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Honey can last pretty much forever.

Honey can spend years in a pantry without spoiling because bees are very diligent when it comes to food safety.

Jake Rossen








Robert E. Peary expected worldwide fame for being first at the North Pole. But Frederick A. Cook said he had been first. Peary sensed his glory being snatched from his grasp—and mounted a relentless campaign to prove his claim.

Michele Debczak
















Cloaca just ... sounds better.

Sometimes the dreadful things we must suffer can seem a little less grim when they have the sweet ring, nay—the dulcet tones of euphonious polysyllabic Latin appellations.

Keith Johnston