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I had a nightmare that a game show host was President. I’m still trying to wake up! #TwoLineGhostStory pic.twitter.com/a5fu3UHC7g
— #HashtagJones (@HashtagJones1) October 21, 2017

I saw a naked ghost. It scared me sheetless.#TwoLineGhostStory
— Jared S. Pumpkins (@jaredshroyer) October 21, 2017

Alone in the empty house I asked, "Is anyone there?"
A whisper from the darkness: "If I said 'no,' would it comfort you?"#TwoLineGhostStory pic.twitter.com/CJ2ywwjdto
— Geoffrey Gould (@realbadger) October 21, 2017

There are more on Twitter: use hashtag #TwoLineGhostStory

Most Common Ways Criminals Launder Money

For a second I was thinking of ways to wash the dirt and grime off money - and I had a relative from Belgium who did that. Her sons came home and she had them soap up the bills, dry them and iron them. And coins were washed too.

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A list of Stephen King’s “personal terrors” was published in 1973.¹⁵ This list strikingly reflects the species-typical distribution of evolved fear objects much more so than it reflects the objects, creatures, and situations that a 20th-century inhabitant of Maine ought to fear:

1. Fear of the dark
2. Fear of squishy things
3. Fear of deformity
4. Fear of snakes
5. Fear of rats
6. Fear of closed-in spaces
7. Fear of insects (especially spiders, flies, and beetles)
8. Fear of death
9. Fear of others (paranoia)
10. Fear for someone else

I'd add Fear of vampires and zombies:

a whole lot

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retronaut

Retronaut: The Photographic Time Machine — coinciding with a book by Wild of the same name, which also debuted last month — features highlights of an unexpected past sourced from Wild’s year of exploring the Woodhorn archive.

"upward going" cosmic rays

...a team of astrophysicists from Penn State University showed that there have been more upward-going high-energy particles than those detected during the two ANITA events. Three times, they wrote, IceCube (another, larger neutrino observatory in Antarctica) detected similar particles, though no one had yet connected those events to the mystery at ANITA. And, combining the IceCube and ANITA data sets, the Penn State researchers calculated that, whatever particle is bursting up from the Earth, it has much less than a 1-in-3.5 million chance of being part of the Standard Model.
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