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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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Short facts that have piqued my interest recently.
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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.
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The man whose gold was gone
The "James Bond of Philanthropy".
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Eve ex Adam
Was Eve really made from a rib of Adam?
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Hiding sins
This hall is closed to the public to this day because of the three frescoes that portray this unsavoury historical event.
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Judas goats
What does the biblical figure who betrayed Jesus have to do with goats in the Galápagos?
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Pounding the hashtag
We all know the hashtag nowadays as the lingua franca of labelling content. Where did it come from though?