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According to the Venerable Bede, February was once called ‘the Month of Cakes’.
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Word of the day: BONAILIE (19th century Scots) - a parting drink taken with a friend to wish them a good journey
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Word of the day: ARSLE - to move backwards.
1204
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Word of the day: DOYCHLE (19th century Scots) - to work even though you're half asleep
1205
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Citizens who oppose any changes in their communities are sometimes called CAVE people - Citizens Against Virtually Everything.
1206
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2899 Americans went to the A&E in 2020 for pizza-related injuries.
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Word of the day: ANTE-JENTACULAR - occurring before breakfast
For instance, your elf is not at her best at anything ANTE-JENTACULAR.
1208
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The tiny town of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky has only ever elected dogs as mayor.
The current mayor is a French bulldog. He took over from a pit bull named Brynneth Pawltro.
(Image: Artur Malinowski; CC BY.)
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To know when you know, and when you don’t know, and what it is you know and what it is you don’t know, you gotta be very careful not to confuse yourself. RICHARD FEYNMAN
1210
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Word of the Day: TERGIVERSATION - a slippery refusal to give a straight answer
1211
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Australia’s Parliament building features a coat of arms with a kangaroo’s scrotum.
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The design of Barbie was inspired by a German doll Lilli, a sexualised secretary based on the character of a daily tabloid cartoon. The dolls were popular as bachelor party gifts and were sold in tobacco shops, bars, and adult-themed toy stores. [📷: dollyhaul.]
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Word of the day: DRUXY - literally, wood that is decayed in the center; used to mean someone who seems good but is actually quite rotten
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"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another." CARL SAGAN
1215
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Irish for ‘echo’ is ‘macalla’, which literally means ‘son of a cliff’.
1216
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. AMELIA EARHART
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Word of the Day: GUBU - acronym coined in Ireland in 1982 to describe political scandals, standing for Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented.
1218
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A study of 7000 US adults has found that after the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become less extroverted and less agreeable.
1219
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Watching Keeping Up With Kardashians makes you less sympathetic to the poor.
1220
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Before X-rays were invented and xylophones became widely known, alphabet books sometimes said X was for ‘xany’, an early form of ‘zany’ meaning an idle person.
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"Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point." ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY
1222
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Slugs and snails have tongues covered in thousands of tiny, constantly regrowing teeth. (Image Debivort, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Word of the day: FUTILITARIAN – someone devoted to futile pursuits or futility itself.
1224
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
ANDREI TARKOVSKY
1225
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"It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it
are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
For the places and people you're lucky you're not!"
DR. SEUSS
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