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OfflineDeathby69
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Today I Learned... * 1
    #23794872 - 11/02/16 03:22 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

TIL that Roman Emperor Augustus witnessed a man attempt to feed a slave to lamprey eels as a punishment for breaking a cup. Augustus freed the slave and had the rest of the man's cups broken.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Deathby69] * 3
    #23794902 - 11/02/16 03:30 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

TIL that quantum mechanics can be visualized using silicone drops on water and observing it's behavior


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Deathby69] * 1
    #23794903 - 11/02/16 03:30 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Augustus is a title given to Roman emperors generally. Which one was this now? Sounds like something Marcus Aurelius would do.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: WackyWizard]
    #23794923 - 11/02/16 03:40 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

I don't know but you can read more about it here.

I liked 'Meditations' by Aurelius.
Not bad for a diary never meant to be made public.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Deathby69] * 2
    #23794942 - 11/02/16 03:44 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Til i may or may have not picked up a cold.. Dangnammit..


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: zZZz] * 2
    #23795082 - 11/02/16 04:21 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Yay I love TIL threads

But I haven't learned shit today.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #23795344 - 11/02/16 05:50 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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Yay I love TIL threads

But I haven't learned shit today.




Tell me about all the microorganisms living in shit


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Patlal]
    #23795363 - 11/02/16 05:55 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

It is good to have a sledgehammer, straps, and winch when assembling prefabricated steel structures.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: moonrockmushy]
    #23795612 - 11/02/16 07:16 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

LED stands for light emitting diode. Diodes are effective one way valves in an electric circuit.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Ahab McBathsalts] * 2
    #23795648 - 11/02/16 07:31 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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LED stands for light emitting diode. Diodes are effective one way valves in an electric circuit.




I just got an overdrive pedal for guitar in the mail today that has a bunch of LED clipping diodes including purple, red, and infrared :awesomenod:

They are also arranged into 10 different diode combos for versatility. Also features some germanium and silicon diodes which are common in other pedals.

I thought it was really cool LED's are used in pedals to effect the sound, I didn't learn all of that today but some is new to me :lol:

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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: musiclover420] * 1
    #23795962 - 11/02/16 09:24 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

TIL that mushroom ancestors grew 30 to 100 feet tall and dropped coconut sized seeds. Mushrooms used to form long thin sheets over water before they learned to live on land, which was of course long before gills or stems or even when polypores and shelf fungus existed.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Deathby69]
    #23795977 - 11/02/16 09:28 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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Deathby69 said:
I don't know but you can read more about it here.

I liked 'Meditations' by Aurelius.
Not bad for a diary never meant to be made public.




I love his work.



Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me; not [only] of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in [the same] intelligence and [the same] portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him. For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another, then, is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice, and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee. Thou seest how few the things are, the which if a man lays hold of, he is able to live a life which flows in quiet, and is like the existence of the gods; for the gods on their part will require nothing more from him who observes these things.

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind. Constantly then give to thyself this retreat, and renew thyself; and let thy principles be brief and fundamental, which, as soon as thou shalt recur to them, will be sufficient to cleanse the soul completely, and to send thee back free from all discontent with the things to which thou returnest. For with what art thou discontented? With the badness of men? Recall to thy mind this conclusion, that rational animals exist for one another, and that to endure is a part of justice, and that men do wrong involuntarily; and consider how many already, after mutual enmity, suspicion, hatred, and fighting, have been stretched dead, reduced to ashes; and be quiet at last.--But perhaps thou art dissatisfied with that which is assigned to thee out of the universe.--Recall to thy recollection this alternative; either there is providence or atoms [fortuitous concurrence of things]; or remember the arguments by which it has been proved that the world is a kind of political community [and be quiet at last].--But perhaps corporeal things will still fasten upon thee.--Consider then further that the mind mingles not with the breath, whether moving gently or violently, when it has once drawn itself apart and discovered its own power, and think also of all that thou hast heard and assented to about pain and pleasure [and be quiet at last].--But perhaps the desire of the thing called fame will torment thee.--See how soon everything is forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite time on each side of [the present], and the emptiness of applause, and the changeableness and want of judgment in those who pretend to give praise, and the narrowness of the space within which it is circumscribed [and be quiet at last]. For the whole earth is a point, and how small a nook in it is this thy dwelling, and how few are there in it, and what kind of people are they who will praise thee. This then remains: Remember to retire into this little territory of thy own, and above all do not distract or strain thyself, but be free, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal. But among the things readiest to thy hand to which thou shalt turn, let there be these, which are two. One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within. The other is that all these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed. The universe is transformation: life is opinion.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Adden]
    #23796009 - 11/02/16 09:43 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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Adden said:
TIL that mushroom ancestors grew 30 to 100 feet tall and dropped coconut sized seeds. Mushrooms used to form long thin sheets over water before they learned to live on land, which was of course long before gills or stems or even when polypores and shelf fungus existed.




