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Minute Maid is discontinuing frozen juices after 80 years
My guess is they just couldn't concentrate.
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Minute Maid is discontinuing frozen juices after 80 years
My guess is they just couldn't concentrate.
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'Minnetoba'? Some Minnesotans want to join Canada as tensions flare with Trump administration
Imagine the national hockey team we'd have.
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Mark Carney says rules-based global order is over, offers blueprint for ‘third path’
I watched the speech. It's one of the most profound, intelligent speeches I've ever heard a politician give.
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Why aren't Americans living longer?
This seems like a no brainer. If you put healthcare in the hands of for profit companies, they are going to focus on maximizing profit rather than maximizing health.
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Trump threatens 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada 'makes a deal with China'
I used to get nervous when I saw something like this. Now, it's like watching reruns.
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Unbelievable. Our bed for a three day river tour in Borneo to see the orangatans.
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You are correct. I can't believe we actually did it. (We're back now.)
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TIL that Nazi Germany had a program called Lebensborn where ideal German men and women would produce a baby and then all three would go their separate ways.
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Apparently, the women volunteered, although there were some who were pressured into it.
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You're talking to the wrong people. My life got so much better once I got married.
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Labor wins Australian Federal election
Trump is turning the world to the left.
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China could sink all US carriers in 20 minutes, Pentagon chief warns
Rule 1. When you're having political problems at home, create a foreign enemy to distract the population.
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Just Kidding... Unless?
And Superman doesn't have a place to change.
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What are commonly used idioms/metaphors that make no sense to anyone who knows about the topic they come from?
Sleep like a baby. That is not what I'd consider a good night's sleep.
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Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with ads
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I don't think that'll happen in Japan.
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What is something that should have died out a long time ago?
Tips. How ridiculous is it that restaurant owners guilt us into paying their employees salaries because they are too cheap to pay them a living wage? How unjust is it that we chose to tip the people who bring our food from the kitchen to our table and leave the hundreds of other service workers without tips?
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Wrong turn onto U.S.-Canada bridge has Detroit woman facing deportation
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It's not that hard to do. If you miss the sign, you're heading to Canada. Also, she asked to be directed to the nearest Costco, and the nearest Costco happened to be in Canada.
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Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America.
More than just Europe. 99 % of the world's countries use Celcius.
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Why is the US so into Israel?
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Evangelicals look forward to the rapture. I've been to a lot of Evangelical churches, and, without exception, they want it to come.
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China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador
Seems like a no-brainer. Canada doesn't have an EV production to speak of. I believe it was originally done to support the U.S. EV industry, but do we really need to be doing that?
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Transport Canada wants your opinion on headlight glare
I did the survey. It took 5 - 10 minutes. The survey ends April 20th.
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TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.
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I chose not to include that.