There's a Deaf Smith County in Texas.
It's named after Deaf Smith. What did I expect?
Deaf Smith was born Erastus Smith. His nickname was because he had a
hearing impairment.
The smell of burnt matches is caused by sulfur dioxide.
The Big Dictionary's earliest citation for the phrase “R&D” is from Pohl
and Kornbluth's novel The Space Merchants.
A while back I complained that the sufficx ‘-potamus’ wasn't
widely-enough used. Today I saw this Reddit comment:
The only people I see with this quote on their car or on a t-shirt
is the stay at home dependapotamus that complains about everything…
All the news that's Rupert Grint.
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