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‘Petrichor’ is the soothing, earthy, and wonderfully pleasant smell of rain falling on dry ground. The term is derived from the ancient Greek words ‘petra,’ which means 'stone,’ and 'ichor,’ which is the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods.

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A great singers nick name is The velvet fog

Virtually all the matter we ever interact with is made of only three particles, up quarks, down quarks, and electrons, but each of these has two more heavier cousins with nearly identical properties, although the laws of physics permit or encourage them to decay into the lighter variants in fractions of a second.

What do Henry Luce, Nikita Krushchev, JFK, Norman Mailer and Fidel Castro have in common? They all were lovers of Lady Jeanne Campbell.

Ancient Egyptians were using 20-sided die as early as 200 BCE.

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The Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs have a disclaimer at the beginning given by Whoopi Goldberg. She explains that the cartoons are a product of their time and contain racial and ethnic stereotypes that have not been censored because ‘editing them would be the same as denying that the stereotypes existed.’

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Emil Zatopek and his wife, Dana, were both born on September 19, 1922. Emil was older by six hours.

Contrary to what you commonly hear, there are actually three words that rhyme with orange: sporange, a botany term meaning ‘a sac where spores are made’ Gorringe, a rare English surname, and Blorenge, which is the name of a mountain in Wales.

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Great Pyrenees frequently have double dewclaws.

It only took us 66 years to go from the having first functional Airplane (1903, Wright Brothers) to landing on the Moon (1969, NASA's Apollo 11 Mission)

Upon her death in 2011, Elizabeth Taylor was late to her own funeral. Hoping to remain fashionably late even in death, she left behind two specific instructions for her service: 1. that it would begin 15 minutes after its designated start time, and 2. that someone would announce, “She even wanted to be late to her own funeral.”

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Despite having been married seven (7!) times, Dame Elizabeth’s Tombstone reads simply ‘Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor’.

She paid over a million dollars for the location in a hallway a few feet from the crypt of Michael Jackson, one of her dearest friends.

Unlike having a permanent locked door like the one preventing visitors access to Michael’s tomb, her grave is very accessible, so that anyone can visit her....that was her intention.

some funny misreading; british macaroni
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/t ... -you-think
http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/macaroni.htm
(what's with the names? make a note, dr Watson)

^ Thanks for posting the links. Those are very interesting articles.