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In contrast to the deep booming sound associated with the cannon in pop culture depictions, recent studies show it actually made more of a 'toot toot!' noise.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3216/
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This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3215/
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Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3214/
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I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3213/
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After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3212/
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Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3211/
xkcd #3210: Eliminating the Impossible
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'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3210/
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My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3209/
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People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3208/
xkcd #3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination
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'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3207/
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Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3206/
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This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3205/
xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs
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Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3204/
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The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3203/
xkcd #3202: Groundhog Day Meaning
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Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3202/
xkcd #3201: Proof Without Content
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There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3201/
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Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3200/
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'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3199/
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