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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: zZZz]
    #23796020 - 11/02/16 09:46 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Pretty neat huh?


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Adden]
    #23796024 - 11/02/16 09:48 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

yea if only it were true..


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: zZZz]
    #23796150 - 11/02/16 10:34 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Please correct me where I'm wrong then so I can edit my post.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Adden] * 2
    #23796216 - 11/02/16 10:54 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Prototaxites were around 420 to 350 million years ago, when land plants were still the relatively new kids on the evolutionary block and “the tallest trees stood just a few feet high,” giant spires of life poked from the Earth. “The ancient organism boasted trunks up to 24 feet (8 meters) high and as wide as three feet (one meter),” said National Geographic in 2007.  With the help of a fossil dug up in Saudi Arabia scientists finally figured out what the giant creature was: a fungus. (We think.)

The towering fungus spires would have stood out against a landscape scarce of such giants, said New Scientist in 2007.

“A 6-metre fungus would be odd enough in the modern world, but at least we are used to trees quite a bit bigger,” says Boyce. “Plants at that time were a few feet tall, invertebrate animals were small, and there were no terrestrial vertebrates. This fossil would have been all the more striking in such a diminutive landscape.”

Prototaxites are a genus of terrestrial fossil organisms dating from the Late Silurian until the Late Devonian periods, approximately 420 to 370 million years ago.



I don't remember the name of the >30' ones, but I know they came much later. The species I'm thinking of dropped a "nut" or "seed". You can find them petrified all over Colorado.

Prototaxites would've been the biggest organism on earth, and contain narrow tubelike structures that likely gave rise to the polypore. I believe gilled mushrooms came later.

Glomeromycota* required plants, algae, lichen etc to live and also came much later than prototaxites. They used arbuscular mycorrhizas in the roots of land plants to live.

Mushrooms began in the sea 1.3bn years ago (plants arriving 700m years later). In the meantime, fungus was busy doing the dirty and forming symbiotic relationships (while breaking away from others). They and basic bacteria and algae thus helped terraform the earth, if you will.

My buddy has one of these seeds about the size of a softball (relatively small). I can't remember the species but they're bigger than prototaxites.


Edit autocorrect, w.c.


Edited by Adden (11/02/16 11:08 PM)


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Adden]
    #23796253 - 11/02/16 11:07 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

it's possible, but i mean these are mostly theories, 420 to 350 million years ago?.. these people are pulling numbers out or their assholes.. we can't say they existed with certainty, can we?..


