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Yes, happy friday:

What a porker! Why pigs have got slimmer as humans get fatter

The average pig now has only 16% body fat – lower than the average for people in the UK. How has this happened?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/22/fat-pig-livestock-lean-body-britons

The average pig has a lower body fat percentage than the average American. The average American man has 28 percent body fat, the average woman has 40% body fat. Pigs have sixteen percent body fat, compared with 20% two decades ago (because people now favor leaner meat).

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/modern-wisdom-language-games-broken?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=800237&post_id=139261894&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6mos7&utm_medium=email#:~:text=Three%20interesting%20findings%3A

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yep, Germans are weird. Make a remark that while politics is show business for uglies, the significant thing about hairdo politicians such as Trump, Johnson, Wilders and Milie is that they don't seem to know that they're ugly, and you'll in the best case get a blank stare. Or, a disgusted reaction -- "how can you be so superficial as to talk about politician's looks"?

(The same folks that will talk about how they got a good deal for lumber and potatoes for halfa bloody hour).

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