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The Daily 2/16/26

“It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. —Walter Anderson

“The Safety Dance” band Men Without Hats got their name from a few founding members’ habit of never wearing winter hats, no matter how cold it was in their hometown of Montreal (they thought hats would wreck their style)

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The Daily 2/15/2026

“It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Alice, Alice in Wonderland

Alexander the Great passed away unexpectedly at thirty-two years old after a mysterious illness that lasted two weeks. However, several accounts claim that his body exhibited no signs of decay even six days post-mortem. One theory posits that he may not have been dead during that time and instead could have suffered from Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune condition that can lead to progressive paralysis.

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The Daily 2/14/26

“Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi

On February 3, 2018, Paul Morgan set the record for the world’s longest birthday. He celebrated his twenty-eight-year-old by jet-setting across different time zones, stretching the day to forty-eight hours. The previous longest birthday lasted forty-six hours.