In the US there are 6 distinct ways of saying pecan.

Favorite palindrome: taco cat

Turtles breathe through their butts.

90% give or take of the cells in and on our body are not ours but rather things living on and in us.

While once true, there has been some major consolidation with the bottlers and the syrup makers.

With Coke in the USA specifically, about a decade or so ago they bought out the largest bottler. It represented something like 75-85% of the market at the time. They continued to try and consolidate for years. About 2-5 years ago they had a change of heart and “refranchised” the bottlers. Not to familiar with that part of the story. (Edit: I suspect they wanted to get away from the true independent bottler model and go with the McDonalds franchisee model. They technically don’t own them, but the bottlers have no power to exert their independence).

Other bottlers have consolidated amongst themselves and been bought out by the syrup makers as well.

That's actually a pretty accurate way to describe how I feel after drinking mountain dew.

I find that neither fun nor interesting.

Penile spines anyone?

It’s an American product owned by a foreign conglomerate using American feedstocks.

Profits go abroad. Product is sold abroad as well (just like before it was bought out).

I can see how if this type of situation bothers you, it would be very difficult to be a consumer in the marketplace.

To be honest I am impressed by the dedication of anyone who combs thru their grocery list so carefully. Right now I just grateful to get bacon of any sort when I shop.

Is bacon produced at an American factory from American hogs fed American feedstock foreign if it is owned by a foreign company though?

(If yes, then I have some bad news about your beef)

Names for syphilis before it was agreed upon to call it syphilis.

Regions tended to reference a neighbor. I am guessing the neighbor was not well liked.

Scotland did its own thing. (Grandgore).

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the ‘ee’ sound /iː/ can be spelled at least fifteen different ways.

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and here come the nightmares again

All of US history has occurred within a single Pluto orbit.

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Vinyl never dies!

And to this day my extended family still argues about it.

Bingo. The westernmost part of MN at the tippity top. Go straight south and you get a sliver of area along the river. (Essentially the I29 corridor). The yellow splotches on the map relate to population density (cities).

It could have just said "hey a good chunk of the Dakota's population lives along an important river and interstate highway". But what's the fun in that?

And here’s a Canada corollary for my “southern” neighbors.

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Suffer, Euphoria, and Ferret all have the same origin.

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Africa is wider than Russia.

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Yep, but I still find map trivia based on that phenomenon trippy. It’s like, I know it’s true but it still makes me dizzy.

I like maps…maybe because I have approximately zero sense of direction naturally.

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For the same reason you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway.

Now who wants to smash some watermelons?

Man I miss Gallagher.