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TIL that when Hamlet talks about knowing “a hawk from a handsaw,” he wasn’t referring to the tool but a bird (handsaw was originally “heronshaw,” an old form of “heron.”)
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TIL the root of the word "ruthless" the the verb "to rue" meaning “to feel sorrow or regret”
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TIL the phrase ‘Drop you a Line’ refers to a sending very short letter: a row of written text is the the singular ‘line’, delivered through a letter ‘dropped’ in a mailbox