The oldest treaty which is still being considered by the US Senate is the Convention Concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize. Harry S. Truman sent it to the Senate on August 27, 1949.

The flag salute of the USA was originally rendered by standing with the right hand over the heart; extending the right hand, palm upward, toward the flag at the words"to the flag" and holding this position until the end, when the hand drops to the side.

Watermelons are technically berries.

ENDING your sentences with full stops on WhatsApp will make friends think you’re rude, linguists have warned. I think it makes my friends lazy linguists.

.Boots You let us take advantage of GPay and ApplePay to put our Boots Card in the digital wallet. We scan them at self check out. But for the love...you won't let your staff scan it from our phone unless we have the actual card? What gives with this disparity Boots??? W/❤

I think one of the continuously happy places is the arrivals door at the airport.

I am sure Pizza Hut UK's customer feedback is an empty email box. Never got a reply to a 4 August feedback requesting a reply. Hate to shame public companies but a shame I won't patronize them now.

Did you know that the tilde " ~ " sort of acted as the modern day apostrophe in contracted words? It was originally there to represent missing letters.

The ¶ sign, is called a pilcrow.

I'm tired of cinematic universes. How about cinematic originality.

Security footage captures the moment two pedestrians in Washington DC narrowly avoided being crushed by a falling house bbc.in/2uY3axx

For any students and teachers who feel like the curriculum is a mad dash to the finish, for the Romans the word meant a fast and furious chariot race, as well as the course along which it ran. It moved into English to mean a different kind of course, of studies and education.

"He's just drinking water" 🐨 A thirsty koala licks rainwater off a road in New South Wales after heavy rain and thunderstorms lashed Australia’s east coast, dousing some bushfires 🌧️ bbc.in/2uWgx12

Young voters look at the youngest candidate and see a desperately box-checking striver. Is that such a bad thing? politico.com/news/magazine/…

China coronavirus: Number of cases jumps as virus spreads to new cities bbc.in/2Rx0xKv

Just a small reminder that a 'mumpsimus' is an individual who insists that they are right, despite crystal-clear evidence that they are not. #Trumpspeech

The lamb has been described as having an "alarmingly humanoid face" with "penetrating, close-set eyes, full pink lips and flared nostrils" bbc.in/3ayvXc6

The UK flag is removed from the EU Council building in Brussels as the country leaves the EU at midnight