Idiom of the Day
close the books (on someone or something)
to put an end to something (like closing the books in accounting records)
The city closed the books on the idea of building a new stadium.
Fact
The world's longest unit of time is the hindus kalpa. It is equivalent to 4,000,000,032 years, the time it takes to flatten the himalaya mountain range by scraping away at it with a silk thread.
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