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Provided by the compucert unfledged \uhn-FLEJD\, adjective:
- Lacking the feathers necessary for flight.
- Not fully developed; immature.
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- The orange dust that coats your fingers and lips after eating Cheetos. This is why you shouldn't eat Cheetos in public unless you have a wet-nap handy.
Trivia
How old are sugar maple trees before they are generally tapped for syrup?
- About 40 years old, when they should have reached 10 inches to a foot in diameter.
- Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants began an uprising against the Tokugawa shogunate, in protest of heavy taxation (1637)
- Kitty Hawk: the Wright brothers successfully conducted the first controlled, sustained flight of a motor-powered airplane; they had been building flying devices for less than five years (1903)
- Japanese-American internment: the US army announced that it would no longer hold Japanese-Americans in relocation centers, allowing "evacuees" to return home (1944)
- Arthur Fiedler (1894-1979): musician and conductor who led the Boston Pops Orchestra for nearly 50 years
- Willard Libby (1908-1980): Nobel Prize winner for developing radiocarbon dating; he also worked on the Manhattan Project
- William Safire (78): US journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his conservative column in The New York Times, where he also writes about linguistic issues
- Eugene Levy (61): acclaimed actor, director and producer who played Jim's dad in the American Pie movies
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