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A statue of Nelson Mandela installed in Pretoria in 2014 had to be altered when people spotted a rabbit sculpted inside one ear. (Image: PHParsons, CC-SA-3.0)
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In 2005, a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed the Wendy's restaurant where he worked.
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Writer of ‘Groundhog Day’ Danny Rubin has said that there is only one appropriate way to make a sequel to the original film. It would be called “Groundhog Day II: Return to Punxsutawney” and would just be a repeat of the original movie.
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The early bird who gets the worm works for somebody who comes in late and owns the worm farm. JOHN D. MACDONALD
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Over 40 years of research has found that people with higher IQs are also much more likely to take drugs.
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Instead of requesting a traditional wake-up call in a hotel, the French writer Alphonse Allais would have the concierge call the room on either side of his one in order ‘to be gently woken by the sound of your neighbours’ protests’.
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In New Zealand, the Christchurch city council has declined to renew the contract of their official city wizard.
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Cats can’t taste sugar.
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Tutankhamun's tomb contained a collection of boomerangs.
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"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." P. J. O'ROURKE
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The world’s largest living thing is a fungus in Oregon, USA. It currently covers around 8.9 square kilometres (about 1,665 football pitches) and is over 8,000 years old.
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Northern Ireland is facing a clown shortage.
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The poo of iron age people shows humans were eating blue cheese and drinking beer 2700 years ago.
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After John Coltrane died in 1967, a small sect was founded in San Francisco called the Yardbird Temple which worshipped him as a god, and Charlie Parker as the equivalent to John the Baptist.
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In 1910, Lilian Bland flew Ireland’s first biplane and became the first woman in the world to design, build, and fly her own plane. She was cautious about the attempt and called the plane ‘Mayfly’, explaining: ‘It may fly, it may not’.
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Spiders can have arachnophobia.
(Image: Thomas Shahan; CC BY-NC-ND.)
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When Bill Shakespeare, the first man to receive the Pfizer vaccine, died in 2021, one Argentinian news channel got confused and announced the death of ‘one of the most important writers in the English language.’
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What do they say?
WHAT DO THEY SAY! twitter.com/BillBailey/sta…
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Viking nicknames included ‘desirous of beer’, ‘squat-wiggle’, ‘lust-hostage’, ‘short penis’, ‘able to fill a bay with fish by magic’, ‘the man who mixes his drinks’ and ‘the man without trousers’.
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94% of Parisians live within a five minute walk of a bakery.
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Britons spend more than twice as much on bird food than the rest of Europe combined. As a result our great tits are developing longer beaks.
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Henry Ford always drank warm water because he believed the body wasted vital energy warming it up from cold water.
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At room temperature, the inside of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the outside air.
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Tchaikovsky was able to quit his day job with the support of a wealthy patron.
Her only condition for her support was that they never meet in person.
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The Inca people believed the past, present, and future were all happening in the same moment.
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A Quite Interesting Twitter feed from the team behind the BBC TV show QI.
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