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Einstein's slippers, and playing six degrees of alcoholism

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Einstein wore green slippers trimmed with flowers when he worked at the patent office (early in his career).

Capitalism is the stage that follows mercantilism, socialism is the stage that follows capitalism, and communism is the stage that follows socialism. What follows communism? According to Russia's trade and sanitation agency, Rospotrebnadzor, it's alcoholism.

It takes about 50,000 calories above a woman's baseline metabolic needs to support a growing fetus over the course of a pregnancy.

The Earth is heating up lately, but so are Mars, Pluto, and other worlds in our solar system, leading some scientists to speculate that a change in the sun's activity is the common thread linking all these events.

A human has an innate ability to understand dog barks.
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