1. Ferrets are illegal in some areas of the United States.
Before you adopt or purchase a ferret, you should check out your local laws. Pet ferrets are prohibited in California, Hawaii, and New York City. While veterinarians in these locations will still treat sick ferrets, the adoption or purchase of new ferrets is not allowed. If you live in one of these areas, it’s best to consider getting another type of pet.
2. Ferrets have a strong, musky odor, even when they’re de-scented.
Ferrets have scent glands near the base of their tails that produce a potent, musky-smelling oil. For many pet ferrets, these glands are surgically removed during the process of “de-scenting” when the animals are very young—before they are sold. Ferrets that retain these glands smell so musky that most people would never want them as pets. However, even after they are de-scented, ferrets will still retain a milder musky odor that some people find unpleasant. So, if you are sensitive to odor, and you’re considering a ferret as a pet, you might want to spend some time around one to be sure you can tolerate the smell before you bring a ferret home.
3. Ferrets love company.
Ferrets are social creatures that typically live in groups or colonies in the wild. Because they love company, pet ferrets generally look for human family members or other ferrets to hang out with. It’s much more fun to play when you have friends to play with. Consequently, many ferret owners end up owning more than one ferret. On rare occasions, two ferrets might not get along. So, if you get more than one ferret, you’ll need to supervise their interactions for several days to ensure they get along before you can safely leave them alone together. To minimize competition between ferrets, each one should have equal access to food, toys, hiding spots, and sleeping areas so that they’re less likely to fight over resources.
4. Ferrets need to run!
Ferrets love to curl up and sleep, particularly if they can find a warm place to nap, but when they’re not napping, they also love to run, jump, climb, and hide. Ferrets also love toys. Young ferrets, in particular, enjoying skittering across the floor and chasing toys. Exercise for ferrets is key, or they will overeat from boredom and become obese. So, if you’re going to own a ferret, plan on lots of out-of-cage time for them to run around.
5. Ferrets chew EVERYTHING.
Ferrets are called ferrets because they literally “ferret out” everything. They chew on, dig up, and pull out nearly every object they encounter—especially when they’re young and very curious. Objects made of foam, rubber, or cloth, including furniture and shoes, are special favorites. Ferrets notoriously steal everything they can get their mouths on and store their treasures in closets, under beds, or anywhere they can hide them. This mischievous behavior can lead to significant health problems, since foreign objects they inadvertently swallow can get stuck in their gastrointestinal (GI) tracts and cause life-threatening obstructions that require surgical treatment. So, if you decide to get a pet ferret, you’ll need to commit to ferret-proofing your home. That means picking up everything from the floor, creating a ferret-proofed area that’s free of tempting things to chew on, and supervising your new pet whenever he or she is out of the cage.
6. Ferrets eat meat.
Wild ferrets are carnivores that hunt for and consume rodents and rabbits. Their GI tracts have evolved to digest animal protein and not vegetable matter. While a pet ferret should also be eating meat, their intestinal tract is not adapted to consuming raw meat in the same way as their wild counterparts. In fact, pet ferrets can develop severe intestinal infection with toxic bacteria such as Salmonella. Pet ferrets should be fed commercially formulated, high-protein/moderate-fat/low-carbohydrate diets that contain all the nutrients that ferrets require. These diets have also been prepared to eliminate potentially harmful bacteria. Several kibble diets are available for pet ferrets, and they generally love them. Before diets were developed specifically for ferrets, many people fed their pet ferrets cat food. In general, it’s preferable to use commercially available ferret food over cat food because ferret-specific diets meet the nutritional needs of ferrets more closely.
7. Ferrets need annual veterinary checkups.
Ferrets can live to be 6-9 years old or more, so it’s important to provide consistent, preventative veterinary care. They should see their veterinarian annually and then semi-annually as they age. By examining ferrets every year, veterinarians may diagnose and treat conditions earlier and may help ferrets live longer, happier lives. After 3 years of age, ferrets also should have annual blood tests to help ensure that their blood sugar levels and kidney and liver functions are normal. After 5 years of age, ferrets should be checked every six months, since by this age, they have often developed more than one of the conditions they commonly encounter as they age.
8. Ferrets often develop certain diseases as they age.
Ferrets sold in pet stores in the United States are typically from one of two very large breeding facilities, and consequently, they are extremely inbred. Inbreeding, unfortunately, increases the chances for developing certain diseases, including adrenal gland tumors and pancreatic tumors called insulinomas. These illnesses can occur in ferrets as young as a year of age. Older ferrets commonly develop heart disease and other types of cancer. If you’re planning on getting a ferret, you should expect that at some point, your ferret will develop one or more of these conditions and will require veterinary treatment.
