This is weird, yet strangely entrancing…
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As Old As My Parents…
Oldest bird clocks 5 million miles
"One of the world’s oldest living wild birds is marking its golden jubilee by preparing to breed again.
The Manx shearwater — a far-flying gull-like seabird — was probably born in 1952 and is thought to have clocked up about five million miles in the air."
You Can’t Be Serious
United States Patent: 6,368,227
"A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other."
Based on this precedent, perhaps I should patent my unique way of picking my nose.