Commentators agree that this will probably be the last World Cup in which Messi faces serious competition.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3260/
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In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3259/
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It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3258/
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'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3257/
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Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3256/
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The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3255/
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No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3254/
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While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3253/
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SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3252/
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xkcd #3251: Time Machine Conversation
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It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3251/
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Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3250/
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We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3249/
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When Bottle first came out, I remember thinking it would look really good as a standalone print. I finally got around to tracing it in Inkscape and getting it printed!
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They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3248/
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Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3247/
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Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3246/
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Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3245/
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"How does the spring not run out almost immediately?" "We pull it back REALLY far."
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3244/
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'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3243/
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