Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Photochrome of a glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, c. 1890. © Rijksmuseum.
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In 1986 a Greek professor encountered a previously unknown word while deciphering a fifth-century lexicon olisbokollix, meaning “loaf-of-bread dildo.” Later discovery of vase paintings showing women carrying baskets of phallus-shaped loaves confirmed the word had been understood correctly.
There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
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