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Is that why I can’t smell anything after I farted

On #ThisDayInHistory President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are joined by former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton for the wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

Since the inauguration of George Washington, many traditions around presidential inaugurations have remained the same, even as the nation has transformed and changed throughout the decades. On #ThisDayInHistory, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sworn into office to become President and Vice President of the United States. Kamala Harris makes history today as the first woman and first Black and South Asian American to serve as U.S. Vice President.

FYI

Sir Isaac Newton spent 50 years (and 4,500 pages) trying to predict the precise date for the end of the world using a biblical code. He finally settled on 2060, which was found on a scrap of paper hidden in a trunk in 2003.

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In the 1720s, there was a London society called The Farting Club whose members tried to ‘outfart’ each other. The club closed after its members started suffering from colic and diarrhoea and ‘several of the best performers went farting out of the world’.

In the 1950s, the Teens Against Polio activists suggested to girls using the ‘no shots, no dates’ policy: asking a suitor ‘a real cool’ question if he was vaccinated and if the answer was ‘no’, then ‘buddy, you’re out of luck. The gal turns thumbs down on you’.

The word ‘bunny’, as in a pet name for a rabbit, comes from ‘bun’, a 16th century term for a squirrel.

Based on data from 1990 to 2015, a 2019 study estimated that raising the minimum wage by $1 in each US state would have prevented 27,550 suicides. (Study: https://t.co/4BhTix6L1u.) https://t.co/fyX8pDI3MP

Roman aristocrat Vedius Pollio liked to execute people by throwing them into his lamprey pool. (📷 Drow_male CCBY-SA 3.0) https://t.co/XubXxu4c0h

Queen ants will often enjoy more regular, longer and deeper sleeping cycles that can last up to nine hours per day.

Five years before he won Wimbledon, Fred Perry was world table-tennis champion.