Odds and sods I look at regularly, just because they amuse me. I hope they do the same for you. Incidentally, I found this page’s title on Greg Ross’s Futility Closet (it’s somewhere on this page) in a mini-article which also includes the delightful sentence in Icelandic: Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabbabara. Ross points out that this, “besides being fun to say, is spelled with only three letters. It means “Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought only rhubarb to Ari the Arab.”
Fark.com RSS » New arrival at the Carmine Sabatini wing of the Phoenix Zoo [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 17 Disney Park Windows Worth a Closer Look
There is no “random” at Disney parks. Just like almost all of the other little details you’ll find tucked away at Disney, the names on the windows are there for a reason. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Mexican military helicopter crossed into Arizona and shot at U.S. Border Patrol agents. General Pershing to the white courtesy phone, please [Scary]
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Futility Closet » Referee
After seeing a manuscript of On the Origin of Species in April 1859, the Rev. Whitwell Elwin suggested that Darwin write about pigeons instead. “This appears to me an admirable suggestion,” he wrote. “Everybody is interested in pigeons.” [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Some parents can't wait until their kids are old enough to mow the lawn. Others look forward to the day their young kids can help them steal supplies from a construction site [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Train finally approved to connect Los Angeles with LAX, though experts predict car-loving residents will initially be terrified by the unfamiliar, fast-moving machine [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Man goes on driving rampage smashing into neighbors' cars, garages and porches. Picks up too many wanted stars [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 11 Apple Easter Eggs Inside of Your Mac and iPhone
Apple designers and programmers in Cupertino, California (Apple’s Headquarters) have cooked up some fun Easter eggs that are currently hidden all over your MacBook and iPhone—you just need to know where to look. Here are 12 ways to find them. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Anderson Cooper: Not a Vagina Expert [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Pennsylvania woman stands her ground against children with water guns [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » It's national HIV testing day. Stay tuned to find out if your nation has HIV [Interesting]
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FMyLife » IAMALITAHA says FML
Today, I had a job interview where I was interrupted for using the word creative because there is "only one creator". FML [Link]
Mental Floss » The Missing Links: The Smell of Overwhelming Sadness
The Smell of Sadness Flick Candles recreate the aroma of life’s soul-crushing moments. * Your iPad Is A Keeper A Trapper Keeper, to be specific. Everyone’s favorite elementary school binders are back as tablet covers. * Speaking of '80s Kids Stuff See how many of these essential '80s preschooler toys you had. * Brilliant and Buried For one reason or … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these players in action [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Honolulu zoo closes to save face [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » A man, a plan, a canal–criminal charges [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Tomorrow is the 100 year anniversary of the day a Serbian assassin murdered the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, igniting the worst war the world had ever known. In memory of that somber occasion, Serbia is putting up a statue. Of the assassin [S
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The Onion » Bedtime Story From Fucking Bible Again
BEAVERTON, OR—Saying that he has to deal with this shit every single night, local 6-year-old Andrew Neel was exasperated to learn Thursday that the bedtime story his mother would be reading him was once again from the fucking Bible, sources confirme… 
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Fark.com RSS » And now, our weekly check to see whether or not you were busy at work this week. It's the Fark Weird News Quiz. And we promise we won't tell your boss if you score well [Survey]
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Fark.com RSS » In 1939, Maine passed legislation to make it illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder. Why would you do that in the first place was never addressed [Weird]
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The Onion » Public Opinion On Net Neutrality Fiercely Divided Into One Side
The U.S. Government sets aside 600,000 acres of pristine land for future generations to pollute, John Kerry says ‘to defeat them, I must become them,’ while putting on a black face mask, and a birthday wish is wasted on trying to bring dad bac… 
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The Onion » World Cup Referee Accidentally Grabs Stack Of Hundreds Instead Of Yellow Card
World Cup Referee Accidentally Grabs Stack Of Hundreds Instead Of Yellow Card 
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Fark.com RSS » Insurers are falling all over themselves to get in on Obamacare Year 2 as signups exceed expectations by 50%. Average rates will still go up 8%, however, because reasons [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Millions of people simultaneously say "oh fark" as they are reminded again that Pope Francis is a 77-year old man with only one functioning lung [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Antarctica is actually a rather a colorful place – considering all the algae, penguin poo and krill [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Tobacco industry spends huge amounts of money to cover up how unhealthy their product is. Wait, did I say tobacco industry? I meant the sugar industry [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » The Vatican realizes that people like sex, or their "coming to Jesus" moment [Obvious]
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The Onion » New Pfizer Breakthrough Miraculously Extends Lifespan Of Near-Death Patents
NEW YORK—Hailing it as a groundbreaking discovery with far-ranging benefits, pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced a new breakthrough Friday that vastly extends the lifespan of near-death patents. 
