An incredible number of lines from William Shakespeare's plays have become so ingrained in modern vernacular that we no longer recognize them as lines from plays at all.
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A knocker-upper was someone whose purpose was to wake people up during a time when alarm clocks were expensive and not very reliable. They earned about six pence a week using a pea shooter to shoot dried peas at the windows of sleeping workers in East London, 1930s.
HELPING HAND: A farmer whose home was destroyed by wildfires in Australia says he found an abandoned, very cold baby possum and used his car heater to warm the animal up. https://t.co/P9l5B41E1c