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Squirrel fur may have spread leprosy during the Middle Ages. It may have come to the UK via Vikings who traded squirrel fur and meat.
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That's nuts
Thursday Quote:"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill." ~ Johnny Carson.
Reading for 20 minutes a day exposes you to roughly 1.8 million words a year.
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It has to be different words. Can't just sit in parking lot reading 'No Parking, Violators Will Be Towed'. For 20 minutes.
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The first animal to be cloned was a tadpole in 1952.(my birthyear.)
Platapuses glow when exposed to UV light.
Sunday Word: disputatious: someone who often disagrees.
Saturday Word: petrichor (noun) [peh-trih-kohr]: The distictive, pleasant smell of rain falling on warm dry earth.
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Didn't you post this one a few months back? If not, I might have seen it elsewhere.
I just commented the other day how nice the spring rain smelled, I guess this is what I meant!
There is more actual lemon in lemon Pledge cleaner then there is in Country Time Lemonade.
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Sounds about right.
Yeah, but it doesn't mix up as well.
Thursday Quote: "The problem with having an open mind is that people insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
~Terry Pratchett
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Sometimes an open mind is an originator of such things, and sometimes it is a recipient.
You can smell your own lungs, but your brain just filters it out.
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I avoid getting close enough (most of the time) to smell anyone else's lungs. *Wink*
Hippocrates, father of modern medicine, was able to diagnose diabetes (as far as knowing that a patient's trouble was being caused by excess sugar) by smelling the patient's breath and tasting the patient's --- uhm, ammonia-based liquid output. Even today, a diabetic in crisis often has sweet or fruity breath.
Does Amazon carry Antiperspirants or Deodorants for Lungs?
Elephants can purr just like cats.
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Yeah, but emptying thier litter box is a real pain in the... *Rolling*
🌖 HuntersMoon Author Icon - About 2:50 is what you want -

Great swords (the ones that need the use of both hands) were not medieval. They became a thing during the late 1500s, which is the Renaisssance,not the Middle Ages.
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And this is how my mind works, I read this interesting fact, and then I think, "Hey! This is cutting edge news." So sorry dragonwoman Author Icon
Sunday Word lunule(noun) [loo-nyool] 1. the white crescent or semicircle found at the base of a fingernail. 2. One of a pair of parentheses.
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Cool info if I ever get called to the game show Jeopardy *Laugh*
So, I was petting my dog and when I finished, I had a lunuleatick? That doesn't seem right... *FacePalm*
The world's largest tire producer by total number of tires made is....Lego!
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Hmm... Wonder how TIRED they are making them?🤔😂
I get very emotional over Legos. I cry whenever I think about them in quiet moments, see them in stores, and step on one in the floor.
Saturday Word: situs(noun) [sahy-tuhs]: 1. the place where a thing originates or is located, often an organ.2. The place where something is held to be located in law.
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When we would get drunk the sheriff would situs up in the jail.
By definition, this must be situs music... *Facepalm*
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