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Citicar (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. It uses a kitchen timer to break work into intervals, typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for tomato, after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Cirillo used as a university student.

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Lockheed F-104 Starfighter (en.wikipedia.org)
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Coyote (en.wikipedia.org)
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Sealioning (en.wikipedia.org)
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More noteworthy than the technical matter of orientation, per se, is the history of explicitly using south-up map orientation as a political statement, that is, creating south-up oriented maps with the express rationale of reacting to the north-up oriented world maps that have dominated map publication during the modern age.

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Duck test (en.wikipedia.org)
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You can tell it's a ~~tree~~ duck because of how it is.

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Triquetra (en.wikipedia.org)
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Bow-wow theory (en.wikipedia.org)
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Thagomizer (en.wikipedia.org)
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Check kiting (en.wikipedia.org)
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FYI since it's currently in the news

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List of duels (en.wikipedia.org)
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Amusingly, the List of US duels is so long that it is split into a separate article. So much drama!

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