The joke being that even with the Guinness, donating blood left a net deficit of alcohol. 
Same-same with Wisconsin. The people there have an unhealthy fixation on Korbel brandy, so much so that they ruin perfectly good cocktails by subbing Korbel for whatever the spirit was supposed to be. A Wisconsin Old Fashioned has to be seen to be believed.
Definitely not the cognac in a snifter crowd.
I knew that only a small percentage of avians grow penises. But reading a recent article in Smithsonian Magazine (Why Have Female Animals Evolved Such Wild Genitals), I learned that avian penises are engorged with lymphatic fluid, not blood, as in mammals. Also, sperm travel down spiraling grooves on the outside. I would never have guessed that.
Oh the female side, harbor porpoises grow clitorises the size of tennis balls.
Well, that should make them easy to find.
Although I’ll bet lady porpoises still complain to their best buds about how clueless male porpoises are.
Ducks grow penises, though, and they are prolific enough to make up for the penis deficit in the rest of the bird world.
And they use them, too. Ducks are apparently the psychosexual serial criminals of the animal world.
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2014/10/13/the-twisted-sex-lives-of-ducks/
There used to be a Cracked article on this subject that was way more comprehensive ( and way funnier ).
But it seems to have disappeared, although multiple references to it still remain.
Real Life Resurrections: Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years Come Back to Life
Two ancient nematodes are moving and eating normally again for the first time since the Pleistocene age. The roundworms were found frozen in the Siberian permafrost, and subsequently thawed out and brought back to life in Petri dishes.
However, some outlets remain skeptical about the claim, citing scientists who believe the worms could have been introduced to the permafrost samples via contamination in the lab.
So I suppose we’ll need to see birth certificates to know for sure.
Long form, presumably?
Wonderful! A farrago is “a confused mixture”!
Dan
I was reading about tritium being used in firearm sights…I didn’t realize it had a half life of 12.32 years, making it potentially useful for something like that.
That made me wonder about which isotope might have the longest half life.
The winner seems to be Xenon-124. One article says,
The data helped the collaboration make the first definitive measurement of xenon-124’s half-life: 18 billion trillion years.
18 billion trillion would be 18M quadrillion, or 18K quintillion, or 18K sextillion?
Wikipedia says:
So I guess Bi209 is a runner up, but when you start mentioning the age of the universe…
Bismuth-209 was long thought to have the heaviest stable nucleus of any element, but in 2003, a research team at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France, discovered that 209Bi undergoes alpha decay with a half-life of approximately 19 exayears (1.9×1019, approximately 19 quintillion years), over a billion times longer than the current estimated age of the universe.
According to 18 Pa.C.S. 7104(a) (laws for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania), it is a third degree misdemeanor to be a paid necromancer in Pennsylvania if you “pretend for gain or lucre” to practice necromancy. If you do it for free or only to entertain, you’re good to go.
The law apparently does not address the case where someone actually does raise the dead.
Actor Giancarlo Esposito, best known for his roles in The Usual Suspects, and as Gus Fring in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, was one of the children who sang in the chorus on the theme song for The Electric Company.
And I commented earlier on his friendship with wrestler Big John Studd!
This next one I learned as a child. Although ironically at first, I didn’t realize George Washington was the one who said it.
It is the one of the longest sentences, that is still technically not a run-on (yes, I’m sure it is not the only sentence like that 
). And like any sentence, you properly have to say it in one breathe. Can you do it?
Please read:
‘Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors.’
Geo. Washington, Farewell Address 1796.
Washington was an amateur…
“The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing the value of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking them; an admirable representative of the “middle class,” but outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to chimeras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms of personal intrepidity; a general at Valmy; a soldier at Jemappes; attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling; brave as a grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Caesar, Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe, — Louis Philippe will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to the same degree as the feeling for what is useful."
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Wayyyyy TL; dr
You could’'ve quoted just from the end of that.
So far scientists haven’t been able to determine why we hiccup. But one of the best proposed explanations is that hiccups are a biological mechanism left over from our amphibian ancestors: it helped expel water through the gills during the respiratory process. As they evolved, they no longer needed this function.
However, kittens hiccuping is adorable!
The most populous one-syllable city in the world is Soeul (South Korea) .
The most populous one-syllable city in Canada is Guelph (Ontario) . York and Hull are no longer eligible since they got merged into larger, multi-syllable cities.
The most populous (city - not metro population) one-syllable city in the US is new as of 2020. The previous one, Flint (Michigan) held the title for decades. The new title holder is Sparks (Nevada) .
More on this subject: Short and sweet – most populous one syllable cities – UPDATED | Panethos (wordpress.com)
Isn’t that cheating a bit considering that you don’t necessarily blur all the vowels together?