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: zZZz]
    #23796260 - 11/02/16 11:09 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

They're in the fossil record so I'd imagine it's safe to say they did.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Adden]
    #23796381 - 11/02/16 11:51 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Yeah I remember seeing an article about "mysterious giant pillars" that were found to be prehistoric giant fungi. It is definitely a thing I believe.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: musiclover420] * 2
    #23797304 - 11/03/16 11:29 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

TIL that a mako shark can jump 30 feet out of the water.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Deathby69] * 2
    #23798219 - 11/03/16 04:13 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

TIL the gallbladder doesn't just produce bile that "aids in the digestion of fats."


https://www.liverdoctor.com/what-to-do-if-you-dont-have-a-gallbladder/

Or rather the seriousness of that role is majorly underplayed in the western world. Cuz without it there's the inability to properly digest fat, and without fat the body does not properly absorb amino acids, vitamins, or antioxidants. And my doctors acted like being severely deficient in vitamins D and K were my fault. When the fucks cut out the organ I need to process them. :mad:


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #23798238 - 11/03/16 04:17 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

TIL jet fuel can't melt steel beams


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Mad_Larkin]
    #23798273 - 11/03/16 04:27 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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TIL jet fuel can't melt steel beams




Been watching some 911 videos and reading the comments? :lol:

Never actually looked into it but I wouldn't be too surprised either way :shrug:

I have also heard from supposed pilots that a plain couldn't even have made the maneuver that led to it hitting the towers and or the pentagon.

Also I forget which exactly but I have heard certain missiles can easily be mistaken as planes from a distance:


Plane or Missile?


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: musiclover420]
    #23798288 - 11/03/16 04:32 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

i dunno about all that but i know for certain that there were suitcase nukes in the basements of the towers and directed energy weapons were used



http://www.drjudywood.com/articles/DEW/StarWarsBeam5.html

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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #23798312 - 11/03/16 04:43 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Pretty sure bile can melt steel beams. That shit is horrible.
Consistency of egg yolk and acidity of battery acid. Sheesh.

And, I thought it was only the pancreas that produced it, but was wrong, kinda...so I learned something new with you today!

And unlearned something wrong...


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Deathby69] * 1
    #23798352 - 11/03/16 04:59 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

I eat super late dinners a lot and throw up bile in the mornings :sad: I need to start eating earlier, damn 3am munchies :shakefist:


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: WackyWizard]
    #23798353 - 11/03/16 04:59 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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Augustus is a title given to Roman emperors generally. Which one was this now? Sounds like something Marcus Aurelius would do.



Augustus was Cesar Augustus. Julius Ceasar was his great uncle.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Deathby69]
    #23798381 - 11/03/16 05:09 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Well the gallbladder holds all the bile, it doesn't actually produce it. Produce is a funny word... It does present it to the food digestion part of the system :lol: The liver and pancreas work hand in hand to place bile in your gallbladder to be ready to digest meals in your stomach. Without the gallbladder that bile immediately dumps into the stomach (and down into the intestines) which means you're likely not going to have enough bile in there when you eat a fatty meal. Which fucks you up more than they'll admit.

I was horribly sick months after they removed my poor little baby gallbladder because I had all this excess bile sitting in my stomach. Eventually my body realized that's bad and stopped producing so much bile. Which made me more sick. And this is why CookieCrumbs no longer eats red meat.


Though with todays TIL apparently there's pills you can take with a meal that helps you digest fats. I'll definitely be trying it. I also realized I need to be taking more vitamin D. Or maybe I'll see a nutritionist to do a full panel and help me understand how much nutrient foods I need to eat.

I actually thought the bile issue was why my liver was hurting. Turns out I have drug induced hepatitis. But with what I read today it seems my first assumption wasn't entirely wrong, the surgery has definitely put more pressue on my liver. But it's all good I think helping it get the fats and vitamins it needs will help alot :sadyes:


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: CookieCrumbs]
    #24450531 - 07/01/17 07:51 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

BUMP

TIL the word 'bunk', meaning empty nonsense, comes from US congressman Felix Walker, who interrupted an important vote to talk at length and for no reason about his district of Buncombe County, North Carolina.