9. Ferrets need shots.
Ferrets can contract and pass on rabies. Therefore, in many of the states in which they are legal as pets, ferrets are required by law to be vaccinated for rabies at 4-5 months of age and then annually after that. Ferrets are also very susceptible to the deadly canine distemper virus that commonly affects dogs, but it’s preventable through vaccination. There is a ferret-specific distemper virus vaccine that should be administered initially in a series of three shots (three weeks apart), starting at 2 months of age, and then annually after that. Very rarely, ferrets can develop diarrhea, vomiting, or collapse after receiving either the rabies or distemper vaccine. For this reason, ferrets that receive vaccines should wait at the veterinary hospital for 15 minutes after receiving their shots to ensure they’re not having a reaction. Ferrets that suffer from vaccine reactions should not be revaccinated in the future if their reaction is severe. Even if pet ferrets are kept indoors, they should receive annual booster vaccines against both rabies and distemper viruses for life. This is because their owners can track distemper virus inside their homes on their shoes, and pet ferrets might also have contact with wildlife, like bats, which can carry the deadly rabies virus.
10. Ferrets need flea and heartworm disease preventative.
Just like cats and dogs, ferrets are susceptible to flea infestation and deadly heartworm infection. This is true even for ferrets kept indoors, as fleas can come in from outside, especially if there are dogs and cats in the home. Mosquitos can also make their way indoors and transmit heartworm disease to indoor ferrets. Ferret-savvy veterinarians can prescribe flea and heartworm preventatives that are safe for use in ferrets, as not all flea and heartworm products are appropriate for ferrets.
11. Ferrets get hairballs.
Ferrets shed a lot of hair, particularly when the weather gets warm, and like cats, they may ingest this hair as they lick and groom themselves. This means that—like cats—ferrets can produce hairballs too. If they ingest a large amount of hair, it can stick together in their intestines and cause a potentially life-threatening obstruction. Ferrets with adrenal gland tumors commonly lose lots of hair as a result of hormones secreted by their tumors, and this often predisposes them to hairball development. To help prevent hairballs from forming, ferrets should be brushed at least once a week with a narrow-toothed hair comb meant for brushing either a ferret or a cat. If a ferret is shedding excessively, hairball laxatives made for either ferrets or cats can help hair pass through the GI tract more easily. These can be given by mouth once or twice a week. Talk with your veterinarian to find out more if you are worried about hairballs in your ferret.
SOURCE: PETMD.COM
Sew Colorful 
Morning All!
looks to be about 40* and I can see the sun coming up. we’ll see if it stays that way. we have to do a regular banana run today (later this afternoon) and hopefully walmart HAS bananas today…lol.
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Morning, Pat! ….sigh…the day did not start well! Temp was 35 when I got up but is already up to 50 w/bright, sunny skies….for a while. But starting next week, temps are in the low 80’s/high 70’s so summer is coming on.
I spent over an hour trying to get this computer to start up…..during my trip to Norfolk later, I’m going to stop by a computer shop and see what I can do. Hopefully, they’ll have a 2nd-hand refurbished laptop I can pick up for a reasonable price like this one and, again hopefully, I can wait while they get everything transferred and set up. But we’ll see….so neither one of us will be around much this afternoon because I’m also picking up all of my annuals.
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Morning filly!
I am near the end of making the cowboy hat and cowboy boot cookies for my granddaughter’s party. I won’t be leaving till 4…so I’ll be around til then.
Be safe and i hope you find one!!!
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that Indian-born dem who filed impeachment charges? lots of tweets about him
Carlos Turcios
@Carlos__Turcios
Publius
@OcrazioCornPop
🚨 Democrat SHRI THANEDAR’S bankrupt company AniClin ABANDONED 118 beagles & 55 monkeys in a shuttered NJ facility in 2010!
Starving, neglected animals suffered as his company tanked.
Now this animal abuser plots to impeach Trump!
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
@ImMeme0
I don’t care if you are Liberal or Democrat but there is something morally and fundamentally wrong with you if we vote for animal abusers and killers to represent you and your children children.
Michigan WTAF?!
America meet @ShriThanedar
, Democrat who is currently representing Michigan’s 13th Congressional District.
He was cruel to dogs that even Humane Society made an ad about him.
