TIL that, many years after chewing gum had been around, in 1906, the first BUBBLE gum ever sold was called Bilbber-Blubber
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TIL that villages in Northern Portugal mark their boats and homes with runic symbols depending on which family they belong to. These same symbols have been found in Fyn Denmark where it's called "bomarken" or "home-marks" and was a widely held practice in
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cushioning effect - Aviation dictionary
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Translation — ggf — from german — to russian
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TIL There is a hallucination called "macrosomatognosia" which is the perception that ones own body parts feel bigger than they actually are. Likewise "microsomatognosia"is feeling that ones own body parts feel smaller than they actually are.
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TIL There is a hallucination called "macrosomatognosia" which is...
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golden cat - Useful english dictionary
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noun : either of two small reddish or yellowish wildcats: a. : a rather pale solid colored cat (Felis aurata) of northwestern Africa b. : a variably marked cat (F. temminckii) of southeastern Asia
On September 13, 1967, firefighters in London, UK witnessed ''blowtorch-like'' flames bursting out of a hole in a man's stomach. They tried to douse the flames, but the man died of suffocation from breathing the fumes of his own Spontaneous gut combustion
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TIL in 1975, Emil Matalik, a US Presidential candidate wanted to limit families to one pet and one tree in their yard. Because there were just too many dogs and trees using up all the water.
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range paralysis
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TIL the Canadian province of British Columbia’s coat of arms (upon which its flag was based) originally had the Union Flag *beneath* the setting sun; it was flipped after several years when Queen Elizabeth II’s heralds pointed out “the sun never sets on t
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TIL the Canadian province of British Columbia’s coat of arms (upon...
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List of Playboy Cyber Girls of the Week
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OldEngl. for a Welshman; the plural wealas gives modern English Wales . Cf. Welsh
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TIL in 1890 the Pittsburgh Pirates were named the Pittsburgh Innocents, until they signed Lou Bierbauer away from the Philadelphia Athletics. Athletics fans claimed that by stealing their star player away from them Pittsburgh were "piratical" , and the na
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TIL in 1890 the Pittsburgh Pirates were named the Pittsburgh...
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On September 13, 1967, firefighters in London, UK witnessed ''blowtorch-like'' flames bursting out of a hole in a man's stomach. They tried to douse the flames, but the man died of suffocation from breathing the fumes of his own Spontaneous gut combustion
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When we went to war with Chinese who wanted to stop Sri Lankan pirates
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welcome - Collocations dictionary
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{{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, enthusiastic, friendly, hearty (esp. AmE), great, rapturous (esp. BrE), rousing, special, tumultuous (esp. BrE)
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