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* [[Due to The Dead]]: Are the Little Fuzzies intelligent? Well, they bury their dead.
* [[Earth That Used to Be Better]]: In ''Space Viking'', the main character worries about his home planet's civilization declining, and a historian agrees: "That's what happened to the Terran Federation, by the way. The good men all left to colonize, and the stuffed shirts and yes-men and herd-followers and safety-firsters stayed on Terra and tried to govern the Galaxy."
* [[Elements Do Not Work That Way]]:
** "Tallow-wax," an organic compound found in the body of the Jarvis's sea monster on Fenris, is useful for shielding against radioactivity; "a suit of waxed coveralls weighing only a couple of pounds will stop as much radiation as half an inch of lead."
* [[Eternal English]]: Averted. Most of the TFH uses a kind of linguistic potpourri that's basically every modern language run through a blender at once.
* [[Everybody Smokes]]
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