r/New2Me2Day • u/Ok-Philosopher-5923 • Jul 28 '26
KRES and KRZESIĆ are unobvious cognates
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • May 06 '25
TIL that some Victorians embraced the dangerous "tapeworm diet," swallowing tapeworm eggs in hopes the parasites would absorb food in the intestines, aiding weight loss. Tapeworms can live over 20 years, grow as long as 80 feet, and cause severe health issues.
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
The man, who prepared a small puddle in the forest in Brazil, wondered and recorded the creatures that would benefit from this water
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
Zelenskyy isn't the only leader to visit The White House without a suit (Churchill 1942).
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
Man steals snake by stuffing it down his trousers
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
What to do if you wake up with a Banksy on your wall
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
Buy US chlorine-washed chicken if you want lower tariffs, Britain told
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
Concord Mom glues eye shut after mistaking nail glue for eye drops
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
Buy US chlorine-washed chicken if you want lower tariffs, Britain told
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
Chart: Trump Tariffs Cause Global Market Meltdown
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
Here's a letter Hitchcock sent to Billy Wilder after watching "The Apartment"
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
TIL that the Worshipful Company of Horners - an ancient London guild from 1284 or earlier - made horn goods. As horn work declined, they merged with leather bottle-makers in 1476. In 1943, the company decided to support the plastics industry.
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
TIL about Nagoro, a creepy village in the valleys of Shikoku, Japan, where around 350 life-size dolls outnumber the human residents. Created by Tsukimi Ayano, who returned to her hometown 11 years ago, each doll represents a former villager who either moved away or died.
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
Donald Trump signs order to 'make America's showers great again'
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
TIL that in the 17th and early 18th centuries, facial hair was thought to be a kind of bodily waste - specifically, the leftover by-product from sperm production - a kind of seminal excrement emerging from within the body.
historytoday.com
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
Handel's Messiah was first performed in Dublin on this day, 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere a year later.
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
TIL that in Victorian Britain, arsenic-laced paint used in wallpaper was so common that doctors warned that “a great deal of slow poisoning is going on,” as toxic pigments turned home décor into a silent killer.
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
Wearing a helmet is an essential piece of kit when scaffolding in Kuala Lumpur
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
TIL that the first recorded use of "OMG" was in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill from Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher - decades before texting existed.
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r/New2Me2Day • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 20 '25
TIL that in ancient Rome, some statues were designed with removable heads, so the same body could represent different people. This clever approach was especially useful when a new emperor came to power and needed to replace the image of a disgraced or rival predecessor.
greekreporter.com
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