#2669: Things You Should Not Do explain

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Updates to my “Things You Should Not Do” list, based on what I learned writing What If? 2

(out 9/13, xkcd.com/whatif2)

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Things You Should Not Do

(part 3647 of ????)

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#156,812 Eat Tide pods

#156,813 Walk on stilts in a thunderstorm

#156,814 Set off fireworks at a gas station

#156,815 Feed your cat treats that are the exact shape and texture of a human hand

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#156,816 Lean over a geyser vent and try to look down into it

#156,817 Fly a hot air balloon over a firing range

#156,818 Peel away the Earth’s crust

#156,819 Try to paint the Sahara Desert by hand

#156,820 Remove someone’s bones without asking

#156,821 Spend 100% of your governments budget on mobile game in-app purchases

#156,822 Fill a lava lamp with actual lava

#156,823 Drink the blood of someone with a viral hemorraghic fever

#156,824 Eat meat from rabid animals

#156,825 Perform your own laser eye surgery

#156,826 Tell California poultry regulators that your farm is selling Pokemon eggs

#156,827 Funnel the entire flow of Niagara Falls into the open window of a physics lab

#156,828 Pump ammonia into your abdomen

#156,829 Suspend yourself inside a 10-meter ball of sunscreen and fall into the sun