John Hurle

learning by doing

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Alexander Graham Bell thought phones should be answered with "Ahoy, ahoy".

[Dr Danny Bate @DannyBate4]

2020 was invented by historians to sell more history

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The fake snow in The Wizard of Oz was made of asbestos, as was the scarecrow’s entire costume.

[Simone Giertz @SimoneGiertz]

soup robot DGAF about your soup needs

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Confelicity: a much-underused word meaning delight in someone else's happiness; the opposite of Schadenfreude.

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Cards that play a song when you open them use more computing power than was used to send man to the moon.

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J. R. R. Tolkien and Adolf Hitler both fought at the battle of the Somme.

[Sara Stewart @twowitwowoo]

Watched a documentary last night on how ships are built. Riveting.

[Moose Allain Ꙭ @MooseAllain]

A fedora is an ideal gift for people who like to make their presents felt.

[attn @attn]

.@Schwarzenegger has a blunt message for Nazis.

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We love this -The Roman Roads of Britain as an underground map (Image: @myboytrubetskoy https://t.co/y8cRKqpS2J)

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. JOHN WILMOT, Earl of Rochester

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Word of the day: ULTRACREPIDATE – to critisise beyond your scope of knowledge.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of my day: spuddling - attending to trivial matters as though they were of the greatest importance.

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Charles Dickens had a pet raven, Grip the Knowing. He appeared in the novel Barnaby Rudge and inspired Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, The Raven.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Theresa May facing a hard breakfast.

[Caspar Addyman 🏳️‍🌈 @czzpr]

I had a terrible nightmare where I was chased by a Frankenstein, bitten by a dracula and then corrected by pedants.

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately afterwards. SLOVENIAN PROVERB