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bunk (n.2) "nonsense," 1900, short for bunkum, phonetic spelling of Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. The usual story (by 1841) of its origin is this: At the close of the protracted Missouri statehood debates, supposedly on Feb. 25, 1820, N.C. Representative Felix Walker (1753-1828) began what promised to be a "long, dull, irrelevant speech," and he resisted calls to cut it short by saying he was bound to say something that could appear in the newspapers in the home district and prove he was on the job. "I shall not be speaking to the House," he confessed, "but to Buncombe." Bunkum has been American English slang for "nonsense" since 1841 (from 1838 as generic for "a U.S. Representative's home district"). MR. WALKER, of North Carolina, rose then to address the Committee on the question [of Missouri statehood]; but the question was called for so clamorously and so perseveringly that Mr. W. could proceed no farther than to move that the committee rise. [Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 16th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1539]




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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Brian Jones]
    #24450583 - 07/01/17 08:09 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

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Augustus is a title given to Roman emperors generally. Which one was this now? Sounds like something Marcus Aurelius would do.



Augustus was Cesar Augustus. Julius Ceasar was his great uncle.



Augustus was simply a Roman title meaning "Thr Revered One" reserved for the emporers mainly. Also sometimes Consuls who had no ancestors elected consul would become "a free man" gaining more political authority and glory.Almost always acquired usually after successful military campaigns.

It's a title like Scipio Africanis because he defeated Hannibal in the 7th-8th century at the battle of Zama During the second Punic war. It just means Scipio Conquerer of Africa

However getting back to Augustus Ceaser (Octavian) he was WAY more influential and powerful then any other Roman in history even much more his Uncle Julius. Julius only was in power for a few months because he was stabbed a bagillion times after he took his army and overthrew the Roman Senate.


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #24450599 - 07/01/17 08:15 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

The title Kaiser used by the german rulers until hitler came along was a variation of cesar (caesar). Many other variations like czar also came from cesar


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Re: Today I Learned... [Re: Stonehenge]
    #24466085 - 07/07/17 07:27 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

TIL that Nazi Germany allowed for part-Jewish ('Mischlinge') soldiers to partake of their devious world-conquering, and ultimately doomed-to-fail, project.

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Rigg, who spent seven years researching his book, estimates that at least 150,000 men of Jewish origin served in the German army during World War II.link link





Also that cracking open a cold one with the boys can be a really bad idea.

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The oldest animal ever known lived from 1499 until the day researchers cracked its shell open, killing it in the process.

Ming, an ocean quahog from the species Arctica islandica, was initially thought to be a record-setting 402 years old. But the scientists who found it on a seabed near Iceland in 2006 now say further analysis has revealed that it was an incredible 507 years old, reports CBS. link




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    #24466105 - 07/07/17 07:40 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

We must dissect it for science!
Human beings can be impressively retarded.


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    #24466242 - 07/07/17 08:43 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

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Prometheus (recorded as WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States. The tree, which was at least 4862 years old and possibly more than 5000, was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and United States Forest Service personnel for research purposes.




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    #24466276 - 07/07/17 09:06 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

Holy moly..!


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    #24466365 - 07/07/17 09:46 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

:facepalm:

Well some meth head recently burned down one of the oldest living trees. It was like 3,000 years old. Still... Science1!


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    #24501319 - 07/22/17 06:37 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)



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    #24501529 - 07/22/17 08:34 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

That's amazing.


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    #24501536 - 07/22/17 08:35 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

Sort of a boiling frog thing. Or perhaps the opposite of boiling frog.


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    #24501888 - 07/22/17 11:56 PM (6 years, 6 months ago)

Isaac Newton spent 13 years in isolation after being embarrassed by Robert Hooke.


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    #27136460 - 01/08/21 09:38 PM (3 years, 21 days ago)

Today I Learned:
A: That this thread existed because I checked before starting one. :smile: Love the idea, hope its ok to try to bring it back to life.

B: Electric ovens (at least some) that run in 220V are actually running 2 110v circuits 180degrees out of phase. This means that if, for instance, the element cracks arcs to the oven body and begins welding itself, turning off the oven doesn't actually stop the current. Side note: If this happens and the oven is not grounded, touching the body of the oven will shock the fuck out of you. Luckily, I grounded my oven when I installed it :smile:


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