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7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. Written Thai does not separate words with spaces except in certain cases.
  2. Streetcar (the company I hire cars by the half-hour) also has a fleet of WV Transporter vans
  3. Madonna bites the top off Cadbury's Creme Eggs and 'sucks the good stuff out'.
  4. People on blood-thinners should avoid broccoli, as it is high in vitamin K which helps blood clotting.
  5. Reduction ad Hitlerum is a fallacy in logic of the type 'Hitler supported X, therefore X is bad'.
  6. Dick Tracy wears a zoot suit (high-waisted, wide-legged, with pegged trousers and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders).
  7. Gmail advanced search (and filters) offers three ways to find messages containing x or y or z in a given field:
    • x OR y OR z ('OR' has to be upper case)
    • x|y|z (handy for long lists)
    • {x y z} (useful when writing more complex search syntax)

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