Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Chaucer's Pardoner really captured the imagination of his contemporaries, including that of one anonymous poet who has the Pardoner hitting on a barmaid named Kit.
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The Pardoner refers to the dice that gamblers use as the "bicched bones two" (l. 370) because dice were originally made from animals' knucklebones. Who knew?
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Chaucer's been dead for 600 years, but he's on Facebook.
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Think the Pardoner's Tale was heavenly? So did the International Astronomical Union. They named a lunar crater after Chaucer.
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