I don't know about you, but 2020, 2021, and 2022 felt like a decade and not like three years.

Here's a Theraphosa stirmi (not my own though), and what a beauty she is 😍 😍 Sweet little fluffball. Remember, spiders are our friends ❤️ #Tarantulas #Spiders

Fun fact #4: Peru has a boiling river. Average temperature: 86.4°C (187.5°F). Its name is Shanay-timpishka if you want to google it 😁 And: No one really knows why it's that hot!

Fun fact #3: Mice don't have a preference for cheese. This one stems from ancient Egypt where cheese was placed as the first item directly behind the pantry doors; so mice seemed to go for the cheese.

Another fun fact: Rabbits don't particularly like carrots. That one's due to Bugs Bunny -- which only was a reference to a Clark Gable movie scene that was quite famous back in the day.

Fun fact: Cats don't like the taste of mice. Most of the time, they only "play" with them to hone their skills. That's why there's no cat food with mouse flavor.

Whoever said to me 2022 would be better... I'd like to have a word 🤣

The demon is enraged. Every page of the newspaper is him getting charged with another crime.

Today is the first day Paramount+ is available in Germany. Got my account; watching Star Trek: Strange New Worlds right now 🖖 I'll be back after season 1 😋 😋

Source: https://thenib.com/height-of-folly/

#History -- 50 years ago today, Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, was launched. The crew took the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they left Earth.

#History -- 50 years ago today, Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, was launched. The crew took the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they left Earth.

#History -- 100 years ago, exactly one year after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State came into existence. One day later, the Parliament of Northern Ireland voted to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.

#History -- 150 years ago today, the ghost ship Mary Celeste, drifting in the Atlantic, was discovered by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship had been abandoned for nine days but was only slightly damaged. Her master Benjamin Briggs and all nine others known to have been on board were never accounted for.

There's US Karens, and then there's German Karens:

"Female patient in Germany switched off oxygen device of bed neighbor: The 72-year-old reportedly felt disturbed by the device and repeated the act despite an explanation from staff. She is now in custody."

Reading Jack London's "The Minions of Midas", and what do I find?

"I was likewise whelmed with the guilt of an accomplice."

Whelmed? So there's not just over- and underwhelmed, but whelmed? Niiiiice. Never knew. Suspected, but never really knew.

#JoysOfReading #JackLondon #CoSoNovels #Reading #Books

#History -- 50 years ago today, Spantax Flight 275 crashed during takeoff from Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport, killing all 155 people on board.

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