Category: Did You Know?
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Did you know: Halo Origins
halos come from the Byzantine art trend of surrounding the heads of saints and other holy figures with a gold disk? (So that you could tell who to root for).
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Did you know: Implosive
Swedish has implosive sounds? (Where you make words as you inhale)
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Did you know: Click Languages
know click-sounds can only be functionally incorporated in words if learned as a native speaker?
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Did you know: Unique Language
Basque is unrelated to any other language as far as we can tell? What is an Ergative-Absolutive doing in Western West Asia (Europe)? We have no idea, but its cool!
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Did you know: Nightshade Food
tomatoes are in the deadly nightshade family? DON’T eat the flowers! So are Sacred Datura.
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Did you know: Traditional Italian
tomatoes, a staple of good Italian food, are from Central/South America? Also peppers and chocolate. What did people eat in the old world before?
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Did you know: the Erudite
the Academy at Athens by Rafael features Aristotle and Plato at its center and was commissioned for the living quarters of the Renaissance Popes?
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Did you know: Cross-Quarters
Halloween and Groundhog’s Day are cross-quarter dates? Half-way between Solstice and Equinox. May Day is the third, and 1st of August is the last (apparently named Lammas).