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During her father's presidency (1901-1909), Alice Roosevelt smoked cigarettes in public, rode in cars with men, and kept a pet snake.
When Theodore Roosevelt was asked about her, his reply was: "I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice... I cannot possibly do both."
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Word of the Day: CUÑADISMO (Spanish slang) — literally: ‘brother-in-law-ism’; speaking on topics you know little about as if you were an expert and smarter than everyone else.
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"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works." TERRY PRATCHETT
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Word Of The Day: SPLOOT — the pose of a dog or cat when it lies on its stomach with hind legs stretched out behind the body. [📷: Rain Rabbit.]
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"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people." NEIL GAIMAN and TERRY PRATCHETT
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The man who voiced Tigger in Winnie the Pooh also invented the first artificial heart.
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. GEORGE F. WILL
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"If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star, you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy." TERRY PRATCHETT
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‘Is there any mice in your arse?’ was a 19th-century Scottish way of replying to someone who is referring to themselves as ‘we’.
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Phrase of the Day: EPISTEMIC TRESPASSING — judging matters outside one’s field of expertise.
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In Australian cities, escaped parrots sometimes teach wild flocks to chat and swear in English.
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Word of the day: CONFELICITY - joy in the happiness of others.
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"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people." NEIL GAIMAN and TERRY PRATCHETT
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning." BILL WATTERSON
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98.4% of Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon are still on Twitter.
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At the 1928 Olympics, rower Henry Pearce stopped mid-race to let a family of ducks safely cross his lane.
He still won the heat.
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We recommend against making plans for September 24, 2182.
There is a one-in-1,175 chance that this asteroid will collide with Earth on that day.
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Most animals prefer to work for their food rather than freeload.
Cats are the only known exception.
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Scholars in the Middle Ages popped the ‘b’ into the word debt because of its Latin origins (debitum), despite the fact that it came to English from the French word dette and was never pronounced. They same applies to doubt, plumber, subtle, indict and island.
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We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. ROBERT WILENSKY.
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WEBSITE OF THE DAY: This one lets you calculate journey times and costs of travel in the Roman Empire orbis.stanford.edu (h/t @jessicamdalt)
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In 1956, Harper Lee's friends gave her a full year's salary as a Christmas gift, so that she could take time off to focus on writing.
She used that time to write To Kill A Mockingbird, which has now sold more than 40 million copies.
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