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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
47 dangerous old playgrounds that our great-grandparents somehow survived clickamericana.com

Old article, but no wonder there were a lot of young people dying in the olden times. Apparently there are still concrete slides for the kids? https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/issue-4/the-concrete-slides-of-northern-california/

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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
Large tornado seen touching down in Nebraska www.bbc.com
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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
Mark Zuckerberg owns over 1,200 acres of land. Here's a look at his properties across the US, from a Hawaiian doomsday bunker to Lake Tahoe estates. www.businessinsider.com

Over the years, he's bought and sold homes all over the country. He's also reportedly built some — a Hawaiian doomsday ranch that has had many scratching their heads, for example. Zuckerberg's real estate portfolio has an assessed value of around $200 million, according to Business Insider calculations based on property assessments. However, the assessed value of properties can be lower than reported purchase prices (or current market value), so Zuckerberg's holdings are likely worth significantly more.

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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
An archived article by Andrea Warren about The Orphan Train that sent kids from NYC to the West https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/horizon/nov98/orphan.htm
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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
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Full-sized oak tree growing from a 125-year-old grave.
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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
One of our Walmarts has anti-theft wheels

None of the others in town have these, thought it was unusual enough to share

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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway

Location on a map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-88.5628734&zoom=17#map=17/42.14861/-88.56287

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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
Researchers have found that sharks' heightened senses at sea could significantly improve hurricane forecast models

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/25/hurricane-season-can-sharks-predict-power-path-of-storms/70459058007/

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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
fun fact bout eggs hackers.town

If you throw one at a Republican it was already cracked

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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
Absolute unit of a mushroom we found

Hand for scale, because there were no bananas at hand

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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
I just found these old rusty hancuffs in my back yard https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f47ac59b-1966-4ff2-a329-29f9e1f33d23.jpeg
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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
Obsolete Russian units of measurement en.wikipedia.org
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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
If you leave things in an Oakland Public Library book, or around the library, you might find them featured here on their website oaklandlibrary.org

via https://www.metafilter.com/195998/Have-you-ever-wondered-what-happens-to-the-things-you-leave-behind

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"Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMI
Found A Container Full Of Trim (Weed) https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/kFk8k7JQ20.jpg

Found it on my bike ride today, it was a bit away from the main trail and exposed to the environment (and possibly hobo hands) so I left it where it was. Now that I think about it though, I should of grabbed some to use as kindling for a bonfire.

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