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Milieu (n., mil-YOU)
A person's social surroundings, whether hifalutin or lowbrow or somewhere in between.
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Link of the Day
Octopus escapes from boat by squeezing through tiny hole
Octopuses have no bones, which allows them to squeeze through all kinds of tricky, tiny apertures. Here, an octopus escapes a boat by squeezing through a hole the size of a coke can:
The crazy thing is that this is actually a fairly large hole for an octpus. There are other videos and stories of octopuses squeezing through holes 1cm in diameter—only as big as a quarter. Still, it's crazy to see it actually happen.
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