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In the iconic movie This is Spinal Tap, lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel said of his band’s black album cover, “It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.”

He was wrong.

A scientist at Rice University has created the darkest material known to man, a carpet of carbon nanotubes that reflects only 0.045 percent of all light shined upon it. That’s four times darker than the previously darkest known substance, and more than 100 times darker than the paint on a black Corvette.

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A Hungarian aquarium is celebrating after its lone female shark produced a pup without ever having come into contact with a male shark.

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1. We spend over $5.6 billion dollars a month in Iraq, which is more Federal aid than any current state is receiving.

2. At $5.6 billion dollars, we could pay each and every Iraqi $215 a month, ten times what their average income is now. How could they complain?

3. With an estimated 250,000 American citizens currently residing in Iraq it is already nearly half the population size of Wyoming.

4. Fighting would have to stop because the U.S. cannot declare war on itself.

5. We save time and money not having to draft up a separate Iraqi constitution since we already have one.

6. Baghdad is only 1400 miles further from Washington than Honolulu is.

7. Historically, we have added new states about every 50 years. We are due.

8. We reduce unemployment by creating jobs for English teachers.

9. Forget the oil. We need a state with a “Q” in it!

10. We made Alaska and Hawaii states.

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