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Saint Winifred was going to be raped by some prince’s son. She ran off, but he caught up with her on horseback and chopped off her head. Her uncle Saint Bueno ran out of his church and, on seeing what had taken place, cursed the prince’s son dude so vehemently that the dude was dragged away by demons. Saint Bueno then grabbed his niece’s head from the ground, placed it on her bleeding neck, and told everyone standing around in shock to pray. Finally Winifred’s head reattached, leaving only a thin red line. What had been blood turned to water and a well was built, to which people still pilgramize today, and Winifred lived to a ripe old age and was never beheaded again.

She was just a little Welsh local saint until someone found her relics and went “oh man, this chick was UNDEAD”.

I didn’t have to look up any of this to type this up, because I’ve been reading up on her voraciously to do a silly little silent comic about her. I’ve already done two out of perhaps ten pages.

“Today, I realized that Aibohphobia means fear of words that are the same spelled backwards such as race car, but the word Aibohphobia is the same spelled backwards. MLIA”

<3 I try to read something every day, listen to people and come through current news, I always learn many interesting things at school and if I face something I don´t know or understand I try to find some information on the internet...

Grizzly bears weigh 1440lbs. and can be 13ft. tall, but they prefer to eat vegetables instead of meat. What’s their main protein source?? They eat up to 40,000 MOTHS everyday!

I had no idea grizzly bears like to eat moths.

It started with a remark in one article saying that awakening roses make the sound which is similar to Bach’s toccatas. Today I came across the whole topic of ‘translating’ our dna and other ‘codes’ into music. Great. I am the music.

Scientists occasionally put sweaters on penguins to protect their feathers in oil spills. If a penguin gets oil on its body, it can’t stay warm and it can get sick from swallowing the nasty stuff while preening its feathers.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

The metal band that connects the pencil eraser to the end of the pencil is called a Ferrule.

To prevent drowning, sailors once put a tattoo of pig on one leg, and a rooster on the other which signified “Pig on the knee, safety at sea. A cock on the right, never lose a fight.”