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

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NDWDave Jan 2019 8:17pm, 17 Jan 2019 8,509 posts	0 NDWDave And £10 is what Jane Austin was paid for her first novel
Diogenes Jan 2019 9:04pm, 17 Jan 2019 33,834 posts	0 Diogenes [I knew about WingDing because of Donald Fagen: “We’re gonna have a WingDing, a summer sizzler underground” - Donald Fagen, New Frontier]
Diogenes Jan 2019 9:11pm, 17 Jan 2019 33,835 posts	0 Diogenes Today I learnt about Cain’s Jawbone, by “In 1934, The Observer’s crossword writer, Edward Powys Mathers, wrote a unique novel Cain’s Jawbone. The title, referring to the first recorded murder weapon, was written under his pen name Torquemada. The story was not only a murder mystery but one of the hardest and most beguiling word puzzles ever published.The 100 pages of the book were printed and bound out of order and the reader was invited to re-order the pages, solve the mysteries and reveal the murderer(s). There were over 32 million possible combinations of pages but only one order was correct.” You can now have a go at solving this puzzle for yourself. There is a £1000 prize. unbound.com
GlennR Jan 2019 5:00pm, 18 Jan 2019 40,337 posts	0 GlennR Concerning the Bonzo Dog Band song We Are Normal: "The lyrics, "We are normal and we want our freedom" echo a line from a (then) new Peter Brook production of the play by Peter Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (normally shortened to Marat/Sade). In the play the line is shouted by the inmates at the lunatic asylum. The band saw the play at their art college and later used the line in this song."
Velociraptor Jan 2019 11:18am, 19 Jan 2019 40,320 posts	0 Velociraptor The Jet2 resort check-in service does not apply to bicycles. Or pushchairs.
ChrisHB Jan 2019 1:25pm, 19 Jan 2019 17,676 posts	0 ChrisHB Nice ride to the airport ahead? Oh, you've dismantled it.
Trin Jan 2019 2:11pm, 19 Jan 2019 327 posts	0 Trin Very small white scorpions in Arizona are not baby scorpions, they are full size adult scorpions
NDWDave Jan 2019 9:40am, 20 Jan 2019 8,529 posts	0 NDWDave The mileage chart say bang on! if you are at par
Surrey Phil Jan 2019 7:37pm, 20 Jan 2019 2,823 posts	0 Surrey Phil James Milner was sent off by Jon Moss yesterday - his old primary school teacher.
Night-owl Jan 2019 8:07pm, 20 Jan 2019 32,236 posts	0 Night-owl I may be horrible but that would be fitting on the things that make you smile thread