The Know-It-All

On leaving school or university, you feel pretty pleased with yourself. You've learnt a lot, your'e well-read and you know a whole bunch of obscure facts guaranteed at some point to appear in the questions on Mastermind or University Challenge. Then you get a job, and ten years later youre more eloquent and eager to argue about Britney and Big Brother than Beckett and the Brontes. Sound familiar? Well it happened to AJ Jacobs too. As an editor at Esquire, Jacobs had built up a ra

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alexey_m_ukolov2 июля 2017 г.
vinaigrette
In the 18th century, everyone smelled like salad. A vinaigrette—which was used to battle body odor—was a small gold container with a sponge soaked in vinegar and lavender.
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alexey_m_ukolov2 июля 2017 г.
René Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘Yo, René, how you doing? Can I get you a beer?’ ‘I think not,’ replies Descartes. And then he disappears.
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JackieReed4728 октября 2014 г.
Американский просветитель Гораций Манн писал: «Если ты не сделал чего-нибудь во имя человечества — тебе должно быть стыдно умирать».
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