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Crows can hold grudges against specific individual people. Known as The Crow Paradox, crows can very easily distinguish humans apart from each other, whereas humans find it nearly impossible to tell crows apart.

In case you were wondering what will Christmas look like in the future? Lidl’s, a European supermarket chain, gives you a glimpse of what the supermarket has in mind, in their most recent holiday ad.- So according to them, we will all be wearing goofy, supermarket branded outfits, forced to live eternally, while we eatContinue reading “Remember, Turkey isn’t always served for the holidays”

It’s National Pizza with the Works (Except Anchovies) Day. What’s so wrong about anchovies? (Well there is an old joke by George Carlin, but I’m not going to play it to you, you’ll have to find it yourself, but I guess that would put me off anchovies.) Demand Euphoria!

November 12, 1992 – The screamingly funny TV comedy Absolutely Fabulous, written by Jennifer Saunders, starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley premiered on the BBC on this date. When the series first aired, the BBC placed it on its out-of-the-mainstream channel, BBC2, thinking that it might build a modest cult following. However, the show drewContinue reading “Absolutely Fabulous”

In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. The country passed a law in 2008, making it illegal to own just one guinea pig at a time because a cavy (guinea pig,) being a social animal moves around in herds and can get awfully lonely if left without a companion. But thisContinue reading “Well, one is the loneliest number”

5:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918 – French Army clerk Henri Deledicq finished typing the peace treaty that would end World War I. He had put the carbon paper in backwards. Ten minutes later, in a railroad car in France, military leaders signed copies of an armistice that were completely unreadable. World War I endedContinue reading “We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields”

Another British retailer, Very (think Target) has dropped a humorous advert for their festive campaign, allowing people to cut themselves some slack this Christmas. So remember you’re allowed to forgive yourself for all of your bad behaviour this year because of Xmas, according to Very (please do not blame me or ACME if you getContinue reading “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”

November 11, 1985 –One of the first major films dealing with AIDS, An Early Frost, starring Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, and Sylvia Sidney, premiered on NBC-TV on this date. This was the first feature film about AIDS made either for TV or theater release. Producer Perry Lafferty said that NBC lost $500,000 inContinue reading “An Early Frost”

November 11, 397 –St. Martin of Tours, another in the series of anorexic visionaries, patron saint of France, soldiers (he is known as the he man’s saint), reformed alcoholics and winemakers, died on this date. When the armistice fell on the Saint Martin’s Day, November 11, 1918, the French people saw it was a signContinue reading “If people need me, I will not refuse the work –”

November 10, 1969 –Come and play. Even at 52, everything’s still A-OK (even on HBO.) Sesame Street premiered on PBS-TV on this date.