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Tapped Four

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Parties, game nights and even dinners become so boring at times but one good game can bring back all the excitement. Tapped four is...
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Syndromes: Foreign Accent Synrome

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Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is speech disorder that causes a sudden change to speech so that a person speaks with a “foreign” accent.  The...
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Heroin Was Initially Marketed As A Cough Suppressant By Bayer AG

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From 1898-1910, the German drug company Bayer marketed diacetylmorphine as an over the counter drug under their trademark name Heroin.  The name was derived from the Greek...
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Exploding Everlasting Gobstopper

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Gobstoppers, (aka Jawbreakers in Canada and the US), are a type of hard candy made up of a number of layers, each layer dissolving...
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Important Facts and Information about Coronavirus

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Coronavirus is a family of different viruses that can trigger someone to suffer from a common cold or other severe ailments such as SARS...
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Defined

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a song written by the Sherman Brothers, and performed by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Disney’s 1964 film Mary Poppins. Mostly double-talk, the roots of the word can...
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Misquoted: There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute: P.T. Barnum

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“There’s a sucker born every minute” is a phrase often credited to entrepreneur and circus founder  P. T. Barnum (1810–1891). However, there is little evidence to...
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Myths: The Colour Red Makes Bulls Charge

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Spanish matadors began using a small red cape, or muleta, in bullfighting around the 1700s. Since that time, people have perpetuated the myth that...
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Longest Place Name: Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukakapiki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­kitanatahu

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Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukakapiki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­kitanatahu is the Māori name for a hill, 305 metres (1,001 ft) high, close to Porangahau, south of Waipukurau in southern Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. The word...
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Isms: Absurdism

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Absurdism is a school of philosophical thought based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless and that the search for order brings...
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Strange But Possibly True: Thomas Edison’s Dying Breath

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Henry Ford considered Thomas Edison his personal hero and friend. Did his admiration for Edison provoke the admittedly idiosyncratic Ford to request the capture...
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Exploding Everlasting Gobstopper

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Gobstoppers, (aka Jawbreakers in Canada and the US), are a type of hard candy made up of a number of layers, each layer dissolving...
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Tongue Twisters: She Sells Sea Shells…

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She sells seashells on the seashore The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure So if she sells seashells on the seashore Then I’m sure she sells...
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Why Do Wolves Howl?

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When next month’s full moon unveils its luminescent splendor, and you feel the call of the wild to start howling, the ancient stirrings have...
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Pareidolia: Faces in Clouds

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Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing...
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Anatomy of a Cat Whisker

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Cats have dozens of movable vibrissae (whiskers) over their body, especially their face. Vibrissae are usually thicker and stiffer than other types of hair but consist...
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Politics & War: Doomsday Clock

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The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago....
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Superstitions: Black Cats

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Superstitions and stories around black cats vary from culture to culture. In Great Britain, Ireland, and Japan, black cats are actually a symbol of...
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Brain: The First Computer Virus

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Considered to be the first computer virus, Brain was released in its first form in January 1986.  The virus affected the IBM PC by...
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John Lennon – Annie Leibovitz Photo

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Born in 1949 in Connecticut, USA Leibovitz studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. She became interested in photography  when she lived in...
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Hyperrealism

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Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high resolution photograph. It is a fully-recognized school of art and is considered to be...
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Van Gogh’s Ear: What Really Happened?

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There are two schools of thought about how Vincent van Gogh lost part of his left ear on December 23, 1888. Some believe that Paul Gauguin...
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Pablo Picasso’s Full Name

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Pablo Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito...
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Picasso vs. Braque: Who Can Tell the Difference?

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From 1909 – 1914, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso worked closely together daily to develop Cubism. Both artists produced paintings of monochromatic color and...
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Sunday Pick: Coffee Facts – The Oatmeal

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Cool facts about coffee.  Found on The Oatmeal dot com. Enjoy!
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Name Origins: James Bond

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Author Ian Fleming took the name for his 007 character from American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field...
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What’s That Called? Philtrum – The Space Between The Nose & The Upper Lip

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The philtrum (Latin philtrum, Greek, ‘love potion’ ), is a medial cleft common to many mammals, extending from the nose to the upper lip, and, together with...
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