1. I love this terrible fake address generator: We have spent 3 years collecting data from every country to generate this enormous database. …it promises. These are not English addresses: "2 Scott Common Jenniferstad S60 2PT" "4 Matilda Via North Emilychester M20 1BT" "Flat 48v Harrison Motorway Lake Gary EH4 5LQ" Good story: Inside Number 0, John Finnemore. 2. Kentucky Superstitions (1920) by Daniel Lindsey Thomas and Lucy Blayney Thomas: Some household and domestic life superstitions, from part 4: "An accidental dropping of a knife brings a woman caller." (My nan would always say it would be a man caller, to the point that if I drop a knife I reflexively say “man coming” to this day.) "If you spill salt on the table, you will get a scolding before Friday." "If you burn salt on the stove or in the grate, you will have to pick each grain out of fire in hell." Salt matters eh. Part 3: Some of these I recognise… "If you raise an umbrella in the house, you will have bad luck." Some are…
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