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Modesty — Not Necessarily a Virtue
Read more: Modesty — Not Necessarily a VirtueWinston Church described Clement Attlee as, “a modest man, who has much to be modest about.” source
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Sober Observation
Read more: Sober ObservationSir Winston Churchill was a master of the English language, so it should be no surprise that he was also a master at using it to devastate his critics. One of the best examples of this came in an exchange between Churchill and Bessie Braddock, a Labour Party Member of Parliament: Braddock: “Winston, you’re drunk!”…
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Which Is Harder to Swallow?
Read more: Which Is Harder to Swallow?Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: “Winston, if you were my husband I would flavor your coffee with poison” Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it.” source
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Medals for Marriage
Read more: Medals for MarriageUnited Kingdom’s Prince Philip has a reputation for lacking tact in many of his public comments. Occasionally these comments can be turned on him immediately. An example of this is the time he was admiring the ample number of World War II medals on the chest of a Brazilian admiral. The prince remarked that he…
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No Fan of Jacko
Read more: No Fan of Jacko“Michael Jackson’s album was called ‘Bad’ because there wasn’t enough room on the sleeve for ‘Pathetic’.” — Prince source
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A Billion By Any Other Name….
Read more: A Billion By Any Other Name….Depending on whether a country uses the Long Scale or the Short Scale for its numbering system, 1,000,000,000,000 will always be 1,000,000,000,000, but whether you express that number as one billion or one trillion could vary.
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Fermats Theorem: World’s Most Difficult Math Problem Took 357 Years to Solve
Read more: Fermats Theorem: World’s Most Difficult Math Problem Took 357 Years to SolveFermats Theorem, presented by Pierre de Fermat in the 17th century, left behind an unfinished proof next to the equation xn + yn = zn. It remained unproven for 357 years until Andrew Wiles provided a proof in 1994, earning recognition as “The Most Difficult Mathematical Problem” by Guinness World Records.
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Maybe Another Career Would Be In Order?
Read more: Maybe Another Career Would Be In Order?The top treasury official for the United Kingdom, Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1894), while Chancellor of the Exchequer, expressed his confusion about decimal points: “I could never figure out what those damned dots meant.” source
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Short-Lived and Premature Celebration
Read more: Short-Lived and Premature CelebrationCharles Evans Hughes went to bed on election night, 1916, thinking he had just won the presidency of the United States. During the night it became evident that California’s votes were going to go to President Woodrow Wilson, awarding him re-election, instead. When a reporter tried to telephone Hughes the next morning to get his…
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Slow and Steady Completes the Race
Read more: Slow and Steady Completes the RaceShizo Kanakuri, a Japanese marathoner at the 1912 Olympics in Sweden, quit the race part way through and went home without telling race officials. In 1966 he was invited to compete the marathon. His official time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes, and 20.379 seconds. Source
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He’s Just the Type Who Would Type
Read more: He’s Just the Type Who Would TypeMark Twain was the first significant author to submit a typewritten manuscript to a publisher. By his own accounts, Mark Twain admitted that he did not actually do the typing himself, but rather hired someone to type it for him. In his unpublished autobiography, the famous American author stated he believed he was the first…
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Being Left-Handed Means Not Always Being Right
Read more: Being Left-Handed Means Not Always Being RightMore than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year around the world from using equipment meant for right-handed people. The right-handed power saw is the most deadly item. source
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Sweets to the Sweet; Coconuts to You
Read more: Sweets to the Sweet; Coconuts to YouTo mail a coconut within the United States, it is not necessary to do anything other than affix an address and correct postage. The US Postal Service views coconuts as self-contained container, so it is not necessary to place it inside any other packaging. source
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Understanding Exploding Head Syndrome
Read more: Understanding Exploding Head SyndromeOne of the coolest-sounding disorders is fortunately not nearly as serious as its name suggests. Exploding Head Syndrome is a condition that causes people to hear extremely loud noises — a gunshot, an explosion, a thunderclap — as they’re drifting off to sleep, or as they wake up from a deep sleep. Such incidents are…
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