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the japanese phrase "koi no yokan" means knowing you are eventually going to fall in love with someone after you've just met. i think it's a combination of love at first sight and falling in love slowly over time.

the pareto principle (aka the 80/20 rule): for many events, 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. examples:

-you wear 20% of what’s in your closet 80% of the time.
-80% of the women date 20% of the men.
-80% of a company's profits come from 20% of its customers
-80% of all frustrations in a relationship are caused by just 20% of the problems
-80% of your stress can be linked to 20% of the people you surround yourself with
-20% of the foods you eat account for 80% of the weight you gain
-20% of your friends give you 80% of your enjoyment
-80% of the world's pollution comes from 20% of the factories
-80% of the awards/achievements go to 20% of athletes/artists/authors/actors
-20% of all the artists on spotify are responsible for 80% of the sales
-80% of your grades come from 20% of your efforts

i thought ariana grande was a font name *

"we found that 47% of local trends in turkey and 20% of global trends are fake, created from scratch by bots. between june 2015 and september 2019, we uncovered 108,000 bot accounts involved, the biggest bot dataset reported in a single paper. our research is the first to uncover the manipulation of twitter trends at this scale," elmas continued."
https://techxplore.com/...6-mass-scale-twitter-trends.html

gaza – the palestinian territory – is blurred. image

he is often credited with saving the united states from the huge debt it got into to pay for the revolutionary war.

she is credited with helping meriwether lewis and william clark avoid armed conflict with indian tribes. her husband and infant son traveled with her. image

is a ban on trade with another nation.

(see: #635)

is an area of public land set aside for use by a certain group, such as an american indian tribe.

the world's first modern war.

starving settlers in jamestown colony resorted to cannibalism

story of people.

i didn't know it was a really big painting until i saw it at the metropolitan museum of art.
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human rights activist who strove to educate the public about injustices done to black people in america.

"if violence is wrong in america, violence is wrong abroad. if it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for america to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. and if it is right for america to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country."