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Bride leaving her recently bombed home to get married, London, Nov 4, 1940.

Playing the long game

Goat

Cool centripetal motion example showing physics is fun 😄 Find more at https://t.co/apvIh9Fp8C 🎥 MoWaleed / Reddit #engineering https://t.co/mfxZ7L8EVm

Stonehenge is a rebuild. It was originally erected in Wales 5,000 years ago, before its stones were dug up and dragged over 140 miles (225 km) to their current location on Salisbury Plain. https://t.co/vlHoQMACxH

Up to 50% of major scientific breakthroughs occur as a result of accidents or coincidences.

The McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish is a by-product of Catholic fasting. It was developed in 1962 by Lou Groen who ran the Cincinnati franchise and couldn’t sell burgers on Fridays or during Lent to his mostly Catholic customers.

Isaac Newton only went to one opera and left halfway through; he called poetry ‘a kind of ingenious nonsense’ and dismissed sculpture as ‘stone dolls’.

Goulash means ‘cowboy’ in Hungarian (gulyás). The name over time became associated with the meaty soup that the medieval herdsmen of central Europe lived on.

The pretzel was originally a Lenten snack, the dough made from plain flour and water and shaped liked two arms crossed in prayer (the name ultimately derives from the Latin ‘bracellae’ – little arms). https://t.co/Am2G3vhqNa

Naked mole rat colonies have their own accents.

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Laws: we know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON

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