When you see your shadow outside it means that a bunch of photons traveled 93 million miles to reach the Earth and you blocked their path just a few feet from their destination.
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The same is true in Irish. Madra (dog) has no known etymology. We also have words for animals such as the tree dog (squirrel), red dog (fox), and ocean dog (seal).
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Dogs and seals are pretty much interchangeable 
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Dobharchú (Water-hound) for “otter” was a feature of the Cú Chulainn mythology.
The legend goes that a prediction was made that his career would begin and end with the killing of a hound. He got his name from the first feat: Cú Chulainn == “Cullan’s Dog”. And at the other end of his life, he had been gravely wounded by some enemies and was washing his wounds in a river when he noticed an otter drinking the bloody water. Annoyed, he killed it, then remembered that it was a water-hound, and realised that he was dying. His final act was to strap himself to a standing stone so he could die standing.
Oh, and you’ve got to love the Irish for ladybird: Bóín Dé “God’s Little Cow”.
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You would think so but dogs are really floofy, and don’t stop leaks at all.
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The “S” in Ulysses S Grant stands for nothing.
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But who buried in Grant’s tomb?
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A US 100-dollar bill weighs about a gram, meaning that a million dollars in hundreds would weigh about 10kg. In other words, there is no way that they would have been able to carry all of that cash while engaging in a shootout with police in the heist scene in the movie Heat.
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The watermelon was there to see if anyone higher up was paying attention.
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The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation aired today in 1994.
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you utter bastard, you.
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Bonnie and Clyde were killed today in 1934.
But nothing starts with an “N.”
New trivia: Ulysses S Grant’s parents couldn’t spell.
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The kid from “Jaws” is now the police chief on the island where the movie was made.
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As a three year old once told me “Dogs and seals both have amazing noses, but for different reasons”
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But is there a porpoise?
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His heyday was with the James Gang.
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Ted Cruise is nominally human.
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Some strange hybrid of Ted Cruz and Tom Cruise?
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Nobby Nobbs?
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