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460: No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Do You Have a Handkerchief?

We know the first person, possibly, who blew their nose on a handkerchief. Desiderius Erasmus wrote a best-selling book on etiquette. He said if you cannot swallow a piece of food, turn around discreetly and throw it somewhere. And finally, do not move back and forth on your chair. Whoever does that gives the impression of constantly breaking or trying to break wind. There was a period where people weren't carrying two handkerchiefs on them. This was actually as defence against bullets in the late 1800s. George E. Goodfellow invented what was known as ' chaotic bullet proof' whereby they wore 30 layers of handkerchief's on your

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