Prison plastic surgery programs were commonplace until the early 1990s
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Bacillus thuringiensis (aka Bt)
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Hallak LK, Collins PL, Knudson W, Peeples ME. Iduronic acid-containing glycosaminoglycans on target cells are required for efficient respiratory syncytial virus infection. Virology. 2000 Jun 5;271(2):264-75. doi: 10.1006/viro.2000.0293. PMID: 10860881
So I was at Wikpedia reading about Goliath (because who in hell was Goliath? nobody knows) when I read: “According to the Jerusalem Talmud, Goliath was born by polyspermy,
The stool guaiac test or guaiac fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) detects the presence of invisible blood in feces
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Catacombs of Saint Gaudiosus
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In Chinese astronomy, Columba (the Heaven Dove constellation) depicted three generations of a family and droppings from the celestial toilet
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Passage grave
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Herma (sculpture)
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Public Universal Friend aka Jemima Wilkinson
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Xylitol – What the shit is going on here?
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Scatomancy Notes
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