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Fark.com RSS » If we can't warn everyone we won't warn anyone, says Environment Canada [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Open wide: 1,000 pages of "steamy" love letters between the US President and his mistress, an enemy sympathizer and possible spy trying to sway his opinion, to be released [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » The Weird Week in Review
Courthouse Toilet Explodes Deputy Stillwater County treasurer Norma Brewer had just left a courthouse bathroom stall when the toilet exploded, throwing shards of porcelain everywhere. Luckily, she had closed the stall door behind her and was not injured. She said it sounded like a huge bomb. The toilet had a Series 503 Flushmate III Pressure Assist system, which had been … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fastest-growing metro area in the US has no crime or kids. Difficulty: World's largest HOA [Florida]
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Mental Floss » 10 Spiky Facts About Stegosaurus
Today we’re saluting one of earth’s most misunderstood dinosaurs. [Link]
The Onion » Report: 76% Of Sleepaway Campers’ Parents Beginning Trial Separation
WASHINGTON—A report released Friday by the U.S. Administration for Children and Families confirmed that more than three-fourths of overnight campers’ parents are using the opportunity away from their children to reassess their marriages by liv… 
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The Onion » American Voices: Study: Women Who Give Birth Later Live Longer
According to a new study from the Boston University School of Medicine, women who naturally conceive and give birth to their last child after age 33 are twice as likely to live to age 95 as those who give birth to their last child before age 30. 
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Fark.com RSS » Elvis is alive and being hunted by police in Cornwall [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Duck, DUCK…GOOSE [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Ukraine finally signs trade deal with EU. Russia warns consequences will never be the same [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Violent criminal and known gang member whose mugshot went viral because of stupid people is now trying to find a publicist so he can become a model first and criminal second [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Website glitch selling Black Sabbath and Arcade Fire tickets for £2.50 each – AND they're HONOURING THEM [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Five year old pulls his pants down on a dare at school. School reacts by doing C) Forcing him to sign a sexual misconduct form without parents present, suspended him and put a note in his permanent record for "indecent exposure" [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » On one hand, cooking with bourbon sounds like fun. On the other hand, it does seem a bit like a waste of good bourbon to put it in anything other than your mouth [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » One Archaeologist's Quest to Prove that Ancient People Practiced Trepanation
A brash adventurer, a mysterious skull, and the debate that divided archaeology [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Usually you contest election results because you feel the votes wee counted wrong. Then there is this guy [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Police from four departments shut down the St. Thomas More Festival in Munster, IN, after a brawl breaks out . But what else do you expect when you have an event that caters to the notoriously rowdy fans of 16th Century English dynastic politics? [St
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Fark.com RSS » Britain, first the rodents were the size of cats that were overrunning your country and you did nothing, now that they're the size of cows, what are you going to do? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Felon running for office hoping transparency about car-focused fetish arrests will rev up supporters this November [Strange]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my boss sent me some application forms to check over. After I spell-checked them and returned them, I found out they're going to be used to hire someone to replace me. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » US agrees to maybe consider looking into signing a treaty banning land mines, but will reserve the right to continue using them if they feel like it [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » There is 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk hidden right out in the open in Central Park. And buried underneath it is a set of important symbols of the Freemasons. Somewhere Dan Brown is having an orgasm [Strange]
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The Onion » Infographic: Most Popular Fitness Trends
Workout programs such as CrossFit and Tabata have surged in popularity in recent years as Americans look for new and engaging ways to lose weight, get in shape, and build muscle. 
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Fark.com RSS » You supposed to be A student. Not A/C student [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Cop found driving with a blood alcohol level three times the legal amount gets off because of a silly, innocent, mistake in the paperwork made by the arresting officer who accidentally filled in his own name instead of the suspect's [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Man: "The police gave me the okay to jump into a dirty canal to rescue a dog." Police: "Ummmm, not exactly" [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Brain Game: I Can See!
It's time for another open-ended Free-for-All Friday mentalfloss.com Brain Game challenge. Enjoy! Give ONE example of an English word
that contains exactly two instances of the letter "I"
but no other vowels. EXAMPLES: DISTILL, CIVIC, LICKING Please add your single entry to our
comment list below, and have a great weekend! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Customs agents discover accordion filled with meth. Looks like Weird Al is breaking bad [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » It is pretty hard standing out from the crowd at a job interview. This guy managed it though – by taking his clothes off while singing It's Raining Men [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » 8 Sensational Female Murderers from History
When someone tells you that female murderers are rare, keep in mind that means “relatively” rare, as in less common than male murderers. It also means that women who are found to be killers can become quite famous for it, as the media sensationalizes their crimes. A hundred years later, these cases may be mostly forgotten, but the stories are … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Amelia Earhart embarks on around-the-world flight. Not a repeat from 1937 [Hero]
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Futility Closet » “A Strange Wager”
An odd feature from the Baltimore Sun of Oct. 5, 1902: Alfred Hermann of Bakersfield, Calif., pledged to circle the world in a year and a half wearing a pair of steel handcuffs, and to earn a livelihood while doing so. If he succeeded, his friend Al Armstrong agreed to finance a medical education for him. At the time of … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Teen faces weapons charges after threatening his grandmother with a juice box. Thankfully, she was smart enough to say "no" when asked if she wanted a Hawaiian Punch [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » If the apartment you rent over a garage is only designed to hold six people, don't cram forty people inside for a religious celebration [Scary]
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Weird Universe » How much paint?
