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For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Alaska is simultaneously the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost US state.

[โ€“] reddig33 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] el_doso 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its Western most point crosses the international date line and is therefore technically "really far east" instead of "really far west".

[โ€“] son_named_bort 7 points 1 year ago

Likewise, the closest US state to Africa is Maine.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What would happen if you were to put both of yours legs in these westernmost and the easternmost parts?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Your legs would glitch around the whole circumference of the Earth.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You would have both legs in Alaska.

[โ€“] son_named_bort 3 points 1 year ago

You'd probably drown.

[โ€“] whileloop 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I need to go to bed, I misread that as "Ahsoka is simultaneously the northernmost, westernmost, *and" easternmost US state."