Jan. 22nd mind blowing random thought of the day: In San Antonio, Texas, it is against the law for a monkey to ride the city bus.
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too good!
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Jan. 23rd mind blowing random thought of the day: A “timbromaniac” is a word used to describe someone who is obsessed with postage stamps.
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Jan. 24th mind blowing random thought of the day: Musician Jimi Hendrix was inspired to write the song “The Wind Cries Mary” as an apology to his girlfriend Kathy Mary Etchingham after having a heated argument over her lumpy mashed potatoes.
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I learned this in food science during my degree. I love food facts! 
Also on the news today:
“The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space.
While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking time last month up at the International Space Station. It takes far less time on Earth, under 20 minutes.”
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Jan. 25th mind blowing random thought of the day: In 2004, American Chad Fell blew the largest bubblegum bubble ever, measuring a total of 20 inches in diameter.
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How on earth do you bake cookies evenly without gravity to hold them in place?
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Jan. 26th mind blowing random thought of the day: The largest known prime number is 2 to the 74,207,281st power - 1, which is 22 million digits in length.
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Good question. Perhaps something like a pie iron? I imagine oil still sticks to the metal if it is brushed on. Then they likely had to bring pre-made dough. It seems too implausible to think that they could make dough without gravity. The flour would be a disaster.
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I like the word play you used, btw! 
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To evenly heat the dough within, the oven is shaped like a cylinder with heaters lining every side; that way, the cookie is heated evenly all over. And to make sure the cookie doesn’t float away within the oven, the dough must be loaded in via a special tray that traps the ingredients inside a tight pouch.
Not sure if this was different than the 2 hour cookies but here’s an interesting article
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Wont actually eat! They probably have their own Astronaut cookies that they can eat anyway, filled with lots of fiber to bulk up their stool. No watery stools in space!
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Ever notice when you want to make an omelet or scrambled and crack the eggs, the yolks stay perfectly intact, but when you want to make eggs over-easy or sunnyside up, the yolks always break? What’s up with that?
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Jan. 27th mind blowing random thought of the day: Robert Lincoln is the only person in U.S. history known to have witnessed the assassination of 3 different presidents: his father Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley, after which he vowed to never again appear in public with an incumbent president.
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Jan. 28th mind blowing random thought of the day: The largest known animal to ever fly was the Quetzalcoatlus, a dinosaur as tall as a giraffe with a wingspan over 30 feet wide. It could fly up to 10,000 miles nonstop and was the last known species of pterosaur to survive to the very end of the Cretaceous period.
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So cool. I love dino facts!
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I can’t wait to read this to my 4 y.o. tonight. We’re Dino obsessed lately 
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Awe, so cute.
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