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Venetian secularism
The very first printed versions of the Talmud and the Quran were produced in Venice.
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Short facts that have piqued my interest recently.
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More poor definitions of Moor
You may have heard of the Moors from history class, or Shakespeare.
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A bad day to be an enemy of eBay
It's not every day that seven employees of a publicly listed company plead guilty to criminal conspiracy charges.
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Bullish on leather
If I were paid in cow hides, I would need a shipping container for my monthly salary.
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Your farts might smell but natural gas doesn't
Silent but deadly.
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Sima Qian, the man with(out) balls
Sima Qian was sentenced to death. At the time, this sentence could be commuted by choosing castration, which is what he opted for.
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Cover the fires
What's a curfew, anyways?
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If you have this surname, don't chuck a Fitz
Are you a bastard?
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Ewe've got to be kidding me
Nature is cruel.
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Are you as smart as a dolphin?
It turns out that my mate had more in common with Spock the dolphin than I.
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The cure for methanol is in the name
Something that popped up in my head because of the news recently about those poor tourists in Laos who died from methanol poisoning.
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Jenny was a daughter of mine
This one is pretty short.