#GetFact'd: Free wine during festivals in Italy
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Before reluctantly deciding on the word ‘viewer’, the 1935 BBC Sub-Committee on Words considered many terms for their "users of television apparatus", including auralooker, glancer, looker-in, seer, sighter, teleobservist, viewer-in, visionnaire, vizzior, and witnesser.
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In 2013, an Ohio man was confirmed as legally dead, despite him appearing in court to overturn the decision.
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From 1559 to 1779, this fountain in Treviso, Italy was filled with free wine during festivals. One breast provided white wine and the other provided red wine.
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From 1559 to 1779, this fountain in Treviso, Italy was filled with free wine during festivals.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) October 20, 2022
One breast provided white wine and the other provided red wine.
(Image: Didier Descouens; CC BY-SA.) pic.twitter.com/5ylOy4ZOaq
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