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No Such Thing As The Hoo-Hah Monologues
Dover Castle realized that all these moths were being attracted to certain wall hangings, because the dye used in the paintings was mainly crushed insects, and weirdly, that was an attraction to them. They smelt dead…
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This all comes from a thing called the Spoken British National Corpus of 2014, and that's done by Cambridge University Press and Lancaster University. They take a whole load of books and conversations and all that kind…
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China's National Day is the 1st of October, and last year the celebration involved releasing 100,000 pigeons in Tiananmen Square. They all fly up and fly around, and it's very beautiful.
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