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Pint-sized cans of beer are rare, many beers come in 500ml cans. 330ml cans are common, especially for craft beer.

'Almost everyone needs reading glasses by 40' I think it's more like 45 than 40.

He's not on a ventilator yet as far as we know

Source?

"Toilet" is not a euphemism: "Toilet" was by etymology a euphemism, but is no longer understood as such. As old euphemisms have become the standard term, they have been progressive…

According to Snopes[1]: "Practically anyone famous for his knowledge can be offered up as the virtuoso in this tale... Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, George Washington, the electrica…

"Guns are, somewhat counter-intuitively, one of the more survivable suicide methods." Source? This study gives a 'case fatality rate' of 85% for firearms, 69% for suffocation, and …

..."the NHS in the UK. Its the largest organisation in the world with 1.4M employees..." It's big, but it's not that big, fifth or sixth largest employer in the world according to …

"On an unrelated note, are there areas that use a [lʊv] pronunciation of "love" today? That might explain the to-me odd use of "lurve" in humor." According to http://www.oxforddict…

There's actually more useful information in the Independent article submitted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8281741

Well, perhaps a hole in one is a bigger deal for amateurs, so they are more likely to honour the tradition. The article give the odds of getting a hole in one as 7,500 to 1 for a p…

Surely betting on yourself to win is fine?

I would guess the main reason is that it would be too gruesome for anyone watching the execution. Also, decapitation seems almost like desecrating the condemned person's corpse, wh…

Or Chocolatey: http://chocolatey.org/packages/paint.net/

Surely the diesel and oil could be removed very easily? Anyway, this comment on the article you reference is interesting: "The truth is somewhere in between, if the JCB's were mini…

From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium ): "In game theory, the Nash equilibrium is a solution concept of a non-cooperative game involving two or more player…

i) "Isn't it a winner/loser pair for each game?" Yes, if both players chose the same side, the 'matcher' wins. If they chose different sides, the 'mismatcher' wins. "How can a pair…

No they didn't: "The most common explanation for why fancy hotels charge for wifi is that their customers are not sensitive to price: rich customers, especially business travelers …

"...the growing interest has partly been caused by genealogist who were initially studying the genome of e.g. humans..." Do you mean geneticist rather than genealogist?

"I wanted to tell you about his private-eye trick, which he learned from a hard-bitten partner. It wasn’t a blackjack-, brass knuckles-type thing. “It went like this,” Morris expla…

http://www.floattheturn.com/dictionary.php?word=d&page=3 "Degenerate, often simply 'degen,' is a well-known appelation for players who behave in a self-destructive manner away from…

Small typo on this page: https://www.truckplease.com/how-it-works "TruckPlease doesn’t employee anyone..."