Trivia
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Monday January 5, 2009 |
| During the Renaissance, blond hair became so much de rigueur in Venice that a brunette was not to be seen except among the working classes. Venetian women spent hours dyeing and burnishing their hair until they achieved the harsh metallic glitter that was considered a necessity. |
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| A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day. |
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| The language of Taki, spoken in parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words. |
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| Talented juvenile actress Claire Danes left New York and came to Los Angeles to audition for a role in Schindler's List (1993). In the interim, she was discovered for the starring role on TV’s My So Called Life. Spielberg ultimately cast her in Schindler’s List, but Danes turned the part down because the film's producers weren’t willing to pay her schooling in Poland. |
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| In the United States, Navajo culture discourages doctors from discussing end-of-life directives and negative prognoses for fear that talking about grim subjects may trigger them. |
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