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
NEW:
🚨 INDIAN DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN WHO FILED ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY HAS A HISTORY OF FINANCIAL SCAMS, HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF FRAUD MULTIPLE TIMES IN COURT FILINGS 🚨
In 2016, The Detroit News reported on a lawsuit against Shri Thanedar @RepShriThanedar
for making “fraudulent and misleading claims to inflate the value of his company, which he sold in a deal that pocketed him roughly $20 million.”
The article also revealed that Thanedar’s St. Louis-based Chemical Analysis company crumbled when a lender dragged him to court. A bankruptcy judge then appointed a receiver to liquidate the business.
This is the same Thanedar who is in $730,313.81 of campaign debt and just filed impeachment articles against President Trump today so he can raise money to pay off his Congressional campaign debt, which he has listed on his most recent FEC filings as “INVESTMENT INCOME LOSS”.
Looks like @RepShriThanedar
is trying to scam the American people as a member of Congress!
https://www.independentsentinel.com/the-new-dem-hero-rep-shri-thanedar-accused-animal-abuser/
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feds arrest a suspected leader of tren de aragua gang in CA
FTA
https://100percentfedup.com/just-alleged-tren-de-aragua-gang-leader-arrested/
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finally! revoking the visa of students who commit crimes.
FTA
The Trump administration has revoked the visas of 4,000 foreign students in its first 100 days — the bulk of which have committed crimes in the US including arson, assault and robbery, The Post has learned.
More than 90% of the rogue students who saw their visas nixed had committed crimes such as arson, wildlife and human trafficking, child endangerment, domestic abuse, DUI and robbery, a senior State Department source told The Post Monday.
More than 500 of them had assault raps.
“They came and they were breaking the law with no consequences,” said the source.
“We set up a special action team to handle this.”
The State Department worked with the Department of Homeland Security, which tapped into their databases and compared that information with existing law enforcement records.
Officials only considered “serious” cases as part of the effort.
“There were cases like where it was not a serious thing, like littering, or somebody had charges that were dropped, where we didn’t revoke those. Because it should be a serious matter,” said the source.
The thousands of students, most of whom hail from Asia and the Middle East, were swiftly notified that the State Department had stripped them of their status in the US.
Some have already departed on their own while others will soon be rounded up by immigration agents as part of Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/us-news/trump-admin-revokes-4k-visas-for-students-with-criminal-records/
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“The Trump administration began releasing officials from the Biden-Harris administration on Tuesday who have been sitting on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum board, including Doug Emhoff, who is the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Nominated just days prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Emhoff was appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum board by former President Joe Biden on Jan. 17. On Tuesday, the former second gentleman posted on X.
In January, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 68-member Council included 55 appointees from then-former President Donald Trump, along with five members each from the House and Senate and three ex-officio members from the departments of State, Interior, and Education, according to the museum’s website.
In addition to removing Emhoff, the Trump administration also dismissed former Biden White House chief of staff Ron Klain, former Labor secretary Tom Perez, former domestic policy adviser Susan Rice, and Anthony Bernal, a former senior adviser to former first lady Jill Biden, according to The New York Times. Those let go from their board positions reportedly received an email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office on Tuesday morning thanking them for their service, the outlet reported.”
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all Presidents appoint new people when they assume office. the maggot did it. obummer did it…quit trying to be a martyr.
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EXCERPT: “The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has released the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for the 2024 school year. Known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” NAEP assesses the reading and math skills of America’s fourth and eighth graders. The latest report reveals something surprising: after adjusting for demographics, the reading and math scores of students in Mississippi and Louisiana, two heavily Republican states and among the poorest in the nation, have surpassed those in deeply Democratic states such as California and New York.
The secret of Mississippi and Louisiana’s educational success is not secret at all; it is about returning to the fundamentals and following the evidence. Mississippi’s Republican-led legislature has implemented effective education reforms in 2012 that prioritize phonics — teaching students to sound out words — and enforce a retention policy for third graders who do not meet essential reading benchmarks. Furthermore, the state invests $15 million each year, or approximately $32 per student, into training teachers on literacy and providing dedicated reading coaches in schools.
