This is called a sharrow. I thought that was a pretty useless fact.
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actually I think the is somebody riding their bike 90 degrees from the direction they are supposed to. 
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@jestelle, The symbol $ is actually U S over lapping each other
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True. I was reading through the material for a defensive driving class (“helping” my husband) and there was a section on sharrows. I didn’t know those things had official names.
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Also called a " * " (splat) 
To what does the term “sleeping policeman” refer?
Answer
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Did not know any of that. Interesting.
Is that short for “share the road?”
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That’s a good one!
No, I think it was “share arrows,” and it’s only for roads that don’t have bike lanes.
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People have said “jesus H christ” but there has been speculation, that back then, children where named after the king of ‘The Galileans’ who’s name was “herod”
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The Earliest political satirist was Gaius Lucilius who was making political comedy / commentary back in 102 BC
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And my final entry for this evening… The HISTORY OF THE DOLLAR
Appromt (Somewhat archaic, 1913)
Daydreamt (Sort of cheating)
Undreamt (Also sort of cheating)
And a few other dreamt variants, adreamt, redreamt, etc.
So… sort of? 
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Speaking of which…
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If you live in, or have travelled in the US, you have probably seen this guy’s design work, but you have probably never heard his name.
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Thers’s a word for being thrown out of a window: defenestration.
And a word for having a nicely shaped rear: callipygous.
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I wonder what the word is for throwing your computer out the window… I KNOW : HAPPINESS!!!
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This gave me the best laugh for today 
Let me megatrivialize you - the root of the word is “omphalos”, an ancient Greek word meaning alternately “Navel” and “Center”. “Omphalos” was the name of a sacred stone in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi that was used to mark (what they thought was) the center of the earth. “Skepsis” is also an ancient Greek word, meaning “investigate” or “study intently”. So “Omphalos” + “Skepsis” = “Omphaloskepsis”, the study of your navel. It first entered in to use in the English vocabulary in 1925. So it’s not even a 100 year old word.
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I only learned today that the @#!&$ used in place of expletives is called a grawlix, coined by the American cartoonist Mort Walker (1923-2018) and first known use in 1976.
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