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"I call it Scabby "       Whenever we get injured, blood comes out of our wound(s)á. Soon after that, our blood tends to solidify. This process helps our body to heal our injuries. The resulting product of the solidification of the blood that came out of our injury covers it creating a protecting layer that prevents potential infections.  Not only that but also under the layer new skin is being produced to replace the skin lost when the injury was inflicted. This useful layer is called SCAB in English and in Spanish is called CARACHA (at least in Ecuador) or COSTRA.

"Ahoy, Monty! Are you there? Say something, dammit!"  We are supposed to say something when we answer a phone call since remaining silent is not a smart option. It is also logical to say HELLO because as an item HELLO is conveniently short and not too formal or informal. Therefore HELLO is perfect in that sense, otherwise it would not have endured for so long. Still, the question remains: Why HELLO precisely? Who came up with that idea? Amazingly enough, it was not the inventor of the Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell. For him the best option was "Ahoy!" How did he come up with that idea? AHOY is the way sailors greet each other, and HELLO was not at the time (the 1870s) a standard greeting yet. HELLO was used the way we use HEY in our days. It was none other thanThomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the Lightbulb, who suggested to use HELLO instead of AHOY, and that was the beginning. In fact, the use of HELLO became so popular afterwards that people began u...