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POPSDamp Squid: The top 10 misquoted phrases in Britain The top ten misquotes by British people are as follows: 1) A damp squid (a damp squib) 2) On tender hooks (on tenter hooks) 3) Nip it in the butt (nip it in the bud) 4) Champing at the bit (chomping at the bit) 5) A mute point (a moot point) 6) One foul swoop (one fell swoop) 7) All that glitters is not gold (all that glisters is not gold) 8) Adverse to (averse to) 9) Batting down the hatches (batten down the hatches) 10) Find a penny pick it up (find a pin pick it up)
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POPSDNA Found to Have "Impossible" Telepathic Properties continues (more at source): Even so, the research published in ACS’ Journal of Physical Chemistry B, shows very clearly that homology recognition between sequences of several hundred nucleotides occurs without physical contact or presence of proteins. Double helixes of DNA can recognize matching molecules from a distance and then gather together, all seemingly without help from any other molecules or chemical signals.
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POPSYour Spit Is Special :-) Mouth microbe makeup varied greatly from person to person, but not in any geographically structured way. Two people from Louisiana were likely to be as different as a Bolivian and a South African