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TIL A “moment” is 90 seconds according to Old English

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gMxk8 TIL that many of us are not in "quarantine" because many of us are healthy. Instead we are forming a "Cordon sanitaire" - a phrase meaning a "sanitary barrier".
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vjnD TIL for those of you with the fairly standard English surname “Smith”, your Italian equivalent surname is “Ferrari”. They both mean blacksmith.