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Spices, typography, and more
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., July 30, 2010
"Weird Al" Yankovic claims Prince will not return his calls.
Research led by Dr. Abdul Shakoor Chaudhry at Newcastle University has found that coriander and turmeric – spices traditionally used to flavor curries – can reduce by up to 40% the amount of methane that is produced by bacteria in a sheep's stomach and then emitted into the atmosphere when the animal burps.
Barry Manilow is a registered trademark of Hastings, Clayton & Tucker Inc.
History of Emoticons No. 2: In 1969, novelist Vladimir Nabokov was interviewed by The New York Times and said, "I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile – some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question."
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