This story ran in the Washington Post on June 26, 1933. It describes how a dispute over how many coats of paint is required to paint a car resulted in tragedy.
But it leaves unanswered the question of how much paint is needed to paint a car. My hunch would be that paint is better nowadays than it was in … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In Iceland, you can call your daughter Hjörný or Hörn but you can't call her Harriet. It's illegal [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » No one gets their teen years right, so what advice would you give your 13-year-old self? [Survey]
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Mental Floss » 27 Responses to the Question “What is Art?”
Does it have to be beautiful? Expressive? Original? Uplifting? Intellectual? Here’s how 27 artists, critics, and others answered the question. [Link]
Mental Floss » How is SPF Calculated, and What Does It Mean?
I’m a pale person. A very pale person. Which means that during these hot summer months, I carry sunscreen with me at all times, and apply it liberally. But I’ve never really understood what those SPF numbers meant, so I asked the experts at Coppertone to break it down for me—and to tell me how to best apply the stuff … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman found electrocuted to death by her headphones. Police recommend caution to anyone who may be listening to Metallica's second album [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this man and his stunt [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Arnold Schwarzenegger could become US Ambassador to Russia to discuss divorce issue with Putin, says Nikita Khrushchev's great-granddaughter [Interesting]
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Weird Universe » Flameproof Playsuits
Were children more prone to catch fire for no reason in the past during innocent recreational activities than they are today?
Original ad here. (Page 23.) [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "So you want to be a chemistry teacher" instructor manual. Page 1, Step 1: Do NOT set your students on fire [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Man who drinks his own urine diagnosed with kidney disease. Bear Grylls reported to be looking a bit worried [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Kids' Magazines
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The Dieting Dachshund
Meet Obie, The Dachshund That Lost 54 Pounds! The formerly-obese pup is one third the dog he used to be.
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Two guys commentate a glitch-plagued UFC game to perfection. Game glitches are comedy gold!
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The 10 Greatest Fictional School Principals. These long-suffering professionals are almost always buffoons in movies and TV.
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6 Books That Tell The Villains' … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Do you binge watch TV shows? Well, good news; you're twice as likely to die an early death as people who take their time [PSA]
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Mental Floss » 6 Ways Your Yard Can Make Your Home More Efficient
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Fark.com RSS » Man gets his dying wish granted as he marries the love of his life in front of his family in what his brother described as a 'a heartbreaking fairytale' ten hours before losing his battle with cancer. Why doesn't anyone dust in here anymo
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my dad made the local news. The business he owns is so run down and overgrown that it's officially a public health hazard. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman photoshopped by graphic artists from 19 different countries to look "beautiful" [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » Pardon?
Pauline Klaws patented this “appliance for assisting the hearing” in 1902. “It is designed to be worn at lectures, concerts, theaters, and meetings by persons having defective hearing and by the people generally who at such entertainments or meetings, particularly large meetings, are unable or have difficulty in hearing a speaker.” By 1993 this had evolved into the version below, … [Link]
FMyLife » E.B. says FML
Today, I'm a college student working at Dollar Tree. The signs hanging every 10 ft, plastered on every box, every wall, every corner, say "Everything's $1." Someone asked me how much something was, because there was no price tag. This happens multiple times a day. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Alex says FML
Today, I was at my mom's funeral. My sisters and I were sitting in the front row. The funeral director, whom we had met with twice before, was going around greeting everyone. When she got to us, she asked where our mom was. Seriously? FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "I am Calquan from the Planet Zoltron, sent here by my father to smash police cruisers" [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Rise in the U.S. Obesity Rate Since 1985
Watch the obesity epidemic unfold, state by state. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Booze kills roughly three times as many people per year than guns. When will it be time to have a discussion about high capacity pint glasses and assault bourbons? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » What do you get when you mix the sovereign citizen movement and veganism? Hint: It's not custody of your child [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Swiss zoo kills healthy bear cub, will stuff and display it to teach children that nature can be cruel and humans can be stupid [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Fighter jet pilot loses front landing gear, lands vertically on a padded stool like a boss [Hero]
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Mental Floss » 10 Hollywood Movies That May Have Been Inspired by Anime
While hyper-real fantasy pictures like Real Steel and Sucker Punch borrow the semiotics/visual vocabulary of Japanese animation, there are some films that lift whole storylines or shots from pretty famous properties developed by our neighbors in the east. Sometimes the filmmakers cop to it, sometimes they don't—but here are ten examples of movies "inspired" by anime to get you thinking. … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Hey everybody, it's okay to start hunting wood storks again [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Identity thief who once spoke to the Senate about how to stop identity thieves is once again on trial for identity theft [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Brown spiders, paralysis ticks, taipans, death adders, great white sharks, box jellyfish…with so many painful ways to die in Australia, it's nice to see this guy mix it up and bite off a Hells Angel's nose [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Cannabis farms set on fire in Liverpool to highlight danger of cannabis farms catching fire [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » What's a day at the beach without cooking up a little meth while you're there? [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Man to live-in nanny: "We no longer require your services, so you can leave." Nanny: "No…..no……I stay" [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Last minute Philadelphia hootenanny (updated) [FarkParty]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop who these feet belong to [Photoshop]
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