Undiagnosed high blood pressure: in a study of 1.4 million adults, 59% of people who had it had never been told. What it means, and how to get checked.
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Catholic Prayer Candle: The One You Were Handed at Baptism
Your first Catholic prayer candle was lit at your baptism and handed to someone else to hold. What the words said over it mean, a prayer for lighting one at home, and how to choose yours.
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How Do Birds Know Where to Migrate? A Compass, But No Map
How do birds know where to migrate? They hatch with a compass heading and a clock, then learn the map by flying it. Here is what science has found so far.
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How to Know If You Still Love Someone: Look at What You Do
How to know if you still love someone when the feeling has gone quiet: stop searching inside for a spark and look at how you treated them this week instead.
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Be Thou My Vision: Lyrics, Meaning, and the Irish Prayer Behind It
The full lyrics of Be Thou My Vision, what “naught be all else to me” and “High King of Heaven” mean, how an ancient Irish poem became an English hymn, and its public-domain status.
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What Is Brain Rot? The Phrase Is From 1854, Not TikTok
What is brain rot? Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year was first written down in 1854. Where it came from, what a review of 98,299 people found, and what helps.
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“A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words”: It Wasn’t Confucius
Who said “a picture is worth a thousand words”? Not Confucius. The oldest known use is an American editor in 1911. Ad men added the Chinese label later.
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Meaning: Who Really Got Rescued
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meaning, read closely: the old man on the pavement is not the one that rescue saves. Look at who stops, and who is told to.
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The Dutch King Ordered a Slavery Study of His Own Family. Then He Read It.
The Dutch king slavery study found his family shares responsibility for centuries of slavery. What he said next shows how guilt and responsibility differ.
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Rhema Meaning: The Spoken Word Mary Kept in Her Heart
Rhema meaning: the Greek word for a spoken word, a saying, even a thing that happens. Luke uses it three times around one manger, and Mary kept every one.