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A hair accessory that ruled the 1980s almost as much as the neon scrunchie, the banana clip was a precursor to the later-popular claw clips and butterfly clips and were widely used to pull hair (feathered fringes included) into ponytails and loose updos. The brighter, the better.
The gesture of one person slapping another’s palm in victory is relatively new. At a pro baseball game in 1977, Dodger player Dusty Baker hit a home run. As he rounded home and passed his teammate Glenn Burke, Mr Burke raised his hand in an excited greeting. On instinct, Mr Baker reached up and slapped it because, he said, “it seemed like the thing to do”. Thus the high-five was born.
When Len Richards found a joey whose mother had been hit by a car, he brought her home and named her Lulu. The Richards family raised her as a pet on their large farm. In 2003, Mr Richards was knocked unconscious by a falling branch, and Lulu stayed by him, loudly ‘yapping’ until his family could find him. Mr Richards survived his injuries, and animal experts remarked on how unlikely the loyal behaviour was for a kangaroo.
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Today in history – February 24 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII orders the introduction of the Gregorian calendar. Luigi Lilio’s reform of the Julian calendar was first introduced in some European countries and is now the world’s most widely used calendar.
100 million
Quote of the week. “You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get better.” – Antonio Brown
The number of books Dolly Parton has donated to children since 1995.
93,000 Litres
1607 – The world’s first opera premieres. Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo is still performed regularly today. 1920 – The German Nazi party is founded. Adolf Hitler became the party’s leader in 1921.
93 thousand litres of beer are lost to beards yearly in the UK alone.
2010 – Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first cricket player to score a double-century in the One Day International format. The Indian sportsman is widely recognised as one of the greatest batsmen in cricket.
300 million That’s how many olfactory receptors dogs have compared to our measly 6 million. In fact, the part of the brain dedicated to smell is 40 times larger in dogs than in humans.
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