What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?

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McGoohan Jan 2019 3:53pm, 13 Jan 2019 37,751 posts	0 McGoohan That's very interesting Chris. The A N I M A L has been taken down I think now.
Night-owl Jan 2019 5:58pm, 13 Jan 2019 32,212 posts	0 Night-owl There's such a thing as no trousers tube ride google.com Even more so it's been going on for 10 years
Diogenes Jan 2019 8:04am, 14 Jan 2019 33,751 posts	0 Diogenes That for most of human history, until well into the Middle Ages, it never occurred to anybody to read silently
GlennR Jan 2019 9:46am, 14 Jan 2019 40,168 posts	0 GlennR [The Venerable Bede is traditionally said to be the first person in Britain who read without talking out loud, but not sure how reliable that is.]
Diogenes Jan 2019 9:59am, 14 Jan 2019 33,755 posts	0 Diogenes I’m not sure we can prove that some subversive types weren’t doing this a long time before Bede
GlennR Jan 2019 10:16am, 14 Jan 2019 40,170 posts	0 GlennR Yes, there may well have been some freaks. It's perhaps worth noting that Socrates didn't approve of writing at all, but in the oral tradition.
Wriggling Snake Jan 2019 10:37am, 14 Jan 2019 20,971 posts	0 Wriggling Snake No Glenn, some good clubs have a long history of sustained success as they are ran well, some are Johnny Come Lately through good luck, the odd good manager, but most signiificantly money.
CaptainDad Jan 2019 5:52pm, 17 Jan 2019 1,093 posts	0 CaptainDad The french for "Fake News" is "Info Faux"
NDWDave Jan 2019 6:39pm, 17 Jan 2019 8,506 posts	0 NDWDave Wingding was the name for a lively party and not just made up for the font
NDWDave Jan 2019 8:16pm, 17 Jan 2019 8,508 posts	0 NDWDave Winchester cathedral is on the £10 note