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A Spanish expression for daydreaming is ‘pensando en la inmortalidad del cangrejo’, which literally means ‘thinking about the immortality of the crab’.
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There is a pizzeria in Guatemala that cooks their pizzas on lava from an active volcano.
(Image: Carlos Urrutia; CC BY-SA-NC.)
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To ‘poon’ means to put something under the leg of a table to stop it wobbling.
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‘Irn-Bru’ has its own tartan.
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Word of the day: UNASINOUS - sharing the same amount of stupidity, united in stupidity
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According to Ancient Greek myth, when the goddess Demeter was depressed, an old woman named Baubo cheered her up by flashing her genitals.
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Catch-22 was rejected for publication 22 times.
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In 1743, King Gustav III of Sweden ordered one man to drink an excessive amount of coffee and his identical twin drink an excessive amount of tea to see which died first.
Both men outlived the king.
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In the 1800s, ducks were sometimes called ‘arsefeet’ because their feet are so close to their bottoms.
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Welsh dolphins have Welsh accents.
(Image: Mandy; CC BY.)
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In 2015, a young man named Bud Weiser was arrested while trespassing at a Budweiser brewery.
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If Elon Musk lost 99.9% of his net worth, he would still have $250 million to his name.
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It is perfectly legal to break out of prison in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria.
They believe it is human nature to want to escape from captivity.
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This is what the inside of a child's skull (with baby teeth) looks like.
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The Curie family is the most Nobel awarded family in history.
Pierre and Marie Curie won a chemistry Nobel Prize.
Of their two children, Irène and Ève, Irène shared a chemistry Nobel with her husband. Ève's husband won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Ève merely won a National Book Award.
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Word of the Day: AGNOTOLOGY — the study of ignorance and of deliberate spreading of ignorance, confusion, and deceit.
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Ethiopian languages have a punctuation mark for sarcasm. It is called ‘temherte slaq’ and looks like an inverted exclamation mark.
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According to Huichol Indian tradition, men and women experienced the pain of childbirth together. Men sat in the rafters with a string attached to their testicles and women pulled the string during contractions.
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Everywhere is walking distance if you've got the time.
STEVEN WRIGHT
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Cats have object permanence.
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Cleopatra was living in Rome as Julius Caesar’s mistress at the time of his assassination.
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Approximately 1% of the static on old TV sets is caused by leftover radiation from the Big Bang.
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No one knows if spiders fart.
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In the 18th century slang, the word ‘wap’ meant ‘sex’.
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You have the most friends you will ever have at age 25.
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