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It’s illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament wearing a suit of armor, according to a 1313 statute. “All things in moderation” is an immoderate policy. If a prime number is made up entirely of 1s (e.g., 11), then the number of its digits is prime. The word CARBON is itself made up of element symbols (Ca, Rb, O, N). (Dmitri Borgmann) Interior decorator...

Now, are not those still full of their old carnal nature who ask us: ‘What was God doing before he made heaven and earth? For if he was idle,’ they say, ‘and doing nothing, then why did he not continue in that state forever — doing nothing, as he had always done? If any new motion has arisen in God, and a new will...

Herpetologist Mark Scherz named three tiny species of Malagasy frog Mini ature, Mini scule, and Mini mum. Malacologist Alan Solem named a Fijian land snail Ba humbugi. The name of each species in the African spider genus Palindroma is a palindrome: P. aleykyela, P. avonova, P. morogorom, P. obmoimiombo, P. sinis. The binomial name of the crowned slaty flycatcher has 15 syllables: Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus....