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Chalk is made from the remains of ancient sea life

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Every single time a miserable teacher furiously wrote on a dusty blackboard, they were ruthlessly smearing the microscopic corpses of ancient marine plankton just to teach you basic algebra.

Chalk is made from the remains of ancient sea life
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