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[[File:Baby Sarlacc 1.jpg|thumb|175px|link=Baby Sarlaac|Baby Sarlaac is a trade name for a juvenile sarlaac, popular as a novelty pet. Adult sarlaacs feed mainly upon condemned criminals and unlucky bounty hunters, while juvenile sarlaacs feed upon insects, rodents, and small hominids such as immature ewoks.]]
• ... that scientist, inventor, and poet '''[[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]]''' (who often wrote under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel", meaning "tombstone") is known for short poems, known as gruks or grooks, such as Consolation Grook, which reads:<br>
"Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again."?


• ... that '''[[Baby Sarlaac]]''' is a trade name for a juvenile sarlaac, and that the sarlaac is currently under Extraterrestrial Species Act review by the U.S. Space & Alien Life Service due to the rapid decline of the sarlaac population in its native range?
• ... that the '''[[Disambiguum]]''' is a [[transdimensional corporation]] in which all things and all ideas are disambiguated?
 
• ... that physicist '''[[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]]''' invented an electrostatic generator (1752), an early version of the electrophorus, a device later named and popularized by [[Alessandro Volta (nonfiction)|Alessandro Volta]]?

Latest revision as of 05:46, 17 April 2022

• ... that scientist, inventor, and poet Piet Hein (who often wrote under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel", meaning "tombstone") is known for short poems, known as gruks or grooks, such as Consolation Grook, which reads:
"Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again."?

• ... that the Disambiguum is a transdimensional corporation in which all things and all ideas are disambiguated?