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Word of the Day

Billow (v./n., BILL-oh)

To swell and surge, or a massive wave of water. There's also billows, which pump air by ballooning and then contracting, and Billows the electrical store. (The last one is not big.)

Gif of the Day

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Link of the Day

The city center with no street names

Mannheim is a German city of 300,000, but somehow it doesn't have names for all its streets. This is unusual. Some cities don't name their streets, but they're more consistent than Mannheim's "only the inner city doesn't have names" plan, as Tom Scott describes:

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