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The neologism for a three person duel is called a "Truel", first introduced in Martin Shubik's 1964 book Game Theory and Related Approaches to Social Behavior NSFW
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The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of content due to the content containing a string of letters that are deemed unacceptable by the blocking programme. This was named in 1996 after AOL's profanity filter wouldn't let people from Scunthorpe, UK create an AOL account (Feather, 1996). NSFW
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Scorpion biofluorescence, unlike jellyfish bioluminescence, is activated by UV light and involved external light absorption and re-emission (Gaffin et al., 2012). Bioluminescence is a self generated light through a chemical reaction. Fluorescence is passive; luminescence is active. NSFW
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