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TIL Why Months Have Clearly Numerical Names That Don’t Align With Their Place in the Calendar

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0xmR TIL in The Big Lebowski, The Dude’s line, “The Dude abides,” comes from Ecclesiastes 1:4, “One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth abides forever”–a reference to how the Dude, much like the Earth, can weather change and chaos around him, but still remain the same.
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