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1. 4 days ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   In French, forty = ‘quarante’; the suffice ‘aine’ ~ ‘span of’. Do ‘quarantaine’, is forty days. Stir in a little mispronunciation and you have quarantine’. We were lucky to have to quarantine for only two weeks (a ‘quatroze-aine’)!

2. 11 days ago on Frazz

   The pentatonic scale has only five notes. Just about right.

3. about 1 month ago on Frazz

   The changes are at the midway points between the equinox and the solstice. That’s a pretty obvious point.

4. about 2 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Pumpkins and cucumbers are also technically fruits.

5. about 2 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   In China, tomatoes are treated like fruit. Like, eaten with sugar or used with grapes and kiwi slices to garnish a (my) birthday cake.

6. 3 months ago on Non Sequitur

   I just find it hilarious that there’s an app for that.

7. 3 months ago on Non Sequitur

   “slide-rule app”!

8. 3 months ago on Non Sequitur

   slide rules

9. 3 months ago on Frazz

   Once I had a sudden infestation of ants in my house. I had an exterminator spray for them, and the next day I saw a column of ants a foot wide reaching from under my house, across the neighbor’s yard, then across the street and into another house. I wonder how many times that exterminator was called.

10. 4 months ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    American heavily-caffeinated Mountain Dew or the Canadian version, which is basically 7-Up?