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Sure, you know your full and half moons… But can you easily spot a ‘waning gibbous’ or ‘waxing crescent?’ According to Moon Phases Explained With Oreo Cookies, the subtle differences are nothing more than how much cream you remove from the cookie, or something to do with the sun and earth.
Either way, enjoy your cookie-related astronomy lesson of the day.
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Have you ever wondered what all that stuff on the iconic Jack Daniel’s label means? Or, do you simply not care and just want to drinky? If you answered yes to the first question, Cool Material has decoded each element on the JD label so you don’t have to.
For example, and much to this editor’s surprise, the “No. 7” on the label is actually shrouded in mystery, and not necessarily the number of shots it takes to become a violent, slurring lunatic. Get your whiskey education here.
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We’re all about judging other people. But there’s probably no better way to gauge someone’s personality, than with their coffee preference. What Your Coffee Says About You is brought to us by Doghouse Diaries. Use it to pass judgement today.
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Video game food… It helps us rack up points and extends our playing time. But the thing about those digital foodstuffs — since there’s no video game FDA to speak of — we have no idea what we’re putting into our little pixelated bodies.
Complex Gaming has put together a handy guide — The Nutritional Guide To Popular Food In Video Games. From power pellets to magical mushrooms, we can finally get some nutritional peace of mind, while we consume pork rinds and energy drinks from our gaming chairs.
This Thanksgiving, know your ratios. Not so much your baking measurements, or how much wine is needed to tolerate your number of guests — but more importantly, using some simple math and the constant of pie.
Pi vs. Pie is brought to us by Grant Snider of Incidental Comics, and should be a handy guide to help make your Thanksgiving tolerable. That, and much pinot.
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