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He looks so peaceful https://t.co/tGW4o0q3hh

One state has snow plows, the other doesn’t. One side of this street is Texarkana, Arkansas; the other side is Texarkana, Texas. "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." There is a leadership failure in Texas...

TIL that Armie Hammer's grandfather, oil tycoon Armand Hammer, tried to buy the Arm and Hammer brand of household products due to similarity to his name. When they refused, he bought stock until he became a controlling shareholder. Armand was named after the socialist labor party symbol.

TIL: If Texas were a country, it would rank fifth in the world in wind power.

The Incas based their measurement of time on how long it took to boil a potato.

Because the Moon is moving further away from us, the Earth will cease to experience total solar eclipses in 563 million years time.

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In the 1880s, ‘The Merchant of Venice’ was translated into Japanese as ‘The Trial for the Pawning of Human Flesh’, ‘Julius Caesar’ as ‘The Mirror of the Rise and Fall of Rome’, and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ as ‘Writings on Western Girls: A Peculiar Marriage Between Rivals’.

The nervous system. That is us, the rest of the body is an organic spacesuit worn by this creature to live on this specific rock revolving around a star.

Word of the Day: OYSGEZOOMT (Yiddish) — fatigued or bored by Zoom.

The earliest sense of the word ‘ambidexter’ in English was a corrupt lawyer or juror who takes bribes from both sides.

Wallsend station on the Tyne & Wear Metro is the only station in the UK with signage in Latin. (Image: Andrew Curtis CC BY-SA 2.0) https://t.co/fAKsbvBBQm

When Christopher Ironside was designing the reverse side of the 50 pence coin that was in circulation from 1969 to 2008, his wife Jean posed as Britannia, which makes her one of the people who were on British coins for the longest time. (h/t @IronsideKate) https://t.co/azYyCTpFEQ

In the early 20th century, particularly cold weather was often described in Ireland as one that ‘would perish the Danes’.

The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. I’m not sure any real actor should get caught posing for the flickahs. CHARLIE CHAPLIN, 1914