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yOoV TIL Brian May, guitarist for Queen, uses coins, especially the English sixpence, as guitar picks.
aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.
ZpDWa TIL For cousins, the degree or position refers to how many generations your eldest cousin has to skip to get to their common ancestor, and the removal refers to how many generations your eldest cousin has to move to get to you
AyZg TIL The Beatles approached Stanley Kubrick to direct a LOTR movie starring themselves. Tolkien killed the project as a result of his hate for The Beatles. A hate developed after moving 3 doors down from The Beatles in 1964, who irked him with the “indescribable” noise from their practice sessions.
WawX TIL alfredo sauce was created in 1914 by Alfredo de Lelio in order to please his pregnant wife.