The reform has produced remarkable results, with Mississippi’s fourth graders’ reading scores rising from 49th in the nation in 2013 to the top of the rankings (after adjusting for demographics) in 2024. The progress among black students is particularly impressive. According to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, the reading scores of the state’s black fourth graders have improved from 45th to third place during the same period. This reflects the effectiveness of Mississippi’s literacy program, which has provided a learning gain equivalent to a full year of schooling. Moreover, the state’s graduation rate has seen a significant rise from 72 percent in 2013 to 89.9 percent in 2024…..”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/30/reading-scores-plummet-in-rich-blue-states-and-rise-in-poor-red-ones/
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Trump’s First 100 Days Have Blown My Mind. He’s Delivering On His Promises.
Our Take: The first 100 days have been a multi-layered, perhaps even multi-dimensional TRAP for the Deep State regime, and they’ve fallen right into it. As I tried to come up with a way to condense the kaleidoscopic micros into one overarching macro in the current chapter of the Info War, the Shadow War and the War of Stories, that was the one that just kept bubbling up to the fore.
Let’s explore it a bit:
No doubt you’ve seen Trump and team making the victory rounds this week to celebrate the First 100 days, an entirely arbitrary and yet, strangely meaningful inflection point on which many presidential terms start out. While it’s not ALWAYS the case, it can be argued that the First 100 Days sets the tone not just in terms of what the American people can expect from their president, but what the President can expect from the people he’s been elected to represent.
Among the long line of items Trump and team have been signal boosting are a successful and immediate crackdown on US border security, the beginnings of a direct and effective Eisenhower model purge of illegal criminal aliens infecting our society, the many Actuals (and FAR more Narratives) that have come out of the Department of Government Efficiency, whose many-colored genies can never be put back in their respective bottles, and, of course, the beginnings of a Sovereign Trade War that I have been arguing is merely the thin Narrative veneer covering a long-planned and long-needed reset of the American and global financial system.
And yet, that last point is undoubtedly the most contentious … if you’re listening to the establishment talking heads, various heads of state … hell, the entire western hegemon, and even some of the members of what I have dubbed the Sovereign Alliance as they spar with Trump’s absolute blitzkrieg to kick off what we’re told is going to be a new American Golden Age.
So, why am I saying it’s a TRAP?
Because Donald Trump and his team KNOW that the Trade War and said economic reset are far from finished, they KNOW that the net effects of the current period of chaotic (and yet, entirely planned) decoupling will be rocky, and they KNOW that the end state is going to result in the very Golden Age setup that Trump first promised shortly after he came down that golden escalator all those years ago; that the most infamous information dissemination program of all time doubled down on in the years that followed; and that the Biden Regime cultivated mass public mandate for before Trump’s (public) return.
You see, from where I’m sitting, Trump isn’t taking premature victory laps because he thinks we’ve won. It’s because he knows we’re going to … and on the back of the very deployments and First Principles, America First tactics and Sovereign Solutions the enemy (be they media shills, Con Inc. charlatans or fake presidents the western world over) are doubling down on opposing.
Trump is drawing a line of demarcation between the past and the future. Time to pick a side. — Burning Bright
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NF: Apparently, this ONLY applies to New Jersey!!!
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/us-attorneys-office-announces-task-force-preserve-and-protect-integrity-elections
Our Take: The statement says the new Election Integrity Task Force’s objectives will include:
“Facilitating information sharing between federal, State, and local officials to enhance the ability of election officials to efficiently and effectively remove individuals who are not eligible to vote from State voter lists.” This sounds like reverse ERIC. I wonder if the feds took control of ERIC? Dare to dream — those databases and codebases are an active crime scene.
“Prioritizing the investigation and prosecution of election crimes, including but not limited to, federal statutes that prohibit voter registration fraud, casting of fraudulent ballots, voting by non-citizens, individuals voting multiple times in same election, and foreign interference caused by foreign nationals contributing or donating funds to United States elections.” ALL OF THIS. We have fake voters, fake ballots, fake donations, and foreign interference. We’re missing fake counts but this but that’s a whole other EO.
“Taking appropriate steps to ensure compliance with the voter list maintenance requirements of the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act.” This is huge. Cleaning the voter rolls of fake voters limits the number of fake ballots that are naturally in the wild during the election event. Inflated rolls are critical path for the election fraud machine.
The only irritating bit is the limited jurisdiction: “to preserve and protect the integrity of elections conducted in the District of New Jersey.”
What about the rest of us? This Friday on Why We Vote, @canncon and I are airing the second half of David Becker’s EIEO Meltdown. It was a lot of fun, and you should tune in. Next week, we already have a lot to discuss, including this new taskforce. (Which will result in indictments if the taskforce’s investigation is done properly.) — Ashe in America
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I cannot lie – I do this! LOL
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i never get spaghetti out…lol
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BBL….
