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The word ‘taboo’ comes from the Polynesian word tapua, which means both ‘sacred’ and ‘menstruation.’ Similarly, the word ‘regal,’ meaning ‘royal power to rule,’ comes from the Latin regula, which means both ‘measure’ and ‘menstruation.’ The word ‘ritual’ comes from the Sanskrit word r’tu, meaning ‘menstrual magic.’

Botanically speaking, bananas and tomatoes are actually berries, but strawberries and raspberries are not.

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^Wait, really? That's bizarre.

^ Yes, crazy as it may be.

Silly string is used in military combat to check for booby traps. Troops can spray the substance to help detect tripwires. If the string falls to the ground, the area is clear, but if it hangs in the air, they’ll know they’ve found a tripwire for a bomb.

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^I think I read about that somewhere.

84% of American vegetarians go back to eating meat.

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^I don't know if I'm getting enough protein, but I don't think I could stand eating meat again.

The 'pilots' who guide military armed drones remotely to their targets do their training using an Xbox controller.

Worm grunting, pretty easily the strangest thing I learned about today.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

The Bosporan Kingdom was on the Northern shores of the Black Sea, comprising most of the Crimea. Its ruler from 8 BC to 38 AD was King Aspurgus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Julius_Aspurgus

The "Rockies" in Can. and USA are the second set of "Rockies".
A previous mountain range eroded away.

" OLD ROCKIES AND NEW ROCKIES
North America has experienced two lofty mountain ranges called the Rockies during the Phanerozoic Eon, the time period in which multicellular life existed on Earth (the last 542 million years). The first was the Ancestral Rocky Mountains that has long since eroded away. We know of its existence because of its eroded remnants. The second, the modern Rocky Mountains in all their majesty, are also eroding, but are still in a state of uplift.

The details of the origin of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains remains a mystery to this day."

https://written-in-stone-seen-through-my-lens.blogspot.ca/2011/02/ancestral-rocky-mountains-and-their.html

Bryan Adams (yes, THAT Bryan Adams) wrote War Machine for Kiss with regular songwriting partner Jim Vallance. Gene did a bit of tinkering (when does he not? ) and is thus also credited.

Just before he died, Freddie Mercury got to see an advance copy of the Wayne’s World headbanging scene that features ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ According to guitarist Brian May, 'the humor in it was quite close to our own. Because we did that kind of thing in the car, bouncing up and down to our own tracks!’ Freddie loved it, and, after his death, the film helped revive Queen in the US.

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Another Freddie-related fact- he and Eric Carr of Kiss died on the same day.

I was only a baby at the time so I probably cried.

The word for ‘great-grandchildren’ in Icelandic is 'barnabarnabarna’, which literally translates as 'child a child a child.’

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