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GarandMarine:
The Origin of the Days of the Week:
Modern: - Comes From:
Monday - Manisdagr, Mani, the Norse Moon Goddess
Tuesday - Tyrsdagr, Tyr, Norse war god, god of Justice
Wendeday - Wodinsdagr - Odin All Father
Thursday - Thorsdagr - Thor. You know who he is. At least the marvel variant.
Friday - Freyasdagr or Friggsdagr - There is much debate over whether Friday is named Freyja or Frigg. Since this is Norse Heathens.... you can imagine that the debates are very... spirited.
Sunday - Sunnasdagr Sunna is the Norse sun goddess.
94ssd:
The other day I learnt that if someone has a tooth knocked out you should put it in a glass of milk because the calcium helps keep it alive.
A friend had an incident with some stairs at a party and thanks to someone else's quick thinking the dentist was able to put his tooth back.
Patrick:
put it in a glass of coke and watch it dissolve over the course of a week!
Aimless:
The barrels in which wines are aged matter so much and in such concrete and sciency ways, I had no idea
Things like the pore-size of the oak
whoa
Is it cold in here?:
There are several competing explanations I hadn't known about for why there are more allergies and auto-immune diseases than there used to be. The one I had known about, the hygiene hypothesis, actually has some animal studies and potential mechanisms behind it.
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