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cookies are done and the kitchen is cleaned up!
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Kevin Dalton
@TheKevinDalton
In 2022 Gavin Newsom signed SB 960 which allows non US citizens to become police officers in California.
Meet Belmont police officer Felipe Gomes, a Brazilian citizen with a history of domestic violence that was just arrested for rape of someone unable to give consent due to a mental disorder.
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Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit
@drawandstrike
The Biden administration PUNKED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY by staking DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas out front like a sacrificial goat to engage in a MASSIVE DISTRATION PLOY while the person who was ACTUALLY RUNNING the resettlement of this mass invasion – including all the child trafficking – was able to do his work OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND.
Mayorkas smirked and barked at Congressional hearings insisting over and over again IT WASN’T HIS JOB to deal with these immigrants. Official policy was THEY WERE NOT A THREAT and he was to ignore them, so he did. TECHINCALLY, Mayorkas was NOT LYING when he testified it wasn’t HIS JOB to resettle all these millions of people or track these kids.
You know who DID have the job of resettling these 15 million illegals inside our country, and making those 400,000 little kids ‘disappear’?
The guy NOBODY WAS LOOKING AT OR DRAGGING IN FRONT OF CONGRESS TO YELL QUESTIONS AT.
Biden HHS Secretary XAVIER BECERRA.
Everybody was SUPPOSED to scream and yell and rant at Mayorkas while BECERRA quietly did his work in the background.
IT WORKED.
Most people are still clueless af about how this actually went down.
So OF COURSE now that HE’S the guy running the HHS, Bobby Kennedy is now discovering what HHS was really being utilized to do with all of this human trafficking, resettlement, and making the kids go ‘pop’ out of sight.
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Troublemaker10
April 30, 2025 2:23 pm
Rubio at today’s cabinet meeting….
Reporter: “Have you been in touch with El Salvador about returning Kilmar Garcia?”
RUBIO: “Well, I would never tell you that. And you know who else I’ll never tell? A judge. Because our foreign policy belongs to the President and the executive branch. Not some judge.”
🔥 pic.twitter.com/l8LzYCrt2l
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) April 30, 2025
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Mike Lee
@BasedMikeLee
It appears we have yet another judge problem, as U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston has issued an order banning Border Patrol from arresting illegal aliens unless they have a warrant
Officers routinely arrest—without an arrest warrant—when they acquire probable cause to believe a crime has been committed
8 U.S.C. § 1357 expressly authorizes Border Patrol to make warrantless arrests for immigration violations, particularly if the person is entering the U.S. illegally
I cannot fathom the justification for a judicial order prohibiting the Border Patrol from arresting illegal aliens without a warrant
in response to this tweet:
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Jennifer Thurston, a U.S. District Judge, has issued an order BANNING Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant.
Another activist judge who wants to protect criminal illegals. Unreal
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leaving soon.
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Alrighty then – I’ve returned w/all my groceries, have put them away, and planted some flowers. I’m going with yellow out in front this year and red/white wave petunias for the 4 hanging pots under the cottonwood tree. I managed to keep one of the red petunias over the winter for the front of the patio but I still need to get 4 more. I have 3 yellow calibrachoa for the 3-tier planter in front:
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oh that’s gorgeous!
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I needed bright and cheerful this year! Yellow is a happy color! LOL
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it IS!
I planted Stella d’oro lilies the first year here–gorgeous yellow lilies. they bloomed one year–the next the deer ate them as they came up. they rise up every year since (almost 20 yrs now) and sometimes they have a chance to bloom ans some times animals eat them before they do. it’s always a surprise when i see them…LOL
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“It’s a rare phenomenon where multiple vortexes of a single tornado form simultaneously during the same thunderstorm, often appearing like someone walking across the sky.
What’s particularly fascinating is that meteorologists now believe that all tornadoes have multiple vortexes, but they’re obscured by the main rotation. The eerie humanoid silhouette, combined with storm’s potential death and destruction gives it that name…”
Imagine seeing this 5000 years ago and NOT believing in gods or spirits…”
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“Saudi Arabia has deployed solar-powered laser beacons in the Al Nafud Desert to guide lost travelers to water sources…
That’s a Quest Marker…A brilliant idea…”
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cool
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“The Netherlands and Belgium share a 450 km border that even pass through people’s houses…”
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that’s weird.
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Very weird!
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Good night!
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Good Night Filly!
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