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Words of Unknown Origin

Common Words With Unknown Origins

November 11, 2023

Dad Teaches Kingfisher Chicks to Fly

Kingfisher Dad Repeatedly Returns to Nest to Encourage His Chicks to Fly

November 11, 2023

John Lewis 2023 Holiday Ad

Young Boy Grows His Perfect Christmas Tree in the 2023 John Lewis Holiday Ad

November 10, 2023

Athletic Deer Leaps Over a Moving Bicycle

November 10, 2023

Laurence Fishburne Freed Slave to Enslaver Letter

Laurence Fishburne Reads Humorously Deadpan Letter by a Freed Slave to His Former Master

November 10, 2023

Eddie Vedder Just Like Heaven

Eddie Vedder Covers ‘Just Like Heaven’ by The Cure

November 10, 2023

Hot Wheels Empty Waterslide

Exhilarating POV Footage of Hot Wheels Toy Cars Racing Down an Empty Waterslide

November 10, 2023

Replica Street Legal Bumper Car

Pennsylvania Man Builds Giant Street Legal Replica of a Classic Bumper Car

November 10, 2023

Curious Lion Cub Accidentally Falls Into River While Chasing Birds

November 10, 2023

Kars4Beethoven

A Piano Mashup of the Ubiquitous Kars4Kids Commercial With Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata’

November 9, 2023